GAULTHERIA: A REMEDY FOR ARTHRITIS.
GAULTHERIA
PROCUMBENS
BOTANICAL NAME: Gaultheria procumbens Linn.
FAMILY: Ericaceae
COMMON NAMES: English: Wintergreen
DESCRIPTION: A small shrub. Leaves 3 to 8, dark green,
oval or obovate, almost glabrous, with ciliate teeth. Flowers solitary,
nodding, white. Fruit a berry, bright red.
DISTRIBUTION: North USA and Canada.
PART USED : Leaf.
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES
Inflammatory arthritis,
rheumatism,pleurodynia , sciatica and other neuralgias. Cystic and other
prostatic irritation.
PLEURODYNIA: PLeurodynia
with pain in anterior mediastinum.
GASTRITIS: Acute gastritis. Severe pain in epigastrium.
Prolonged vomiting. Gastralgia from nervous depression.
POTENCY: Mother tincture and lower potencies. Oil of Gaultheria
is also used for external application.
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