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.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 409. Public domain.

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