Sunday, January 10, 2021

ERIODICTYON, ERYTHRAEA, ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA, EUONYMUS and FOENICULUM VULGARE

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

ERIODICTYON, yerba santa

Middle ear decongestant. General decongestant. Humid bronchial asthma with free expectoration. Acute cough, moist, persistent; after influenza. Acute effusive pleurisy. Acute cystitis/urethritis with mucus in urine. Chronic anorexia with extensive hypersecretion of pulmonary, renal, intestinal mucus. Chronic catarrhal dyspepsia with anorexia. 


ERYTHRAEA, centaury

Anorexia nervosa after GI infections. 


ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA, California poppy

Antispasmodic strangury. 


EUONYMUS

Tongue yellow-coated with anorexia, liver problems. Chronic anorexia nervosa with recurring viral infections. Anorexia from chemotherapy. Atonic colon with anorexia and liver hypofunction. Constipation with poor appetite, post- febrile. Asecretory dyspepsia with anorexia, atonicity. Anorexia from cancer therapy. Anorexia nervosa, iatrogenic from drugs.

Common names vary widely among different species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle (or spindle tree), burning-bushstrawberry-bushwahoowintercreeper, or simply euonymus


FOENICULUM VULGARE, fennel

Dyspepsia with flatulence that is chronic anyway. Lactation, suppressed from nervousness, mild sympathetic excess. Colic in infants, with flatulence.

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