Materia Medica

Leptandra

Culver's Root

Culver's Root (LEPTANDRA) A liver remedy, with jaundice and black, tarry stools. Bilious states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Malarial conditions.

Head

Dull frontal pain; vertigo, drowsiness, and depression. Smarting and aching in eyes.

Stomach

Tongue coated yellow. Great distress in stomach and intestines, with desire for stool. Aching in region of liver extending to spine, which feels chilly.

Stool

Profuse black, fetid stools, with pain at umbilicus. Bleeding piles. Typhoid stools turn black and look like tar. Clay colored stools with jaundice. Prolapse of rectum with haemorrhoids. Rectal haemorrhage.

Relationships

Compare: Podop; Iris; Bry; Merc; Ptel; Myrica.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.