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Synonyms
Blood root,
Red puccoon.
Constituents
Perennial
stemless flowering plant. Height 30 cm. Red rhizome. It contains berberine,
papaverine, sanguinarine, allocryptopine, chelerythrine, protopine, citric
acid, and malic acid. Pungent and bitter.
Therapeutics
It is medicine
for moist cough (Ipecac).
It is medicine
for impotence (Hyoscyamus).
It is medicine
for amenorrhoea due to cold.
It is
medicine externally for warts (Chelidonium majalis).
It is remedy
for dry cold, and dry cough in children (Sambucus, Hyoscyamus).
It is remedy
for nasal obstruction due to polyp.
It is remedy
for stomach atony, and fatty liver.
It is remedy
for cancer of gastrointestinal tract (Curcuma, Hydrastis).
It is remedy
for epithelioma, and moles (Thuja).
It had been
used as emetic.
It was used
to make toothpaste.
It was used
to prepare body paint, and dye.
Dose
1 to 10
drops.
Dilution.
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