VERBENA OFFICINALIS : A REMEDY FOR EPILEPSY
VERBENA
OFFICINALIS
BOTANICAL NAME: Verbena officinalis Linn.
FAMILY: Verbenaceae
COMMON NAMES: English: Vervain.
DESCRIPTION: An erect or decumbent perennial with deep
woody fusiform root stock up to 1.5 cm in height. Leaves opposite or terrate,
oblong or ovate, coarsely toothed, pinnatified or variously lobed, lobes acute
or obtuse. Flowers lilac, in dense, elongated spikes.
DISTRIBUTION: Found
throughout India.
PART USED: Whole plant
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES
NERVOUS SYSTEM: Nervous depression, weakness and irritation
and spasms. Epilepsy, insomnia, mental exhaustion. In epilepsy, it brightens up
the patient’s mental powers and helps the constipation.
SKIN: Promotes the
absorption of blood and allays pain in bruises. Vesicular erysipelas. One of
the remedies for Poison-oak.
POTENCY: Mother tincture.
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