🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Castor Equi. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
This is a very ancient remedy and was proved and introduced into homeopathy by Hering.
The clinical experience of Hering and his fellow-provers has shown this to be highly useful remedy in cracked
and ulcerated nipples.
Cast-eq especially acts on the nipples, the nails and bones, causing pains in right tibia and coccyx.
General
action on thickening of the skin and epithelium.
Nails become brittle and fall off.
Chapped hands.
Affects principally female organs, especially the nipples.
Cracked and ulcerated nipples of nursing women,
excessively tender, cannot bear the touch of clothing.
Warts on forehead, breasts.
PsoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp. of the tongue.
Bones, especially tibia and coccyx are painful.
Fainting.
EpilepsyNeurological disorder causing seizuresA neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions..
Desire to smoke tobacco
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: (I) Calc-ox., Hipp., Cast., Mosch. Graph. (2) Hep. relieves the sore nipples. (3) Thuj.
has removed warts caused by Cast-eq.
▲MIND
Unusual laughter about things not funny.
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., headache and nausea in mornings, sour stomach and lack of appetite.
COMMENTS - General action on thickening of the skin and epithelium.
Principally affects the female organs.
Cracked and ulcerated nipples (Sars., Sil., Petr., Calen.), especially of nursing women.
Nipples exce ssively
tender, cannot bear touch of clothing.
Chapped hands.
Fainting.
Epilepsy.
Desire to smoke tobacco.
Psoriasis of tongue.
Warts on forehead and
breasts.
Burnett cured with it a case of wart on forehead
▲HEAD
Sensation as if occiput had gone to sleep.
Scalp goes to sleep, numb.
As if something crawling in hair.
Pressure in forehead.
Pressive pain in temples.
Deep pressure in occiput.
Headache with vertigo and nausea,
sour stomach and lack of appetite.
▲EYES
Frequent twitching in right eyelid.
Itching in canthi
▲EARS
Sensation of dryness in left ear, compelling to scratch.
Twitching, internally in left ear
▲FACE
Sensation as if trismus.
Transitory, burning, prickling pain in face and also on body.
Prickling and heat
on both cheeks.
Dry lips with thirst in evening
▲MOUTH
Burning, on front of tongue.
Psoriasis of the tongue.
Pain in hollow teeth of left side, must pick them.
Nose - Pressive pain in nasal bones.
CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., fluent, with constant sensation of hunger, even after eating
▲THROAT
Disagreeable, sick feeling in larynx
▲CHEST
Burning pains on chest.
Peculiar sensation about heart as of something alive struggling
▲ABDOMEN
Repeated empty eructations.
ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. with urging wakes him in the morning, followed by a very thin, watery, somewhat burning
stool, with passage of offensive flatus.
Pain in left inguinal region.
Sense of hunger, even after eating, during coryza.
Lack of appetite during headache.
Desire to smoke
tobacco.
Great accumulation of saliva, immediately after eating.
Soon after pains in teeth, loud rumbling in
abdomen
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Repeated pain in right tibia.
Arms and legs sore as if beaten.
Pain in left elbow and right knee.
Right
wrist-joint as if sprained.
Very brittle nails.
Crumbling of fingernails from slightest knock against them
▲BACK AND NECK
Weakness of spine.
Pain in coccyx, worse every evening, while sitting.
Cracked, sore
nipples in nursing women, excessively tender, cannot bear touch of clothing, even in neglected cases,
ragged.
Swelling of breasts.
Violent itching in breasts.
Reddened areola
▲SKIN
General action on thickening of the skin and epithelium.
Warts.
Psoriasis.
Nails drop off.
Brittle nails
▲SLEEP
Restless sleep with numbness of right arm.
Sleepiness in early evening.
Stretches arms up over head
and cracks fingers during sleep.
Restless sleep, with many dreams.
In winter dreams of fresh fruit hanging on
trees
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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.
🩺Medical Verification & Peer Review:
This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.
⚕️ Information is for educational purposes only. Always consult a professional homeopathic practitioner.
