Materia Medica
Justicia Adhatoda Basaka
An Indian Shrub, Singhee
Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal con- ditions of the respiratory tract (used in the beginning).
Head
Irritable, sensitive to external impressions; hot, full and heavy head; lachrymation, with coryra profuse. fluent, v ith constant sneezing; loss of smell and taste; corysa zuith cough.
Throat
Dry, pain during empty swallowing, tenacious mucus. Mouth dry.
Respiratory
Dry cough from stcrnal region all over chest. Hoarseness, larynx painful. Paroxysmal cougit, with suffocative obstruction of respiration. Cough vritl. sneezing. Severe dyspncea with cough. Tightness across chest. Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room. Whuoping-cough.
Relationships
Seems to come between Cepa and Euphrasia, which compare.
Dose
Tincture and third potency.