alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF PLANT 

FAMILIES AND GROUPS 

1 Acanthaceae 10 Andrographis. Hygrophila. Justicia adhatoda. 

2 Acoraceae 1 Acorus calamus. 

3 Actinidiaceae 1 Actinidia deliciosa (kiwi). 

4 Agavaceae 5 Agave. Chlorogalum. Chlorophytum. Yucca. 

5 Aizoaceae 3 Lampranthus. Mesembryanthum. Sceletium 

tortuosum. 

6 Alismatales 3 Alisma plantago. Potamogeton. Sagittaria 

sagittaefolia. 

7 Alliaceae/Agapanthaceae 10 Allium cepa. Allium sativum. Agapanthus. 

8 Amaranthaceae/ 

Chenopodiaceae 

23 Achyranthes. Chenopodium. Salsola tragus. 

9 Amaryllidaceae 6 Amaryllis. Boophone. Galanthus. Narcissus. 

10 Anacardiaceae 20 Anacardium. Comocladia. Mangifera. Pistacia. 

Rhus. Schinus. 

11 Annonaceae 6 Annona. Asimina. Cananga. Guatteria. Malmea. 

Xylopia. 

12 Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) 69 Aethusa. Ammi. Angelica. Apium. Asaf. Cicuta. 

Conium. Coriandrum. Ferula. Heracleum. 

Hydrocotyle. Oenanthe. Petroselinum. 

Peucedanum. Phellandrium. Sium. Sumbul. Zizia. 

13 Apocynaceae 57 Alstonia. Apocynum. Asclepias. Calotropis. 

(incl. Asclepiadaceae Cundurango. Gelsemium. Gymnema. 

and Gelsemiaceae) Oleander. Quebracho. Rauvolfia. Reserpinum. 

Strophanthus. Tabernanthe iboga. Vinca. 

Vincetoxicum. 

14 Aquifoliaceae 5 Ilex (holly). 

15 Araceae (Aroids) 15 Amorphophallus. Arisaema. Arum. Caladium. 

Calla. Ictodes. Lemna. Monstera. Symplocarpus. 

Zantedeschia. 

16 Araliaceae 11 Aralia. Ginseng. Hedera (ivy). Oplopanax. Panax. 

17 Arecaceae (Palms) 9 Areca. Cocos. Elaeis. Euterpe. Nux absurda. 

Phoenix. Sabal. 

18 Aristolochiaceae 8 Aristolochia. Asarum. 

19 Asparagaceae 10 Asparagus. Convallaria. Cordyline. Dracaena. 

(incl. Laxmanniaceae 

and Ruscaceae) 

Polygonatum. Ruscus. Sansevieria. 

20 Asteraceae (Compositae) 154 remedies – divided in 5 tribes 

20.1 Asteraceae – Anthemidae 28 Abrot. Absinth. Artemisia. Cham. Cina. 

Millefolium. Tanacetum. 

20.2 Asteraceae – Cardueae 18 Carduus. Centaurea. Cirsium. Cynara. Lappa. 

Onopordon. 

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20.3 Asteraceae – Lactuceae 14 Cichorium. Hieracium. Lactuca. Nabalus. 

Taraxacum. 

20.4 Asteraceae – 33 Brachyglottis. Eupatorium. Guaco. Senecio. 

Senecioneae/Eupatorieae Tussilago. 

20.5 Asteraceae – Vulneraries 61 Ambrosia. Arnica. Bellis. Calendula. Echinacea. 

and minor tribes Erigeron. Gnaphalium. Grindelia. Helianthus. 

Inula. Parthenium. Polymnia. Sigesbeckia. 

Solidago. Wyethia. Xanthium. 

21 Balsaminaceae 5 Impatiens. 

22 Begoniaceae 1 Begonia. 

23 Berberidaceae 6 Berberis. Caulophyllum. Jeffersonia. 

Podophyllum. 

24 Betulaceae 9 Alnus. Betula. Carbo veg. Cinis betulae. Corylus. 

Ostrya. 

25 Bignoniaceae 6 Catalpa. Jacaranda. Kigelia. Markhamia. Tabebuia. 

Tecoma. 

26 Bixaceae 1 Bixa (annatto). 

27 Boraginaceae 23 Alkanna. Anchusa. Borago. Cordia. Eriodictyon. 

Heliotropium. Myosotis. Nemophila. 

Onosmodium. Pulmonaria. Symphytum. 

28 Brassicales 50 Armoracia. Brassica. Bunias. Capparis. Carica. 

Cheiranthus. Cleome. Cochlearia. Eruca. Iberis. 

Isatis. Lepidium. Moringa. Nasturtium. Raphanus. 

Sinapis. Thiosinaminum. Thlaspi. Tropaeolum. 

Vesicaria. 

29 Bromeliaceae 2 Ananas (pineapple). Tillandsia usneoides. 

30 Burseraceae 5 Balsamodendron. Boswellia. Myrrha. Olibanum. 

31 Buxaceae 1 Buxus. 

32 Cactaceae 13 Anhalonium. Cactus. Carnegiea. Cereus. 

Mescalinum. Opuntia. 

33 Campanulaceae/ 

Lobeliaceae 

14 Campanula. Lobelia. Pratia. 

34 Canellales 3 Cinnamodendron. Drimys. 

35 Cannabaceae 

(incl. Celtidaceae) 

7 Cannabis. Celtis. Humulus. Trema. 

36 Carnivorous plants 6 Dionaea. Drosera. Nepenthes. Pinguicula. 

Sarracenia. 

37 Caryophyllaceae 17 Agrostemma. Arenaria. Dianthus. Saponaria. 

Saponinum. Stellaria. 

38 Celastraceae 6 Catha. Euonymus. Parnassia. 

39 Chrysobalanaceae/ 

Dichapetalaceae 

3 Acioa (Dactyladenia). Dichapetalum. Moquilea 

40 Cistaceae 2 Cistus. Helianthemum. 

41 Clusiaceae 9 Gambogia. Garcinia. Harungana. Hypericum. 

(incl. Hypericaceae) Mesua. 

42 Commelinales 3 Eichhornia. Lachnanthes. Tradescantia. 

Conifers see Pinales 

43 Convolvulaceae 13 Argyreia. Convolvulus. Ipomoea. Jalapa. 

Operculina. 


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44 Coriariaceae/ 

Corynocarpaceae 

3 Coriaria. Corynocarpus (karaka). 

45 Cornales 8 Cornus. Hydrangea. Loasa. Philadelphus. 

46 Crassulaceae 17 Cotyledon. Crassula. Kalanchoe. Rhodiola. 

Sedum. Sempervivum. 

47 Cucurbitaceae 23 Bryonia. Cephalandra. Citrullus. Colocynthis. 

(incl. Datiscaceae) Cucumis. Cucurbita. Datisca. Elaterium. Luffa. 

Momordica. Trichosanthes. 

48 Cycads 2 Macrozamia. Stangeria. 

49 Dioscoreales 6 Aletris. Dioscorea. Narthecium. Tamus. 

50 Dipsacales 25 Adoxa. Centranthus. Dipsacus. Knautia. 

Leycesteria. Lonicera. Sambucus. Scabiosa. 

Symphoricarpos. Triosteum. Valeriana. 

Viburnum. 

51 Ebenaceae 5 Diospyros. Euclea. Royena. 

52 Elaeagnaceae 1 Hippophae rhamnoides. 

53 Equisetaceae (Horsetails) 4 Equisetum. 

54 Ericaceae 27 Andromeda. Arbutus. Arctostaphylos. 

Chimaphila. Calluna. Epigaea. Erica. Gaultheria. 

Kalmia. Ledum. Lyonia. Oxydendrum. Pyrola. 

Rhododendron. Uva ursi. Vaccinium. 

55 Euphorbiaceae 51 Acalypha. Cascarilla. Cassada. Croton. Euphorbia. 

Hevea. Hura. Jatropha. Latex vulcani. Mancinella. 

Mercurialis. Phyllanthus. Ricinus. Spirostachys. 

Stillingia. 

56 Fabaceae (Leguminosae) 134 Abrus. Acacia. Anadenanthera. Astragalus. 

Balsamum. Baptisia. Cassia. Copaiva. Cytisus. 

Derris. Dolichos. Erythrina. Faba. Galega. 

Genista. Glycyrrhiza. Gymnocladus. Indigo. 

Lathyrus. Leucaena. Medicago. Melilotus. 

Mimosa. Mucuna. Oxytropis. Phaseolus. 

Physostigma. Psoralea. Pueraria. Robinia. 

Sarothamnus. Senna. Soja. Sophora. Spartium. 

Sutherlandia. Tamarindus. Trifolium. Ulex. Vicia. 

Wisteria. 

57 Fagaceae 11 Castanea. Eupionum. Fagus. Kreosotum. Quercus. 

58 Ferns 13 Asplenium. Calaguala. Dryopteris. Filix-mas. 

Polypodium. Pteridium. 

59 Fumariaceae 6 Adlumia. Corydalis. Dicentra. Fumaria. 

60 Gentianaceae 12 Canchalagua. Centaurium. Centaury. Gentian. 

Gentiana. Sabatia. 

61 Geraniales 8 Bersama. Erodium. Geranium. Monsonia. 

Pelargonium. 

62 Ginkgos 1 Ginkgo biloba. 

63 Gnetophytes 4 Ephedra. MDMA (ecstasy). Welwitschia. 

64 Gunneraceae 1 Gunnera perpensa. 

65 Hyacinthaceae 5 Agraphis. Ornithogalum. Squilla. 

66 Icacinaceae 1 Pyrenacantha scandens. 

67 Illiciaceae 2 Illicium (Anisum stellatum). 

68 Juglandaceae 6 Carya. Juglans. 


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69 Lamiaceae (Labiatae) 99 Agnus castus. Basilicum. Coleus. Collinsonia. 

Glechoma. Hedeoma. Hyssopus. Lamium. 

Lavandula. Leonotis. Leonurus. Leucas. Lycopus. 

Mentha. Monarda. Ocimum. Origanum. 

Plectranthus. Rosmarinus. Salvia. Scutellaria. 

Tetradenia. Teucrium. Thymolum. Thymus. 

Vitex. 

70 Laurales 18 Boldo. Calycanthus. Camphora. Cinnamomum. 

Coto. Hernandia. Laurus. Nectandra. Persea. 

Sassafras. Xymalos. 

71 Liliales 32 Calochortus. Colchicum. Crocus. Erythronium. 

Gladiolus. Gloriosa. Homeria. Iris. Lilium. 

Moraea. Sarsaparilla. Smilax. Tulipa. 

72 Linaceae 2 Linum. 

73 Loganiaceae 13 Ignatia. Nux vomica. Spigelia. Strychninum. 

Strychnos. Upas. 

74 Lycophyta 3 Huperzia. Lycopodium. Selaginella. 

75 Lythraceae/Punicaceae 6 Cuphea. Granatum (pomegranate). Heimia. 

Henna. Lythrum. 

76 Maesaceae 1 Maesa lanceolata. 

77 Magnoliaceae 3 Magnolia. Talauma. 

78 Malpighiaceae 2 Ayahuasca. Galphimia glauca. 

79 Malvaceae 33 Abelmoschus. Abroma. Adansonia (baobab). 

Brachychiton. Ceiba. Chocolate. Durio. 

Gossypium. Grewia. Hibiscus. Kola. Malva. Sida. 

Theobroma. Tilia. Triumfetta. 

80 Melanthiaceae 14 Amianthium. Helonias. Paris. Sabadilla. Trillium. 

Veratrum. Xerophyllum. Zigadenus. 

81 Meliaceae 10 Andersonia. Azadirachta. Guarea. Trichilia. 

Turraea. 

82 Menispermaceae 11 Cocculus. Curare. Menispermum. Pareira. 

Picrotoxinum. Tinospora. 

83 Menyanthaceae 1 Menyanthes trifolia. 

84 Moraceae 12 Brosimum. Ficus. Maclura. Morus. Murure. 

Strangler fig. Upas antiaris. 

85 Mosses 4 Polytrichum. Sphagnum. 

86 Myricaceae 2 Morella. Myrica. 

87 Myristicaceae 2 Myristica (Virola) sebifera. Nux moschata. 

88 Myrsinaceae 9 Anagallis. Cyclamen. Embelia. Lysimachia. 

89 Myrtaceae 16 Cajuputum. Eucalyptus. Eugenia. Guava. 

Leptospermum. Melaleuca. Myrtus. Pimenta. 

Psidium. Syzygium. 

90 Myrtales 14 Epilobium. Melastoma. Oenothera. Terminalia. 

91 Nyctaginaceae 4 Boerhavia. Bougainvillea. Mirabilis. 

92 Nymphaeaceae 5 Nuphar. Nymphaea. 

93 Ochnaceae 1 Ochna atropurpurea (= Ochna serrulata). 

94 Oleaceae 12 Chionanthus. Fraxinus. Jasminum. Nyctanthes. 

Olea. Phillyrea. Syringa. 


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95 Orchidaceae (Orchids) 18 Coelogyne. Corallorhiza. Cypripedium. 

Cyrtopodium. Dendrobium. Dipodium. Neottia. 

Orchis. Spiranthes. Vanilla. 

Orobanchaceae 8 see Parasitic Plants 

96 Oxalidales 5 Elaeocarpus. Oxalicum acidum. Oxalis. 

97 Papaveraceae 36 Apomorphinum. Argemone. Chelidonium. 

Codeinum. Eschscholzia. Heroinum. 

Morphinum. Narcotinum. Opium. Papaver. 

Sanguinaria. Sanguinarinum nitricum. 

Thebainum. 

98 Parasitic plants 29 Bopusia. Cuscuta. Epiphegus. Euphrasia. Flor de 

Piedra. Liriosma. Krameria. Loranthus. 

Melampyrum. Misodendrum. Monotropa. 

Okoubaka. Orobanche. Osyris. Pedicularis. 

Phoradendron. Rafflesia. Ratanhia. Santalum. 

Scurrula. Viscum. Ximenia. 

99 Passifloraceae/Turneraceae 3 Damiana. Passiflora. Turnera. 

100 Pedaliaceae 3 Ceratotheca. Harpagophytum. Sesamum. 

101 Phrymaceae 2 Mimulus. 

102 Phytolaccaceae 2 Petiveria. Phytolacca. 

103 Pinales (Conifers) 49 remedies divided in 5 groups: 

Pinales – Araucariaceae 2 Agathis. Wollemia. 

Pinales – Cupressaceae 15 Cupressus. Juniperus. Sequoia. Sequoiadendron. 

Thuja. 

Pinales – Pinaceae 21 Abies. Cedrus. Larix. Picea. Pinus. Pseudotsuga. 

Tsuga. 

Pinales – Taxaceae 2 Taxus baccata. Taxus brevifolia. 

Pinales – coniferous 

products 

9 Amber. Jet. Pix liquida. Terebinthina. 

104 Piperaceae 

(incl. Saururaceae) 

7 Anemopsis. Cubeba. Kava-kava. Matico. Piper. 

105 Pittosporaceae 1 Pittosporum viridiflorum. 

106 Plantaginaceae 27 Antirrhinum. Chelone. Digitalis. Gratiola. 

Leptandra. Linaria. Plantago. Veronica. 

107 Plumbaginaceae 4 Ceratostigma. Limonium. Plumbago. Statice. 

108 Poales (Grasses & 51 Agrostis. Anatherum. Anthoxanthum. Arundo. 

Grass-likes) Avena. Bambusa. Carex. Cymbopogon. Cynodon. 

Cyperus. Furfur. Hordeum. Juncus. Lolium. 

Oryza. Phleum. Saccharum. Sorghum. 

Sparganium. Stigmata maydis. Triticum. Typha. 

Vetiveria. Wild oat. Zea. Zizania. 

109 Polemoniaceae 3 Gilia. Hoitzia. Polemonium. 

110 Polygalaceae 5 Polygala. Senega. 

111 Polygonaceae 22 Bistorta. Fagopyrum. Persicaria. Polygonum. 

Rheum. Rumex. 

112 Portulacaceae 3 Calyptridium. Portulaca. 

113 Primulaceae 9 Androsace. Hottonia. Primula. Soldanella. 

114 Proteales 5 Nelumbo (lotus). Platanus. Telopea (waratah). 

115 Quilajaceae 1 Quilaja saponaria. 

116 Ranunculaceae 59 remedies. Divided in 4 groups. 


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116.1 Ranunculaceae – Group 1 17 Aconitum. Consolida. Eranthis. Helleborus. 

Staphisagria. 

116.2 Ranunculaceae – Group 2 10 Actaea. Adonis. Aquilegia. Cimicifuga. Nigella. 

Thalictrum. 

116.3 Ranunuclaceae – Group 3 8 Coptis. Hydrastis. Xanthorhiza. 

116.4 Ranunculaceae – Group 4 24 Anemone. Caltha. Clematis. Hepatica. 

Macrotinum. Pulsatilla. Ranunculus. Trollius. 

117 Rhamnaceae 13 Cascara. Ceanothus. Frangula. Karwinskia. 

Rhamnus. Ziziphus. 

118 Rhizophoraceae/ 

Erythroxylaceae 

4 Catuaba. Coca. Cocainum. Rhizophora. 

119 Rosaceae 60 Agrimonia. Alchemilla. Amygdalus. Crataegus. 

Cydonia. Filipendula (Spiraea). Fragaria. Geum. 

Hydr-ac. Kousso. Laurocerasus. Prunus. Malus. 

Potentilla. Pyrus. Rosa. Rubus. Sanguisorba. 

Sorbus. 

120 Rubiaceae 53 Asperula. Cainca. China. Chininum salts. Coffea. 

Coffeinum. Emetinum. Fleroya. Galium. 

Gardenia. Ipecacuanha. Mitchella. Mitragyna. 

Morinda. Rubia. Uncaria. Yohimbinum. 

121 Rutaceae 29 Aegle. Angustura. Atista. Barosma. Casimiroa. 

Citricum acidum. Citrus. Clausena. Dictamnus. 

Diosma. Jaborandi. Pilocarpinum. Ptelea. Ruta. 

Xanthoxylum. Zanthoxylum. 

122 Salicaceae/Flacourtiaceae 24 Chaulmoogra. Hydnocarpus. Natrum salicylicum. 

Populus. Salicylicum acidum. Salix. Trimeria. 

Willow. 

123 Sapindaceae 15 Acer. Aesculus. Blighia. Cardiospermum. 

Guarana. Paullinia. Sapindus. 

124 Sapotaceae 3 Lucuma. Sapota achras. 

125 Saxifragales 9 Altingia. Hamamelis. Heuchera. Paeonia. 

Penthorum. Ribes. Saxifraga. 

126 Scrophulariaceae 9 Buddleja. Scrophularia. Verbascum. 

127 Simaroubaceae 9 Ailanthus. Brucea. Castela (Chaparro). Cedron. 

Quassia. Simarouba. 

128 Simmondsiaceae 1 Simmondsia chinensis (jojoba). 

129 Solanaceae 53 Atropinum. Belladonna. Brugmansia. Capsicum. 

Datura. Duboisia. Dulcamara. Fabiana. Franciscea. 

Hyoscyamus. Lycium. Lycopersicon. Mandragora. 

Nicotiana. Physalis. Scopolaminum. Solanum. 

Stramonium. Tabacum. Withania. 

130 Theaceae 2 Camellia japonica. Thea chinensis. 

131 Thymelaeaceae 5 Aquilaria. Daphne. Dirca. Mezereum. 

132 Ulmaceae 3 Ulmus. 

133 Urticaceae/Cecropiaceae 10 Cecropia. Dendrocnide. Musanga. Parietaria. 

Urtica. 

134 Verbenaceae 9 Aloysia. Lantana. Lippia. Priva. Verbena. 

135 Violaceae 5 Anchietea. Viola. 

136 Vitaceae 6 Ampelopsis. Cayratia. Cissus. Parthenocissus. 

Vitis (grape). 


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137 Xanthorrhoeaceae 6 Aloe. Asphodelus. Phormium. Xanthorrhoea. 

138 Zingiberales 14 Alpinia. Canna. Cardamomum. Costus. Curcuma. 

Galanga. Maranta. Musa. Zingiber. 

139 Zygophyllales 5 Guaiacum. Larrea (Paloondo). Peganum. Tribulus. 


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ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES 

Numbers in bold refer to grouping number (see Page li) 

Abelmoschus moschatus 79 

Abies alba 103 

Abies balsamea 103 

Abies canadensis 103 

Abies nigra 103 

Abroma augusta 79 

Abroma augusta radix 79 

Abrotanum 20.1 

Abrus precatorius 56 

Absinthium 20.1 

Acacia arabica 56 

Acacia dealbata 56 

Acacia farnesiana 56 

Acacia nilotica 56 

Acalypha indica 55 

Acanthus mollis 1 

Acanthus virilis 1 

Acer campestre 123 

Acer circinatum 123 

Acer negundo 123 

Acer pseudoplatanus 123 

Achillea millefolium 20.1 

Achillea moschata 20.1 

Achillea nana 20.1 

Achillea ptarmica 20.1 

Achras sapota 124 

Achyranthes aspera 8 

Achyranthes calea 8 

Acioa dewevrei 39 

Acmella oleracea 20.5 

Acokanthera oppositifolia 13 

Aconitinum 116.1 

Aconitum anthora 116.1 

Aconitum cammarum 116.1 

Aconitum columbianum 116.1 

Aconitum ferox 116.1 

Aconitum lycoctonum 116.1 

Aconitum napellus 116.1 

Aconitum septentrionale 116.1 

Acorus calamus 2 

Actaea racemosa 116.2 

Actaea spicata 116.2 

Actinidia deliciosa 3 

Adansonia digitata 79 

Adenandra uniflora 121 

Adhatoda vasica 1 

Adiantum capillus-veneris 58 

Adlumia fungosa 59 

Adonidinum 116.2 

Adonis aestivalis 116.2 

Adonis vernalis 116.2 

Adoxa moschatellina 50 

Adromischus leucophyllus 46 

Aegle folia 121 

Aegle marmelos 121 

Aegopodium podagraria 12 

Aesculinum 123 

Aesculus carnea 123 

Aesculus glabra 123 

Aesculus hippocastanum 123 

Aethusa cynapium 12 

Agapanthus africanus 7 

Agathis australis 103 

Agathosma betulina 121 

Agathosma crenulata 121 

Agave americana 4 

Agave tequilana 4 

Ageratina aromatica 20.4 

Ageratum conyzoides 20.4 

Agnus castus 69 

Agraphis nutans 65 

Agrimonia eupatoria 119 

Agrimonia odorata 119 

Agrimony (Bach fl.) 119 

Agropyron repens 108 

Agrostemma githago 37 

Agrostis alba 108 

Agrostis capillaris 108 

Agrostis vulgaris 108 

Ailanthus altissima 127 

Ailanthus glandulosa 127 

Aira flexuosa 108 


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Ajuga chamaepitys 69 

Ajuga reptans 69 

Albizia adianthifolia 56 

Albizia fastigiata 56 

Alcea rosea 79 

Alchemilla alpina 119 

Alchemilla arvensis 119 

Alchemilla vulgaris 119 

Alchornea cordifolia 55 

Aletris farinosa 49 

Alisma plantago-aquatica 6 

Alliaria officinalis 28 

Allium ascalonicum 7 

Allium cepa 7 

Allium fallax 7 

Allium lusitanicum 7 

Allium porrum 7 

Allium sativum 7 

Allium schoenoprasum 7 

Allium ursinum 7 

Allium victorialis 7 

Alnus glutinosa 24 

Alnus rubra 24 

Alnus serrulata 24 

Aloe ferox 137 

Aloe perryi 137 

Aloe socotrina 137 

Aloe vera 137 

Alopecurus pratensis 108 

Aloysia citrodora 134 

Alpinia conchigera 138 

Alpinia officinarum 138 

Alstonia boonei 13 

Alstonia constricta 13 

Alstonia scholaris 13 

Alternanthera pungens 8 

Althaea officinalis 79 

Althaea rosea 79 

Altingia excelsa 125 

Alyssoides utriculata 28 

Amaranthus hypochondriacus 8 

Amaranthus spinosus 8 

Amaranthus tristis 8 

Amaryllis belladonna 9 

Amaryllis equestris 9 

Amber 103 

Ambrosia artemisiifolia 20.5 

Ambrosia chamissonis 20.5 

Amianthium muscitoxicum 80 

Ammi majus 12 

Ammi visnaga 12 

Ammoniacum gummi 12 

Ammophila arenaria 108 

Amorphophallus konjac 15 

Amorphophallus rivieri 15 

Ampelodesmos mauritanica 108 

Ampelopsis quinquefolia 136 

Ampelopsis trifoliata 136 

Ampelopsis weitchii 136 

Amphipterygium adstringens 10 

Amygdalus communis 119 

Amygdalus dulcis 119 

Amygdalus persica 119 

Anacardium occidentale 10 

Anacardium orientale 10 

Anacyclus pyrethrum 20.1 

Anadenanthera colubrina 56 

Anadenanthera peregrina 56 

Anagallis arvensis 88 

Anagyris foetida 56 

Anamirta cocculus 82 

Ananas ananas 29 

Ananas comosus 29 

Ananas sativus 29 

Ananassa comosus 29 

Anatherum muricatum 108 

Anchietea salutaris 135 

Anchusa arvensis 27 

Anchusa officinalis 27 

Anchusa tinctora 27 

Andersonia 81 

Andira inermis 56 

Andrographis paniculata 1 

Andromeda mariana 54 

Andromeda nitida 54 

Andromeda polifolia 54 

Andropogon citratus 108 

Andropogon muricatus 108 

Andropogon schoenanthus 108 

Androsace lactea 113 

Anemone nemorosa 116.4 

Anemone ranunculoides 116.4 

Anemopsis californica 104 

Anethum graveolens 12 

Angelica archangelica 12 

Angelica atropurpurea 12 

Angelica sinensis 12 

Angophora lanceolata 89 

Angostura trifoliata 121 

Angustura vera 121 


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Anhalonium lewinii 32 

Aniba coto 70 

Anisum stellatum 67 

Annona muricata 11 

Anthemis arvensis 20.1 

Anthemis cotula 20.1 

Anthemis nobilis 20.1 

Anthoxanthum odoratum 108 

Anthriscus cerefolium 12 

Anthurium schlechtendalii 15 

Anthyllis vulneraria 56 

Antiaris toxicaria 84 

Antirrhinum majus 106 

Aphanamixis polystachya 81 

Aphloia theiformis 122 

Apiolum 12 

Apium dulce 12 

Apium graveolens 12 

Apium graveolens var. dulce 12 

Apocynum androsaemifolium 13 

Apocynum cannabinum 13 

Apomorphinum hydrochloricum 97 

Apomorphinum muriaticum 97 

Aquilaria agallocha 131 

Aquilegia vulgaris 116.2 

Aragallus lambertii 56 

Aralia californica 16 

Aralia hispida 16 

Aralia nudicaulis 16 

Aralia racemosa 16 

Aralia spinosa 16 

Arbutinum 54 

Arbutus andrachne 54 

Arbutus menziesii 54 

Arbutus unedo 54 

Arctium lappa 20.2 

Arctostaphylos manzanita 54 

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 54 

Areca catechu 17 

Arenaria glabra 37 

Arenaria rubra 37 

Arenaria serpyllifolia 37 

Argemone mexicana 97 

Argemone ochroleuca 97 

Argemone pleiacantha 97 

Argyreia nervosa 43 

Arisaema dracontium 15 

Arisaema triphyllum 15 

Aristolochia clematitis 18 

Aristolochia colombiana 18 

Aristolochia cymbifera 18 

Aristolochia grandiflora 18 

Aristolochia milhomens 18 

Aristolochia ringens 18 

Aristolochia rotunda 18 

Aristolochia serpentaria 18 

Armoracia rusticana 28 

Arnica montana 20.5 

Arrhenatherum elatius 108 

Artemisia abrotanum 20.1 

Artemisia absinthium 20.1 

Artemisia cina 20.1 

Artemisia dracunculus 20.1 

Artemisia laxa 20.1 

Artemisia mutellina 20.1 

Artemisia tridentata 20.1 

Artemisia umbelliformis 20.1 

Artemisia vulgaris 20.1 

Arum dracontium 15 

Arum dracunculus 15 

Arum italicum 15 

Arum maculatum 15 

Arum triphyllum 15 

Arundo donax 108 

Arundo mauritanica 108 

Arundo mediterranea 108 

Arundo phragmites 108 

Asa foetida 12 

Asarum canadense 18 

Asarum europaeum 18 

Asarum officinale 18 

Asclepias cordifolia 13 

Asclepias cornuti 13 

Asclepias curassavica 13 

Asclepias incarnata 13 

Asclepias syriaca 13 

Asclepias tuberosa 13 

Asimina triloba 11 

Asparaginum 19 

Asparagus officinalis 19 

Asperula odorata 120 

Asphodelus albus 137 

Aspidium athamanticum 58 

Aspidosperma polyneuron 13 

Aspidosperma quebracho 13 

Aspidosperminum 13 

Asplenium adiantum-nigrum 58 

Asplenium ceterach 58 

Asplenium scolopendrium 58 

Aster asper 20.5 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxv

Aster bakerianus 20.5 

Astragalus campestris 56 

Astragalus cicer 56 

Astragalus exscapus 56 

Astragalus glycyphyllos 56 

Astragalus gummifer 56 

Astragalus hornii 56 

Astragalus menziesii 56 

Astragalus mollissimus 56 

Athamanta oreoselinum 12 

Atista indica 121 

Atista radix 121 

Atriplex hortensis 8 

Atropa belladonna 129 

Atropinum purum 129 

Atropinum sulphuricum 129 

Aurantii cortex 121 

Avena elatior 108 

Avena sativa 108 

Avenella flexuosa 108 

Avicennia marina 1 

Ayahuasca 78 

Azadirachta indica 81 

Baccharis crispa 20.5 

Baccharis genistelloides 20.5 

Bacopa monnieri 106 

Ballota foetida 69 

Ballota lanata 69 

Ballota nigra var. foetida 69 

Balsamodendron mukul 30 

Balsamodendron myrrha 30 

Balsamum peruvianum 56 

Balsamum tolutanum 56 

Bambusa arundinacea 108 

Bambusa bambos 108 

Banisteria caapi 78 

Banisteriopsis caapi 78 

Baptisia australis 56 

Baptisia confusa 56 

Baptisia tinctoria 56 

Barbarea vulgaris 28 

Barbula squarrosa 85 

Barosma betulina 121 

Barosma crenulata 121 

Basilicum 69 

Bauhinia thonningii 56 

Begonia semperflorens 22 

Belladonna 129 

Bellis perennis 20.5 

Benzoin oderiferum 70 

Berberis aquifolium 23 

Berberis vulgaris 23 

Bersama lucens 61 

Berula erecta 12 

Beta maritima 8 

Beta vulgaris 8 

Betonica aquatica 126 

Betula alba 24 

Betula pendula 24 

Betula pubescens 24 

Bidens bipinnata 20.5 

Bidens pilosa 20.5 

Bistorta bistortoides 111 

Bistorta officinalis 111 

Bituminaria bituminosa 56 

Bixa orellana 26 

Blackstonia perfoliata 60 

Blighia sapida 123 

Blumea lacera 20.5 

Blumea odorata 20.5 

Boerhavia coccinea 91 

Boerhavia diffusa 91 

Boerhavia hirsuta 91 

Boldo fragrans 70 

Bombax pentandrum 79 

Boophone disticha 9 

Bopusia scabra 98 

Borago officinalis 27 

Borreria natalensis 120 

Boscia oleoides 28 

Boswellia carteri 30 

Boswellia sacra 30 

Boswellia socotrana 30 

Bougainvillea 91 

Bowdichia major 56 

Bowdichia virgilioides 56 

Brachychiton acerifolius 79 

Brachyglottis repens 20.4 

Brassica alba 28 

Brassica campestris 28 

Brassica eruca 28 

Brassica napus 28 

Brassica napus oleifera 28 

Brassica nigra 28 

Brassica oleracea 28 

Brassica oleracea rubra 28 

Brassica rapa rapa 28 

Brassica rapa subsp. campestris 28 

Bridelia atroviridis 55 

Bridelia ferruginea 55 


xxvi ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Brillantaisia patula 1 

Briza media 108 

Brodiaea elegans 7 

Bromus hordeaceus 108 

Bromus mollis 108 

Bromus ramosus 108 

Brosimum acutifolium 84 

Brosimum gaudichaudii 84 

Brosimum utile 84 

Brucea antidysenterica 127 

Brugmansia arborea 129 

Brugmansia sanguinea 129 

Brugmansia x candida 129 

Brunella vulgaris 69 

Brunfelsia uniflora 129 

Bryonia alba 47 

Bryonia cretica ssp. dioica 47 

Bryonia dioica 47 

Bryonia laciniosa 47 

Bryophyllum proliferum 46 

Buddleja davidii 126 

Buglossoides arvensis 27 

Bunias erucago 28 

Bunias orientalis 28 

Bupleurum falcatum 12 

Buxus sempervirens 31 

Cacao 79 

Cactinum mexicanum 32 

Cactus grandiflorus 32 

Caesalpinia bonduc 56 

Caesalpinia bonducella 56 

Caesalpinia pulcherrima 56 

Cainca 120 

Cajanus cajan 56 

Cajuputum 89 

Cakile maritima 28 

Caladium seguinum 15 

Calaguala 58 

Calamintha acinos 69 

Calamintha clinopodium 69 

Calamintha grandiflora 69 

Calamintha nepeta 69 

Calamintha officinalis 69 

Calamus aromaticus 2 

Calea ternifolia 20.5 

Calea zacatechichi 20.5 

Calendula arvensis 20.5 

Calendula officinalis 20.5 

Calia secundiflora 56 

Calla aethiopica 15 

Calliandra alternans 56 

Calliandra houstoni 56 

Calliandra houstoniana 56 

Callilepis laureola 20.5 

Callitris rhomboidea 103 

Calluna vulgaris 54 

Calocedrus decurrens 103 

Calochortus albus 71 

Calomeria amaranthoides 20.5 

Calotropis gigantea 13 

Calotropis lactum 13 

Calotropis procera 13 

Caltha palustris 116.4 

Calycanthus occidentalis 70 

Calyptridium umbellatum 112 

Calystegia sepium 43 

Camellia japonica 130 

Camellia sinensis 130 

Campanula rapunculus 33 

Campanula rotundifolia 33 

Campanula trachelium 33 

Camphora [mono]bromata 70 

Camphora officinalis 70 

Camphoricum acidum 70 

Camphorosma monspeliaca 8 

Cananga odorata 11 

Canchalagua 60 

Canna angustifolia 138 

Canna glauca 138 

Cannabis indica 35 

Cannabis sativa 35 

Canyon dudleya 46 

Capparis brassii 28 

Capparis coriacea 28 

Capparis corymbifera 28 

Capparis gueinzii 28 

Capparis tomentosa 28 

Capsella bursa-pastoris 28 

Capsicum annuum 129 

Capsicum frutescens 129 

Carapa procera 81 

Carapichea ipecacuanha 120 

Carbo vegetabilis 24 

Cardamine amara 28 

Cardamine pratensis 28 

Cardamomum 138 

Cardiospermum halicacabum 123 

Carduus benedictus 20.2 

Carduus marianus 20.2 

Carex arenaria 108 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxvii

Carica papaya 28 

Carissa schimperi 13 

Carlina acaulis 20.2 

Carlina vulgaris 20.2 

Carnegiea gigantea 32 

Carpinus betulus 24 

Carum carvi 12 

Carya alba 68 

Carya illinoinensis 68 

Carya pecan 68 

Carya tomentosa 68 

Caryophyllus aromaticus 89 

Cascara sagrada 117 

Cascarilla 55 

Casimiroa edulis 121 

Cassada 55 

Cassia acutifolia 56 

Cassia alata 56 

Cassia fistula 56 

Cassia laevigata 56 

Cassia lanceolata 56 

Cassia medica 56 

Cassia obovata 56 

Cassia occidentalis 56 

Cassia sophera 56 

Castanea vesca 57 

Castela erecta subsp. texana 127 

Castela texana 127 

Castela tortuosa 127 

Catalpa bignonioides 25 

Cataria nepeta 69 

Catha edulis 38 

Catharanthus roseus 13 

Catuaba 118 

Caucalis latifolia 12 

Caulophyllum thalictroides 23 

Cayratia debilis 136 

Ceanothus americanus 117 

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus 117 

Cecropia mexicana 133 

Cecropia obtusa 133 

Cecropia obtusifolia 133 

Cecropia palmata 133 

Cecropia peltata 133 

Cedron 127 

Cedrus deodora 103 

Cedrus libani 103 

Ceiba pentandra 79 

Celastrus scandens 38 

Celosia trigyna 8 

Celtis occidentalis 35 

Centaurea benedicta 20.2 

Centaurea calcitrapa 20.2 

Centaurea cyanus 20.2 

Centaurea jacea 20.2 

Centaurea nigra 20.2 

Centaurea solstitialis 20.2 

Centaurea tagana 20.2 

Centaurium cachanlahuen 60 

Centaurium erythraea 60 

Centaurium venustum 60 

Centaury (Bach fl.) 60 

Centella asiatica 12 

Centhranthus ruber 50 

Cephalandra indica 47 

Cephalanthus occidentalis 120 

Cerastium aquaticum 37 

Cerato (Bach fl.) 107 

Ceratostigma willmottianum 107 

Ceratotheca triloba 100 

Cerbera manghas 13 

Cercis occidentalis 56 

Cercis siliquastrum 56 

Cerefolium sativum 12 

Cereus bonplandii 32 

Cereus serpentinus 32 

Ceterach officinarum 58 

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 103 

Chamaelirium luteum 80 

Chamaemelum nobile 20.1 

Chamerion angustifolium 90 

Chamomilla 20.1 

Chaparro amargoso 127 

Chasmanthera palmata 82 

Chaulmoogra 122 

Cheiranthus cheiri 28 

Chelidoninum 97 

Chelidonium glaucum 97 

Chelidonium majus 97 

Chelone glabra 106 

Chenopodium album 8 

Chenopodium anthelminticum 8 

Chenopodium bonus-henricus 8 

Chenopodium botrys 8 

Chenopodium glaucum 8 

Chenopodium hybridum 8 

Chenopodium opulifolium 8 

Chenopodium vulgare 8 

Chenopodium vulvaria 8 

Chimaphila maculata 54 


xxviii ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Chimaphila rotundifolia 54 

Chimaphila umbellata 54 

China 120 

China boliviana 120 

China calisaya 120 

Chinidinum hydrochloricum 120 

Chininum arsenicosum 120 

Chininum bromaticum 120 

Chininum bromhydricum 120 

Chininum ferri citricum 120 

Chininum hydrocyanicum 120 

Chininum muriaticum 120 

Chininum phosphoricum 120 

Chininum purum 120 

Chininum salicylicum 120 

Chininum sulphuricum 120 

Chininum valerianicum 120 

Chiococca alba 120 

Chionanthus virginicus 94 

Chlorocodon whitei 13 

Chlorogalum pomeridianum 4 

Chlorophytum comosum 4 

Chocolate 79 

Chondrodendron tomentosum 82 

Chrysanth. leucanthemum 20.1 

Chrysanthellum americanum 20.5 

Chrysanthemum balsamita 20.1 

Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium 20.1 

Chrysanthemum coronarium 20.1 

Chrysanthemum morifolium 20.1 

Chrysarobinum 56 

Chrysopogon zizanioides 108 

Cibotium balantium 58 

Cibotium barometz 58 

Cicer arietinum 56 

Cichorium endivia 20.3 

Cichorium intybus 20.3 

Cicuta maculata 12 

Cicuta virosa 12 

Cimicifuga racemosa 116.2 

Cina maritima 20.1 

Cinchona calisaya 120 

Cinchona calisaya var. boliviana 120 

Cinchona pubescens 120 

Cinchona succirubra 120 

Cineraria maritima 20.4 

Cinnamicum acidum 70 

Cinnamodendron corticosum 34 

Cinnamomum aromaticum 70 

Cinnamomum cassia 70 

Cinnamomum verum 70 

Cinnamomum zeylanicum 70 

Cinus betulae esko 24 

Circaea lutetiana 90 

Cirsium acaule 20.2 

Cirsium arvense 20.2 

Cirsium lanceolatum 20.2 

Cirsium vulgare 20.2 

Cissampelos torulosa 82 

Cissus cuneifolia 136 

Cissus debilis 136 

Cissus trifoliata 136 

Cistus canadensis 40 

Citricum acidum 121 

Citrullus colocynthis 47 

Citrullus lanatus 47 

Citrullus vulgaris 47 

Citrus bergamia 121 

Citrus decumana 121 

Citrus limon 121 

Citrus limonum 121 

Citrus maxima 121 

Citrus medica 121 

Citrus paradisi 121 

Citrus sinensis 121 

Citrus vulgaris 121 

Citrus x aurantium 121 

Clausena anisata 121 

Clausena inaequalis 121 

Clematis erecta 116.4 

Clematis recta 116.4 

Clematis saxicola 116.4 

Clematis virginiana 116.4 

Clematis vitalba 116.4 

Cleome gynandra 28 

Clerodendrum glabrum 69 

Clerodendrum infortunatum 69 

Clidemia hirta 90 

Clinopodium douglasii 69 

Clinopodium grandiflorum 69 

Clinopodium nepeta 69 

Clinopodium vulgare 69 

Cnicus acaulis 20.2 

Cnicus arvense 20.2 

Cnicus benedictus 20.2 

Cnidoscorus urens 55 

Coca 118 

Cocainum hydrochloricum 118 

Coccinia grandis 47 

Coccinia indica 47 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxix

Cocculus indicus 82 

Cochlearia armoracia 28 

Cochlearia officinalis 28 

Cocos nucifera 17 

Codeinum 97 

Codeinum phosphoricum 97 

Codeinum sulfuricum 97 

Coelogyne pandurata 95 

Coffea arabica 120 

Coffea cruda 120 

Coffea tosta 120 

Coffeinum 120 

Cola nitida 79 

Colchicinum 71 

Colchicum autumnale 71 

Coleus aromaticus 69 

Coleus blumei 69 

Collinsonia canadensis 69 

Colocynthis 47 

Colutea arborescens 56 

Comarum palustre 119 

Combretum micranthum 90 

Combretum raimbaultii 90 

Commiphora myrrha 30 

Comocladia dentata 10 

Conessinum 13 

Conessinum bromhydricum 13 

Coniinum 12 

Coniinum bromatum 12 

Conium maculatum 12 

Consolida regalis 116.1 

Convallamarinum 19 

Convallaria majalis 19 

Convolvulus arvensis 43 

Convolvulus duartinus 43 

Convolvulus scammonia 43 

Convolvulus stans 43 

Conyza canadensis 20.5 

Conyza sumatrensis 20.5 

Conyza vulgaris 20.5 

Copaifera officinalis 56 

Copaiva officinalis 56 

Copra 17 

Coptis trifolia 116.3 

Corallorhiza odontorhiza 95 

Cordia coffeoides 27 

Cordia salicifolia 27 

Cordyline australis 19 

Coriandrum sativum 12 

Coriaria arborea 44 

Coriaria myrtifolia 44 

Coriaria ruscifolia 44 

Cornus alternifolia 45 

Cornus circinata 45 

Cornus florida 45 

Cornus rugosa 45 

Cornus sanguinea 45 

Cornus sericea 45 

Coronilla varia 56 

Corydalis bulbosa 59 

Corydalis cava 59 

Corydalis formosa 59 

Corydalis solida 59 

Corylus avellana 24 

Corynocarpus laevigatus 44 

Costus pisonis 138 

Costus spicatus 138 

Costus spiralis var. spiralis 138 

Cotinus coggygria 10 

Coto 70 

Cotton Boll 79 

Cotyledon umbilicus 46 

Craspidospermum verticillatum 13 

Crassocephalum rubens 20.4 

Crassula obliqua 46 

Crassula rubicunda 46 

Crataegus laevigata 119 

Crataegus oxyacantha 119 

Craterispermum cerinanthum 120 

Crithmum maritimum 12 

Crocus sativus 71 

Croton bispinosus 55 

Croton campestris 55 

Croton catinganus 55 

Croton eluteria 55 

Croton fulvum 55 

Croton fulvus 55 

Croton lechleri 55 

Croton tiglium 55 

Cruciata laevipes 120 

Cryptopinum 97 

Cubeba 104 

Cucumis hirsutus 47 

Cucumis melo 47 

Cucurbita citrullus 47 

Cucurbita maxima 47 

Cucurbita pepo 47 

Cuminum cyminum 12 

Cundurango 13 

Cuphea viscosissima 75 


xxx ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Cupressus australis 103 

Cupressus lawsoniana 103 

Cupressus niger 103 

Cupressus sempervirens 103 

Curare 82 

Curcuma javanensis 138 

Curcuma javanica 138 

Curcuma longa 138 

Curcuma xanthorrhiza 138 

Curcuma zedoaria 138 

Cuscuta americana 98 

Cuscuta epithymum 98 

Cuscuta europaea 98 

Cuscuta reflexa 98 

Cusparia trifoliata 121 

Cyclamen europaeum 88 

Cyclamen hederifolium 88 

Cyclamen neapolitanum 88 

Cyclamen purpurascens 88 

Cydonia oblonga 119 

Cydonia vulgaris 119 

Cymarinum 13 

Cymbopogon citrates 108 

Cymbopogon nardus 108 

Cymbopogon schoenanthus 108 

Cynara cardunculus 20.2 

Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus 20.2 

Cynara scolymus 20.2 

Cynodon dactylon 108 

Cynoglossum officinale 27 

Cynorrhodon 119 

Cyperus longus 108 

Cyperus olivaris 108 

Cypripedium acaule 95 

Cypripedium calceolus 95 

Cypripedium humile 95 

Cypripedium parviflorum var. pub. 95 

Cypripedium pubescens 95 

Cyrtopodium punctatum 95 

Cytisinum 56 

Cytisus laburnum 56 

Cytisus scoparius 56 

Dactyladenia dewevrei 39 

Dactylis glomerata 108 

Dactylorhiza maculata 95 

Dalbergia pinnata 56 

Damiana 99 

Daphne indica 131 

Daphne laureola 131 

Daphne mezereum 131 

Datisca cannabina 47 

Datura arborea 129 

Datura candida 129 

Datura ferox 129 

Datura metel 129 

Datura sanguinea 129 

Datura stramonium 129 

Daturinum 129 

Daucus carota 12 

Deinbollia oblongifolia 123 

Delphininum staphisagria 116.1 

Delphinium nudicaule 116.1 

Delphinium staphisagria 116.1 

Dendranthema x morifolium 20.1 

Dendrobium lasianthera 95 

Dendrocnide excelsa 133 

Dendrocnide sinuata 133 

Derris pinnata 56 

Deschampsia flexuosa 108 

Descurainia sophia 28 

Desmodium barbatum 56 

Desmodium gangeticum 56 

Desmoncus orthacanthos 17 

Desmoncus rudentum 17 

Dialium ferrum 56 

Dialium guianense 56 

Dianthera pectoralis 1 

Dianthus caryophyllus 37 

Dianthus fimbriatus 37 

Dianthus orientalis 37 

Dicentra canadensis 59 

Dicentra cucullaria 59 

Dichapetalum cymosum 39 

Dichapetalum mombuttense 39 

Dichapetalum venenatum 39 

Dictamnus albus 121 

Dieffenbachia seguine 15 

Digitalinum 106 

Digitalis lanata 106 

Digitalis lutea 106 

Digitalis purpurea 106 

Digitoxinum 106 

Dionaea muscipula 36 

Dioscorea communis 49 

Dioscorea petrea 49 

Dioscorea villosa 49 

Dioscoreinum 49 

Diosgeninum 49 

Diosma linearis 121 

Diospyros kaki 51 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxxi

Diospyros villosa 51 

Diospyros whyteana 51 

Diplocyclos palmatus 47 

Diplotaxis tenuifolia 28 

Dipodium punctatum 95 

Dipsacus fullonum 50 

Dipsacus sylvestris 50 

Dipteryx odorata 56 

Dirca palustris 131 

Dissotis canescens 90 

Dissotis incana 90 

Ditainum 13 

Dittrichia graveolens 20.5 

Dittrichia viscosa 20.5 

Dodecatheon hendersonii 113 

Dolichos pruriens 56 

Dorema ammoniacum 12 

Doronicum pardalianches 20.4 

Dovyalis rhamnoides 122 

Dracaena draco 19 

Dracunculus vulgaris 15 

Drimia maritima 65 

Drimys granadensis 34 

Drimys winteri 34 

Drosera longifolia 36 

Drosera rotundifolia 36 

Drymaria cordata 37 

Dryopteris athamantica 58 

Dryopteris filix-mas 58 

Dryopteris inaequalis 58 

Dryopteris pentheri 58 

Duboisia hopwoodii 129 

Duboisia myoporoides 129 

Duboisinum 129 

Dudleya cymosa 46 

Dulacia inopiflora 98 

Dulcamara 129 

Durio zibethinus 79 

Dysphania anthelmintica 8 

Dysphania botrys 8 

Ecballium elaterium 47 

Echinacea angustifolia 20.5 

Echinacea pallida 20.5 

Echinacea purpurea 20.5 

Echinopanax horridus 16 

Echinops spinosus 20.2 

Echites suberecta 13 

Echium vulgare 27 

Eichhornia crassipes 42 

Ekebergia capensis 81 

Ekebergia meyeri 81 

Elaeis guineensis 17 

Elaeocarpus angustifolius 96 

Elaeocarpus ganitrus 96 

Elaeodendron velutinum 38 

Elaterium 47 

Elemuy gauteria 11 

Elephantorrhiza burchellii 56 

Elephantorrhiza elephantina 56 

Elettaria cardamomum 138 

Eleutherococcus senticosus 16 

Embelia kraussii 88 

Embelia ribes 88 

Embelia ruminata 88 

Embelia schimperi 88 

Emblica officinalis 55 

Emetinum 120 

Emetinum muriaticum 120 

Endivia sativa 20.3 

Ephedra distachya 63 

Ephedra helvetica 63 

Ephedra sinica 63 

Ephedra vulgaris 63 

Epifagus virginiana 98 

Epigaea repens 54 

Epilobium angustifolium 90 

Epilobium hirsutum 90 

Epilobium palustre 90 

Epilobium spicatum 90 

Epilobium tetragonum 90 

Epiphegus virginiana 98 

Equisetum arvense 53 

Equisetum hyemale 53 

Equisetum palustre 53 

Equisetum variegatum 53 

Eranthis hyemalis 116.1 

Erechtites hieracifolia 20.4 

Erica carnea 54 

Erica cinerea 54 

Erica vulgaris 54 

Erigeron acris 20.5 

Erigeron canadensis 20.5 

Eriodictyon californicum 27 

Eriogonum umbellatum 111 

Eriosema cordatum 56 

Erlangea cordifolia 20.5 

Erodium cicutarium 61 

Eruca sativa 28 

Ervum ervilia 56 

Ervum lens 56 


xxxii ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Eryngium aquaticum 12 

Eryngium campestre 12 

Eryngium foetidum 12 

Eryngium maritimum 12 

Erysimum alliaria 28 

Erysimum capitatum 28 

Erysimum cheiri 28 

Erysimum officinale 28 

Erythraea chilensis 60 

Erythrina caffra 56 

Erythrina lysistemon 56 

Erythronium multiscapideum 71 

Erythronium purpurascens 71 

Erythrophleum judiciale 56 

Erythrophleum suaveolens 56 

Erythroxylum catuaba 118 

Erythroxylum coca 118 

Eschscholzia californica 97 

Eserinum 56 

Espeletia grandiflora 20.5 

Eucalyptus camaldulensis 89 

Eucalyptus globulus 89 

Eucalyptus rostrata 89 

Eucalyptus tereticornis 89 

Eucalyptus tereticorti 89 

Euclea crispa 51 

Euclea lanceolata 51 

Euclea natalensis 51 

Eugenia jambos 89 

Euonymus atropurpurea 38 

Euonymus europaea 38 

Eupatorium aromaticum 20.4 

Eupatorium cannabinum 20.4 

Eupatorium dendroides 20.4 

Eupatorium perfoliatum 20.4 

Eupatorium purpureum 20.4 

Euphorbia amygdaloides 55 

Euphorbia corollata 55 

Euphorbia cyparissias 55 

Euphorbia esula 55 

Euphorbia helioscopia 55 

Euphorbia heterodoxa 55 

Euphorbia heterophylla 55 

Euphorbia hirta 55 

Euphorbia hypericifolia 55 

Euphorbia ipecacuanhae 55 

Euphorbia lathyris 55 

Euphorbia marginata 55 

Euphorbia milii 55 

Euphorbia officinarum 55 

Euphorbia palustris 55 

Euphorbia peplus 55 

Euphorbia pilosa 55 

Euphorbia pilulifera 55 

Euphorbia polycarpa 55 

Euphorbia prostrata 55 

Euphorbia pulcherrima 55 

Euphorbia splendens 55 

Euphorbia splendida 55 

Euphorbium officinalis 55 

Euphrasia officinalis 98 

Euphrasia rostkoviana 98 

Eupionum 57 

Euterpe oleracea 17 

Eysenhardtia adenostylis 56 

Eysenhardtia polystachya 56 

Faba vulgaris 56 

Fabiana imbricata 129 

Fagopyrum esculentum 111 

Fagus pupurea 57 

Fagus sylvatica 57 

Fallopia aubertii 111 

Ferula assa-foetida 12 

Ferula communis 12 

Ferula communis subsp. glauca 12 

Ferula galbanifera 12 

Ferula glauca 12 

Ferula narthex 12 

Ferula sumbul 12 

Ferulago campestris 12 

Ferulago galbanifera 12 

Festuca arundinacea 108 

Festuca elatior 108 

Festuca rubra 108 

Ficus - strangler fig 84 

Ficus benghalensis 84 

Ficus carica 84 

Ficus indica 84 

Ficus macrophylla 84 

Ficus religiosa 84 

Ficus Selingan Borneo 84 

Ficus venosa 84 

Filaginella uliginosa 20.5 

Filipendula ulmaria 119 

Filipendula vulgaris 119 

Fleroya stipulosa 120 

Flor de piedra 98 

Foeniculum anethum 12 

Foeniculum dulce 12 

Foeniculum sativum 12 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxxiii

Foeniculum vulgare subsp. vulgare 12 

Fragaria moschata 119 

Fragaria vesca 119 

Fragaria virginiana 119 

Franciscea uniflora 129 

Frangula alnus 117 

Frangula californica subsp. frangula 117 

Frangula purshiana 117 

Fraxinus americana 94 

Fraxinus excelsior 94 

Fraxinus ornus 94 

Fumaria officinalis 59 

Furfur iritici 108 

Galanga 138 

Galanthus nivalis 9 

Galega officinalis 56 

Galeobdolon luteum 69 

Galeopsis cannabina 69 

Galeopsis ladanum 69 

Galeopsis nodosa 69 

Galeopsis ochroleuca 69 

Galeopsis segetum 69 

Galeopsis tetrahit 69 

Galinsoga parviflora 20.5 

Galium album 120 

Galium aparine 120 

Galium cruciata 120 

Galium erectum 120 

Galium luteum 120 

Galium mollugo 120 

Galium odoratum 120 

Galium palustre 120 

Galium porrigens 120 

Galium verum 120 

Galla quercina robur 57 

Galphimia glauca 78 

Gambogia 41 

Garcinia cowa 41 

Garcinia hanburyi 41 

Gardenia jasminoides 120 

Gardenia ternifolia 120 

Gaultheria hispidula 54 

Gaultheria procumbens 54 

Gelsemium sempervirens 13 

Genista tinctoria 56 

Gentian (Bach fl.) 60 

Gentiana acaulis 60 

Gentiana chirata 60 

Gentiana cruciata 60 

Gentiana lutea 60 

Gentiana perfoliata 60 

Gentiana pneumonanthe 60 

Gentiana purpurea 60 

Gentiana quinquefolia 60 

Gentianella amarella 60 

Gentianella quinquefolia 60 

Geoffroya vermifuga 56 

Geranium inodorum 61 

Geranium maculatum 61 

Geranium robertianum 61 

Geranium rotundifolium 61 

Geranium sanguineum 61 

Gerbera ambigua 20.5 

Gerbera kraussii 20.5 

Geum montanum 119 

Geum rivale 119 

Geum urbanum 119 

Gilia capitata 109 

Ginkgo biloba 62 

Ginseng 16 

Gladiolus communis 71 

Glaucium flavum 97 

Glebionis coronaria 20.1 

Glechoma hederacea 69 

Globularia alypum 106 

Gloriosa simplex 71 

Gloriosa superba 71 

Glycine max 56 

Glycosmis pentaphylla 121 

Glycyrrhiza glabra 56 

Gnaphalium leontopodium 20.5 

Gnaphalium polycephalum 20.5 

Gnaphalium uliginosum 20.5 

Gomphocarpus fruticosus 13 

Gossypium arboreum 79 

Gossypium herbaceum 79 

Gossypium hirsutum 79 

Gouania longispicata 117 

Graderia scabra 98 

Granatum 75 

Gratiola officinalis 106 

Grewia occidentalis 79 

Grindelia camporum 20.5 

Grindelia robusta 20.5 

Grindelia squarrosa 20.5 

Grindelia subalpina 20.5 

Guaco 20.4 

Guaiacolum 139 

Guaiacum officinale 139 

Guarana 123 


xxxiv ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Guarea cedrata 81 

Guarea guidonia 81 

Guarea trichilioides 81 

Guatteria gaumeri 11 

Guatteria longifolia 11 

Guava 89 

Guizotia scabra 20.5 

Gunnera perpensa 64 

Gutenbergia cordifolia 20.5 

Gymnadenia nigra 95 

Gymnema sylvestre 13 

Gymnocladus canadensis 56 

Gymnocladus dioicus 56 

Gynura cernua 20.4 

Haematoxylum campechianum 56 

Hagenia abyssinica 119 

Hallea stipulosa 120 

Hamamelis virginiana 125 

Haplopappus baylahuen 20.5 

Harpagophytum procumbens 100 

Harrisia pomanensis 32 

Harungana madagascariensis 41 

Harungana paniculata 41 

Hedeoma pulegioides 69 

Hedera helix 16 

Hedysarum ildefonsianum 56 

Heimia salicifolia 75 

Heinsia crinita 120 

Helianthemum canadense 40 

Helianthemum nummularium 40 

Helianthus annuus 20.5 

Helianthus tuberosus 20.5 

Helichrysum stoechas 20.5 

Helinus integrifolius 117 

Helinus ovatus 117 

Heliotropium europaeum 27 

Heliotropium indicum 27 

Heliotropium peruvianum 27 

Helleborus foetidus 116.1 

Helleborus niger 116.1 

Helleborus orientalis 116.1 

Helleborus trifolius 116.1 

Helleborus viridis 116.1 

Helminthia echioides 20.3 

Helonias dioica 80 

Helonias erythrosperma 80 

Heloninum 80 

Hemidesmus indicus 13 

Henna 75 

Hepatica nobilis 116.4 

Hepatica triloba 116.4 

Heracleum sphondylium 12 

Hernandia nymphaeifolia 70 

Hernandia peltata 70 

Herniaria glabra 37 

Heroinum 97 

Hesperis matronalis 28 

Heterotis rotundifolia 90 

Heuchera americana 125 

Hevea brasiliensis 55 

Hibiscus arboreus 79 

Hibiscus pernambucensis 79 

Hibiscus sabdariffa 79 

Hibiscus surattensis 79 

Hieracium pilosella 20.3 

Hieracium umbellatum 20.3 

Hippeastrum equestre 9 

Hippeastrum puniceum 9 

Hippomane mancinella 55 

Hippophaë rhamnoides 52 

Hoitzia coccinea 109 

Holarrhena antidysenterica 13 

Holcus lanatus 108 

Homeria collina 71 

Hordeum murinum 108 

Hordeum vulgare 108 

Hottonia palustris 113 

Hoya carnosa 13 

Humea elegans 20.5 

Humulus lupulus 35 

Huperzia selago 74 

Hura brasiliensis 55 

Hura crepitans 55 

Hyacinthoides non-scripta 65 

Hydnocarpus heterophyllus 122 

Hydnocarpus kurzii 122 

Hydrangea arborescens 45 

Hydrastininum muriaticum 116.3 

Hydrastininum sulfuricum 116.3 

Hydrastinum 116.3 

Hydrastinum muriaticum 116.3 

Hydrastinum sulphuricum 116.3 

Hydrastis canadensis 116.3 

Hydrocotyle asiatica 12 

Hydrocotyle vulgaris 16 

Hydrocyanicum acidum 119 

Hydrophyllum virginicum 27 

Hygrophila auriculata 1 

Hygrophila spinosa 1 

Hylotelephium telephium 46 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxxv

Hymenocardia acida 55 

Hyoscyaminum hydrobrom. 129 

Hyoscyaminum sulphatum 129 

Hyoscyamus niger 129 

Hypericum acutum 41 

Hypericum aethiopicum 41 

Hypericum maculatum 41 

Hypericum perforatum 41 

Hypericum pulchrum 41 

Hypericum quadrangulum 41 

Hypericum tetrapterum 41 

Hypoestes triflora 1 

Hypopitys multiflora 98 

Hyptis pectinata 69 

Hyptis suaveolens 69 

Hyssopus officinalis 69 

Iberis amara 28 

Iboga 13 

Ictodes foetida 15 

Ignatia amara 73 

Ilex aquifolium 14 

Ilex cassine 14 

Ilex paraguariensis 14 

Ilex vertillicata 14 

Ilex vomitoria 14 

Illecebrum verticillatum 37 

Illicium anisatum 67 

Illicium japonicum 67 

Illicium religiosum 67 

Illicium verum 67 

Impatiens balsamina 21 

Impatiens capensis 21 

Impatiens glandulifera 21 

Impatiens noli-tangere 21 

Impatiens roylei 21 

Impatiens walleriana alba 21 

Imperatoria ostruthium 12 

Indigo 56 

Indigofera atriceps 56 

Inula conyzae 20.5 

Inula dysenterica 20.5 

Inula graveolens 20.5 

Inula helenium 20.5 

Inula pulicaria 20.5 

Inula viscosa 20.5 

Inulinum 20.5 

Ipecacuanha 120 

Ipomoea alba 43 

Ipomoea batatas 43 

Ipomoea ficifolia 43 

Ipomoea nil 43 

Ipomoea purga 43 

Ipomoea purpurea 43 

Ipomoea stans 43 

Ipomoea tricolor 43 

Ipomoea violacea 43 

Iresine calea 8 

Iris factissima 71 

Iris flavissima 71 

Iris florentina 71 

Iris foetidissima 71 

Iris germanica 71 

Iris hartwegii 71 

Iris humilis 71 

Iris pseudacorus 71 

Iris pumila 71 

Iris tenax 71 

Iris versicolor 71 

Irisinum 71 

Isatis tinctoria 28 

Jaborandi 121 

Jacaranda caroba 25 

Jacaranda gualanday 25 

Jacaranda mimosifolia 25 

Jacobaea adonidifolia 20.4 

Jacobaea alpina 20.4 

Jacobaea maritima 20.4 

Jalapa 43 

Jasminum officinale 94 

Jateorhiza palmata 82 

Jatropha curcas 55 

Jatropha gossypifolia 55 

Jatropha urens 55 

Jeffersonia diphylla 23 

Jet 103 

Jonesia asoca 56 

Juglans cinerea 68 

Juglans nigra 68 

Juglans pecan 68 

Juglans regia 68 

Juncus effusus 108 

Juncus jacquini 108 

Juncus pilosus 108 

Juniperus brasiliensis 103 

Juniperus communis 103 

Juniperus oxycedrus 103 

Juniperus oxycedrus pix 103 

Juniperus phoenicea 103 

Juniperus sabina 103 

Juniperus virginiana 103 


xxxvi ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Justicia adhatoda 1 

Justicia pectoralis 1 

Justicia rubrum 1 

Kalanchoe pinnata 46 

Kalmia latifolia 54 

Kamala 55 

Karaka 44 

Karwinskia humboldtiana 117 

Khaya senegalensis 81 

Khellin 12 

Kickxia elatine 106 

Kickxia spuria 106 

Kigelia africana 25 

Kino pterocarpi 56 

Knautia arvensis 50 

Kola 79 

Kousso 119 

Krameria lappacea 98 

Krameria triandra 98 

Kreosotum 57 

Laburnum anagyroides 56 

Lachnanthes caroliniana 42 

Lachnanthes tinctoria 42 

Lactuca elongata 20.3 

Lactuca sativa 20.3 

Lactuca scariola 20.3 

Lactuca virosa 20.3 

Lactucarium thridace 20.3 

Lagenaria sphaerica 47 

Lagochilus inebrians 69 

Lagynias lasiantha 120 

Lamium album 69 

Lamium amplexicaule 69 

Lamium galeobdolon 69 

Lamium maculatum 69 

Lamium purpureum 69 

Lampranthus multiradiatus 5 

Lantana camara 134 

Lantana trifolia 134 

Lapathum acutum 111 

Lappa arctium 20.2 

Lapsana communis 20.3 

Larix decidua 103 

Larix europaea 103 

Larrea tridentata 139 

Latex vulcani 55 

Lathyrus latifolius 56 

Lathyrus odoratus 56 

Lathyrus sativus 56 

Lathyrus sylvestris 56 

Laurocerasus 119 

Laurus benzoin 70 

Laurus nobilis 70 

Laurus persea 70 

Lavandula angustifolia 69 

Lavandula latifolia 69 

Lawsonia inermis 75 

Ledum palustre 54 

Lemna gibba 15 

Lemna minor 15 

Lens culinaris 56 

Leonotis leonurus 69 

Leonotis ovata 69 

Leontopodium alpinum 20.5 

Leonurus cardiaca 69 

Lepidium bonariense 28 

Lepidium iberis 28 

Lepidium sativum 28 

Leptandra virginica 106 

Leptolobium elegans 56 

Leptospermum scoparium 89 

Lespedeza capitata 56 

Lespedeza sieboldii 56 

Lessertia frutescens 56 

Leucaena glauca 56 

Leucaena leucocephala 56 

Leucanthemum vulgare 20.1 

Leucas aspera 69 

Leucas capensis 69 

Leucophyllus 46 

Levisticum officinale 12 

Leycesteria formosa 50 

Liatris spicata 20.4 

Licania utilis 39 

Licaria puchury-major 70 

Lichtensteinia interrupta 12 

Ligustrum vulgare 94 

Lilium album 71 

Lilium candidum 71 

Lilium humboldtii 71 

Lilium lancifolium 71 

Lilium longiflorum 71 

Lilium martagon 71 

Lilium parvum 71 

Lilium superbum 71 

Lilium tigrinum 71 

Limnanthes alba 28 

Limonium brasiliensis 107 

Linaria elatine 106 

Linaria repens 106 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxxvii

Linaria spuria 106 

Linaria striata 106 

Linaria vulgaris 106 

Lindera benzoin 70 

Linum catharticum 72 

Linum usitatissimum 72 

Lippia asperifolia 134 

Lippia citrodora 134 

Lippia javanica 134 

Lippia mexicana 134 

Liriosma ovata 98 

Litchi sinensis 123 

Lithospermum arvense 27 

Loasa tricolor 45 

Lobelia acetum 33 

Lobelia cardinalis 33 

Lobelia dortmanna 33 

Lobelia erinus 33 

Lobelia inflata 33 

Lobelia purpurascens 33 

Lobelia siphilitica 33 

Lobelia urens 33 

Lobelinum 33 

Lobelinum muriaticum 33 

Lobelinum sulfuricum 33 

Lobularia maritima 28 

Lodoicea maldivica 17 

Loeselia mexicana 109 

Lolium italicum 108 

Lolium temulentum 108 

Lonicera caprifolium 50 

Lonicera etrusca 50 

Lonicera nigra 50 

Lonicera periclymenum 50 

Lonicera xylosteum 50 

Lophophora williamsii 32 

Lophophytum leandrii 98 

Loranthus scurrula 98 

Lotus corniculatus 56 

Lucuma glycyphloea 123 

Luffa acutangula 47 

Luffa acutangula var. amara 47 

Luffa amara 47 

Luffa bindal 47 

Luffa echinata 47 

Luffa operculata 47 

Luffa sphaerica 47 

Luma chequen 89 

Lupinus albus 56 

Lupulinum 35 

Luzula pilosa 108 

Lycium barbarum 129 

Lycopersicon esculentum 129 

Lycopodium clavatum 74 

Lycopodium selago 74 

Lycopsis arvensis 27 

Lycopus europaeus 69 

Lycopus virginicus 69 

Lyonia lucida 54 

Lyonia mariana 54 

Lysimachia nummularia 88 

Lysimachia ruhmeriana 88 

Lysimachia vulgaris 88 

Lythrum salicaria 75 

Maclura pomifera 84 

Macrotinum 116.4 

Macrozamia spiralis 48 

Maesa lanceolata 76 

Maesa trichophlebia 76 

Maesobotrya floribunda 55 

Magnolia glauca 77 

Magnolia grandiflora 77 

Magnolia mexicana 77 

Mahonia aquifolium 23 

Mallotus philippinensis 55 

Malmea depressa 11 

Malmea gaumeri 11 

Malosma laurina 10 

Malus communis 119 

Malus domestica 119 

Malus fusca 119 

Malus pumila 119 

Malva alcea 79 

Malva moschata 79 

Malva neglecta 79 

Malva parviflora 79 

Malva sylvestris 79 

Malvaviscus arboreus 79 

Mancinella 55 

Mandragora officinarum 129 

Mangifera indica 10 

Manihot esculenta 55 

Manilkara zapota 124 

Manzanita 54 

Maranta arundinacea 138 

Markhamia lutea 25 

Marrubium album 69 

Marrubium vulgare 69 

Marsdenia cundurango 13 

Matico 104 


xxxviii ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Matricaria discoidea 20.1 

Matricaria inodora 20.1 

Matricaria recutita 20.1 

Matthiola graeca 28 

MDMA 63 

Meconinum 97 

Meconopsis betonicifolia 97 

Medicago lupulina 56 

Medicago sativa 56 

Melaleuca alternifolia 89 

Melaleuca cajuputi 89 

Melaleuca hypericifolia 89 

Melampyrum arvense 98 

Melastoma ackermanni 90 

Melastoma hirta 90 

Melilotus albus 56 

Melilotus altissima 56 

Melilotus officinalis 56 

Melissa officinalis 69 

Melittis grandiflora 69 

Melittis melissophyllum 69 

Menispermum canadense 82 

Menispermum cocculus 82 

Menispermum rakta 82 

Mentha aquatica 69 

Mentha arvensis 69 

Mentha longifolia 69 

Mentha piperita 69 

Mentha pulegium 69 

Mentha rotundifolia 69 

Mentha spicata 69 

Mentha sylvestris 69 

Mentha viridis 69 

Mentholum 69 

Menyanthes trifoliata 83 

Mercurialis annua 55 

Mercurialis perennis 55 

Mescalinum 32 

Mesembryanthemum crystallinum 5 

Mespilus germanica 119 

Mesua ferrea 41 

Meum athamanticum 12 

Mezereum 131 

Microglossa pyrifolia 20.5 

Micromeria douglasii 69 

Mikania amara 20.4 

Mikania cordata 20.4 

Mikania guaco 20.4 

Mikania setigera 20.4 

Millefolium 20.1 

Mimosa dormiens 56 

Mimosa humilis 56 

Mimosa microphylla 56 

Mimosa nuttallii 56 

Mimosa pudica 56 

Mimosa quadriv. var. angustata 56 

Mimosa quadrivalvis var. nuttallii 56 

Mimulus guttatus 101 

Mimulus luteus 101 

Minuartia glabra 37 

Mirabilis jalapa 91 

Misodendrum oblongifolium 98 

Mitchella repens 120 

Mitragyna speciosa 120 

Mitragyna stipulosa 120 

Molinia caerulea 108 

Momordica balsamina 47 

Momordica charantia 47 

Momordica foetida 47 

Momordica involucrata 47 

Monarda didyma 69 

Monarda fistulosa 69 

Monarda punctata 69 

Mondia whitei 13 

Monotropa hypopitys 98 

Monotropa uniflora 98 

Monsonia ovata 61 

Monstera deliciosa 15 

Monstera pertusa 15 

Moquilea utilis 39 

Moraea flaccida 71 

Morella cerifera 86 

Morinda citrifolia 120 

Morinda lucida 120 

Morinda morindoides 120 

Moringa oleifera 28 

Moringa pterygosperma 28 

Morphinum 97 

Morphinum aceticum 97 

Morphinum and salts 97 

Morphinum muriaticum 97 

Morphinum sulphuricum 97 

Morus nigra 84 

Mucuna pruriens 56 

Mucuna urens 56 

Murure leite 84 

Musa paradisiaca 138 

Musa sapientum 138 

Musanga cecropiodes 133 

Myosotis arvensis 27 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xxxix

Myosotis sylvatica 27 

Myosotis symphytifolia 27 

Myosoton aquaticum 37 

Myrica cerifera 86 

Myrica gale 86 

Myristica fragrans 87 

Myristica sebifera 87 

Myroxylon balsamum 56 

Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae 56 

Myrrha 30 

Myrrhis odorata 12 

Myrtillocactus geometrizans 32 

Myrtus cheken 89 

Myrtus communis 89 

Myrtus pimenta 89 

Mystroxylon aethiopicum 38 

Nabalus albus 20.3 

Nabalus serpentarius 20.3 

Narceinum 97 

Narcissus poeticus 9 

Narcissus pseudonarcissus 9 

Narcotinum 97 

Narcotinum aceticum 97 

Narcotinum muriaticum 97 

Narthecium ossifragum 49 

Nasturtium aquaticum 28 

Nasturtium officinale 28 

Natrum salicylicum 122 

Nauclea latifolia 120 

Nectandra amara 70 

Nectandra puchury major 70 

Negundium americanum 123 

Negundo fraxinifolium 123 

Nelumbium luteum 114 

Nelumbo lutea 114 

Nelumbo nucifera 114 

Nemophila menziesii 27 

Neorautanenia mitis 56 

Neottia nidus avis 95 

Nepenthes distillatoria 36 

Nepeta cataria 69 

Nephelium litchi 123 

Nerium oleander 13 

Nicotiana rustica 129 

Nicotiana tabacum 129 

Nicotinum 129 

Nigella damascena 116.2 

Nigella sativa 116.2 

Nigritella angustifolia 95 

Noscapinum 97 

Nuphar lutea 92 

Nuphar pumila 92 

Nux absurda 17 

Nux moschata 87 

Nux vomica 73 

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis 94 

Nymphaea alba 92 

Nymphaea nouchali 92 

Nymphaea odorata 92 

Nymphaea rubra 92 

Ochna atropurpurea 93 

Ochna serrulata 93 

Ocimum basillicum 69 

Ocimum campechianum 69 

Ocimum canum 69 

Ocimum caryophyllatum 69 

Ocimum gratissimum 69 

Ocimum micranthum 69 

Ocimum sanctum 69 

Ocimum suave 69 

Ocimum tenuiflorum 69 

Oenanthe crocata 12 

Oenanthe fistulosa 12 

Oenanthe phellandrium 12 

Oenothera biennis 90 

Okoubaka aubrevillei 98 

Oldenlandia affinis 120 

Oldenlandia decumbens 120 

Oldenlandia herbacea 120 

Olea europea 94 

Oleae europeae oleum 94 

Oleander 13 

Oleum haarlem 103 

Oleum lavandulae 69 

Oleum patchouli 69 

Oleum santali 98 

Oleum succinum 103 

Olibanum sacrum 30 

Olibanum socotrinum 30 

Olinia ventosa 90 

Onobrychis sativa 56 

Onobrychis viciifolia 56 

Ononis natrix 56 

Ononis repens 56 

Ononis spinosa 56 

Onopordum acanthium 20.2 

Onosmodium virginianum 27 

Operculina turpethum 43 

Opium 97 

Oplopanax horridus 16 


xl ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Opopanax chironium 12 

Opuntia aciculata 32 

Opuntia alba-spina 32 

Opuntia cochinillifera 32 

Opuntia ficus-indica 32 

Opuntia humifusa 32 

Opuntia spina alba 32 

Opuntia streptacantha 32 

Opuntia vulgaris 32 

Orchis maculata 95 

Oreodaphne californica 70 

Origanum creticum 69 

Origanum dictamnus 69 

Origanum majorana 69 

Origanum vulgare 69 

Ornithogalum pyrenaicum 65 

Ornithogalum umbellatum 65 

Orobanche caryophyllacea 98 

Orobanche major 98 

Orobanche ramosa 98 

Orthosiphon stamineus 69 

Oryza sativa 108 

Osmunda regalis 58 

Osteospermum nervatum 20.5 

Ostrya virginica 24 

Osyris alba 98 

Othonna natalensis 20.4 

Ouabainum 13 

Oxalicum acidum 96 

Oxalis acetosella 96 

Oxalis corniculata 96 

Oxalis semiloba 96 

Oxydendrum arboreum 54 

Oxytropis campestris 56 

Oxytropis lambertii 56 

Packera aurea 20.4 

Paeonia officinalis 125 

Paliurus aculeatus 117 

Paliurus spina-christi 117 

Paloondo 139 

Panax ginseng 16 

Panax horridum 16 

Panax quinquefolius 16 

Panna 58 

Panzerina lanata 69 

Papainum 28 

Papaver dubium 97 

Papaver rhoeas 97 

Papaver somniferum 97 

Papaverinum 97 

Papaverinum muriaticum 97 

Pareira brava 82 

Parietaria officinalis 133 

Paris quadrifolia 80 

Paritium tiliaceum 79 

Parnassia palustris 38 

Paronychia illecebrum 8 

Parthenium hysterophorus 20.5 

Parthenocissus quinquefolia 136 

Parthenocissus tricuspidata veitchii 136 

Passiflora caerulea 99 

Passiflora incarnata 99 

Pastinaca sativa 12 

Pastinaca urens 12 

Paullinia cupana 123 

Paullinia pinnata 123 

Pausinystalia johimbe 120 

Pedicularis canadensis 98 

Peganum harmala 139 

Pelargonium odoratissimum 61 

Pelargonium reniforme 61 

Pelletierinum 75 

Peniocereus serpentinus 32 

Pentaclethra macrophylla 56 

Pentadiplandra brazzeana 28 

Penthorum sedoides 125 

Perideridia bolanderi 12 

Perilla frutescens 69 

Periploca graeca 13 

Perobinha 13 

Persea americana 70 

Persicaria amphibia 111 

Persicaria hydropiper 111 

Persicaria hydropiperoides 111 

Persicaria maculosa 111 

Persicaria sagittata 111 

Petasites fragrans 20.4 

Petasites hybridus 20.4 

Petiveria alliacea 102 

Petiveria tetrandra 102 

Petroselinum crispum 12 

Petroselinum sativum 12 

Peucedanum galbanum 12 

Peucedanum officinale 12 

Peucedanum oreoselinum 12 

Peucedanum ostruthium 12 

Peumus boldus 70 

Phaseolus lunatus 56 

Phaseolus nanus 56 

Phaseolus vulgaris 56 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xli

Phellandrium aquaticum 12 

Philadelphus coronarius 45 

Phillyrea angustifolia 94 

Phillyrea latifolia 94 

Philodendron pertusum 15 

Phlebodium aureum 58 

Phleum pratense 108 

Phoenix dactylifera 17 

Phoradendron flavescens 98 

Phoradendron leucarpum 98 

Phormium tenax 137 

Phragmites australis 108 

Phyla dulcis 134 

Phyllanthus amarus 55 

Phyllanthus casticum 55 

Phyllanthus emblica 55 

Phyllanthus fraternus 55 

Phyllanthus niruri 55 

Phyllodoce breweri 54 

Physalis alkekengi 129 

Physalis angulata 129 

Physalis peruviana 129 

Physostigma venenosum 56 

Phytolacca americana 102 

Phytolacca decandra 102 

Picea abies 103 

Picea excelsa 103 

Picea mariana 103 

Picea nigra 103 

Picea pungens 103 

Picris echioides 20.3 

Picrorrhiza (kurrooa) 106 

Picrotoxicum acidum 82 

Picrotoxinum 82 

Piliostigma thonningii 56 

Pilocarpinum muriaticum 121 

Pilocarpus jaborandi 121 

Pilocarpus microphyllus 121 

Pilosella officinarum 20.3 

Pimenta officinalis 89 

Pimentia dioica 89 

Pimpinella anisum 12 

Pimpinella saxifraga 12 

Pinguicula vulgaris 36 

Pinus contorta 103 

Pinus cupressus 103 

Pinus lambertiana 103 

Pinus longaeva 103 

Pinus montana 103 

Pinus palustris 103 

Pinus pinaster 103 

Pinus sylvestris 103 

Pinus teocote 103 

Piper aduncum 104 

Piper angustifolium 104 

Piper cubeba 104 

Piper guineense 104 

Piper methysticum 104 

Piper nigrum 104 

Piscidia erythrina 56 

Piscidia piscipula 56 

Pistacia lentiscus 10 

Pistacia vera 10 

Pisum sativum 56 

Pittosporum viridiflorum 105 

Pix liquida 103 

Plantago arenaria 106 

Plantago coronopus 106 

Plantago lanceolata 106 

Plantago major 106 

Plantago minor 106 

Plantago psyllium 106 

Platanus occidentalis 114 

Platanus orientalis 114 

Plectranthus amboinicus 69 

Plectranthus barbatus 69 

Plectranthus fruticosus 69 

Plectronia ventosa 90 

Pleurochaete squarrosa 85 

Plumbago auriculata 107 

Plumbago capensis 107 

Plumbago europaea 107 

Plumbago littoralis 107 

Plumbago scandens 107 

Plumeria alba 13 

Plumeria celinus 13 

Plumeria rubra 13 

Poa pratensis 108 

Podophyllinum 23 

Podophyllum peltatum 23 

Pogostemon cablin 69 

Poinciana pulcherrima 56 

Polemonium caeruleum 109 

Polyalthia longifolia 11 

Polygala amara 110 

Polygala fruticosa 110 

Polygala oppositifolia 110 

Polygala senega 110 

Polygala vulgaris 110 

Polygonatum multiflorum 19 


xlii ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Polygonatum odoratum 19 

Polygonatum officinale 19 

Polygonatum vulgare 19 

Polygonum amphibium 111 

Polygonum aviculare 111 

Polygonum bistorta 111 

Polygonum bistortoides 111 

Polygonum hydropiperoides 111 

Polygonum maritimum 111 

Polygonum persicaria 111 

Polygonum sagittatum 111 

Polymnia uvedalia 20.5 

Polypodium calaguala 58 

Polypodium vulgare 58 

Polytrichum commune 85 

Polytrichum juniperinum 85 

Populus balsamifera 122 

Populus canadensis 122 

Populus candicans 122 

Populus nigra 122 

Populus tremula 122 

Populus tremuloides 122 

Populus trichocarpa 122 

Portulaca oleracea 112 

Portulaca pilosa 112 

Potamogeton natans 6 

Potentilla anserina 119 

Potentilla argentea 119 

Potentilla aurea 119 

Potentilla erecta 119 

Potentilla glandulosa 119 

Potentilla palustris 119 

Potentilla reptans 119 

Poterium sanguisorba 119 

Poterium spinosum 119 

Pothos foetidus 15 

Pradosia lactescens 124 

Pratia purpurascens 33 

Prenanthes alba 20.3 

Primula auricula 113 

Primula farinosa 113 

Primula hendersonii 113 

Primula obconica 113 

Primula veris 113 

Primula vulgaris 113 

Prinos verticillatus1 14 

Priva cordifolia 134 

Priva leptostachya 134 

Prunella vulgaris 69 

Prunus amygdalus 119 

Prunus armeniaca 119 

Prunus avium 119 

Prunus cerasifera 119 

Prunus cerasus 119 

Prunus domestica 119 

Prunus dulcis 119 

Prunus laurocerasus 119 

Prunus mahaleb 119 

Prunus padus 119 

Prunus persica 119 

Prunus spinosa 119 

Prunus virginiana 119 

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium 20.5 

Pseudotsuga menziesii 103 

Psidium guayava 89 

Psoralea bituminosa 56 

Psoralea corylifolia 56 

Psoralea pinnata 56 

Psychotria ipecacuanha 120 

Ptarmica nana 20.1 

Ptelea trifoliata 121 

Pteridium aquilinum 58 

Pteris aquilina 58 

Pterocarpus marsupium 56 

Pueraria lobata 56 

Pulicaria dysenterica 20.5 

Pulicaria vulgaris 20.5 

Pulmonaria angustifolia 27 

Pulmonaria montana 27 

Pulmonaria officinalis 27 

Pulmonaria officinalis x montana 27 

Pulmonaria picta 27 

Pulmonaria tuberosa 27 

Pulmonaria vulgaris 27 

Pulsatilla montana 116.4 

Pulsatilla nuttaliana 116.4 

Pulsatilla patens subsp. multifida 116.4 

Pulsatilla pratensis 116.4 

Pulsatilla vulgaris 116.4 

Punica granatum 75 

Pycnostachys eminii 69 

Pyrenacantha scandens 66 

Pyrethrum officinarum 20.1 

Pyrethrum parthenium 20.1 

Pyrola minor 54 

Pyrola rotundifolia 54 

Pyrus americana 119 

Pyrus communis 119 

Pyrus malus 119 

Quassia amara 127 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xliii

Quebracho 13 

Quercus 57 

Quercus lobata 57 

Quercus pubescens 57 

Quercus robur 57 

Quercus robur glandium spir. 57 

Quillaja saponaria 115 

Rafflesia arnoldii 98 

Rajania subsamarata 10 

Ranunculus acris 116.4 

Ranunculus bulbosus 116.4 

Ranunculus ficaria 116.4 

Ranunculus flammula 116.4 

Ranunculus glacialis 116.4 

Ranunculus pinnatus 116.4 

Ranunculus repens 116.4 

Ranunculus sceleratus 116.4 

Raphanistrum arvense 28 

Raphanus sativus 28 

Ratanhia peruviana 98 

Raulinoreitzia crenulata 20.4 

Rauwolfia serpentina 13 

Reserpinum 13 

Rhamnus californica 117 

Rhamnus cathartica 117 

Rhamnus frangula 117 

Rhamnus prinoides 117 

Rhamnus purshiana 117 

Rhaphidophora pertusa 15 

Rhaphispermum gerardioides 98 

Rhaponticoides africana 20.2 

Rheum palmatum 111 

Rheum rhaponticum 111 

Rhizophora mangle 118 

Rhodiola rosea 46 

Rhododendron aureum 54 

Rhododendron chrysanthum 54 

Rhododendron ferrugineum 54 

Rhododendron tomentosum 54 

Rhoicissus tridentata cuneifolia 136 

Rhus aromatica 10 

Rhus cotinus 10 

Rhus diversilobia 10 

Rhus glabra 10 

Rhus laurina 10 

Rhus radicans 10 

Rhus succedanea 10 

Rhus toxicodendron 10 

Rhus typhina 10 

Rhus venenata 10 

Ribes nigrum 125 

Ribes rubrum 125 

Ribes uva-crispa 125 

Ricinodendron heudelotii 55 

Ricinus communis 55 

Robinia pseudoacacia 56 

Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum 28 

Rosa bracteata 119 

Rosa canina 119 

Rosa centifolia 119 

Rosa damascena 119 

Rosa gallica 119 

Rosa rubra 119 

Rosa St. Francis 119 

Rosmarinus officinalis 69 

Royena lucida 51 

Royena villosa 51 

Rubia cordifolia 120 

Rubia tinctorum 120 

Rubus caesius 119 

Rubus chamaemorus 119 

Rubus frondosus 119 

Rubus fruticosus 119 

Rubus idaeus 119 

Rubus rigidus 119 

Rubus villosus 119 

Rudbeckia hirta 20.5 

Rumex abyssinicus 111 

Rumex acetosa 111 

Rumex acetosella 111 

Rumex alpinus 111 

Rumex aquaticus 111 

Rumex crispus 111 

Rumex obtusifolius 111 

Rumex patientia 111 

Ruscus aculeatus 19 

Ruta angustifolia 121 

Ruta graveolens 121 

Sabadilla 80 

Sabal serrulata 17 

Sabatia angularis 60 

Sabina 103 

Saccharum officinarum 108 

Sagittaria sagittifolia 6 

Salicaria purpurea 75 

Salicinum 122 

Salicornia europaea 8 

Salicylicum acidum 122 

Salix alba 122 

Salix americana 122 


xliv ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Salix babylonica 122 

Salix fragilis 122 

Salix lasiolepis 122 

Salix madagascariensis 122 

Salix mollissima 122 

Salix nigra 122 

Salix purpurea 122 

Salix viminalis 122 

Salix vitellina 122 

Salolum 122 

Salsola tragus 8 

Salvia divinorum 69 

Salvia officinalis 69 

Salvia pratensis 69 

Salvia sclarea 69 

Salvia sonomensis 69 

Salvia verbenaca 69 

Salvia verticillata 69 

Sambucus canadensis 50 

Sambucus ebulus 50 

Sambucus nigra 50 

Sambucus racemosa 50 

Sanguinaria canadensis 97 

Sanguinarinum 97 

Sanguinarinum aceticum 97 

Sanguinarinum nitricum 97 

Sanguinarinum tartaricum 97 

Sanguisorba minor 119 

Sanguisorba officinalis 119 

Sanicula europaea 12 

Sansevieria trifasciata 19 

Santalum album 98 

Santolina chamaecyparissus 20.1 

Santoninum 20.1 

Sapindus oblongifolius 123 

Sapindus saponaria 123 

Saponaria officinalis 37 

Saponinum 37 

Sapota achras 124 

Saraca asoca 56 

Sarcocephalus latifolius 120 

Sarcopoterium spinosum 119 

Sarothamnus scoparius 56 

Sarracenia purpurea 36 

Sarsaparilla officinalis 71 

Sassafras albidum 70 

Sassafras officinalis 70 

Satureja hortensis 69 

Satureja montana 69 

Saururus cernuus 104 

Saxifraga granulata 125 

Scabiosa columbaria 50 

Scabiosa succisa 50 

Sceletium tortuosum 5 

Schinus molle 10 

Schoenocaulon officinale 80 

Schoenoplectus paludicola 108 

Schotia brachypetala 56 

Scilla bifolia 65 

Scirpus paludicola 108 

Scleranthus annuus 37 

Sclerocarya alba 10 

Scolopendrium vulgare 58 

Scopolaminum bromatum 129 

Scopolaminum bromhydricum 129 

Scopolia carniolica 129 

Scopolia japonica 129 

Scrophularia auriculata 126 

Scrophularia marilandica 126 

Scrophularia nodosa 126 

Scurrula parasitica 98 

Scutellaria galericulata 69 

Scutellaria laterifolia 69 

Secale cereale 108 

Securidaca longepedunculata 110 

Securigera varia 56 

Sedum acre 46 

Sedum album 46 

Sedum alpestre 46 

Sedum cepaea 46 

Sedum reflexum 46 

Sedum repens 46 

Sedum rubens 46 

Sedum telephium 46 

Selaginella apoda 74 

Selaginella apus 74 

Selenicereus grandiflorus 32 

Selinum carvifolia 12 

Semecarpus anacardium 10 

Semen tiglii 55 

Sempervivum arachnoideum 46 

Sempervivum tectorum 46 

Senebiera coronopus 28 

Senecio adonidifolius 20.4 

Senecio ambavilla 20.4 

Senecio aurantiacus 20.4 

Senecio aureus 20.4 

Senecio cordatus 20.4 

Senecio doronicum 20.4 

Senecio faniasioides 20.4 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xlv

Senecio fuchsii 20.4 

Senecio incanus 20.4 

Senecio jacobaea 20.4 

Senecio mannii 20.4 

Senecio sarracenicus 20.4 

Senecio speciosus 20.4 

Senecio sylvaticus 20.4 

Senecio vulgaris 20.4 

Senega 110 

Senna 56 

Senna alata 56 

Senna alexandrina 56 

Senna italica 56 

Senna occidentalis 56 

Senna septemtrionalis 56 

Senna sophera 56 

Sequoia sempervirens 103 

Sequoiadendron giganteum 103 

Serenoa repens 17 

Seriphidium cinum 20.1 

Serpentaria aristolochia 18 

Sesamum indicum 100 

Sida alnifolia 79 

Sida rhombifolia 79 

Sigesbeckia orientalis 20.5 

Silene inflata 37 

Silphion cyrenaicum 12 

Silphium laciniatum 20.5 

Silybum marianus 20.2 

Simaba cedron 127 

Simarouba amara 127 

Simarouba glauca 127 

Simarouba versicolor 127 

Simmondsia chinensis 128 

Sinapis alba 28 

Sinapis arvensis 28 

Sinapis nigra 28 

Sisymbrium officinale 28 

Sisymbrium sophia 28 

Sisyrinchium campestre 71 

Sium angustifolium 12 

Sium latifolium 12 

Smallanthus uvedalia 20.5 

Smilacinum 71 

Smilax aspera 71 

Smilax china 71 

Smilax regelii 71 

Soja hispida 56 

Solaninum aceticum 129 

Solaninum purum 129 

Solanum alternatopinnatum 129 

Solanum americanum 129 

Solanum anguivi 129 

Solanum arrebenta 129 

Solanum capense 129 

Solanum capsicoides 129 

Solanum carolinense 129 

Solanum dulcamara 129 

Solanum erythracanthum 129 

Solanum glaucophyllum 129 

Solanum integri(folium) 129 

Solanum lycopersicum 129 

Solanum malacoxylon 129 

Solanum mammosum 129 

Solanum melongena 129 

Solanum nigrum 129 

Solanum nodiflorum 129 

Solanum oleraceum 129 

Solanum pseudocapsicum 129 

Solanum sodomeum 129 

Solanum tuberosum 129 

Solanum tuberosum aegrotans 129 

Solanum villosum 129 

Solanum xanthocarpum 129 

Soldanella alpina 113 

Solenostemon scutellarioides 69 

Solidago nemoralis 20.5 

Solidago virgaurea 20.5 

Sophora japonica 56 

Sophora microphylla 56 

Sophora secundiflora 56 

Sophora speciosa 56 

Sorbus americana 119 

Sorbus aucuparia 119 

Sorbus domestica 119 

Sorghum vulgare 108 

Sparganium erectum 108 

Sparganium ramosum 108 

Sparteinum 56 

Sparteinum sulfuricum 56 

Spartium junceum 56 

Spergula arvensis 37 

Spergularia rubra 37 

Spermacoce natalensis 120 

Sphagnum squarrosum 85 

Spigelia anthelmia 73 

Spigelia marilandica 73 

Spilanthes oleracea 20.5 

Spinacia oleracea 8 

Spiraea filipendula 119 


xlvi ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Spiraea ulmaria 119 

Spiranthes autumnalis 95 

Spiranthes casei 95 

Spiranthes cernua 95 

Spiranthes lacera 95 

Spiranthes lucida 95 

Spiranthes romanzoffiana 95 

Spiranths spiralis 95 

Spirostachys africana 55 

Spondias mombin 10 

Squilla bifolia 65 

Squilla maritima 65 

Stachys arvensis 69 

Stachys betonica 69 

Stachys officinalis 69 

Stachys palustris 69 

Stachys sylvatica 69 

Stangeria eriopus 48 

Stapelia gigantea 13 

Staphisagria 116.1 

Statice brasiliensis 107 

Stellaria media 37 

Stigmata maydis 108 

Stillingia sylvatica 55 

Stramonium 129 

Streptanthus glandulosus 28 

Strophanthinum 13 

Strophanthus gratus 13 

Strophanthus hispidus 13 

Strophanthus sarmentosus 13 

Strychninum arsenicosum 73 

Strychninum nitricum 73 

Strychninum phosphoricum 73 

Strychninum purum 73 

Strychninum sulfuricum 73 

Strychninum valerianicum 73 

Strychnos gaultheriana 73 

Strychnos gauthierana 73 

Strychnos henningsii 73 

Strychnos ignatii 73 

Strychnos nux-vomica 73 

Strychnos spinosa 73 

Strychnos tieuté 73 

Strychnos wallichiana 73 

Stryphnodendron barbatiman 56 

Styphnolobium japonicum 56 

Succinicum acidum 103 

Succinum 103 

Sumbulus moschatus 12 

Sutherlandia frutescens 56 

Swertia chirayita 60 

Symphoricarpos racemosus 50 

Symphoricarpus albus 50 

Symphytum officinale 27 

Symplocarpus foetidus 15 

Synadenium grantii 55 

Syringa vulgaris 94 

Syzygium aromaticum 89 

Syzygium cumini 89 

Syzygium jambolanum 89 

Syzygium jambos 89 

Tabacum 129 

Tabebuia heterophylla 25 

Tabernaemontana stapfiana 13 

Tabernanthe iboga 13 

Taenidia integerrima 12 

Talauma mexicana 77 

Talipariti tiliaceum 79 

Tamarindus indica 56 

Tamus communis 49 

Tanacetum balsamita 20.1 

Tanacetum cinerariifolium 20.1 

Tanacetum parthenium 20.1 

Tanacetum vulgare 20.1 

Tanghinia venenifera 13 

Taperiba 10 

Taraxacum officinale 20.3 

Taxus baccata 103 

Taxus brevifolia 103 

Tecoma pentaphylla 25 

Telopea speciosissima 114 

Tephroseris integrifolia 20.4 

Tephrosia kraussiana 56 

Tephrosia vogelii 56 

Terebenum 103 

Terebinthina chios 103 

Terebinthina laricina 103 

Terebinthinae oleum 103 

Terminalia arjuna 90 

Terminalia chebula 90 

Tetradenia fruticosa 69 

Tetradenia riparia 69 

Teucrium botrys 69 

Teucrium marum verum 69 

Teucrium scordium 69 

Teucrium scorodonia 69 

Thalictrum rhynchocarpum 116.2 

Thapsia garganica 12 

Thea chinensis 130 

Thebainum 97 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xlvii

Theinum 130 

Theobroma cacao 79 

Thevetia neriifolia 13 

Thevetia peruviana 13 

Thiosinaminum 28 

Thlaspi bursa-pastoris 28 

Thomandersia hensii 1 

Thuja gigantea 103 

Thuja lobbii 103 

Thuja occidentalis 103 

Thuja plicata 103 

Thymolum 69 

Thymus serpyllum 69 

Thymus vulgaris 69 

Tilia alburnum 79 

Tilia argentea 79 

Tilia cordata 79 

Tilia platyphyllos 79 

Tilia x europaea 79 

Tillandsia usneoides 29 

Tinospora cordifolia 82 

Toddalia aculeate 121 

Toddalia asiatica 121 

Tongo odorata 56 

Toxicodendron diversilobium 10 

Toxicodendron pubescens 10 

Toxicodendron radicans 10 

Toxicodendron succedanea 10 

Toxicodendron vernix 10 

Toxicophlaea thunbergii 13 

Trachelospermum jasminoides 13 

Trachyspermum ammi 12 

Tradescantia diuretica 42 

Tragopogon pratensis 20.3 

Trema grisea 35 

Trema orientalis 35 

Triainolepis emirnensis 120 

Tribulus terrestris 139 

Trichilia emetica 81 

Trichosanthes amara 47 

Trichosanthes anguina 47 

Trichosanthes cucum. var. anguina 47 

Trichosanthes cucumerina 47 

Trichosanthes dioica 47 

Triclisia dictyophylla 82 

Triclisia gilletii 82 

Trifolium alpinum 56 

Trifolium arvense 56 

Trifolium dubium 56 

Trifolium elegans 56 

Trifolium pratense 56 

Trifolium repens 56 

Trigonella foenum-graecum 56 

Trillium cernuum 80 

Trillium erectum 80 

Trillium pendulum 80 

Trimeria alnifolia 122 

Triosteum perfoliatum 50 

Tripleurospermum maritimum 20.1 

Tripogandra diuretica 42 

Triticum aestivum 108 

Triticum repens 108 

Triticum spelta 108 

Triticum vulgare 108 

Triumfetta rhomboidea 79 

Trollius asiaticus 116.4 

Trollius europaeus 116.4 

Trollius laxus 116.4 

Tropaeolum majus 28 

Tsuga canadensis 103 

Tulipa gesneriana 71 

Turgenia latifolia 12 

Turnera diffusa 99 

Turraea floribunda 81 

Turraea obtusifolia 81 

Tussilago farfara 20.4 

Tussilago fragrans 20.4 

Tussilago petasites 20.4 

Tylophora indica 13 

Typha latifolia 108 

Ulex europaeus 56 

Ulmus campestris 132 

Ulmus glabra 132 

Ulmus minor 132 

Ulmus montana 132 

Ulmus procera 132 

Ulmus rubra 132 

Umbilicus ruprestris 46 

Uncaria tomentosa 120 

Unedo edulis 54 

Upas antiaris 84 

Upas tieuté 73 

Urechites suberecta 13 

Urginea maritima 65 

Ursinia tenuiloba 20.1 

Urtica crenulata 133 

Urtica dioica 133 

Urtica gigas 133 

Urtica urens 133 

Uva ursi 54 


xlviii ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Uvaria triloba 11 

Uzara 13 

Vaccinium myrtillus 54 

Vaccinium vitis-idaea 54 

Valeriana officinalis 50 

Valerianella locusta 50 

Valerianella olitoria 50 

Vangueria emirnensis 120 

Vangueria lasiantha 120 

Vanilla aromatica 95 

Vanilla planifolia 95 

Vataireopsis araroba 56 

Veratrinum 80 

Veratrum album 80 

Veratrum californicum 80 

Veratrum luteum 80 

Veratrum nigrum 80 

Veratrum officinale 80 

Veratrum viride 80 

Verbasci oleum 126 

Verbascum densiflorum 126 

Verbascum floccosum 126 

Verbascum nigrum 126 

Verbascum thapsus 126 

Verbena hastata 134 

Verbena officinalis 134 

Verbena urticifolia 134 

Vernonia adoensis 20.5 

Vernonia amygdalina 20.5 

Vernonia anthelmintica 20.5 

Vernonia corymbosa 20.5 

Vernonia tigna 20.5 

Vernonia woodii 20.5 

Veronica abyssinica 106 

Veronica austriaca 106 

Veronica beccabunga 106 

Veronica chamaedrys 106 

Veronica officinalis 106 

Veronica persica 106 

Veronica teucrium 106 

Veronicastrum virginicum 106 

Vesicaria communis 28 

Vetiveria zizanioides 108 

Viburnum lantana 50 

Viburnum odoratissimum 50 

Viburnum opulus 50 

Viburnum prunifolium 50 

Viburnum tinus 50 

Vicia ervilia 56 

Vicia faba 56 

Viguieranthus alternans 56 

Vinca major 13 

Vinca minor 13 

Vinca rosea 13 

Vincetoxicum officinale 13 

Viola canina 135 

Viola lutea subsp. sudetica 135 

Viola odorata 135 

Viola sudetica 135 

Viola tricolor 135 

Virola sebifera 87 

Viscum abietis 98 

Viscum album 98 

Viscum armeniacae 98 

Viscum crataegi 98 

Viscum laxum 98 

Viscum mali 98 

Viscum piri 98 

Viscum populi 98 

Viscum pruni 98 

Viscum quercinum 98 

Viscum robiniae 98 

Viscum salicis 98 

Viscum tiliae 98 

Vitex agnus-castus 69 

Vitex trifolia 69 

Vitis vinifera 136 

Voacanga africana 13 

Welwitschia mirabilis 63 

Wheat bran 108 

Wikstroemia indica 131 

Wild oat (Bach fl.) 108 

Willow (Bach fl.) 122 

Wisteria floribunda 56 

Wisteria sinensis 56 

Withania somnifera 129 

Wollemia nobilis 103 

Wyethia helenioides 20.5 

Xanthium macrocarpum 20.5 

Xanthium spinosum 20.5 

Xanthium strumarium 20.5 

Xanthorhiza apiifolia 116.3 

Xanthorhiza simplicissima 116.3 

Xanthorrhoea arborea 137 

Xanthoxylum alatum 121 

Xanthoxylum fraxineum 121 

Xerophyllum asphodeloides 80 

Xerophyllum tenax 80 

Ximenia caffra 98 

Xylopia aethiopica 11 


ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES xlix

Xymalos monospora 70 

Xysmalobium undulatum 13 

Ylang-Ylang 11 

Yohimbinum 120 

Yohimbinum muriaticum 120 

Yucca filamentosa 4 

Zantedeschia aethiopica 15 

Zanthoxylum americanum 121 

Zanthoxylum armatum 121 

Zanthoxylum capense 121 

Zea italica 108 

Zea mays 108 

Zeltnera venusta 60 

Zigadenus venenosus 80 

Zingiber 138 

Zizia aurea 12 

Zizia integerrima 12 

Ziziphus jujuba 117 

Ziziphus mucronata 117 

Ziziphus spina-christi 117 


l ALPHABETICAL INDEX REMEDIES

Vermeulen / Johnston 

PLANTS - Homeopathic and 

Medicinal Uses from a Botanical 

Family Perspective 

4 volumes in presentation slipcase 

4968 Seiten, geb. 

erschienen 2011 

Mehr Homöopathie Bücher auf www.narayana-verlag.de

Botanical Keys 

� Ivy and Ginseng family with 43 genera holding about 1450 species of rather 

stout-stemmed and little-branched shrubs or trees, often strong-smelling and 

with large and prominent scars from the fallen leaves. 

� Distribution: Worldwide, but centred in tropics. 

� Sister family to Apiaceae and by some authorities included in a broadly circumscribed 

Apiaceae. 

� Leaves often compound, with broad, more or less sheathing leaf-bases. 

� Flowers small, in compound inflorescences, usually either capitate [head-like] 

or umbellate. 

� Fruit a globose drupe with several seeds. 

� Classified in order Apiales by both Cronquist and Dahlgren. 

� Compare other families in order Apiales: Apiaceae [Umbelliferae]; Pittosporaceae. 

ARALIACEAE IN HOMEOPATHY 

FAMILY ARALIACEAE – ORDER APIALES 

Homeopathic name Common name Abbreviation Symptoms 

Aralia californica Elk-clover Aral-c. None 

Aralia hispida Bristly sarsaparilla Aral-h. 5–10 

Aralia nudicaulis Wild sarsaparilla Aral-nu. None 

Aralia racemosa American spikenard Aral. c. 240 

Aralia spinosa 

Eleutherococcus 

Devil’s-walking-stick Aral-sp. None 

senticosus Siberian ginseng Eleut. None 

Ginseng1 Ginseng Gins. c. 5402 Hedera helix English ivy Hed. c. 220 

Hydrocotyle vulgaris Marsh pennywort Hydrc-vg. None 

Oplopanax horridus Devil’s club Oplo-h. None3 Panax quinquefolius American ginseng Panax-q. None4 © Saltire Books Ltd 

1 = Identity uncertain: unclear whether it concerns Panax ginseng [Chinese ginseng] 

or Panax quinquefolius [American ginseng], or both. 2–4 = Symptoms provings not yet 

included. 

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Sarsaparilla 

As with many plants and common names, there is some confusion as to what is 

really what. In this case sarsaparilla is causing the confusion. It often recalls the 

imagery of the Wild West of the rugged ranch hand bellying up to the saloon 

bar and hailing the bartender for a foaming sarsaparilla. What actually is that 

sarsaparilla? Is it from Aralia species or from Smilax species? In fact, it is from 

neither. The United States Department of Agriculture, Food And Drug Administration, 

New and Revised Definitions and Standards for Food Products [1931] 

mandates that sarsaparilla flavour be made from oil of sassafras [see Laurales – 

Sassafras] and methyl salicylate or oil of wintergreen or oil of sweet birch. This 

seems to indicate that the botanical name sarsaparilla and the flavouring named 

sarsaparilla are two entirely different things. Just to confound things even further, 

the flavour that was called sarsaparilla is not generally available any longer under 

that name. It is simply not heard of anymore. There are exceptions, however. 

Australians can still drink sarsaparilla-flavoured soft drinks and in Taiwan it is 

not all too difficult to find HeySong Sarsaparilla soda. Though the name is a dead 

end, the same old-time sarsaparilla flavour is still very much alive, having reinvented 

itself as Root Beer. 

Main Constituents 

� Triterpene saponins – lipophilic steroid-like compounds, such as aralosides in 

Aralia, ginsenosides or panaxosides in Panax, eleutherosides in Eleutherococcus 

and hederacosides in Hedera. 

Pharmacological Activities 

Historically, the triterpene saponins in this family have been claimed to exert a 

strengthening effect and to raise physical and mental capacity for work. These 

properties are defined with the term adaptogenic, involving a non-specific 

increase in resistance to the noxious effects of physical, chemical, biological or 

emotional stress. A less scientific sounding term could be ‘stress busters’. 

Herbs of this family are thought to help support adrenal gland function when 

the body is challenged by stress, helping it adapt to any situation that would alter 

its normal function. They are thought to help reduce the exhaustion phase of 

the stress response and return the adrenals to normal function faster. Triterpenes 

are also known to bind to steroid hormone receptors. 

Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis 

Pharmacologically, the centre of activity of Araliaceae appears to be the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal 

axis, called the HPA. The HPA is a complex set of direct 

influences and feedback interactions among the hypothalamus, the pituitary 

gland and the adrenal glands. As a major part of the neuro-endocrine system, the 

HPA axis regulates many body processes, including digestion, the immune 

system, mood and emotions, sexuality and energy storage and expenditure. 

Furthermore, it is the common mechanism for interactions among glands, 

hormones and parts of the midbrain that mediate the general adaptation 

syndrome. It is through the regulation of all these body systems that the HPA 


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controls reactions to stress. The HPA axis response to stress is generally higher in 

women than in men. 

The key hormones of the HPA axis include vasopressin, known as antidiuretic 

or water conservation hormone, and corticotropin-releasing hormone, CRH. 

Vasopressin and CRH stimulate the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone, 

ACTH, which in turn acts on the adrenal cortices, which produce glucocorticoid 

hormones, mainly cortisol in humans, in response to stimulation by ACTH. 

Cortisol is a major stress hormone and has effects on many tissues in the body, 

including the brain. In healthy individuals, cortisol rises rapidly before or right 

after wakening, reaching a peak within 30–45 minutes. About 80% of the day’s 

cortisol is secreted in this early morning time, getting a person pepped up for the 

day. It then gradually falls over the day, rising again in late afternoon about 

4 p.m. Cortisol levels continue falling through the evening, reaching a trough 

during the middle of the night, only to sharply rise again when a new day starts. 

If adrenaline is the short-term, immediate danger, flight or fight hormone, then 

cortisol is the hormone of long-term continuous danger or stress. It picks up after 

adrenaline wears off. 

Cortisol deficiency or an abnormally flattened circadian cortisol cycle has been 

linked with chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia and burnout. Increased production 

of cortisol results from long-term alarm reactions to stress where adapting 

to the chronic on-going presence of stress is necessary for survival. The person is 

adapting to stress and the price for that adaptation is very high indeed. Many 

immune related conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, arteriosclerosis and 

even cancer can be the result of living with elevated cortisol levels chronically. 

A spectrum of conditions may be associated with increased and prolonged activation 

of the HPA axis, including melancholic depression, anorexia nervosa with 

or without malnutrition, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic anxiety, chronic 

active alcoholism, alcohol and narcotic withdrawal, excessive exercising, poorly 

controlled diabetes mellitus, childhood sexual abuse and hyperthyroidism. 

Hypoactivation or depletion of the stress system, on the other hand, has been 

linked with post-traumatic stress disorder, atypical seasonal depression, chronic 

fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, post stress conditions, postpartum, 

menopause and nicotine withdrawal. 

Neurasthenia 

Stress related syndromes are not at all new. In 1869 George Miller Beard first used 

the term neurasthenia to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, 

headache, impotence, neuralgia and depressed mood. Americans were supposed 

to be particularly prone to neurasthenia, which resulted in the nickname the 

Great American Disease or ‘Americanitis’, popularised by William James. Just as 

today with chronic fatigue syndrome, in the late 1800s neurasthenia became a 

popular diagnosis, expanding to include such symptoms as weakness, dizziness 

and fainting. A common treatment was the rest cure, especially for women, who 

were the gender primarily diagnosed with the condition at that time. It was 

explained as being a result of exhaustion of the central nervous system’s energy 

reserves, which Beard attributed to civilisation. He might be credited with first 


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developing the idea that ‘living was dangerous to your health.’ Physicians in the 

Beard school of thought associated neurasthenia with the stresses of urbanisation 

and the pressures placed on the intellectual class by the increasingly 

competitive business environment. Typically, it was associated with upper class 

individuals in sedentary employment. 

The modern view holds that the main problem with the neurasthenia diagnosis 

was that it attempted to group together a wide variety of cases. In recent 

years, Richard M. Fogoros has posited that perhaps ‘neurasthenia’ was a word 

that included some psychiatric and psychological conditions, but more importantly 

many physiological conditions that are marginally understood by the 

medical community, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable 

bowel syndrome. [Extracted from Wikipedia] 

Today this syndrome, by whatever name it goes, is accepted as a psycho-pathological 

phenomenon. When first used by Beard in 1869, the pioneer who elucidated 

the physiological component to physical medical problems, Sigmund 

Freud, was only 13 years old. Understanding the interactions of mind and body 

were decades in the future. 

The homeopathic materia medica is chock-full with the term neurasthenia. It 

wouldn’t make much sense to connect it with any plant family or remedy group 

in particular. On the other hand, so little is known about the Araliaceae as a group 

that some broad generalisations will help get a preliminary idea. First of all, 

Ginseng features in the rubric, ‘Neurasthenia after debilitating diseases’, while 

Hedera helix has a key symptom of the condition, ‘Constantly lives in a state of 

anxiety and worry.’ Secondly, on the authority of Louis Berman [1928], we note 

the ‘relations of neurasthenia to the glands of internal secretion in general and 

to adrenal insufficiency in particular.’ Thirdly, the symptoms elicited in the 

proving of American ginseng [Panax quinquefolius] were characterised by ‘a 

condition of anxiety which is constantly present in all sexual hypochondriacs 

. . . [making Panax] a curative remedy in such cases of sexual weakness that 

especially react upon the mind, causing lassitude, and uneasy mental condition 

even to fears of approaching impotence.’ [see below] 

Breaking Down from Too Great Demands 

Berman clarifies by saying: ‘The neurasthenic is to be recognised by the fact that 

the most painstaking objective examination of his organs reveals nothing the 

matter with them. Yet, according to his complaint, everything is the matter with 

him. He cannot sleep when he lies down, he cannot keep awake when he stands 

up. He cannot concentrate, but still he is pitifully worried about his life. The 

slightest irritant causes him to go off the handle. 

‘As he works himself up into his hysterical state as a reaction to a disagreeable 

person or problem, irregular blotches may appear on his face and neck. Generally, 

his hands and feet are clammy and perspiring, his face is abnormally flushed 

or pallid, the eyes are worried or starey, unwonted wandering sensations involving 

now this area of the body or now that obsess him. As the blood pressure is 

too low for the age, the circulation is nearly always inadequate and palpitation 

of the heart is a frequent complaint. So frequent that attention is often centred 



upon the heart, a diagnosis of heart disease is made and the unfortunate is 

doomed for life – to brood over horrible possibilities. The brooding over themselves 

and their troubles is one of the distinctive features of the whole complex. 

Neurasthenia may masquerade as any organic disease. An individual with a soil 

for a neurasthenic reaction to life will become neurasthenic when confronted by 

any stone wall, including a serious ailment within himself.’ 

Compare Berman’s description with a symptom in Aralia racemosa. ‘I have 

been annoyed all day by a dread that my right lung is seriously diseased. Could 

not shake off the fear.’ 

Berman goes on to say: ‘Neurasthenia, regarded as a reaction of people to the 

stress and strain of life, has without a doubt increased. The most casual of 

observers will tell you that the generation of the Great War is a neurasthenic 

generation. It takes its pleasures too intensely, its pains too seriously, its troubles 

too flippantly. . . . Now one of the outstanding effects of disease of the adrenal 

glands is the feeling of muscular and mental inefficiency. And as a matter of fact, 

a good number of observations conspire for the idea that a certain number of 

neurasthenics are suffering from insufficiency of the adrenal gland. The chronic 

state of the acute phenomenon, known as the nervous breakdown, really 

represents in them a breakdown of the reserves of the adrenals and an elimination 

of their factor of safety. In the light of that conception, the great American 

disease – dementia americana – is seen to be adrenal disease – and the American 

life to be the adrenal life, often making too great demands upon that life and so 

breaking down with it.’ 

Reading Berman’s depiction, it is easy to find oneself thinking how accurately 

he was describing modern life and the sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome that 

has been so prevalent in the last 20 years. Recalling that Beard blamed neurasthenia 

on ‘urbanisation and the pressures placed on the intellectual class by the 

increasingly competitive business environment’ it would appear that Berman 

must be referring to our modern world with its work pressures, fast-paced 

demanding life style, whiz-bang advancing technology, globalisation and terrorism 

threats. Settled with that image, it is something of a surprise to come upon 

his reference to the ‘Great War’, meaning 1914–1918. He was not speaking about 

the current era, but about one that is looked back upon with nostalgia for its 

sublime simplicity, slow-paced graciousness and bucolic peacefulness. How could 

they think they were stressed? 

The Tired Competition 

Beard and Berman have given us sterling descriptions of neurasthenia as fatigue 

or a breakdown resulting from the stress and strain of life. More recently Betsy 

Berne gave her unsurpassed observations of fatigue of our time, what could be 

called the ‘new neurasthenia’. Her article, The Tired Chronicles, contains 

scathingly accurate commentary. ‘I’ve noticed recently that the main topic of 

conversation among my friends is tiredness. Actually, there is an underlying 

contest over who is the more tired and who has truly earned his or her tiredness. 

. . . According to the tired married people with kids, there is no contest. 

They are the royalty of the tired kingdom. They are smug with exhaustion. I 



elong to the tired-single-people-who-work-at-home group and in the tired race 

I don’t have a prayer. . . . By now it might be time to mention my brother, the 

jazz musician. He is bone tired. This is because he is a member of yet another 

group, the international-jet-set tired people. My brother is always on the road 

playing gigs – from Istanbul to Helsinki to Houston Street. When he is on tour 

in Italy, for example, not only must he deal with adulation of fans, but he must 

consume sumptuous free meals and stay in Tuscan castles. And he must always 

hang out after a gig. “Hang” is jazz lingo for drinking all night with fans, who 

are often female. You can imagine the tiredness this leads to. . . . Just last year, 

my big wheel writer friend joined the ranks of the international-jet-set tired 

group. Now she, too, is always flying to exotic locales. . . . She, too, is forced to 

consume sumptuous free meals and stay in Tuscan castles. And, if that weren’t 

tiring enough she is also searching for a mate . . . naturally leading to you know 

what.’ [The New Yorker; Aug 7, 1995] 

Courage 

Dr. James Lembke of Riga in former Russia, now Latvia, proved a large number 

of remedies upon himself between 1845 and 1868. The Ginseng proving elicited 

a unique feeling in him – courage. It is one of the first sensations he notices some 

two hours after the first dose. The word courage goes right back to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal 

axis, more particularly to Louis Berman and his view on 

the adrenals. 

Berman writes: ‘Courage is commonly thought of as the emotion that is the 

opposite of fear. It would follow that courage meant simply inhibition of the 

adrenal medulla. As a matter of fact, of course, the mechanism of courage must 

be more complex. One must distinguish animal courage and deliberate courage. 

Animal courage is literally the courage of the beast. Animals with large adrenals 

are the pugnacious, aggressive, charging kings of the fields and forests. . . . In 

courage, deliberate courage, there is more than instinct. There is an act of 

volition, a display of will. Admitting that without the adrenals such courage 

would be impossible, the chief credit for courage must be ascribed to the prepituitary. 

. . . The prepituitary has been called the gland of intellectuality [to use 

that term for lack of better]. By intellectuality is meant the capacity of the mind 

to control its environment by concept and abstract ideas. . . . Now the emotion 

that is the precursor of intellectuality is curiosity, with wonder and its expression 

in the various constructive and acquisitive tendencies. . . . The ability to profit 

by experience and to make more and more accurate judgements as one grows 

older implies at least a maximum efficiency of the prepituitary.’ 

The rubric ‘Courageous’ played a key role for Maud Nerman in finding Ginseng 

as the similimum in two cases. About the first case, a woman with lumbar herniation 

and sciatica after a fall on the sacrum, she says: ‘What do we mean by 

courage? And what is the kind of courage particular to this remedy [Ginseng], 

rather than other remedies, in this rubric? To be courageous, one has to have a 

firm conviction that the way one sees the world is good and valid. Otherwise, 

that person cannot move forward with confidence and fortitude. In my unpublished 

novel, “A Deep Sworn Vow,” I address the issue of courage: In a limited 



sense, courage is about enduring the unendurable. On another level, courage is 

the ability to maintain important human values, kindness, tenderness, respect in 

the face of the intolerable. The ultimate act of courage is not moving forward 

without fear. Ultimately courage is the act of moving forward wisely, despite pain, 

fear or desire. 

‘Clearly, despite tremendous pain, this patient persevered. She worked to help 

others, she travelled and she even went into the pain with meditation. All of this, 

for someone suffering from tremendous pain, is an expression of her courageous 

nature. . . . As one of my friends suggested on hearing the case, perhaps Ginseng 

is the woman warrior remedy: fierce, protective, enduring. . . . Did courage in 

these Ginseng cases have a tinge of pathology? Possibly. In the first case, she may 

have pushed herself too hard, too sure of her own vital, physical strength. 

Whereas some cultures demand a lot of emotional suppression, as we have seen 

in some of the English and some of the Asian cultures, perhaps America drives 

people of talent to “burn out” and pushes most of us to our limits. Aristotle said 

that core virtues are based on a balance between two extremes. Courage is the 

balance between recklessness and cowardice on either side.’ [Maud Nerman, 

Osteopathy and Homeopathy: a Marriage of Similars; IFH 1993; RefWorks] 

Pacemaker of Ageing 

Ageing is a feature inherent to all multi-cellular organisms and is defined as a 

progressive, generalised impairment of functions resulting in a loss of adaptable 

responses to stress and a growing risk of functional loss, disease and disablement. 

No two individuals age in the same way. Genetics and adaptability are key 

personal factors that determine how well a person ages, while environment and 

behaviour are major modifiers of biological structures and processes. 

Longevity, in Berman’s endocrinal view, is ‘perhaps largely a matter of preventing 

or postponing the wane of all of the glands of internal secretion, at least the 

most important – the thyroid, the pituitary and the adrenals – as well as the 

gonads.’ This may well be a great idea, however, human biology does not support 

it. Scientific data have conclusively shown that there is a natural decline in many 

hormones with age, such as oestrogen, testosterone, growth hormone, melatonin, 

calcitonin and renin. The endocrine system with its variety of hormones 

is called the ‘pacemaker of ageing’. This process of endocrine decline is responsible 

for many manifestations of ageing. For instance, lean and fat masses, as well 

as skin elasticity, immune functions, bone density, energy levels and mood 

swings closely correlate with levels of a number of hormones. 

Many women have found out the hard way what happens when attempting 

to give their bodies a hormone complement appropriate for an age at a time when 

they are a very different age. Providing post-menopausal women with oestrogen 

or oestrogen-containing combinations, called Hormone Replacement Therapy 

[HRT] is such an attempt. For decades this treatment approach was hailed as the 

panacea for not only the symptoms but also for the ravages of ageing. It was 

youthfulness in a pill. Recent comprehensive studies, however, have unequivocally 

demonstrated that the dangers of this include increased risk of breast and 

uterine cancers, heart attacks as well as other serious diseases. 



Fo reve r Yo u n g 

Tonic herbs have long been advocated as promoting immunity, longevity and 

rejuvenation. Invariably included are species of Aralia, Eleutherococcus, Ginseng 

and Panax. Used as flavouring in beverages, sarsaparilla was regarded as a detoxification 

agent as well as a general pepping up tonic to invigorate and cleanse the 

body. 

Like other evergreens, ivy [Hedera helix] symbolises eternal life and resurrection. 

It also signifies true love, faithfulness and undying affection both in 

marriage and in friendship. Ivy itself is noted for its vigorous growth habit and 

longevity. It is nearly indestructible. Famed American writer of the late 19th 

century, O. Henry, featured Ivy as the main character in his story The Last Leaf, 

which encompasses all of these themes. [see Hedera helix] 

Traditional Chinese medicine distinguishes a variety of herbs for realising 

‘deathlessness’, among them ginseng. It is said that the continuous use of ginseng 

‘leads one to longevity with light weight.’ With this notion in mind, it is fascinating 

to look at Lembke’s proving of Ginseng. There are four entries recorded by 

all three provers. The time frame shows that it involves the primary action. After 

2 hours the ‘feeling of weakness entirely disappears and gives place to an agreeable 

sensation of lightness and clearness of mind.’ After the first day, there was 

a ‘peculiar lightness and vigour in the limbs in spite of much walking.’ The 

second day produced a ‘peculiar pervading joyous sensation of vigour and 

elasticity, especially in the upper extremities. There was a peculiar lightness and 

flexibility of the limbs in the morning, in spite of a bad night.’ 

It can be safely assumed that a ‘pervading joyous sensation of vigour and 

elasticity’ equates a feeling of being young. ‘Delusion she is young’ is a leading 

indication for Ginseng in a case by Dr. Prashant Shah. A brief synopsis of the case 

informs us that, ‘She is a spinster aged 47. . . . She is very adventurous in nature 

in her life as well as in her profession. Signature of disease: Her temperament and 

adventures give us a feeling of a young and energetic person. That is the state of 

being in which she likes to stay. So the body has also produced a similar phenomenon. 

Her reproductive system was not ready to go into a state of menopause 

[i.e. grow old]. This was the reason for her physical ailment in the form of hot 

flushes. . . . Many of the following characteristics are not found in the repertory 

so you may note the following rubrics with pencil in the repertory. I feel it 

requires a few more experiences before it gets included. These characteristics I 

have derived from the doctrine of signatures of the remedy and the case. Del. she 

is young. Energetic. Adventurous. Mannish woman. Courageous. Fearless. 

Physical exercise >>. On the physical side, she has more eruptions on the right 

side of the body, as well as face. Second strong physical symptom was dryness of 

mouth, to the extent, that she had to drink water every hour during sleep.’ [cited 

in RefWorks] 



THEMES & AFFINITIES ARALIACEAE 

It has long been a human wish to be forever youthful in mind and body, full 

of the vitality, verve and enthusiasm that only the idealistic young appear 

to have. People now live longer, having almost twice the lifespan of 41 years 

that males had at the turn of the 20th century. The desire is for those extra 

years to be vigorous years, not ones of ageing incapacity. A universal agedefying 

stress-buster is needed to fulfil one’s wishes. 

To be youthful is to be energetic, fearless and flexible. One is able to adapt 

and bend with changing circumstances, handle the onslaught that life 

delivers and endure the unendurable. There is strength and courage enough 

to push oneself to the absolute limit, roll with the punches and persevere in 

the face of challenges. 

The fact remains that human beings age. The mere act of living is dangerous 

to one’s health. Stresses, the constant exposure to cares or worries and a 

fast-paced, demanding lifestyle slowly erode vitality, causing a progressive, 

generalised impairment and chronic diminishment of facilities and capacities, 

both mental and physical. Whatever the name – nervous exhaustion, 

neurasthenia, chronic fatigue syndrome or simply ‘burn out’ – the result is 

the same: weakness, lassitude, forgetfulness and prostration. Such are the 

ravages of ageing. 

Araliaceae won’t accept the natural decline wherein youthful vigour and 

well-being are replaced by ageing debility. Aralia is noted for the ‘constant 

dread of disease.’ They seek indestructible, enduring, eternal, ever-lasting life. 

Clinging to the dream of longevity, all their energy goes to rejuvenation, 

where it is possible to postpone or prevent the natural wane of functions. 

There should be resistance to and protection from noxious effects and 

stresses so that physical and mental capacities are once again raised and 

restored. Purification, cleansing and even supernatural or spiritual practices 

are used to try to achieve these ends. 

Though equipped with fortified strength to live with high stress, this is not 

really the best strategy for living. One readily crosses the fine line between 

helpful and harmful. This route to longevity achieves the opposite by 

burning out mind and body in the youthful spree of spending energy and 

vitality. The collapse, the sheer exhaustion, the weakness that follow are 

practically unsupportable. 

A more measured pace, appropriate for each phase of life, allows for the 

dynamism of youth to yield gracefully and productively to the more settled, 

calm, contemplative pursuits as one ages. The dilemma for the Araliaceae is 

how to stay flexible and youthful while embracing all stages of life with 

open-minded enthusiasm and joy. The wisdom to do this is the true preserver 

of health and life. 


1 Youthful, vitality, enthusiasm, fearless and flexible. Courage, vigour, 

verve. 


2 Enduring the unendurable. Fighting against resistance. Perseverance, 

strength. Adaptability. 

3 Stress, worries, cares, demands, fast-paced life. Pushed to the limit. 

4 Generalised impairment, chronic diminishment of facilities and capacities. 

Ageing. 

5 Nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia, burn out, weak, forgetful, prostration. 

6 Indestructible, enduring, ever-lasting life. Longevity. Clinging to Life. 

7 Strengthening, restoring, enhancing mental and physical capacities. 

8 Purification, cleansing, supernatural or spiritual practices. 

9 The fine line between helpful and harmful. 

10 Pushed to exhaustion. Collapse and exhaustion; fatigue, weakness. 

Unsupportable. 

11 Endocrine system, adrenals and thyroid. Cortisone. 

12 Coldness. 

13 Constriction. 

Aralia californica 

Aralia californica S. Watson. Elk-clover; California spikenard. 

Native range: Western USA – California, Oregon. Habitat: Moist shade, 

canyons, streamsides. Deciduous herbaceous perennial, to 2–3 m high, with 

creeping rhizomes and thick stems that are not woody. Laticiferous. Leaves large, 

papery, 1–3-pinnate,1–2 m long, 1 m broad; leaflets ovate to oblong, toothed. 

Flowers small, greenish-white flowers, in large compound umbels 30–45 cm 

across. Fruit a dark purple or black drupe, with 3–5 seeds. 

It has a long history of use among Native Americans in treating upper respiratory 

complaints, arthritis with a root decoction as a soak, colds, fevers, stomach 

ailments, itching sores with a wash and to facilitate labour. As a tonic it is said 

to give great strength to weakened parts and weakened people. 

� No symptoms in MM. 

Aralia hispida 

Aralia hispida Vent. Bristly sarsaparilla; dwarf elder; bristly spikenard. 

Native range: Eastern North America. Habitat: Fields, hedges, rocky places, 

roadsides. Herbaceous perennial or semi-woody shrub, to 1 m high, with stem 

base woody and shrubby, and thickly beset with sharp, stiff bristles. Leaves 2pinnate; 

leaflets oblong-ovate, sharply toothed. Flowers greenish-white, in 

simple, long-stalked, globose umbels. Fruit a round, black drupe with 3 seeds. 

Specific eclectic indications include: ‘Diffused anasarca; dropsy of cavities; 

oedema; dropsy with constipation; renal and hepatic torpor; dyspnoea; and pain 

in the lumbar region.’ [King 1898] 


� Symptoms in MM from Boericke: 

� A valuable diuretic, useful in dropsy of the cavities, either due to hepatic or 

renal disease with constipation. 

� Urinary disorders, especially with dropsy. 


Aralia nudicaulis 

Aralia nudicaulis L. Wild sarsaparilla; false sarsaparilla; American sarsaparilla. 

Native range: North America. Habitat: Moist or dry woodlands, thickets, riparian 

areas, prairie or bog edges. Widespread, dominant understorey species throughout 

the boreal coniferous and mixed-wood forests. Rhizomatous, herbaceous 

perennial, to 70 cm high, forming extensive colonies. Stemless, flowering stems 

and leaves arise directly from the rhizome; nudicaulis means naked stem. Leaves 

ternate, each division 3–5 pinnately divided; leaflets lanceolate-elliptic, finely 

toothed and about 15 cm long. Leaves go dormant in summer before fruits ripen. 

Dioecious; flowers greenish-white, in globose umbels. Fruit a bluish-black drupe. 

‘Possesses alterative properties and is used in decoction or syrup as a substitute 

for sarsaparilla in all cases where an alterative is required. It is likewise used in 

pulmonary diseases. Externally, a decoction of it has been found beneficial as a 

wash in zona [shingles] and in indolent ulcers.’ [King 1898] 


ARALIA RACEMOSA 

Scientific name Aralia racemosa L. 

Common names American spikenard. Life-of-man. Small spikenard. 

Petty-morel. 

Family Araliaceae – order Apiales. 

Homeopathy Aralia racemosa – Aral. 

Botanical Features 

� Rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial, with few-leaved stems, sometimes becoming 

woody in basal part. 

� Native range: Eastern North America. 

� Habitat: Rich wooded slopes, ravines, shaded moist ledges and bluffs. 

� Leaves ternate or 1–2-pinnate, rather stiff, both surfaces green. 

� Flowers greenish-white, in umbels 12–30 cm across. 

� Fruit a brown to purple drupe. 

Medicinal Uses 

‘Like other close relatives of ginseng, spikenard has shown an ability to stimulate 

phagocytosis in white blood cells, increase interferon synthesis in infected 

cells, and increase the capacity for metabolic stress in rats. 9I haven’t done too 

much counselling with rats, but I can vouch for its helping human beings.] This 

function of spikenard is sometimes adaptogenic, increasing mobilisation but 

decreasing the metabolic costs of stress responses. This may mean [the jury is still 

out] that moderate amounts of the tincture or tea on a regular basis can 

strengthen someone with metabolic or chronic disease, whatever the type. 

‘More prosaic but more predictable, spikenard is a first-class medicine for the 

initial stages of bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchorrhoea . . . all that stuff we 



usually call a “chest cold.” The tincture [ 1 ⁄4– 1 ⁄2 teaspoon in hot water], the tea [2–4 

ounces hot], or the honey cough syrup [1–2 teaspoons] works well for adult or 

child. Conversely, the same amounts will help the individual with moist, tired, 

chronic coughing; the aged person with impaired pulmonary function; or the 

heavy smoker or former smoker with a moist, phlegmy cough in the mornings 

and evenings. For this latter group, the more the sense of chest and lung tiredness, 

the better spikenard works. . . . A hot tea of the root will usually help start 

menstruation when the month has been a hard one, with a head cold or sudden 

change of weather possibly delaying the onset.’ [Moore 1989] 

Enlightening Failures 

‘I happened to read Jones’s proving in Hale New Remedies some six or seven years 

ago and I was much struck with the character of the cough. I fancy the thing 

that helped to impress it upon my mind was the fact that I had had just at that 

period a lady under my care who was suffering from a cough that came on after 

lying down at night. I had been tinkering away at this cough and could not cure 

it; so I blamed the damp house in which the lady resided and its proximity to a 

brook prettily hidden among the willows close by. Hyoscyamus, Digitalis and a 

number of other remedies came into play, but the cough would not budge a bit. 

‘Need I tell the heart-rending tale that the patient lost faith in her doctor [the 

writer] and in his much-vaunted pathy, and set about healing herself with quack 

medicines and orthodox sedative cough mixtures? Of course, I felt humiliated 

and I therefore made up my mind to read my Materia Medica a little more 

diligently. It was quite evident that the cough was a curable one, for the most 

careful physical examination failed to detect anything besides a few moist rales 

that tallied with the moderate amount of expectoration. 

‘Failures are very instructive at times. Just after having received my congé from 

this lady, I was reading Hale’s New Remedies and came across Dr. S. A. Jones’s 

proving of Aralia racemosa, where he says: “At 3 p.m. I took ten drops of the 

mother tincture in two ounces of water. An interesting book caused me to forget 

my ‘dose’. The events of the night jogged my memory very effectually.” He goes 

on to say that he retired to rest at midnight, feeling as well as ever, but he “had 

no sooner lain down than he was seized with a fit of asthma.” I put down the 

book – Hale’s New Remedies was not quite so thick then as it is now – and said 

to myself, “That’s Mrs. N.’s cough, that is just how she goes. She lies down and 

forthwith begins to cough, to get laboured breathing and to make her poor hardtoiling 

husband wish he were a bachelor”; at least he might have wished it, for 

ought I know to the contrary. 

‘A little time elapsed and the writer was sent for to see one of this coughing 

lady’s children with eczema. The bairn’s common integument having been 

prescribed for, I timidly inquired about the cough. “Oh,” said Mrs. N., “it is as 

bad as ever; I have tried everything and do not know what to do.” I sat down 

and wrote: Rx Tc. Aralia racemosa 2, and it cured cito, tuto, et jucunde [rapid, 

safe and pleasant] and that not because Aralia is good for coughs and has an 

affinity for the respiratory organs merely, but because it is capable of causing a 

cough like the one that was to be cured. This happened somewhere about six or 



seven years ago and I have since cured this kind of cough with Aralia whenever 

I have come across it and at a rough guess I should say that would be thirty or 

forty times.’ [Compton Burnett 1896] 

MATERIA MEDICA ARALIA RACEMOSA Aral. 

Sources 

1 Self-experimentation Jones [USA], tincture; 1870. 

2 Clinical observations, including eclectic indications, in Hale. 

Mind 

� Constant dread of disease [right lung], unable to shake off fear. 1 

Generals 

� Drenching perspiration at night. 1 

Locals 

� Leucorrhoea, & pressing down pains in uterus. Leucorrhoea, acrid and offen- 

sive. 2 

� Seized with a fit of asthma as soon as he lies down in bed, upon back. 1 

� Dry wheezing respiration, sense of impending suffocation, and rapidly increasing 

dyspnoea. 1 

� Wheezing so laboured as to make the whole bed vibrate. ‘Could not possibly 

lie down; felt that I would suffocate if I did not sit up.’ 1 

� Discomfort and oppression in right lung when lying on right side and in left 

lung when lying on left side, with entire relief in opposite lung. 1 

� Raw, burning, sore feeling behind whole length of sternum and in each lung, 

most intense behind sternum, on making a forcible expiration. 1 

Hay Asthma 

‘Dr. Jones relates a case of hay asthma, cured by Aralia, in which the characteristic 

symptoms were: 

Yearly attacks of suffocative catarrh, with “extreme sensitiveness to a draught, 

the least current of air causing sneezing, with copious watery, acrid discharge 

from nostrils and posterior nares, of a salty, acrid taste, excoriating all the 

passages.” Waking at midnight, with suffocative breathing, inability to lie down, 

and the copious discharge above mentioned. Relief of the asthma by bending 

forward, elbows on knees. Inspiration more difficult than expiration. When the 

coryza ceased, the trouble went to the lungs, with dry, wheezing cough, ejecting 

yellow, thread-like pieces of tough mucus. Aralia, 10 drops, three times a day; 

cured in three days.’ [cited in Hale, Vol. II] 


Aralia spinosa 

Aralia spinosa L. Devil’s walking-stick; angelica-tree. 


Native range: Eastern North America. Habitat: Moist bottomland forests; 

wooded slopes. Fast-growing, deciduous shrub or small tree, to 8 m high, sending 

up a loose colony of spiny ash-grey stems from a rhizomatous root system. 

Aromatic. Stems ringed with distinctive semicircular leaf scars lined with sharp 

tooth-like spines. Leaves clustered at end of twigs, fern-like, 2-pinnate, to 2 m 

long, borne on long prickly stems, spiny along ribs; leaflets oval, toothed, dark 

green above, whitish below. Young leaves bronze-coloured, green in summer, 

returning to bronze/red mottled with some yellow before falling in autumn. 

Flowers creamy white, in large compound umbels arranged in terminal clusters 

30–60 cm long. Male flowers do not open until some time after the female ones 

and not before some of the latter, seemingly impatient from delay, have fallen 

unfertilised. Fruit a purplish-black drupe. Easy to grow and ‘literally thriving on 

neglect’ as one horticulturist has it. It can hardly be called thriving, if that neglect 

results in flowers not being pollinated. 

‘The fresh bark will produce vomiting and purging; but when dried it is a stimulating 

alterative, producing a determination toward the surface. The tincture has 

been used in syphilitic and rheumatic affections, and in some diseases of the skin. 

The warm infusion, especially when strong, is apt to induce vomiting. The berries 

in tincture have been found useful in lulling the pain from a decayed tooth; also 

in various painful affections of other parts. Physicians in Cincinnati made much 

use of this bark during the cholera of 1849–50, in cases where cathartics were 

required, but where the action of every purgative was difficult to control; the 

preparation was composed of 1 dram of compound powder of jalap, 1 dram of 

aralia spinosa and 2 drams of compound powder of rhubarb. Given in powder, 

in half-teaspoonful doses; or the powder was infused in half a pint of boiling 

water, of which infusion, when cold, a tablespoonful was given every half hour. 

In no case in which it was given did it produce a tendency to looseness or 

choleraic discharges. It is a powerful sialagogue and is valuable in diseases where 

the mouth and throat are dry and parched, as a very small portion of the powder 

will produce a moisture and relieve difficult breathing; also useful in sore throat.’ 

[King 1898] 


Eleutherococcus senticosus 

Eleutherococcus senticosus (Rupr. & Maxim.) Maxim.; syns. Hedera senticosa 

Rupr. & Maxim.; Acanthopanax sensticosus (Rupr. & Maxim.) Harms. Siberian 

ginseng; eleuthero. 

Native range: E Asia. Habitat: Understorey species in mixed and coniferous 

mountain forests. Small, woody shrub, prickly, deciduous and slow-growing, 

4–6 m high. The oldest stems may be unarmed while the youngest are densely 

covered with flexible prickles. Palmate leaves, on long, often reddish stalks, 

usually composed of 5 elliptical leaflets with serrate margins. Flowers small, 

occurring toward tips of stems in single or paired, long-stalked umbels. Fruit a 

drupe. 



It is commonly marketed as Siberian Ginseng as it has similar herbal properties 

to those of Panax ginseng. In human studies Eleutherococcus has been 

successfully used to treat bone marrow suppression caused by chemotherapy or 

radiation, angina, hypercholesterolemia and neurasthenia with headache, 

insomnia and poor appetite. Clinical data support its use as a prophylactic and 

restorative tonic for enhancement of mental and physical capacities in cases of 

weakness, exhaustion and tiredness and during convalescence. Traditional uses 

include treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, insomnia and dream-disturbed sleep, 

as a carminative in acute and chronic gastritis, as a diuretic, to treat impotence 

and to regulate blood pressure. 

Adverse effects have been described. ‘A few cases of insomnia, arrhythmia 

[including tachycardia], extrasystole and hypertonia were reported in a clinical 

study involving 64 patients with atherosclerosis, who received a 33% ethanol 

extract of the crude drug at a dose of 4.5–6.0 ml daily for 6–8 cycles of treatment 

[lasting 25–35 days]. In another study of 55 patients with rheumatic heart lesions, 

two patients experienced hypertension, pericardial pain and palpitations, and 

pressure headaches after ingesting 3 ml of a 33% ethanol extract of the roots daily 

for 28 days. Insomnia has also been reported as a side-effect in other clinical 

trials.’ [WHO 2004] 


GINSENG 

Scientific name Panax quinquefolius L. 

Synonyms Aralia quinquefolia (L.) Decne. & Planch. 

Panax americanus Raf. 

Common name American ginseng. 


Homeopathy Ginseng – Gins. 

Scientific name Panax ginseng C.A. Mey. 

Synonyms Aralia ginseng (C.A. Mey.) Baill. 

Panax schinseng T. Nees. 

Common names Chinese ginseng. Asian ginseng. Korean ginseng. 


Homeopathy Ginseng – Gins. 



American ginseng 

� Herbaceous perennial with spindle-shaped rootstock and round, smooth, green 

stems, often with a tinge of red, 20–50 cm high. 

� Native range: Eastern North America. 

� Habitat: Rich, shady hardwood forests. 


� Leaves born in whorls, 3–4, palmately compound; leaflets 5 [quinquefolius = 

with 5 leaves], long-stalked, obovate, sharply serrate, acuminate, smooth on 

both sides, with scattered bristles on the veins above. 

� Flowers small, yellowish-green, in single terminal umbel. 

� Fruit a bright-scarlet drupe, ca. 1.2 cm in diameter, with 2–3 semicircular, white 

seeds. 

� Outermost florets ripen first and their fruits often obtain their full size before 

the central ones are expanded; the central florets are frequently abortive. 

Chinese or Asian ginseng 

� Herbaceous perennial, 30–60 cm high, thick, fusiform roots and simple stems. 

� Native range: Korea and northern China. 

� Habitat: Deciduous broad-leaved forests; extremely rare in the wild; mostly 

cultivated. 

� Leaves borne in whorls, 3–6, palmately compound; leaflets 3–5, long-stalked, 

obovate, 7–20 cm long, serrate. 

� Flowers small, yellowish-green, in single terminal umbel. 

� Fruit a bright red drupe, globose, about 1.5 cm in diameter, with 2 flat, yellow 

seeds. 

� Outermost florets ripen first and their fruits often obtain their full size before 

the central ones are expanded; the central florets are frequently abortive. 


‘Ginseng is perhaps the most widely recognised plant used in traditional 

medicine and now plays a major role in the herbal health care market. For more 

than 2,000 years, various forms have been used in medicine. The name Panax 

derives from the Greek word for “all healing” and its properties have been no 

less touted. Ginseng root’s man-shaped figure [shen-seng means “man-root”] led 

proponents of the Doctrine of Signatures, an ancient philosophy, to believe that 

the root could strengthen any part of the body. Through the ages, the root has 

been used in the treatment of asthenia [loss of strength], atherosclerosis, blood 

and bleeding disorders, colitis and to relieve the symptoms of ageing, cancer and 

senility. 

‘Ginseng is popularly used for its adaptogenic, anti-neoplastic, immunomodulatory, 

cardiovascular, CNS, endocrine and ergogenic effects, but these uses 

have not been confirmed by clinical trials. . . . Note that the profile of particular 

ginsenosides differs between American and Asian ginseng; however, total 

ginsenoside content is similar.’ [www.drugs.com] 


Adverse Reactions 

‘The most common adverse reactions with ginseng are nervousness and excitation. 

However, there have been reports of diffuse mammary nodularity and 

vaginal bleeding. A hypoglycaemic effect has also been documented. Postmarketing 

surveillance of CVT-E002 [COLD-fX, a patented, proprietary extract 

containing mainly oligosaccharides and polysaccharides from North American 

ginseng] in Canada from 1996 to 2006 led to 100 documented adverse reaction 


eports, out of over 200 million doses of CVT-E002 sold. Reactions included 

abdominal pain, confusion, diuresis, dizziness, drowsiness, headache, insomnia, 

joint pain, lowered blood pressure, nausea and vomiting.’ [www.drugs.com] 

Chinese or American? 

Allen states that the American and Chinese species of ginseng are ‘probably 

identical’. They are not, although they are in the same genus. Chemically they 

are quite similar, both containing ginsenosides as the major biologically active 

constituents. Steven Foster, an authority on Chinese medicine, asserts that 

‘American and Asian ginsengs contain some of the same as well as some different 

ginsenosides, which explains their different actions as expressed in 

traditional Chinese medicine. Mild American ginseng helps to reduce the heat 

of the respiratory and digestive systems, whereas the stronger Asian ginseng is a 

heat-raising tonic for the blood and circulatory systems.’ American ginseng is 

Panax quinquefolius L. and Chinese ginseng is Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer. 

‘The naturalist Sheng Neng Pen-T’sao introduced around 100 AD an interesting 

technique to test the authenticity of the ginseng root: “In order to test for 

the true ginseng, two persons walk together, one with a piece of ginseng root in 

his mouth and the other with his mouth empty. If at the end of three to five li 

[about a mile and a quarter] the one with ginseng in his mouth does not feel 

himself tired, while the other is out of breath, the ginseng is genuine root.” 

Eastern herbalism met Western culture in 1709 AD when Father Petrus Jartoux 

[1668–1720], a Jesuit missionary, visited Northern China. He published a Western 

documentation of Panax ginseng in 1713. He noted that ginseng could possibly 

grow in the mountains and woods of Canada, since they mimic the environment 

of the Chinese ginseng. 

‘This observation describes the North American ginseng and would later be discovered 

as the “cooling” ginseng, or the yin ginseng, completing the “warming” 

yang ginseng, native to China. Ginseng was an important part of Native 

American culture. Although there is no formal documentation of ginseng usage 

in Native American herbal remedies, there is evidence of its influence in the 

Northeast Culture Area tribes. These inhabitants covered the Atlantic coastal area, 

across the Appalachians to the Mississippi, from the Great Lakes to the Cumberland 

River in Tennessee. The tribes of this area were not only hunters and fishermen, 

but also farmers and herb-gatherers. They utilised herbs for ritualistic 

ceremonies and for practical purposes, such as prevention and cure of illnesses, 

wound dressing, treatment of female ailments, increase elderly strength, promote 

fertility, enhance mental activity, stomach upset and the treatment of ear and 

eye disorders.’ [Gehr 2000] 

In 1715 Joseph Francois Lafitau [1681–1746], another Jesuit missionary who 

worked above Montreal in Canada from 1711–1717, read Jartoux’s words, then 

began a search for ginseng in Canada. In 1716 Lafitau, strolling in the woods 

near his cabin, found the red-berried plant. American ginseng [Panax quinquefolius] 

was discovered. 

According to traditional Chinese medicine, American ginseng is a Yin tonic 

and cool in nature. Asian ginseng, by contrast, is a Yang tonic and generally warm 



or even hot in nature. Adopting the concept of cure by opposites, Ron 

Teeguarden proclaims that ‘American Ginseng is thus useful for people who are 

hot. In other words, people who tend to have lots of energy, high metabolisms, 

are aggressive, have high blood pressure and have ruddy complexions can take 

American Ginseng for its adaptogenic benefits without fear of overheating.’ 

One of P. ginseng’s most common side effects is the inability to sleep. Other 

adverse effects include dizziness, nausea, diarrhoea, euphoria, headaches, epistaxis, 

altered blood pressure and breast tenderness. This is a reference to the 

controversial ‘ginseng abuse syndrome’. 

Two Edged Sword 

‘The presentation of the mild and beneficial nature of ginseng was turned upside 

down about two centuries later [after its introduction to Europe in 1704]. Ginseng 

had become exceedingly rare and costly, and, as a result, it had become an object 

of abuse. Physicians and herb merchants would promise incredible results from 

using the rare root [which, at the time, was not cultivated and only obtained 

from remote forests in Northeast China and Korea]. Desperate patients and their 

families would seek it out and then use as much as possible in an attempt to 

overcome an obviously debilitating or fatal condition. Ginseng was even 

described as being able to bring back the dead [probably meaning that it would 

restore health to someone who appeared to be imminently dying]. 

‘When some of the ailing patients died after taking ginseng, responsibility for 

the death might be attributed to the ginseng. Hence, ginseng became known as 

a potentially dangerous herb. Zhang Lu, a physician of the Qing Dynasty period, 

commented: “Some people look upon ginseng as poison or a sword [two-edged, 

able to provide help, but also to destroy] and stubbornly refuse to use it.” 

‘Still, its old reputation as a healer for serious conditions and as a preventer of 

ageing and death was retained. Ginseng eventually became known to the West 

through the efforts of missionary doctors living in the East. The British doctors 

Smith and Stuart, working in China at the end of the 19th century, wrote: 

“Ginseng, with the Chinese, is the medicine par excellence, the dernier ressort 

[last resort] when all other drugs fail; reserved for the use of the Emperor and his 

household and conferred by Imperial favour upon high and useful officials 

whenever they have a serious breakdown that does not yield to ordinary treatment, 

and which threatens to put a period to their lives and usefulness. . . . The 

ordinary ginseng of the markets has been studied and has not been found to 

possess any important medicinal properties. But the Chinese describe cases in 

which the sick have been practically in articulo mortis, when upon the administration 

of ginseng they were sufficiently restored to transact final items of 

business. . . . It is prescribed in nearly every kind of disease of a severe character, 

with few exceptions, but with many reservations as to the stage of the disease in 

which it may be administered with the greatest benefit and safety.” ’ [Dharmananda 

2000] 



MATERIA MEDICA [AMERICAN OR CHINESE] GINSENG Gins. 

Sources 

1 Proving Jouvé [France], 2 provers, tincture, c. 1834. 

2 Self-experimentation Lembke [Riga], including effects observed on ‘B.’ and ‘Q.’; 

tincture; c. 1848. 

3 Proving Nancy Herrick [USA], 8 provers [6 females, 2 males]; no further details. 

[Proving conducted with the ‘same combination of American and Korean 

ginseng as had been used in the previous studies.’] 

Identity 

The homeopathic materia medica is arranged under the name Ginseng, Panax 

quinquefolius, American ginseng. However, it is doubtful whether American 

ginseng was the source of the remedy used for the provings, which were done in 

Europe in the 1830–40s. Dr. M. Jouvé, of Lyon, France, introduced the remedy 

into homeopathy under the name Gins-eng, made from the roots of plants 

imported from China. Roth, who arranged the symptoms, called it ‘Ginsengchinense’! 

That Dr. James Lembke, of Riga in what was Russia at the time, 

probably also used Chinese ginseng can be no more than a likely yet unsubstantiated 

presumption. In prominent usage in ancient China, Manchuria and other 

parts of eastern Asia for centuries, Chinese ginseng was introduced into Europe 

[Paris] in 1704. The remedy nonetheless received its name after the American 

species, the reason for which must have been T.F. Allen’s understandable yet 

incorrect claim in his Encyclopedia: ‘American and Chinese species [are] probably 

identical.’ 

Mind 

� Mood quiet and contented, & good courage. 2 

� Generally calm mood, yet subject to impatient impulses and fear of accidents, 

& disposition to weep an anxiety about future. 1 

� Forgetful, forgets things that have just taken place. 1 

� Increased self-confidence, feels capable. Contented with self. Self-sufficient. 3 

� Delusions: Body being enlarged; separated from body; being expanded; being 

a great person; being powerful; of superiority. 3 

� Impatience with conversations, with people, with small talk. 3 

Generals 


� Pressure, tightness, oppression. 2 

� Distressing dryness, parts sticking together – mouth, lips, throat; < open air, 

talking. 2 

� Lassitude evoked by coldness. 1 

� Weakness 4–8 p.m. 3 

� Right side more affected. 1 

� Desire for chocolate, meat, red wine. Aversion to flour tortillas. 3 


Sensations 

� Head as if enlarged and swaying sideways. 2 

� Left temple as if too thick. 2 

� Reeling in occiput & grey spots before eyes. 2 

� Eyes as if pressed inward. 1 

� Eyes as if cold. 2 

� Mouth, tongue, teeth, lips, fauces dry as if covered with sand. 2 

� Tightness chest, as if not getting enough air, & anxiety and heaviness limbs. 2 

� Cardiac region as if tight on taking a deep breath, must walk about, which >. 2 

� Hands as if swollen and skin as if tight on closing hands. 2 

� Limbs as if light and flexible, in morning, despite a bad night. 2 

� Sense of lightness when walking. 2 

� Body as if falling backward when sitting. 2 

Locals 

� Vertigo on going down winding stairs. 2 

� Dull feeling in frontal region, followed by dizziness, sleepiness, and heaviness 

eyes. 2 

� Drawing pain in occiput on mental exertion, involuntarily bends head back- 

wards. 2 

� Photophobia in dim weather. 2 

� Nose dry and sensitive to passage of air. 2 

� Mouth so dry that buttered bread can be swallowed only with difficulty and 

won’t go down further than back part of throat, where it remains stuck. 2 

� Difficult respiration < sitting, > walking. 2 

MATERIA MEDICA AMERICAN GINSENG Panax-q. 

Sources 

1 Proving Ibershoff [USA], 10 provers, 1x, 3x, 6x; 1905. Proving substance Aralia 

quinquefolia [Ginseng]. 

Mind 

� Restlessness [7 pr.], mentally and physically. 

� Restlessness at night. 

� Erotic dreams [4 pr.] & nocturnal emissions [6 pr.]. 

Generals 


� Sleepiness [8 pr.] and lassitude. 

� Motion

Sensations 

� Eyes as if pushed outward; accommodation diminished. 

� Stomach as if heavy. 

� Legs as if paralysed. 

Locals 

� Dizziness with throbbing in head when rising from reclining posture. 

� Headache from occiput to frontal bone, < motion; muscles of neck sore. 

� Frontal headache [6 pr.] < motion [2 pr.], stooping, cold air [2 pr.]. 

� Dryness of right eye; twitching of left. Focusing eyes causes pain. 

� Metallic taste at base of tongue. 

� Obstruction nose < cold air [3 pr.]. 

� Right thyroid sore, painful on pressure. 

� Swelling right side of throat. 

� Pain in abdomen near navel when abdomen is contracted. 

� Severe stabbing pain in liver. 

� Burning pain in urethra when urinating [2 pr.]. 

� Violent erections during day [4 pr.]. 

� Dull aching pain in lumbar region < motion. 

� Pain in left chest and left shoulder, especially during deep exhalation. 

� Burning in chest < deep inhalation. 

� Hands cold with hot fingertips. 

� Pain in right leg down to knee, posteriorly; muscles on front right thigh sore. 

� Cramps left calf; soreness right calf. 

� Skin sensitive to touch of bedclothes [2 pr.]. 

Worn Down by Worries 

‘We find that the drug [Panax quinquefolius, American ginseng] produces a 

marked physical depression, also a more marked mental depression. Especially 

does it seem to cause a hypochondriacal state, as is shown by the symptoms of 

lassitude, restless and unrefreshing sleep; by the irritability and indisposition to 

mental or physical labour. These, coupled with the marked effect it produced on 

the sexual organs, stimulating them primarily, weakening them secondarily, 

should make ginseng a valuable remedy in treating a large class of sexual hypochondriacs. 

Four out of the nine provers retained, had amorous dreams and six 

had continual nocturnal emissions. This was so marked a symptom that some of 

those who commenced the proving become frightened and refused to continue, 

which in itself shows that it tended to produce a condition of anxiety which is 

constantly present in all sexual hypochondriacs. This temporary sexual stimulation 

has been an old use of the drug, and this fact, in connection with the foregoing, 

should make it a truly homoeopathic and therefore curative remedy in 

such cases of sexual weakness which especially react upon the mind, causing 

lassitude, and uneasy mental condition even to fears of approaching impotence. 

The digestive symptoms were few and these were of a depressing nature such 

as loss of appetite, bad taste, foul breath. There seemed to be a desire for something 

stimulating yet little or no thirst. Three provers, tobacco users, had no 



desire for tobacco during the time they were under influence of the drug.’ [W.A. 

Dewey, Résumé and Therapeutic Field of Ginseng; Hom. Dep. University of 

Michigan, Ann Arbor; June 17, 1905] 

HEDERA HELIX 

Scientific name Hedera helix L. 

Common names English ivy. Common ivy. 


Homeopathy Hedera helix – Hed. 


� Woody vine, creeping or climbing, evergreen, with stems up to 20–30 m. Holds 

on to suitably rough surfaces such as trees, cliffs, walls by means of short 

adhesive rootlets. 

� Native range: Europe; naturalised nearly worldwide. 

� Habitat: Shady woodland, coastal woodland and scrub, preferably calcareous 

and stones; groves and parks. 

� Young shoots, petioles, young blades, pedicels and sepals more or less densely 

hairy. 

� Two types of leaves; palmately 5-lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and 

climbing stems, and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems 

exposed to full sun, usually high in crowns of trees or top of rock faces. 

� Flowers greenish-yellow, fragrant, mostly 10–15 per umbel; in terminal, 

globose umbels, solitary or grouped in racemose panicles. 

� Fruit a globose drupe, violet-black when ripe. 

Main Constituents 

� Triterpene saponins and their glycosides – hederins and hederacosides in leaves 

and berries. 

� Polyacetylenes – falcarinol and derivatives; see Apiaceae. 

� Flavonoids, mainly rutin. 

Pharmacological Activities 

The leaves and berries of English ivy could cause toxicosis if ingested. Symptoms 

include gastrointestinal upset, diarrhoea, hyperactivity, breathing difficulty, 

coma, fever, polydipsia, dilated pupils, muscular weakness and lack of coordination. 

Contact with cell sap may result in severe skin irritation with redness, 

itching and blisters. Eating the berries may cause burning in the throat. 



The German Commission E reported that skin and mucosa are sensitive to ivy 

leaf and it performs correspondingly expectorant and spasmolytic activity. The 

constituent falcarinol has been confirmed as having antibacterial, analgesic and 

sedative effects. The Commission commends ivy leaf as treatment for catarrhs 


of the respiratory passages and for symptoms of chronic inflammatory bronchial 

conditions. Ivy is suggested as an expectorant, secretolytic and antispasmodic in 

response to, specifically, whooping cough, spastic bronchitis and chronic 

catarrh. 

Ivy has possible effects as an astringent, micro-vessel protector, anti-oedema 

and antiseptic. Ivy extracts are major constituents in slimming products, especially 

those that combat cellulitis. They are found in most of the compositions 

offered by well-established cosmetic houses. It has vasoconstrictor and antiexudative 

properties, and reduces capillary permeability, an action attributed to 

its rutin and other flavonoids. It is also reported to be an effective moderator of 

peripheral sensitivity and can improve tolerance to skin massage. It is likewise 

noted that Ivy extracts activate the circulation, allow drainage of infiltrated tissue 

and thereby reduce local inflammation, exerting an anti-oedematous effect and 

lowering tissue sensitivity. 

Mezger’s claim of ivy containing high iodine concentrations could not be 

confirmed in the literature. Stephenson, however, observed plenty of thyroid 

symptoms in Mezger’s proving [see below]. 

Endocrine System 

‘Among non-marine plants Hedera has one of the highest concentrations of 

iodine. From this follows its relationship to the symptoms of hyperthyroidism. 

Indeed, as a keynote one might call Hedera ‘vegetable iodine.’ There is marked 

anxiety particularly about the heart, goitre, exophthalmos, sensations of tension 

in the throat, increased appetite [or loss of], constipation, constrictions and 

needle like pains in the heart, palpitations, insomnia, profuse perspiration, a 

desire for the open air and extreme tiredness. 

‘Although, from its iodine content one might expect a similarity of symptoms 

to Iodum, there appears rather to be a contrast. For instance, unlike the coryza 

of Iodum, which is < open air, Hedera is > open air. There is throat pain on 

swallowing [Iodum has pain when not swallowing]. Iodum has suppressed as well 

as increased urination, whereas Hedera urination is increased. Hedera has left 

ovarian pain; Iodum, right. It is primarily in the cardiac sphere that Hedera and 

Iodum have a similar action. Both have constriction of the heart with piercing, 

needle-like pains. 

‘Hedera has been of great service in myocardial infarction and should be 

considered along with our other great heart remedies. Hedera also has the organic 

hypertrophies of Iodum [prostatic as well as thyroid]. Therefore Hedera shares 

with Iodum many of the pathological signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism 

but contrasts with Iodum in the expansion of these into the subtle sphere of 

subjective, physiological response. In this manner Hedera gives us one more 

effective agent for the individualisation of the treatment of hyperthyroidism. 

‘The outstanding symptom not shared either with the clinical symptoms of 

hyperthyroidism or the symptoms of Iodum is a generalised tingling of the joints, 

muscles and nerves. Clinically, in homeopathic dilutions, Hedera has been of 

particular value in hyperthyroidism, gallstones and cholecystitis, and chronic 

cirrhosis. In gross dilutions it has been used to cure drunkenness, for worms, late 



menses, varicose veins and retarded menses.’ [Stephenson, interpretation of 

Mezger’s proving] 

Clinging to a Strong Support 

‘The symbolism of the ivy rests on three facts which are that it clings, it thrives 

in the shade and it is an evergreen. Its clinging has made the ivy a symbol of the 

traditional, albeit now unpopular, image of the helpless female clinging to her 

man for protection. It also signifies true love, faithfulness and undying affection 

both in marriage and in friendship. Christian symbolists consider the ivy’s need 

to cling to a support emblematic of frail humanity’s need for divine support. 

‘Like other evergreens, the ivy symbolises eternal life and resurrection. It has 

been associated with the Egyptian god Osiris and the Greco-Roman god Attis; 

both of whom were resurrected from the dead. Medieval Christians, noticing that 

ivy thrived on dead trees used it to symbolise the immortal soul, which lived 

even though the body [represented by the dead tree] decayed. 

‘In spite of its use as a symbol of immortality, ivy’s association with the grave 

caused it to be strongly emblematic of mortality. According to Crippen, at 

Christmas time, ivy, which represents mortality, should be used only on the 

outside of buildings because this holiday celebrates Jesus, the giver of everlasting 

life and destroyer of death. 

‘Because it thrives in the shade, ivy represents debauchery, carousing, merrymaking, 

sensuality, the flourishing of hidden desires and the enjoyment of secret 

or forbidden pleasures. Some even believed this plant to have demonic associations. 

Dionysus [Bacchus] the Greco-Roman god of wine, satyrs and Sileni are 

often wreathed in ivy. Crowns of ivy were believed to prevent intoxication and 

thought to aid inspirational thinking. Therefore, the Greeks crowned their poets 

with wreaths of this plant. Although generally considered poisonous, the ivy’s 

black berries were used to treat plague.’ [Tucker 1997] 

Clinging to Life 

As a vigorous, long-lived evergreen plant, ivy is used to symbolise ‘ever-life’ or 

eternal life and resurrection. Also associated with the indestructible ivy are other 

undying qualities, such as true love, faithfulness and everlasting affection both 

in marriage and in friendship. American writer O. Henry [1862–1910] featured 

ivy as the main character in his short story The Last Leaf, which encompasses 

such themes as courage, faithfulness, undying affection, enduring friendship and 

the indestructible quality of the gift of love. 

Set during a blistery east-coast winter, two young female would-be bohemian 

artists live in a squatty, old tenement building. Barely scratching a living with 

their sketches and drawings, they are hit hard when serious cold takes hold of 

the city. The more delicate of the two contracts pneumonia. As she lies in bed, 

sinking each day further towards death, she watches through her window an old 

ivy vine climbing half way up a brick wall. Each day the winter winds take a few 

more of the leaves from their mooring on the stalk. She knows her life will fly 

away with the falling of the last leaf. 



The building houses another artist, an old man experienced in life but a failure 

in art. He has befriended the girls, witnessing their youthful optimism from his 

perch of disillusioned old age. His mantra of years holds that one day he would 

paint his masterpiece. 

The days sweep by, bringing no relief to either the weather or the sick girl. The 

leaves continue to fall, until there comes the day when only one ivy leaf is left. 

Both girls are sure the end is near. Stubbornly, the last leaf clings to its stalk, just 

as the young woman clings to life. A few more days pass and, miraculously, the 

leaf still hangs on. The enduring persistence and indestructible vigour of the ivy 

leaf finally melt the young woman’s pessimism and embolden her with the 

courage to get well. And she does, the outcome being a happy ending to the story. 

Anyone familiar with O. Henry’s style will know that this is not the end of the 

story. One day, as the young woman is well on the road to recovery, her friend 

comes to tell her the news. Their neighbour, the old, would-be masterpiece 

painter, has died the night before of pneumonia. It happened that he caught a 

deadly chill while outside painting an ivy leaf on the brick wall the night that 

the last leaf fell. He had been right; he did paint his masterpiece. 

MATERIA MEDICA HEDERA HELIX Hed. 

Sources 

1 Proving Mezger [Germany], 17 provers, tincture, 1x, 6x, 15x; 1932. 

Mind 

� Anxiety about heart. 

� Constantly lives in a state of anxiety and worry. 

� Anxiety uncontrollable. 

� Anxiety & sensation of constriction in throat; & palpitation of heart. Open air 

>. 

Generals 

� Physical exertion >. 

� During menses >. 

� Restlessness, despite weariness, < waiting. 

� Heat of sun, hot summer weather – mind; head; coryza; cough; general. 


Sensations 

� Throat as if constricted; tension. 

� Heart as if having to beat against a strong resistance. 

Locals 

� Vertigo on bending head, rapid movement of head. 

� Left-sided frontal headache, & coryza, > open air, cold bathing. 

� Nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps > eating. 


� Difficult respiration and cough in a warm room. 

� Needle-like pain in heart region while talking; awakening with it between 3 

and 5 a.m. 

� Numbness hands on waking, > motion. 

Hydrocotyle vulgaris 

Hydrocotyle vulgaris L. Pennywort. 

Native range: Europe. Habitat: Sunny, moist or wet places, often on peaty soil. 

Shores of lakes and streams, fens and temporarily wet depressions. Rhizomatous, 

herbaceous perennial, creeping or floating. Leaves glabrous, peltate, almost 

orbicular, coarsely crenate. Inflorescences 1–2 at each node, each consisting of 

3–6 flowers; sepals absent. Flowers dark to light violet or almost white, usually 

with orange glands on the outside. Fruit elliptic, green, covered with brownish 

glands. Formerly included in Apiaceae, or sometimes separated in the family 

Hydrocotylaceae, but now transferred to Araliaceae, based on results from molecular 

studies. 

The therapeutic properties are unknown, sometimes confused with those of 

the closely related Centella [previously Hydrocotyle] asiatica of the Apiaceae. 


OPLOPANAX HORRIDUS 

Scientific name Oplopanax horridus (Sm.) Miq. 

Synonyms Echinopanax horridus (Sm.) Decne. & Planch. 

Fatsia horrida (Sm.) Benth. & Hook. 

Panax horridum Sm. 

Common names Devil’s club. Devil’s walking stick. 


Homeopathy Oplopanax horridus – Oplo-h. 


� Deciduous shrub, 1–6 m high, heavily armed with yellowish, needle-like, brittle 

spines up to 2 cm long. 

� Native range: Western North America. 

� Habitat: Moist woods, near streams; most abundant in old growth conifer 

forests. 

� Leaves spirally arranged, simple, maple-shaped palmately lobed with 5–13 

lobes, 20–40 cm across. 

� Flowers small, whitish, in dense, upright, conical-shaped, terminal clusters to 

18 cm long. 

� Fruit a shiny, flattened, bright red, berry-like drupe in upright, terminal 

clusters, inedible. 

� Entire plant has been described as having a ‘primordial’ appearance. 




‘Devil’s club is probably the most important spiritual and medicinal plant to most 

indigenous peoples who live within its range. Different parts of this plant are 

used by over 38 linguistic groups for over 34 categories of physical ailment, as 

well as many spiritual applications. . . . Phytochemical research has revealed that 

this plant has antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial and anti-mycobacterial properties, 

and these are undoubtedly related to its widespread use in traditional 

medicine. 

‘. . . Among all of the traditional medicinal uses of devil’s club, its most widespread 

is for the treatment of external and internal infections, including tuberculosis. 

The efficacy of many of the treatments is undoubtedly related to devil’s 

club’s significant antibacterial, anti-mycobacterial being active against bacteria in 

the genus Mycobacterium, antifungal and antiviral properties. Devil’s club is also 

commonly used by many cultural groups to treat arthritis, rheumatism, respiratory 

ailments and as an emetic and purgative. It is also used as an aid in childbirth, 

post-partum, for internal haemorrhaging, as an analgesic, to treat stomach 

and digestive tract ailments, broken bones, fever, dandruff, lice, headaches and 

as a treatment for cancer. Several parts of the shrub, including inner bark, inner 

bark ash, whole stems, roots, berries and leaves, are used in a variety of ways to 

effect these treatments. However, the most common type of preparation is as an 

infusion or decoction of the stem inner bark. 

‘. . . Western herbalists report that the roots of devil’s club and to a lesser extent 

the inner stem bark are a strong respiratory stimulant and expectorant and 

recommend their use for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions, 

as well as to treat eczema, sores and a number of internal and external infections. 

Devil’s club is also commonly recommended for the treatment of type II adult 

onset diabetes, a use of devil’s club that is also extensive in indigenous communities. 

. . . Since devil’s club is still widely and increasingly, used as a treatment for 

late onset type II diabetes and is listed in a recent review of anti-diabetic plants, 

additional research and more rigorous clinical trials are required to validate and 

characterise or to disprove hypoglycaemic properties in devil’s club.’ [Lantz 2004] 

Spiritual Uses 

‘In addition to ethnographic accounts of medicinal uses, there are also numerous 

sources that describe spiritual applications of devil’s club. These include purification 

and cleansing; protection against supernatural entities, epidemics and evil 

influences; acquisition of luck; to combat witchcraft; as ceremonial and protective 

face paint; and in rituals by shamans and others to attain supernatural 

powers. 

‘Two of the most widespread spiritual uses are bathing with a devil’s club inner 

bark solution for personal protection and purification, and its use, particularly 

the spiny or de-spined aerial stems, as an amulet for protection against a variety 

of external influences. External and internal cleansing involving the use of devil’s 

club was, and is, of paramount importance to many of the cultural groups 

throughout devil’s club’s range. The inner stem bark of devil’s club has also often 

been used in solution to wash down fishing boats, fishnets and to purify a house 



after an illness or death, and, as charcoal, to prepare protective face paint for 

ceremonial dancers. John Thomas explained that amongst the Ditidaht, and 

many other neighbouring groups, devil’s club is considered sacred and “along 

with red ochre paint is considered to be a link between the ordinary, or profane 

world, and the supernatural, or spirit world.” ’ [Lantz 2004] 

MATERIA MEDICA OPLOPANAX HORRIDUS Oplo-h. 

Sources 

1 Proving Lucy De Pieri [Canada], 9 provers [8 females, 1 male; 2 placebo], 30c; 

2007. 

Mind 

� Positiveness. A total of 7 out of 9 provers experienced an increased sense of 

confidence, calmness, of being able to easily work throw situations that in the 

past would cause anxiety and irritability. Provers also reported an increased 

feeling of wellbeing, and being able to relax easily and relax others. 

� Delusions: Body is weightless; being a fish, having fish eyes; lost in the wood; 

belonging to the opposite sex; stabbed in the back; carrying a heavy weight; 

being in a different world. 

� Wanting to give up responsibilities [2 pr.]. 

� Will-power strong or sensation of having two wills [2 pr.]. 

� Dreams: Danger, being unprotected, being vulnerable; danger to others; flood, 

large areas of water. 

Generals 

� Desire for asparagus; cold beer; white bread; butter; coffee [2 pr.]; garlic; honey; 

raw mushrooms; prawns; salami; sweets [3 pr.]. 

� Sexual desire increased in menopausal and post-menopausal women [3 pr.]; 

orgasm reached easier. 

Sensations 

� Brain as if loose, < motion. 

� Dust in eyes. 

� Hot steam out of ears. 

� Lips as if chapped, dry [while not]. 

� Tongue underneath numb, as if burned. 

� Throat as if empty. 


� Bladder as if distended. 

� Hips and thighs unbending as if steel rods. 

� Coldness in bones. 

Locals 

� Vertigo & redness eyes, involuntary closing of eyes, > cold application; & 

hunger; & sensation of heat in nape of neck, > cold washing. 


� Vertigo in room, > open air; & nausea, < indoors, in car, > open air. 

� Headache above eyebrows, < heat, smell of food, walking, > cold, dry applications, 

lying down, pressure; & desire to pull hair from back of head. 

� Dull pain occiput, extending to forehead, > alcohol, sleep. 

� Congestion nose on waking [3 pr.]. 

� Throat sensitive, < cold air, cold drinks, dryness, smoke, swallowing, touch. 

� Bursting pain stomach < walking, > lying down. 

� Constipation, stool remains long in rectum without urging. 

� Pain knees, stitching on first movement, < cold, > lying down, covering. 

Impression 

‘Dullness was a common sensation that the provers experienced, so it is not 

surprising that there was a need for stimulants. Provers had craving for beer and 

coffee even if they didn’t usually drink coffee, or had aversion for coffee prior to 

the proving. Depleted, drained together with vertigo or being light-headed was 

often experienced before breakfast or a meal. Note the language of water by using 

the term “drained”. The sensations were resolved with eating. Other sensations 

were pinching, pulsating, cramping, like a pin prick, sore, stinging, dryness or 

dust in eyes, brain loose and moving back and forth, bitterness, tingling, as if 

burned, numbness, something stuck, rawness, tickling and chilly.’ [Lucy De Pieri]

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