Thursday, October 15, 2020

Materia Medica Lesson 3-6: Anemone

 Don't take during pregnancy.

Anemone is used for insomnia nervousness and a generally agitated emotional state, upset and distressed, wan and chilly... not hot and flushed. Depression, not anger. Agitated but inadequate to deal with it - burned out and tired... withdrawn. Headaches, eye and neck pain from elevated cerebral fluid pressure. Sometimes PMS. Hot, sweatiness on back on neck. Prolactin-dopamine imbalance. Migraines. Sensory overload. Drug headaches. Sometimes helpful for heart palpitations. Good to use after big, emotional argument. Anemone separates you form your emotional problems... calms, centers. Good for fugue state.

*ANEMONE HIRSUTISSIMA (Pulsatilla ludoviciana, Pasque Flower) FRESH PLANT. Tincture [1:2] 3-10 drops, to 4X a day. Use with care. STATUS : W/LA

*ANEMONE TUBEROSA (Desert Anemone, Desert Pasque Flower) Same as previous. STATUS : W/LA

From  SPECIFIC INDICATIONS FOR HERBS IN GENERAL USE Third edition Michael Moore:

ANEMONE PATENS (PULSATILLA) Increased intraocular pressure; lachrymitis; glaucoma in aged or tired; viral iritis; full-blown styes on lids; ophthalmalgia; eyestrain w/orbital pain; conjunctivitis, watery and inflamed w/grainy vision. Tongue white coated with nausea, or creamy white with taste of rancid fats. Otitis media; tinnitus. Dry cough, hectic, with mucus vomiting, gagging, no overt disease. Delirium tremens in asthenics. To prevent anxieties when insomnia is feared. Incontinence fr/chronic nephritis or acute lower urinary tract infections. Amenorrhea with depressions. Dysmenorrhea, with depressions and lengthy history of PMS. Impotence/frigidity, from constant anxiety and depression regarding sexuality with fear of no arousal, lubrication or erection. Leukorrhea, hypersecretory, milky, little smell. Orchitis/epididymitis, with red, enlarged & painful testicles, no major pathology. Lactation, suppressed from nervousness, mild sympathetic excess, with painful, swollen breasts. Depression with nervous irritation. Hysteria, in depressive states. Headache, migraine, vasodilator.

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