Homeopathic Materia Medica
Explore clinical indications, key symptoms, modalities, and applications of classic remedies across 14 historical reference textbooks.
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Materia Medica Of Indian Drugs (By Dr. Prosad Banerjee)
ABROMA AUGUSTA
ABROMA AUGUSTA (Devil's Cotton) Plant Introduction: It grows in various states of India; a small genus of low evergreen tree leaf blade is wavy, broad, having hairy feel on the dorsal side. It grows in various states of India. Name: In Sanskrit it is known as Peewri or, Josbini or, Drumotpol; in ...
ABROMA RADIX
ABROMA RADIX (Root of Abroma Augusta) This drug resembles Abroma Aug. and helps in the treatment of dysmenorrhoea (as a sedative) as it contains Magnesium salt. This is very helpful to those women who suffer from pelvic pain; giddiness with tendency to lie up; painful discharge with tears ...
ACHYRANTHES ASPERA
ACHYRANTHES ASPERA (Apamarga) Plant Introduction: This plant is found all over India, generally in high lands. Plenty grow in old houses. Germination occurs in rainy season; florescence in winter (white or silvery spicate flowers) when it gets matured; finally, The it becomes dried ...
ACONITINUM
Aconitinum. Aconitine. Aconitia. C33 H45 NO12. An alkaloid obtained from the roots and stems of Aconitum napellus. It is contained in all species of Aconite except A. lycoctonum. [German Aconitine is amorphous; French Aconitine is crystalline, and 170 times stronger than the German. Morson's "Eng...
AEGLE FOLIA
AEGLE FOLIA (Leaf of Bengal Quince) Plant Introduction: It is a small genus of spiny trees of the rue family of Java, Africa and tropical India allied to orange tree (cirtrus), but having compound and trifoliate leaves, greenish It white flowers and orange like fruits. grows in all over In...
AEGLE MARMELOS
AEGLE MARMELOS (Bengal Quince) Name of this medicine: Bengali - Bel sunt, English - Bengal Quince, Latin - Aegle - Marmelos, Hindi - Sukha Beal, Sanskrit-Billwa Peshika, another name is Shree phal. Chemical Composition In the kernel and seed-mucilage, Pectin, sugar, tannin...
ANDERSONIA ROHITAKA
ANDERSONIA ROHITAKA OR AMOORA ROHITAKA (Rohitak) Plant introduction: It is a big tree. Many people know its properties. It grows in forest, villages, and gardens. This tree can be found in two varieties. One bearing white flowers and the other red flowers. The stem is straight; leaves are ordinar...
ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA
ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA OR WALL (Kalmegb) Plant Introduction: This plant is generally 1-3 ft high, having dichotomous helicoid branch arrangement. Leaf blades are 2-3 inch long with thin stalk and acute formation. Each lamina contains 4-6 veins. Stalk is 1/4 inch long. Flowers are small in size a...
ARJUNA OR TERMINALIA ARJUNA
ARJUNA OR TERMINALIA ARJUNA (Arjan) Plant Introduction: The tree is high and attains a height of 30-32 ft. The stem is thick. Leaf blade is elliptical and notched. Flowers are yellowish white; fructification happens in winter. Time of collection: Rainy season and winter, Name: Sanskrit Arjun or K...
ASHOKA
ASHOKA OR JENOSIA ASHOKA OR SACARA IND. Plant Introduction: It is an evergreen plant having helicoid, uniparous lateral branching. Leaves are broad and 9-10 inch long; flowers appear in clusters; first it is seen orange coloured which gradually changes to red. The tree looks beautiful in the spri...
ATISTA INDICA
ATISTA INDICA Plant Introduction: This plant can be seen in almost all the villages of of India. Although it is a kind of neglected tree, deserves the power of curing diseases. The tree is big and high. whole of the tree is used in medicine. It is a kind of wild tree. Name: In Sanskrit-Banmenibuk...
ATISTA RADIX
ATISTA RADIX (Root of Atista Indica) Symptoms of this drug resemble those of Atista Ind. but the special characteristic symptom is pain surroundiong navel. Generally it acts well in intestinal region in the lower or upper abdomen. Besides, it is practically neutral to other parts of...
Acalypha Indica
Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit .
Allium Cepa
Compare: Gels; Euph; Kali hyd; Aconite; Ipecac . Complementary: Phosphor; Thuja; Puls. Antidotes: Arn; Cham; Verat.
Allium Sativum
Allium Sat according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the Bryonia group, including Lycopod. Nux. Colocy, Digital and Ignatia which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all vegetarians. Hence their special applicability to meat eaters rather than to exclusive vegetarians. Compare: Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit. Complementary: Arsenic. Antidote: Lycopod.
Avena Sativa
Compare: Alfalfa (General tonic similar to avena-also in scanty and suppressed urine).
BALSAMODERNDROM MUKUL
BALSAMODERNDROM MUKUL Plant introduction: It is a kind of wood-gum grown wn in the deserts or sandy places in summer. In winter, the gum exudes out the tree which is known as bdellium or olibanum (guggul). Process of collection: The stem of the tree is cut at a place and a vessel is held under it...
BLUMIA ODORATA
BLUMIA ODORATA (Blumia Balsamifera) Plant Introduction: Blumea is a genus of tropical Australian and African herbs or shrubs (family-carduaceae), with simple alternate leaves and discoid purple or yellow flower heads. B. Balsamifera plant grows in the lands of Bengal. Assam, Madras etc. The plant...
BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA
BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA (Spreading hog-wide) Plant Introduction: Boerhaavia is a large genus of widely distributed pubescent or, glandular tropical herbs of the four-o'clock family having small apetalous flowers and club-shaped ribbed fruit. The roots of some species are used as laxatives and vermifug...
Berberis Vulgaris
Compare: Ipomea-Convolvulus Duratinus -Morning Glory. --(Pain in left lumbar muscles on stooping. Kidney disorders with pain in back. Much abdominal flatulence. Aching in top of right shoulder renal colic; aching in small of back and extremities), Aloe; Lycopod; Nux; Sarsap. Xanthorrhea arborea (severe pain in kidneys, cystitis and gravel. Pain from ureter to bladder and testicles; pain in small of back returns from least chill or damp). Xanthoriza apifolia -Shrub Yellow Root--contains Berberine. Dilatation of stomach and intestines, atony, enlarged spleen. Antidotes: Camphor; Bell.
CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA
CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA OR QUINIA INDICA Plant Introduction: It is a kind of creeping plant, grows mostly in the sea sore; branches are grayish and bent down; stem is short and yellow, covered with bent down thorns. Leaves are 1 (or more) inch long, oblong and the anterior part is thick. Long flow...
CALOTROPIS CICANTEA
CALOTROPIS CICANTEA Plant Introduction: It is a very well known tree, can be found every where in India. It generally grows in the unploughed land. This drug has long been used by the Hindu physicians. It is known in the Arabian states too. It may be seen in the fields of Himalayan regions...
CALOTROPIS LACTUM
CALOTROPIS LACTUM A milky juice like gum out flows from this plant wheft new branches are broken. The gum is very effective in the treatment of skin diseases but the use should be limited with small quantity. The pharmacological actions resemble those of Calotropis Gig.