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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