Sunday, January 10, 2021

VERBASCUM, VERBENA, VINCA MAJOR, VIOLA ODORATA and VISCUM ALBUM

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

VERBASCUM FLOWERS, mullein

Acute cough, from nervousness, with mucosa irritation, wheezing, dry mucus, worse lying down. Hemoptysis from fits of coughing. Acute influenza with coughing, dyspnea. Cough in infants, with spasms. Cough in infants, emotional, neurotic.

VERBASCUM ROOT

Chronic acidic dysuria, also for pain therefrom. Incontinence, in general; or while sleeping, from chronic cystitis. Incontinence, functional and occasional from sympathetic enervation and poor bladder tone. Incontinence in children, large quantity of urine from relaxed bladder or trigone


VERBENA, vervain

Head cold, moist with fever, aches. As an adjunct in chorea. Convulsions, when other medications may not be necessary. General insomnia in sthenic individuals. Fever in infants, agitated and hysterical with pain on palpation of hypochondrium or epigastric region. Infant teething, with usual agitation and GI disturbances. Fever, dry with deep aching pain. 


VINCA MAJOR, periwinkle

Tinnitus with Meniere's syndrome. Mild episodic hypertension. Headache, migraine, vasoconstrictor. 


VIOLA ODORATA, violet

To stimulate innate immunity.


VISCUM ALBUM, European mistletoe ****NOT AMERICAN MISTLETOE** (American has extremely limited medical use and is very, very poisonous)

Episodic hypertension with headache, tachycardia. Insomnia with spasms, pain, nervous irritability, tachycardia. Headache in hypertensive states with ringing in ears.

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