Thursday 15 May 2014

Viscum album. Kader Kochi.


Synonyms


Mistletoe, Iscidor.


Constituents

Hemi parasitic plant. It found commonly in crown of broad -leaved trees.  Length of stem 1 meter. Fruits appear in Christmas season. Leaf, white berries, and stem contain lectin, viscumin (It is similar to abrin and ricin), oleanolic acid, and sulphur compounds.


Therapeutics

This is antiviral and anti-microbial medicine (Hepatitis C, HIV, influenza, chikungunya). 

It is medicine for epilepsy, and paralysis.

It is medicine for neuralgia, sciatica, and spinal pains of female.

It is medicine for anxiety, and tachycardia.

It is cardiac depressant (Cinchona, Veratrum viride).

It is anticoagulant medicine (Melilotus).

It is medicine for ventricular hypertrophy.

It is medicine for hyperglycaemia, and hypertriglyceridemia.

It is medicine for polyarthritis.

It is medicine for difficult labour.

It is the remedy for petit mal epilepsy (Valariana, Thuja, Helleborus).

It is remedy for spasm, and chorea (Nux vomica).

It is remedy for cerebral ischemia, and hypotension.

It is remedy for sun stroke, and radiation sickness (Muscle pain and fatigue).

It is remedy for pain and weakness in influenza (Ricinus communis, Gelsemium).

It is remedy cardiac failure (Digitalis).

It is remedy for arteriosclerosis.

It is remedy for degeneration of pancreas, and hypoglycaemia.

It is remedy for melanoma, cancer of breast, and cancer in bladder (Thuja, Ricinus communis, Arsenic album).

It is remedy for chronic hepatitis.

It is remedy for chronic ulcer. It improves micro circulation (Arsenic album).

It is the remedy for barrenness, and infertility (Azadirecta, Nux vomica, Thuja).

It is remedy for dysmenorrhoea.

It is remedy for chorea, and muscle spasm due to uterine congestion and amenorrhea.

It is remedy for reflex epilepsy, and hysteria from uterine stimulation.

It is remedy for haemolytic anaemia.

It is remedy for lowered cerebral circulation (Secale cor, Aconitum, Veratrum album, Arsenic album, Valerian, Ustilago).

It is remedy for autoimmune diseases.

It had been used as arrow poison, and anti-evil drug. It had been kept in house as token for fortune (Helleborus, Sinapis).  

It was Druid's medicine (Aloe, Lycopodium, Verbena). They collected this medicine on the sixth night of the winter solstice, wearing white clothes and using gold sickles.

It is the antidote in spider toxin, ergot poison, snake poison, castor bean toxin, and arsenic album (Veratrum album).

It had been used to make Christmas tree.

It had been considered a panacea (Thuja, Ginseng, Aconitum, Helleborus, Althea officinalis, Camphor, Terminalia chebula, Tinospora cordifolia, Justicia adhatoda, Mercurius, Sulphur, Nigella sativa).


Dose

1 to 6 drops. 
Dilution.