EPHEDRA VULGARIS: A REMEDY FOR ASTHMA

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EPHEDRA VULGARIS

BOTANICAL NAME:  Ephedra  gerardiana Wall.

FAMILY: Ephedraceae

COMMON NAMES: English: Mormon tea, Ephedra, Joint –pine.

DESCRIPTION: Low, rigid tufted shrub up to 30m high. Leaves reduced to sheath 2mm long, 2-toothed. Male cones ovate solitary or 2-3 together. Flowers 4-8. Female cones usually solitary, 1-2 flowered.

DISTRIBUTION: Drier regions of temperate and alpine Himalayas. Ranges of Kanawar, north of Simla, Kashmir and  Ledakh.

PART USED:  Stem

HOMOEOPATHIC USES

HEADACHE: Violent headache, nausea, general weakness, with slow pulse.Left side hemicrania with numbness of entire left arm.

EXOPTHALMIC GOITER: Stiffness of neck with exopthalmic goiter. Stiffness of neck and backward pulling of all the body on turning the head and a dull pain in the region of spleen.

ASTHMA: Asthma with general weakness in early morning, great fatigue.

POTENCY: Mother tincture and higher. Prolonged use of mother tincture give unwanted symptoms, like nausea, vomiting, sweating, irritability, urinary retention, skin eruptions, dysmenorrheal, palpitation, vertigo, tremor, general nervousness and apprehension etc.

 

 

 

 

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