Cyclamen europaeum. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Saw bread, Cyclamen purpurascens.

Constituents

Perennial plant. Height 15 cm. Root is circle shaped. Flowers are pink. Leaves are large and heart shaped. Root contains essential oil, nerol, farnesol, saponins, anthocyanins, starch, potassium, zinc, and copper.

Therapeutics

This is medicine for amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhoea. 

It is medicine for acute rhinitis, and sinusitis.

It is medicine externally for abscess.

It is remedy for gastritis, and hiccough.

It had been used as abortifacient (Taxus baccata, Aloe Socotrina, Cinchona, Gossypium, Pulsatilla).

Its root had been worn in neck to induce menstruation.

It had been used for sedating fish.

Dose 

2 to 4 drops.

Dilution.