HYDROCOTYLE ASIATICA: A REMEDY FOR PSORIASIS.

HYDROCOTYLE ASIATICA

BOTANICAL NAME:  Centella asiatica ( Linn. ) Urb.

FAMILY:  Umbelliferae

COMMON NAMES:  English: Thick leaved pennywort; Hindi:  Mundukparni;Malayalam: Kudakal; Tamil: Kacappi.  

DESCRIPTION:  A prostrate, perennial , faintly aromatic herb. Leaves long petioled , reniform, or orbicular crenate and often lobed, glabrous, or nearly so and shining, stipules adnate to petioles. Peduncles much shorter than the leaves, often 2-3 nate. Bracts small, ovate embracing the flowers, not scattered among the pedicels. Flowers 3-6 in each head.

DISTRIBUTION:  Very common at moist places, in India.

PART USED:  Whole plant.

HOMOEOPATHIC USES

SKIN: Great thickness of epidermoid layer of skin and exfoliation of scales. Psoriasis in trunk, extremities, palms and soles. Erysipelatus redness, circular spots with scaly edges. Dry eruptions. Erythema on face, neck, back, chest,  arms, thighs with much itching and copious sweat. Miliary eruptions on neck, back, chest, pricking and itching on different parts. Intolerable itching, especially of soles. Elephantiasis. Leprosy and lupus.

EXTREMITIES: Bruised feeling in all muscles. Wandering pains in muscle, chest, and legs. Sensation as if hot water ran through marrow of bones. Contractions  of forearm and legs.

FEMALE:  Vaginal itching. Heat within vagina. Granular ulceration of womb. Weight in uterus. Severe labor like pain in uterus and appendages.  Profuse leucorrhea.

POTENCY:  Mother tincture, 3x, 6x. 

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