Saturday, 2 March 2013

Aloe socotrina. Kader Kochi.


Synonyms

Aloe perryi, Aloe ferox.


Constituents

Perennial plant. Height 60 cm to 20cm. Plant contains aloin, salicylic acid, aurum, magnesium, resin, and volatile oil.


Therapeutics

This is laxative, and emmenagogue medicine.

It is para sympathomimetic.

It is medicine externally for wound.

It is remedy for portal congestion with sense of pulsation in lower abdomen.

It is remedy for prostatic enlargement.

It is a remedy for cancer of rectum and colon.

It had been used as abortifacient.

It had not been used in nursing mother as it pass through breast milk.

It had been used to prevent children sucking the fingers.

Word “Socotrina” is related to an Island at the entrance to the Red sea near Yemen.


Dose 

1 to 10 drops.

Dilution.





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