RICINUS COMMUNIS: A REMEDY FOR GALACTOGOGUE
RICINUS
COMMUNIS
BOTANICAL NAME: Ricinus communis Linn.
FAMILY: Euphorbiaceae
COMMON NAMES: English:
Castor oil plant
DESCRIPTION: A tall glabrous and glaucous annual,
sometimes shrubby or tree-like. Leaves alternate, broad, palmately lobed, lobes
7 or more, serrate. Flowers unisexual, rather large, in terminal sub-paniculate
racemes, perianth simple and without any disc, the male flowers crowded in the
upper portion of the inflorescence, the females below. Fruit a prickly capsule
of 2-valved cocci.
DISTRIBUTION: Cultivated throughout India
PART USED: Ripe seeds
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES
BREAST MILK: Ricinus communis is a great galactogogue. Ricinus communis increases the quality of milk
in nursing women.
GASTRO-ENTERITIS: Nausea
and profuse vomiting. Colic, incessant diarrhea with purging. Rice water stools
with cramps and chilliness. Violent purging with the diarrhea. Bloody diarrhea.
POTENCY: 3rd potency.
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