Homeopathic Materia Medica

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.

DESMODIUM CANGETICUM

DESMODIUM CANGETICUM Plant Introduction: Desmodium is a large genus of herbs; the tick trefoils. Syn. Meibomia. They bear trifoliate leaves, clustered flowers and indehiscent legumes. This is a small plant, grown in forest areas. It is available in all parts of India, particularly, (abundant) the...

EMBELIA RIBS

EMBELIA RIBS Plant Introduction Embelia is a genus of climbing shrubs and small trees, natives of Australlia and normal tropics. There are about 60 species. The plant ascends on the tree by means of its thin branches which are long and spread. Sub-branches are inclined, long an round. The bark is...

EMBELICA OFFICINALIS

EMBELICA OFFICINALIS (Emblic myrobalan) Plant introduction It is a medium sized and 20-25 ft high tree having 1/4 inch thick grayish bark with reddish cortex. Stalks of leaves are long. Flowers are small and greenish-yellow in colour having elongated peduncle. Fruits are astringent, not-ched and ...

Eucalyptus Globulus

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

Compare: Oil of Eucalyptus .--(Produces remarkable bodily exhaustion, no desire for any motion, unable to do any real mental work, study, etc. The volatile oil possesses, in common with other terpenes, the property of converting water, in presence of air and sunlight, into hydrogen peroxide, or to convert oxygen into ozone, which is the explanation usually given of its deodorizing and antiseptic properties (Merrel). Locally, in catarrhal affections, especially when of a suppurating or putrid nature). Eucalyptus tereticoris (menstrual cough and prostration). Eucalyptol (depresses temperature of healthy body more than Quinine ; acts on kidneys like Terebinth ); Anacard; Hydrast; Kali sulph. Eucalyptus neutralizes ill effects of Strychnin . Angophora -Red Gum--(dysentery, pains, tenesmus; better lying flat on face; obstinate constipation). Eucalyptus rostrata; Kino .

FICUS INDICA

FICUS INDICA (Banyan tree) Plant Introduction: Ficus is a vast genus of trees or shrubs with alterriate usually entire thick leaves and monoecious flowers collected in a pear shaped hollow receptacle, which in the cultivated fig is the part eaten. This tree grown in different parts of India parti...

FICUS RELIGIOS

FICUS RELIGIOS (Sacred fig) Plant Introduction This plant is found all over India. It is a large (holy) fig-tree allied to banyan, bo-tree. It remains fresh in all Seasons and is dycotyledonous; has large leaves and pentastichous phyllotaxy. stipules (bud scales). Margin of the lamina is acuminat...

GYMNEMA SYLVESTA

GYMNEMA SYLVESTA Plant Introduction A creeper plant having epiphytic roots. Branches and shoots are thin and long with soft hairy feel. Leaves are 1-21 inches in size, ovate or almost cordate, yielding small pale-yellowish flowers; seeds are inch in size. It is found in Central or Southern India....

HEMIDESMUS INDICA

HEMIDESMUS INDICA (Indian Sersaperilla) Plant Introduction: It is a creeper and available in Bengal and various states of India; kinds of tropical-American smilax esp. the Jamaica "sersaperilla" is the chief sourse of the medicinal sersaperilla. Germination takes place from the old root during ra...

HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA

HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA Plant Introduction. It is a moderate tree of 20-25 ft high; leaves fall in the spring. Bark is 1/4 in thick, grayish, harsh with whitish medula. Leaves are ovate and 6-12 inch long (width 1 inch). Flowers are white in colour and have a mild scent. Fruits are covered wit...

HYGROPHILA SPINOSA

HYGROPHILA SPINOSA Plant Introduction This is a thorny plant yielding bluish or, pinkish flowers, reddish seeds, grown in the marshy lands. This drug occupies an important position in the Indian Science of Medicine. Many physicians have mentioned its properties in the 'Pharmacopoeia of India.' Na...

Hydrocotyle Asiatica

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

Compare: Elæis -South American Palm--(scleroderma, elephantiasis, leprosy, skin thickened, itching and hardened. Anæsthesia). Hura; Trychnos Gaultheriana (bites of serpents, ulcers and cutaneous affections generally); Hoang-Nan. Chaulomoogra oil from seed of Taraktogenos; Hydrast; Arsenic; Aurum; Sepia .