BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA: A REMEDY FOR DROPSY

BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA

BOTANICAL NAME:  Boerhaavia diffusa Linn.

FAMILY:  Nyctaginaceae

COMMON NAMES:  English: Red spiderling, Wine flower ; Hindi: Punarnava, Gadahpurna; Malayalam: Thazhuthama; Tamil: Mukaratee-Kirei.

DESCRIPTION:  A diffusely branched herb, root stout, fusiform, rootstock woody.  Stem slender, prostrate, or ascending, swollen at the nodes. Leaves rather thick, arranged in unequal pairs at each node, ovate-oblong or sub-orbicular, base rounded or sub-cordate. Flowers minute , white in color.

DISTRIBUTION:  A common weed throughout the plains in India.

PART USED: Whole plant

HOMOEOPATHIC USES

DROPSY:  A great remedy in all kinds of dropsy. Swelling of eyelids, hands, abdomen, legs and feet. There is heaviness of feet with dropsy from feet to thigh. It promotes urination in dropsy. It is a good remedy for attack of Beriberi and dropsy in every rainy season. Retention of urine, dribbling of urine with pain in the bladder.

HEART: Frequent palpitation and intermittent  throbbing pain in the cardiac region. Trembling and fluttering of heart. Gasping for breath. Dyspnea worse on physical exertion.

LIVER:  Slight pain in the hepatic region was felt on touch or pressure, better by hard pressure. Cirrhosis of liver.

POTENCY:  Mother tincture.

 

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