Materia Medica
Tribulus Terrestris
Ikshugandha
An East Indian drug useful in urinary affections, especially dysuria, and in debilitated states of the sexual Organs, as expressed in seminal weakness, read emis- Sions and impoverished semen. Prostatitis, calculous affections and sexual neurasthenia. It meets the auto- traumatism of masturbation, correcting the emissions and spermatorrhcea. Partial impotence caused by overindul- symptoms, incontinence, painful micturition, etc.
Mouth
Increased foe cf saliva. [Merc.: Syphil.] Sore throat, with hoarseness.
Respiratory
Coryza like that which precedes hay- fever; thin mucus, with much irritation. Hoarse and choking; chills at night, with cough. Cough on coming into the ( open .air. Hay-fever. Spasmodic cough ; whooping cough, paroxysms; worse at night.
Back
Neck stiff; cramp in sterno-cleido muscles; relieved by heat and irritation.
Extremities
Tingling in palms. Hands and feet cold. Tibia ulcers.
Relationships
Compare: Trifolum repens -- White clover — (Prophylactic against mumps, feeling of con- gestion in salivary glands, pain and hardening, espe- cially submaxillary: worse, lying down. Mouth filled with watery saliva, worse lying down. Taste of blood in mouth and throat. Sensation as if heart would stop. with great fear, better sitting up or moving about; worse, when alone. with cold sweat on face.)
Dose
Ten to twenty drops of the tincture three times daily. (Red Clover) . Produces most marked ptyalism. Feeling of fullness with congestion of salivary glands, followed by increased copious flow of saliva. Feeling as if mumps were coming on. Crusta lactea; dry, scaly crusts. Stiff neck. Cancerous diathesis. Tincture.