Sunday, January 10, 2021

GUTIERREZA, HEDEOMA, HEPATICA, HERACLEUM LANATUM ROOT and HYDRASTIS

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

GUTIERREZA, broomweed or snakeweed

As a bath in arthritis.


HEDEOMA, false pennyroyal

Onset of head cold, dry with tight membranes, fever. Amenorrhea, simple, crampy. Fever in infants, suppressed sweating. Fever, dry, hot, interrupted diaphoresis. 


HEPATICA, liverwort

Cough in infants, with spasms, in measles, whooping cough.


HERACLEUM LANATUM ROOT, cow parsnip

Externally for trigeminal neuralgia; also for paralysis at and distal from nerve injury.


HYDRASTIS, goldenseal

Catarrhal or follicular conjunctivitis; as an eyewash in acute ophthalmia. Aphthous stomatitis (as a wash and internally) Herpes topically (also internally). Ceruminosis with eczema, externally. Subacute head cold with thick mucus. Acute granular pharyngitis. Subacute pharyngitis with thick, gagging mucus (internal and external). Chronic pharyngitis with pale, relaxed mucosa. Chronic or subacute rhinitis. Chronic sinusitis with edematous turbinates, relaxed and purplish; or with thick ropy mucous, frontal headache. Subacute tonsillitis with crypt catarrh. Hemorrhage from congested, boggy mucosa. Chronic anorexia with colon, rectal catarrh. Atonic colon with mucus in feces. Chronic colic with catarrh. Recuperating from dysentery. Acute gastritis, recuperation. Chronic gastritis with sulfuric, putrid belching. Chronic gastritis from alcoholic excess. Gastroenteritis, recuperation. Hemorrhoids, non-ulcerative with intestinal weakness, steatorrhea. Nausea in morning from alcohol abuse. Vomiting from alcohol abuse the night before. Shigellosis, recuperative period. Ulcers, subacute or chronic, not inflamed but congested. As a topical disinfectant for abrasions. Rectal fissures (retention enema). Herpes simplex, subacute (internal and external). Skin ulcers, in general (external). Leukorrhea, viscous, fetid (as douche, with Hamamelis). Leukorrhea, hypersecretory, milky, little smell (internally, with Frankenia as a douche). Subacute vaginitis (as sitz bath). Diabetes/hyperglycemia - functional hypergluconeogenesis. Extended immunosuppression, with congestion, edema (with Echinacea). 

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