🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Parthenium Hysterophorus. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
🌸Bach Flower Remedy:
This remedy is one of the 38 natural remedies discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. It works primarily on balancing emotional and mental states, fears, despair, and psychological imbalances, rather than physical symptoms.
▲GENERAL
ACuban remedy forfevers, especially malarial.
An alkaloid, Parthenia, was isolated by C.
J.
Ulrice of Havana; and Dr.
J.
'..
Duenas published experiments with this on humans and animals.
In the provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces., the pains were sudden, congestive, out -pushing.
Pains in the head and ears.
Singing and
fullness in the ears.
Heaviness and dullness of head.
Tendency to vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement..
AmenorrheaAbsence of menstrual periodsAn abnormal absence of menstruation. and general debility.
Cheyne- Stokes breathing.
After-effects of quinine.
Antidotal action to quinine
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Better after rising and walking about Worse after sleep, from sudden motion
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
It antidotes quinine. Compare: (1) In spleen affections, Helia., Cean. (2) In malaise and periodic
neuralgia, Malar. Off., Chin., Cedr.
▲MIND
Feels dull and stupid.
Difficult to fix attention.
Malaise, apathy, lassitude.
Indifference.
▲VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
Vertigo, while sitting with heat of face and blurred vision.
COMMENTS - Dr.
B.
H.
B.
Sleight proved increasing doses of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. and, later on, of 6x, which
reproduced most of the symptoms of the first proving.
Fornias reported the case of his niece, 5, living in Havana, who had been suffering from a continued fever with
periodical midday exacerbations, which later on as sumed an intermittent form.
She had been saturated with
quinine and complained at the time of malaise, lassitude, headache, gastric intolerance, etc.
Dr.
Govantes prescribed an extract of Parth., three do ses a day, each the size of a pea.
In four or five days
she was free from fever and made a quick recovery.
Dr.
Ramirez Tovar reported several cures by Parth.
The first was a woman living in the lower part of the city,
where the rain left channels of infection, who had daily attacks of intermittent, more intense each day.
One grain of the alkaloid was divided into six powders, one every hour after the attack.
No further attacks.
The
patient was nursing at the time and she noticed a marked increase of milk in the breasts.
Half a grain divided
into five doses completed the cure.
In the second case, a tailor, 30, moved to a lower part of the city and contracted tertian intermittent, the fourth
seizure being attended with much pain in the left hypochondrium.
One grain in five doses cured, though the
conditions were unchanged.
(The removal of this left hypochondriac pain is important in connection with
Burnett's experience with Helia.)
The third case was a girl, 6, lymphatic, who lived near the harbor, ill for seventeen days with malaise, loss of
appetite, sleepiness and fever.
She had quinine internally and externally, and was wasting visibly.
The alkaloid,
aided by a tonic wine prepared from the extract of the plant, cured
In his fourth case, Tovar noted a ma n, 45 of delicate constitution, poorly nourished, straw -yellow face, yellow
sclerotics, enlarged liver and spleen painful to pressure.
He had a fever in Panama, had taken quinine,
complained of a pain in right side, which commenced 1 p.m with shi verings, disappeared in two hours and
returned at precisely the same hour the next day.
Five doses of ten centigrams each removed the pain.
About six weeks later there was a relapse, the pain this
time being located in the stomach.
One grain in five doses, one dose every two hours, removed the pain, but
it returned the third day.
The same treatment then removed it permanently.
The fifth case concerned a young woman, 18, who had periodical facial neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves., cured by the same
treatment
▲HEAD
Headaches, extending to nose, pain in frontal eminence.
Stitching pain in left temple of short duration.
Aching pain at left supra-orbital foramen.
Pain at root of nose, feels swollen.
Heaviness and dullness of head.
Full feeling in vertex, pressing from within.
▲EYES
Eyes heavy, drowsy.
Aching in eyeballs.
Aching over eyes, wants to close them.
Disordered vision.
Must look intently to see the words, when writing the letters seem pale and eye ache
▲EARS
Sharp pain in ears.
Stabbing pain in left ear.
Du llness and aching in ears, coming suddenly.
Stitching
at lobe of left ear, deep in and above external auditory meatus.
TinnitusRinging or buzzing in the earsThe perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present., ringing in ears, worse left
▲FACE
Seems as if bloods would burst through face.
Bursting pain in right malar bone.
Aching pains run up
from above left eye-tooth to eye and over face, occurs by starts and stops
▲MOUTH
Tingling in tip of tongue.
Profuse, very fluid salivation.
Nose - Pain at root of nose, in nose, in bones of nose, worse left.
Stuffed feeling at root of nose, as with dry
coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
Nose feels swollen and tender to touch.
Aching in bridge of nose ( worse left side) and of upper left
molars.
Aching at end of nose, which feels full of blood
▲CHEST
Excited heartbeat.
Progressive slowness of pulse, followed by syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain., cardiac paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. and death.
Pulse slow, soft compressible.
Kidneys enlarged and congested.
Increased urine.
Slow, irregular, breathing.
Cheyne- Stokes
▲ABDOMEN
Emptiness sensation in epigastrium, hunger.
Heat and weight in stomach.
Irrepressible, tasteless
belchings.
Belch- ings tasting of the drug.
Teeth feel on edge, too long.
Aching in teeth.
Upper teeth, pricking pains in sockets.
Sharp aching
twinges in upper molars.
Upper incisors tender at sockets when biting.
Temperature - Rise and fall of temperature, shivering, diminished perspiration.
Spleen disorders.
Spleen painful to pressure, pain in right side, worse in some parts than in others,
with shiverings.
Severe pains in the left hypochondrium with tertian f ever.
Loud rumbling in bowels, about
navel.
Slight colicky pains at navel.
ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. deep in pelvis, pains run down backs of thighs to knees.
Breasts - Great increase of milk in breasts of nursing women
▲GENITALS ETC
Given to pregnant women for fevers, it has caused miscarriages and premature deliveries.
In a case
of subacute tuberculosis, it restored the menses, which had been absent since the illness commenced
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Pains run from pelvis down backs of thighs to knees.
Marked diminution of reflex in hips and extinction
of voluntary movements
▲SLEEP
Restless night, wakes at 3 and 4 a.m., then dozes and dreams until 7:30.
Increased stupor, desire to
be quiet
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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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