hydrocotyle the homoeopathic medicine

Kingdom: Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants

Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons

Subclass: Rosidae

Order: Apiales

Family: (Apiaceae Umbelliferae) – Carrot family

Genus: Hydrocotyle L. – hydrocotyle

Common Name : Thankuni

Sanskrit : Nandukparni

Hindi : Brahma manduki

English : Indian pennywort

Family : Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)

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Synonyms:- Hydrocotyle Nummularioides. Hydrocotyle Pallida.

Common Names: Indian Pennywort. Water Pennywort.


Synonyms: Hydrocotyle Nummularioides. Hydrocotyle Pallida.

Common Names: Indian Pennywort. Water Pennywort.

This perennial creeping plant is indigenous to tropical regions in both continents.

Leaves smooth petiolate, grouped on the nodes of the stem, round-kidney shape, dark

green in color, an inch broad, with crenate margin. Flowers pinkish, in three-flowered

umbels. The fresh bruised leaves have a peculiar odor, and a bitter pungent taste


This is a small herbaceous plant with palmately

nerved or dissected leaves and simple umbels of small

flowers found throughout India from the Himalayas to

Cape of Comerin at the altitudes updo 2000 ft above

sea-level.

It is particularly grown in the damp places of West

Bengal. The plant was known to the Sanskrit writers

of very remote times. Its properties being similar to

those of Herpestle Monniera (Brahmi). Both plants

are regarded as a tonic, useful in the skin diseases,

nervous system, blood and brain cells.

It can be administered for both internal or,

external use. It has a special gravity on leprosy.

Still the confirmatory actions on curing leprosy

are under research.

Some parts of Indians are habituated in taking

the leaves with milk for improving their

memory and use as a body building tonic. The

leaves are very effective in skin eruptions and

syphilitic treatment

Water pennyworts, Hydrocotyles, are very

common. They have long creeping stems that

often form dense mats, often in and near

ponds, lakes, rivers, marshes and some

species in coastal areas by the sea.


Leaves:

Simple, with small leafy outgrowth at the base, kidney shaped to round. Leaf edges are scalloped.

Flowers

Flower clusters are simple and flat-topped or rounded. Involucral bracts Inconspicuous bracts at the base of

each flower. Indistinct sepals.

Fruits and reproduction

Elliptical to round with thin ridges and no oil tubes (vitta) which is characteristic in the fruit of umbelliferous

plants.

The prostrate plants reproduce by seed and by sending roots from stem nodes.

Medical use: The entire plant.

Hydrocot. has been long known as an Indian remedy.

Boileau was the first to use it as a remedy in leprosy.


It was introduced into the Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Dr. Audouit, France.


Auduit cured a case: Girl, 20, weak and sickly-looking, since childhood troubled with

glandular swellings, for eight years had lupus excedens of nose. Her mother had coppery

eruption on face.

On right of nose was a button the size of six pence covered with a thick crust covering

yellow pus mixed with blood. Margins irregular and livid. Five other buttons size of

lentils near root of nose both sides.

Hydroc. was given in 6c, 3c, tincture and the 18c potencies in succession with

intermissions and completely cured in five months. Planets: Mercury, Saturn


Gotu Kola is known as Indian Pennywort. It produces hypertrophy and

induration of connective tissue. Curative in disorders that exhibit interstitial

inflammation and cellular proliferation in any part.


Generals - MUCUS membranes, general - syphilitic

Hydrc. MERC.

Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.


GENERALS - HYPERTROPHY - Connective tissue: hydrc.

Synthesis Rep. 9.0


Preparation:-The carefully dried plant is coarsely powdered, covered with five

parts by weight of alcohol, and allowed to remain eight days in a well-stoppered

bottle, in a dark, cool place, being shaken twice a day. The tincture is then poured

off, strained and filtered.

Drug power of tincture, 1/10.

Dilutions must be prepared as directed under Class IV.


HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION

Gotu kola is an herb that is commonly used in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. The

above-ground parts are used to make medicine.

Gotu kola is used to treat bacterial, viral or parasitic infections such as urinary tract infection (UTI),

shingles, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, syphilis, common cold, influenza, H1N1 (Swine) flu, elephantiasis,

tuberculosis and schistosomiasis.

Gotu kola is also used for fatigue, anxiety, depression, psychiatric disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and

improving memory and Intelligence. Other uses include wound healing, trauma and circulation

problems (venous insufficiency) including varicose veins, and Blood clots in the legs.

HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION:

Some people use gotu kola for sunstroke, tonsillitis, fluid around the lungs (pleurisy),liver disease

(hepatitis), jaundice, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), stomach pain,diarrhea,

indigestion, stomach ulcers, epilepsy, asthma, “tired blood” (anemia), diabetes, and for helping them live

longer.

Some women use gotu kola for preventing pregnancy, absence of menstrual periods, and to arouse sexual desire.

Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin for wound healing and reducing scars, including stretch

marks caused by pregnancy.

HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION:

Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin for wound healing and reducing the scars, including stretch

marks caused by pregnancy.

How does it work?

Gotu kola contains certain chemicals that seem to decrease inflammation and also decrease blood pressure in

veins. Gotu Kola also seems to increase collagen production, which is important for wound healing.

Mind:

Gloomy thoughts,

Misanthropy

A dislike of humankind.

Hatred of mankind,

Antisocial behaviour

Desire for solitude

Isolation refer to a state of being or living alone.

Indifference

lack of interest, concern, or sympathy

Mind - CONFIDING

hydrc. kres. mur-ac. op. spig. Synthesis Rep. 9.0


Tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others


Expression of face more or less as if intoxicated.

Very severe intermittent pain in the left cheek-bone.

Face - CANCER – lupus:

alumn. Arg-n. ARS. aur-m. carb-ac. Carb-v. cist. HYDRC. kali-ar.

Kali-bi. kali-chl. kreos. lach. psor. Sep. Sil.


Face - ERUPTIONS, facial – coppery:

ARS-I. Ars. Aur. benz-ac. calc. CARB-AN. Graph. Hydrc. Kali-i. Lyc.

merc. Psor. rhus-t. ruta verat.



FACE - HEAT - heart, constriction of: hydrc.

Synthesis Rep. 9.0


Swelling of the nose.

Stoppage of the nose.

Feeling as if epistaxis were coming on.

Tickling in the nose.

Nose - LUPUS - wing, on: Aur-m. Hydrc.

Synthesis Rep. 9.0


A chronic inflammatory disease that is caused by autoimmunity

The first symptom is a red (or dark), scaly rash on the nose and cheeks, often called a butterfly rash because of its distinctive shape. As inflammation continues, scar tissue may form, including keloid scarring in patients prone to keloid formation.


NOSE - Internal nose - eruptions, growths - Lupus

Ars. calc. cic. hydr. Hydrc. merc. rhus-t. sulph. tub.

Boericke Rep.


Depression, heaviness, and dull feeling throughout the system generally.

General lassitude.

General weariness.

Profound ennui.

General symptoms

Ennui: A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from

a lack of occupation or excitement.


Debility.

Lasting prostration of strength.

Excessive heaviness, dulness, and unfitness for everything.

General malaise.

Drawings in several muscles.

Bruised sensation on waking.

Bruised feeling in all the muscles.

General head

Congestion of blood to the head.

Heaviness of the head.

Vertigo with torpor; neuralgic pain in external

frontal nerve; occiput acutely sensitive.

Note - 'Sushruta' has found it useful in

increasing memory.

Head

BANERJEE P., Materia Medica of Indian Drugs

Very severe pain left internal auditory meatus.

Ear:

Four whitish places on the left side of the tongue, three on its upper, and

one, about as large as a two-cent piece, on its under surface.

Slight hyperaemia of the buccal mucous membrane.

Increased action of the salivary glands.

Mouth

ALLEN T. F., Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - patches - left upper and under side of tongue: hydrc.

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MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - Sides – patches: hydrc. sang.


Insipid or bitter taste.

Slight impediment in speech.

Speech disorders or speech impediments are a type of communication

disorder where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This can

mean stuttering, lisps, etc.

A disorder affecting the capacity to produce normal

speech slight speech impediment made it difficult ⇒

for me to understand him.


Bright redness of he velum palati, with pain on swallowing saliva, and especially on swallowing food.

Redness of the tonsils.

Throat

THROAT - PAIN - burning - Esophagus – prickling: hydrc.


Slight disorder of the constrictor muscles of the pharynx.

Pricking in the pharynx.

Dryness and roughness in the oesophagus.

Burning and pricking in the oesophagus.

Stomach

Loathing of food,

Anorexia, then strong appetite.

Aversion to tobacco smoking.

Female:

Heat in the bottom of the vagina; pricking and itching at its orifice.

Leucorrhoea; heaviness in uterus; vulva, vagina and cervix are red, severe labor-like pain in uterus.

FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Ovaries - Pain - Dull – constant: aur-br. hydrc. nicc. sep.

BOERICKE REPERTORY

FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Uterus - Cervix - Redness hydrc. mit.


FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Uterus - Inflammation - Chronic – follicular: Hydr. hydrc. iod. merc.

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BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - cancer; from: hydrc.


Weak voice.

Speaking soon becomes fatiguing.

Voice

Slight irritation of all the air-passages.

Dryness of the whole windpipe.

Sensation of dryness in the ventricles of the larynx.

Larynx

Easy expectoration of bronchial mucus (secondary effect).

Difficulty in expectorating the bronchial mucus,

Expectoration

Lungs - ASTHMA, general - recent, uncomplicated cases: ars. hydrc.

Murphy Repertory


Irregular beating of the heart.

Cardiac spasm.

Constriction of heart.

Heart's action

Pulse stronger and fuller (Hunter)

Pulse

Urine becomes brown on cooling.

Turbid urine, but without sediment.

Urine

Yawning and stretching.

Drowsiness.

Drowsiness in the daytime.

Quite sleep.

Heavy, dreamless sleep.

ALLEN T. F., Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Sleep:

Drawing pain in spermatic cords.

Impotency.

Indifference to intercourse.

Male sexual system

Male - TUBERCLES, genitalia: Hydrc. Thuj.

Murphy Repertory


Burning and itching in anus; weight in rectum

Rectum

EXTREMITIES - WATER - warm water were running through marrow of bones; as if: hydrc.


Excellent medicine in jaundice.

Leprosy

Skin diseases

Syphilis

Gonorrhoea

Dropsy

Clinical

Leucorrhoea

Elephantiasis.

It is a diuretic, aperient and tonic.

Effacious in nervous debility and seminal weakness.

Skin:

Erysipelatous redness,

Three spots, almost completely circular, with slightly raised, scaly edges.(They appeared after taking 8 drops daily of the 6th dilution for six weeks, in a subject aged 19 years; as soon as the medicine was stopped they began to diminish, and disappeared entirely in fourteen days),

Yellowish spots on both legs.

Papular eruption on the face.

Two small pustules on the chest.

Subjective

Pricking on different parts (10 drops tincture).

Intolerable itching in several places,

Circular spots with raised scaly edges.

Miliary eruptions on neck, back, chest; itching at the tip of the nose.

Thickening of the epidermoid layer and exfoliation of scales.

Syphilitic affections.

Stomatitis, either apthous or syphilitic.

SKIN - Lupus erythematosus apis cist. guar. Hydrc. Iod. Kali-bi. Phos. sep. Thyr.

Boericke Repertory

SKIN - Pruritus - of - feet - soles of anan. hydrc.


HydrocotyleHydrocotyle Arsenic AlbumArsenic Album Kali ArsenicosumKali Arsenicosum GraphitisGraphitis

Erysipelatous redness. Chronic Eczema. Dry Chronic Eczema. Forming massive, dirty scales, which mat the hair; scabs sore to touch.

Almost completely circular, with slightly raised, scaly edges.

Induration and hardening of the skin with vesicles which turn into pustules and form scabs.

Covered with filimsy exfoliations.

Eczema with profuse serous, sticky exudations.

Yellowish spots on both legs.

Dry, scaly eruptions upon scalp, face, legs and genitals.

Skin of arms thicker and rougher than natural

Eczema Capitis of entire scalp,


HydrocotyleHydrocotyle Arsenic AlbumArsenic Album Kali ArsenicosumKali Arsenicosum GraphitisGraphitis

With acrid and sometimes fetid discharge with terrible burning and itching.

Itching and tingling on getting warm.

In blondes, inclined to obesity, dryness of the skin and absence of perspiration.

Small pustules on the chest.

Itching at night and in cold air.

Intensely fissured about joints.

Eczema Impetiginoid, begins as moisture and eruptions behind the ears, spreading over cheeks and neck with fissures on and behind the ears.

Intolerable itching in several places.

Amel. By external warmth. Occasional exacerbation with eruption of distinct vesicles.

Eczema with thick and scaby skin but less burning than Arsenic.

Covered with filimsy exfoliations,

Papular eruption on the face.


Juglans CinereaJuglans Cinerea Croton tigliumCroton tiglium Sarsaparilla Sarsaparilla Rhus tox.Rhus tox.

Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum, hands and wrists.

Pure idiopathic Eczema Itching eruptions on forehead and face.

Moist eruptions on head.

Eczema frequently recurring.

Eczema Seen in children, eczema of face and genitals.

Milk-crusts with burning, becoming humid on scratching.

Forming thick crusts, with violent itching at night and extending to shoulders.

Eczema intolerable itching and soreness.

Eczema relieved by slight rubbing

Base of eruption is much inflamed, crusts become detached in open air.

Eczema Scroti on inside of thighs, discharging watery freely.

Child cries much Worse in wet and winter weather.

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White scaly scabs on the head from ear to ear.

Yellowish-green thick crusts on face and neck, occiput, scrotum, perineum, and thighs.

Eruptions during pregnancy and nursing

Head covered with a thick, leathery crust under which pus collects and mats the hair.

Eruptions about mouth, bends of knees and folds of skin generally.

Itching, sore places or deep cracks on skin chiefly on dorsa of hands.

Itching on face, on arms, hands, back, lips, feet, abdomen and genitals

Violent itching on scalp, scratching increases the itching;

Borders and corners of eye-lids raw and ulcerated oozing a corroding gluey fluid

Eruptions between toes with foul sweat

Often changing to burning on scratching

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Worse in winter, better in summer.

Eruption is dry, or soon becomes moist

Eczema, itching intolerably, with copious serous exudation

Becomes moist and discharges copious offensive pus-like fluid,

Covering the whole area with elevated white scabs, and roughness and scaling here and there.

Discharge becomes dry, cracks and exfoliates.

Worse on parts devoid of fat, worse in warmth.


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