HELIX TOSTA: A REMEDY FOR HEMOPTYSIS

HELIX TOSTA

ZOOLOGICAL NAME:  Helix tosta Linn.

FAMILY: Helicidae

COMMON NAMES:  English: Roman snail.

PREPARATION: Live snails are boiled in order to extract the body of the animal . The shells are washed, brushed, and dried in an oven at 150 degree centigrade. Then they are progressively calcinated in an electronic oven at 850 degree centigrade, in order to obtain a very white residue. The powdered residue is odorless and practically insoluble in water and in alcohol, it contains not less than 95% CaO. It is triturated  with sugar of milk up to 6x, after that it is converted to liquid potency, 8x. 9x and higher potencies are prepared with dispensing alcohol.

DISTRIBUTION:  Indigenous to Central and Southeast Europe, but has been moved to humans all over Europe, Asia, America.

PART USED: Toasted snail shell.

HOMOEOPATHIC USES

Hemoptysis. Tuberculosis, hemoptysis in tuberculosis. Dyspnea, worse from ascending stairs.

POTENCY: 6x and higher. 

 

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