🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Lachnanthes Tinctoria. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Lachnantes grows in sandy swamps near the coast.
The root is re d and fibrous, sword -
shaped leaves, hairy stem, and yellow, woolly flowers.
It belongs to the same order as Aletris and is allied to
the irises.
A curious observation is that the white pigs and sheep of Virginia lose their hooves if they feed on
Lachnantes, while the black varieties eat it without inconvenience.
A remedy for rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. symptoms about neck.
Stiffness of neck, drawn over to one side in sore throat.
Pain in nape as if dislocated,
when turning the neck or bending the head back.
Body icy cold, face yellow, tendency to sweat.
Bubbling and boiling about the heart, rising to head.
Bridge of
nose feels pinched.
Feeling of icy coldness in mid scapular region.
Successfully u sed for diphtheria, typhoid
fever, and typhoid pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
Tuberculosis.
Affinity for the head, chest and circulation.
Very restless, throws
herself about, feels weak
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: (1) Dulc., Bry., Puls. (2) Fei. - nape of neck pains and great tension there.
▲MIND
Restlessness, tosses about, with perspiration.
Tossing about and whining.
Ill -humored and sleepy.
Despondent, bitter crying spells during headache.
Sees images, while dozing through day.
Great loquacity, afterwards stupid and irrita ble.
Loquacious deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. with brilliant eyes and circumscribed red
cheeks, at night between 1 a.m to 2 a.m.. Great hilarity, especially in the evening.
Excited over a trifles.
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Giddiness in the head with sensation of heat in chest and around heart and perspiration.
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with
icy coldness of the forehead.
COMMENTS - Hering said the Nati ve Americans chewed the plant when they met the “white man” to give
them a flow of language.
Remarkable loquacity.
Produces a desire to talk a flow of language and the courage
to make a speech.
Strong affinity for the head, chest and circulation.
Sharp stitches in quick suc cession in the right side of the
chest below mamma.
Sensation of heat, bubbling and boiling in chest and region of heart, rising to head, giddy,
breaks out into perspiration.
Trembling of the heart.
Tuberculosis when the neck is drawn over to one side.
RheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues. of the neck and stiffness of the neck.
Stiffness of the neck with the head twisted to one (right) side, especially when occurring with a sore throat.
Much dryness of throat, worse on waking in the night with coughing.
Headaches of great intensity, generally right -sided.
Sensation as if the head is split open with a wedge, with
icy coldness of the body, crying spells, worse by vomiting.
Toothache, worse eating and drinking warm things.
Continued chilliness.
Sensation as if a piece of ice was lying on back between shoulders, then a shock followed
by coldness over the whole body with goose bumps.
Cold attacks occur on moving, better after going to bed.
During the cold sensation, the skin is damp and clammy.
Fever with loquacious delirium, brilliant eyes and circumscribed red cheeks.
Blueness about face, under eyes,
and lips.
Burning of palms and soles, under nail of left toe.
Arthur Dalzell reported the case of Mrs.
B., 43, who had fibroid tuberculosis of both lungs, collapse of right
lower lobe.
Great prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. and night -sweats.
The bowels were alternately relaxed and confined.
Pain and
stiffness in the back, bruised all over, dry cough, roughness of throat, weak heart sounds.
Bad sleep owing to
a cough.
Lachn tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water., three drops every four hours, was given.
In three days the prostration was diminished and the
cough was much bette r, night-sweats and bruised feeling gone.
From this time an emulsion contain ing cod-
liver oil, liquor pancreaticus, eggs, cream, hypophosphites and eucalyptus oil were given in addition.
The case
went on to recovery.
Dalzell also recorded the case of Mrs.
R., 45, who was in the last stage of tuberculosis.
Right lung consolidated,
left in cavities.
This patient had circumscribed flush on face, bril liant eyes, throat felt rough, overall bruised
feeling.
Remittent fever.
Skin dry, except at night, when she h ad profuse perspira tion.
Constant dry cough.
Muco-purulent expectoration.
Lachn tincture, five drops every three hours, relieved all the symptoms and pro cured euthanasia, the patient
dying quite easily twelve days later
▲HEAD
Head feels heavy.
Head feels en larged, worse least noise.
Circumscribed red cheeks, scalp feels
sore, as if hair was standing on end, burning in palms and soles.
Bridge of nose feels as if pinched.
Right-sided pain, extending down to jaw.
Scalp painful.
▲EYES
Looks with fixed eyes.
Bright, sparkling eyes with delirium.
Pressing in eyes as from dust.
Secretion of
white mucus from eyes.
Violent lachrymation and burning of eyes, sensation of dryness.
Obscuration of sight,
as if a cloud were before the eyes.
Yellow spots before eyes feel heavy, as if they could not be kept
open.
Sensation of twitching in upper eyelids
▲EARS
Singing in ear when walking in open air.
Tearing in ears.
Crawling and itching in ears, better by boring
with the finger, but immediately returning and feeling as if something had closed the ear.
Almost complete
deafness during fever
▲FACE
Swelling with redness and blueness under eyes.
Pale, sickly countenance, face and lips bluish, eyes
dull, feel thick an d cold.
Circumscribed redness of face with violent delirium and brilliant eyes.
Yellow face.
Sensation as if something were crawling over face
▲MOUTH
Saliva of tough mucus.
Sensation if the mouth were sore and thick.
Swelling and tension of the lips red
▲THROAT
Great dryness in throat, especially on waking in the night with much coughing.
Sore throat with short
cough.
Itching when swallowing.
Sensation of swelling in pharynx with stiffness of neck and head drawn to one
side (diphtheria)
▲CHEST
Sensation of fullness in chest.
Stitches on left side of chest, under right breast and under clavicle.
Compelled to inhale deeply.
Stitches in heart with anxiety.
Frequent violent pulsations of heart, each beat is double, one hard and
full, the other soft and small.
Trembling of heart with great debility.
Sensation of heat, bubbling and boiling
around heart region, rising to head.
Cough worse in bed and after sleeping.
Dry cough, as if it came from larynx with sore throat.
Expectoration streaked with blood with severe pain in chest.
Pneumonia.
Nose - Profuse nosebleeds, pale blood.
Bridge of nose feels pinched.
Perspiration - Sensation the skin is moist and sticky.
Perspires freely after midnight.
Sweats during cold.
Sweats with dizziness.
Sweats in morning
▲ABDOMEN
Sensation of qualmishness above navel, when walking in open air.
Full ness in pit of stomach,
beating as from a pulse, as if a hammer were beating on an ulcerated spot.
Teeth - Pain in all the teeth when eating or drinking warm things.
All the teeth feel loose and too long, worse
in bed.
Temperature - Continuous chilliness.
Icy coldness of body, perspiration, principally on forehead.
The s kin is
cold, damp and clammy during the chills.
Feels hot, but the chills run all over before the heat can develop itself.
Flashes of heat alternating with chilliness.
Fever with violent delirium and brilliant eyes.
Fever with somnolencyAbnormal drowsiness or sleepinessA state of strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods..
Rolling of wind in abdomen and discharge of flatulency.
Sensation of heat through abdomen.
Aversion to meat.
Much thirst
▲GENITALS ETC
Violent burning in left half of the scrotum, drawing toward right side.
Tin gling and itching of scrotum.
Perspiration of scrotum and penis.
Menses too early, viscid blood mixed with mucus.
Profuse, bright red menstrual blood.
During
menses, sensation of distention of abdomen, it feels as if it were boiling
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Tearing from the shoulder, extend ing to finger joints.
Tearing in elbow joints.
Tearing in knuckles of
the middle fingers of the right hand.
Thumb and index finger feel as if sprained.
Burning of palms and soles.
Cramps in the feet during night
▲BACK AND NECK
Burning in right scapula, in spine above sacrum.
Burning in region of left k idney, extending towards
right side.
Pain and stiffness in back.
Chilliness between the shoulder blades.
Sensation between the
shoulder blades as if wet with cold perspiration.
Pain in nape, as if dislocated.
Spasmodic torticollis.
Rheumatism of the neck.
Drawn over to one side in sore throat.
Stiff neck, the head is drawn to one side.
Wry neck.
Bladder - Pressure on bladder while urinating
▲SKIN
Sensation in skin as if an eruption would appear.
Pimples appear here and there, containing a watery
fluid.
Itching and burning in the skin all night, worse after scratching.
Stinging, itching and tingling on thighs,
legs, feet, arms
▲SLEEP
Sleepiness with yawning, eyes feel so heavy that she cannot keep them open.
Cannot go to sleep
easily.
Sleepless or rest less sleep with distressing dreams.
After waking and stretching, a shock followed by
chilliness and goose bumps all over
▲GENERALITIES
As if head or vertex enlarged, as if split open with a wedge, as if hair standing on end.
As if a
cloud before eyes, pressing as from dust in eyes.
As if something had closed ear.
Bridge of nose as if pinched.
As of something crawling over face
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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.
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