AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA: A REMEDY FOR RENAL DROPSY
AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA
BOTANICAL NAME: Parthenocissus quinquefolia Planch
FAMILY: Vitaceae
COMMON NAMES: English: American Ivy
DESCRIPTION: A large
climber, tendrils with 5-8 branches ending in adhesive tips. Young shoots
purplish; leaflets elliptical to obovate-oblong, acuminate; usually cuneate at
the base, coarsely . Cymes crowded into terminal panicles. Fruit bluish- black,
with usually 2-3 seeds.
DISTRIBUTION: U.S A
PART USED: Stem bark and
young twigs.
HOMOEOPATHIC
USES
Kidney dropsies, hydrocele
and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients. Choleric symptoms. Generally
worse from 6 pm. Dilated pupils. Left costal region sore and sensitive. Elbow
joint pains, back sore. Soreness of all limbs. Vomiting, purging with tenesmus.
Rumbling in abdomen.
POTENCY: Second to third potency.
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