QUASSIA AMARA

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QUASSIA AMARA
BOTANICAL NAME: Quassia amara Linn.
FAMILY:  Simarubaceae
COMMON NAMES:  English-Bitter wood.
DESCRIPTION: A shrub or tree with white light wood and spreading branches. Leaves opposite, odd pinnate . Leaflets 4-5 , narrow, obovate, elliptical oblong, pointed, tapering towards the base. Flowers large, crimson colored. Fruit a drupe.
DISTRIBUTION:  Guiana, north Brazil, cultivated in Columbia, Panama, West Indies. Native of Surinam.
PART USED:  Wood
HOMOEOPTHIC USES
DYSPEPSIA: Quassia acts on digestive organs as a herbal tonic. Atonic dyspepsia with gas and acidity. Heartburn and gastralgia . Regurgitation of food. Dyspepsia after infectious diseases, especially grip, dysentery. Tongue dry or with thick brown sticky coating. Stitching pain and sensation as if abdomen were empty and drawing towards the spine, aggravation by deep breathing.  Pressure and stitches in liver and sympathetically in spleen. Pain in right intercostals muscles above the liver.
CATARACT:  Cataract with copious urination.
AMBLYOPIA:  A remedy for lazy eye.
ASCITES: Cirrhosis of liver with ascites.
BED WETTING: As soon as the child wakes up the bed is drenched. Copious urination at night.
POTENCY:  Mother tincture, 3 rd potency.

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