Homeopathic Materia Medica

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.

CARIA PAPAYA

CARIA PAPAYA (Pop-Tree)   Let us see first whether it is an Indian tree. No, it is not so. In the twelfth century the Arabian merchants fetched some seeds of this tree to Arabiya from New Guinea. The use was started after full growth of the tree. Ultimately, the seeds were brought to India t...

CASSIA SOPHERA

CASSIA SOPHERA (Senne Sophera) Plant Introduction: This plant grows mostly in tropical countries. In Bengal, it grows in plenty just after the first rainfall. The trees are seen with full of flowers in the Autum. The fruits are like the kidney beans or rod with seeds. It is a bushy tree with smal...

CEPHALANDRA INDICA

CEPHALANDRA INDICA   Plant Introduction: This plant found in Bengal and in various parts of India, is a kind of creeping plant. The leaves are 4 inch broad, penta axilic, petiole is extended upto one inch. The fruits are like Patol, colour changes to red when they get mature containing seeds...

CHIRATA - GENTIANA CHIRATA

CHIRATA OR GENTIANA CHIRATA Plant introduction: It is a kind of short and steady shrub with stem height uf 2-5 ft. Leaves, are 2/3 inch long and inch wide. Comaparatively the leaves at the lower portion of the stem are greater in size than those of the upper. Branches are oval shaped or helicoid ...

CINCHONA

CINCHONA (China) Plant introduction A large geuns of trees of the madder family (Rubiaceae) natives of the Andean region from Colombia to Peru having panicled flowers with a salver shaped corolla and an ovary crowned with a fleshy disk. The trees are extensively cultivated in the Netherlands, Eas...

CINNAMOMUM

CINNAMOMUM (Indian Cinnamon) Plant Introduction: A large genus of Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs of the laurel family mostly natives of different states of India with thick 3-5" ribbed evergreen leaves and aromatic bark.   Though this plant grows in some parts of India but ...

CLERODENDRON INFORTUNATUM

CLERODENDRON INFORTUNATUM Plant Introduction: It is a kind of shrub. Height of the plant is generally 4 ft or more. The whole plant is covered with yellow or red hairs. Leaf blades are 4-8 inches long, hastate and acuminatic; petiole is 1-4 inches long and peduncle is 6-12 inch having several bra...

COLEUS AROMATICUS

COLEUS AROMATICUS (Country Borage or Bryophylum) Plant Introduction: A large geuns of tropical African and East-Inian showy foliage herbs of the mint family, having spicate blue flowers. This plant grows in various states of India. It owes its origin in the Molacca isles. At present it may be avi...

CYNODON DACTYLON

CYNODON DACTYLON (Harialee grass) Plant Introduction. A genus of creeping grasses. having short fiat leaves and digitate spikes of one flowered spikelets. This is available in all parts of India and is known in different names in the states. It is available in plenty and dies in winter. In fact, ...

Colocynthis

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidote: Coffea; Staphis; Cham. Colocynth is the best antidote to lead poisoning (Royal). Compare: Lobelia erinus (violent cork-screw-like pains in abdomen). Dipodium punctatum (Writhing. Twisting like a dying snake. Intractable insomnia). Dioscor; Chamom; Coccul; Merc; Plum; Magn phos.