Scutellaria Lateriflora

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Scutellaria Lateriflora Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Scutellaria Lateriflora. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
GENERAL
  • Scut, is a nervous sedative.
  • Nervous fear or excitement predominates.
  • Chorea, twitching of muscles.
  • Restlessness.
  • Chronic fatigue.
  • Tired weak feeling.
  • Un easiness.
  • Languor.
  • Nervous weakness after influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh..
  • Nervous irritation and spasms of children during dentition.
  • Cardiac irritability.
  • Tobacco-heart.
  • Like its relation, Lycopus, it caused weak and irregular action of the heart and protrusion of the eyes.
  • Hale used Scut, with success in sleeplessness, night-terrors, hysteria, nervous agitation from pain or exciting emotions, cerebral irritation of children from dentition or intestinal irritation
HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
  • Better by sleep.
  • The hemicrania is better moving about in open air.
  • Headache worse from motion.
  • Worse by overwork or over-exertion.
  • Worse by work or excitement
HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Compare: (1) Heart, Grave’s disease. Lycps. (2) Nervous exhaustion, Cypr. according to Hale,
acts more on brain, Scut, on
spinal cord. (3) Trismus, Nux-v. Hydrophobia, Agar., Fagus, Lach., Bell. (4) Overworked women, Mag-c.

MIND
  • Confusion of mind.
  • Fear of some calamity.
  • Apathy.
  • Irritability.
  • Inability to study orfix the attention on one’s work (Aeth.).
  • Apathy.
HEAD
  • Dull, frontal headache.
  • MigraineSevere recurring headache, often on one sideA recurrent throbbing headache that typically affects one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and disturbed vision., worse over right eye.
  • Nervous sick head aches, worse noise, odor light, better night, rest.
  • Explosive headaches of school teach-ers with frequent urination, headaches in front and base of brain.
  • Kidneys - Frequent urination but quantity small.
  • Quantity of urine diminished.
  • Biliary salts increased.
EYES
  • Aching in eyeballs painful to touch.
  • Eyeballs feel too large, pressed outwards
FACE
  • Flushed face
MOUTH
  • Bad taste, sour, bitter
THROAT
  • Sensation of lump in throat which could not be swallowed.
  • COMMENTS - Provings by G.
  • W.
  • Gordon and G.
  • H.
  • Royal gave the homeopathic data.
  • Royal’s provers took 3x and 30x.
  • Gordon took repeated doses of 10 to 50 drops.
  • Royal had this indication for Scut, given to him by a friend: “Nervo-bilious headache with the nervous symptoms uppermost and nothing the matter with her.” He related the case of Miss M., 32, who was the head of a large school, complained of being used up, unable to sleep or think.
  • Pain in head almost constant, sometimes frontal, mostly at base of brain.
  • Whenever called upon to overdo herself, she could not sleep that night and then there is either a nervous explosion the following day or a nervous sick headache, either being followed by complete collapse.
  • This was in May.
  • Pic-ac and later Phos- ac., gave relief and in September the patient resume d work.
  • Late in December there was another breakdown, and Stych-p was given.
  • A week later after a very long and fatiguing day’s work, Royal was summoned at 2 a.m.
  • He found the patient screaming.
  • Every few minutes she had to urinate and passed only a few drops.
  • Stools frequent, loose, watery.
  • Pulse irregular.
  • Scut, was given, ten drops every half -hour.
  • Patient was better after the second dose, slept after the fourth.
  • Since then she kept the medicine by her, but only took it when overworked.
  • She never had an other nerve explosion or headache.
  • In this case there was “nothing the matter with her” i.e., no organic defect to which the sufferings could be attributed.
  • Hale quoted many eclectic writers who give various indications King mentioned depression of nervous and vital powers after long sickness, over -exercise, over-study, long-continued and exhausting labors.
  • It controls nervous agitation.
  • It was Burnett’s chief remedy in the nervous debility after influenza.
  • Scudder mentioned chorea, deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. tremens and hyd rophobia, as its popular name “Mad dog” suggests.
  • Rafinesque cited cases of prevention of hydrophobia and Hale observed it produce in a patient taking it “Spasmodic or constrictive closing of jaws and a tightness of the muscles of the face.” A writer, quo ted in the N.
  • Y.
  • Med.
  • Times, said Scut, has the remarkable effect of calm ing fear in delirium tremens.
  • Paine added the indications subsultus tendinum following fevers in delirium tremens, epilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions., catalepsy, and hysteria.
  • Coe, who used Scutellarin, the c oncentrated preparation, mentioned sunstroke, tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain., tetanusBacterial disease causing lockjaw and muscle spasmsA bacterial disease marked by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles, especially of the jaw., cramps.
  • Churton gave 60 drops of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. every two hours in a case of “severe and rapid hiccough” which chloroform, morphine and pilocarpine had failed to relieve permanently.
  • After the eighth dose, the patient slept and the spasms gradually diminished and stopped for good by the fourth day
ABDOMEN
  • Poor appetite.
  • Sour belchings.
  • Nausea.
  • Vomiting of sour ingesta, hiccough pain and distress in stomach.
  • Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and uneasiness.
  • Constitutions - Suited to persons of a nervo- bilious temperaments
GENITALS ETC
  • Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never being better
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Chorea.
  • Twitchings of muscles, must be moving.
  • Tremors.
  • Sharp, stingin g pains in upper limbs.
  • Nightly restlessness.
  • Weakness and aching
SLEEP
  • Restless, must move about Disturbed sleep and frightful dreams.
  • Night terror s.
  • Sleep is unrefreshing

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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