PIPER METHYSTICUM


 

PIPER METHYSTICUM
BOTANICAL NAME: Piper methysticum Forst.
FAMILY: Piperaceae
COMMON NAMES: English: Kava kava
DESCRIPTION: A shrub with woody, fibrous, rugged, aromatic rhizome. Leaves alternate, petiolate, roundish or cordate. Stipules free, caducous, linear lanceolate. Flowers solitary, axillary, on short pedunculated spreading spikes.
DISTRIBUTION: Indigenous to Sandwich islands.
PART USED: Rhizome.
HOMEOPATHIC USES
MIND: A feeling of buoyancy, as if every nerve was strung up to the highest pitch, feels he can work without fatigue, quickly followed by a feeling of tired brain and over sensitiveness to all external impression. Mental tension, feeling as though the head were enlarged even to bursting.
PAIN: Agonizing pain with tossing, twisting, and writhing. Pain better by diverting the attention. Toothache, teeth sensitive to cold water and cold air.
ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS: Pain and numbness. Heaviness of legs when walking.
POTENCY: Mother tincture and lower potencies.

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