Thursday 21 June 2018

Lycopus virginicus. Kader Kochi.

Synonyms

Bugleweed, Gipsywort, Ajuga reptans.


Constituents 

Perennial plant. Height 40 cm, Hairy stem. Flowers and leaves have mint smell. Plant contains volatile oil, bitter principle, gallic acid, and tannin.


Therapeutics

This is medicine for sympathetic overactivity (Rauwolfia, Secale cor, Veratrum, Viscum album, Nux vomica).

It is medicine for hyperthyroidism.

It is medicine for cold, sore throat, and cough.

It is medicine for tachycardia, hypertension, and arteriosclerosis.

It is medicine for palpitation, and haemoptysis.

It is medicine for premenstrual congestion in breast.

It is medicine for wound bleeding. 

It is medicine for sleeplessness, and nocturnal diarrhoea.

It is cardiac depressant medicine like Digitalis. It has no cumulative effects.

It is the remedy for autism, and learning disabilities.

It is remedy for cardiac weakness (Cinchona, Nux vomica, Gelsemium, Helleborus, Digitalis, Colchicum, Aconitum, Pilocarpus, Crataegus).

Its root had been used as an antidote in snake bite.


Dose 

1 to 10 drops.

Dilution.





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