Michael Moor the esteemed Herbalist not the filmmaker wrote  several claasic books on Herbal Medicine this particular book focused on the health care professional using herbs in conjunction with mainstream medicine in their clinic. First listed is the problem area and condition then the LATIN name(s) of the herb(s) used to treat that condition. We will post other works by Michael Moore in the future. This information is for educational purposes only and not intended to treat, cure, or diagnose illnesses or medical condition, that should be left to a professional health practitioner.

HERBAL REPERTORY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE Third Edition, by Michael Moore

A manual of differential therapeutics for the health care professional,t his manual is designed for the use of the primary care physician and other health care practitioners who wish to integrate some herbal therapy into their practice. The symptom model used is more or less that of standard practice medicine, combined with much unorthodox but pertinent naturopathic and eclectic specifics. The format is that of a classical homeopathic repertory.

The botanicals, media, and doses are outlined in my other booklet, Herbal Materia Medica. If the practitioner feels the need for something more than what amounts to a symptom flow chart, a more drug- substitute oriented text would be Herbal Medicine by Rudolph Fritz Weiss (Beaconsfield Publishers). The best classic works for the specific botanicals are Materia Medica by Felter and King’s American Dispensatory, both published by Eclectic Medical Publications in Portland, Oregon (both medically oriented), and more recently, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs by James Duke (CRC Press) and Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West, Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West (Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe), and, by 1991, Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West (Red Crane Press, Santa Fe), by myself. This symptom- differentiation is appropriate for using herbs; it is much more important to delineate the nature, stage and modality of a disorder. As herbs are far feebler biological agents than drug therapy, it is important to know if the disorder is acute or chronic, in a strong or immunodeficient person, just beginning or post-inflammatory, and so on.

As an example, pharyngitis may often be treated with an appropriate antibiotic, whether the condition is acute, subacute, or chronic. Although such may indeed be necessary, antibiotics are often a major metabolic stress, substantially altering the ecologies of the skin and mucosa. Most pharyngitis involves normally endogenous viruses or bacteria that take advantage of membrane compromise, immunosuppression, or emotional or metabolic stress. Herbs are often better suited in milder or subclinical conditions. They may strengthen the membranes, stimulate both innate and acquired immunity, resolve the exudate and generally strengthen vital forces.

This, without risking super infections, allergic response or candidiasis.Using an herb, however, is not simply a matter of finding a substitute for a given drug; if an herb was as non-specifically effective as an antibiotic, it would present the same disadvantages.

 

The validity and purpose of this repertory, therefore, is to give the therapist a constitutional and patient-specific approach to using herbs based on distinct symptoms leading to differential therapeutics, rather than the more common practice of differential diagnostics that lead to a fixed therapy.

This third edition makes a number of minor changes in therapy, deletes several herbs no longer available and adds some of the information to come out of European pharmacy, Naturopathic work on the Pacific Coast, information from the American Botanical Council, my own work with desert and southwestern plants and the few uses of “Miracle Herbs” that are touted in various hotshot product lines that hold up under real use. I have added several new Chinese herbs that I have learned to understand within the Western model. Bear in mind, of course, that the very basis of both the Oriental and Ayurvedic approaches IS differential therapeutics, and practitioners of these disciplines should have no difficulty in translating the therapeutics in this booklet into their modality, especially those that want to incorporate Western botanicals into their practice.

 

A CAUTIONARY ASIDE: In an herb-perfect world, Cannabis (Marijuana) and Lophophora (Peyote), would be available in their benign roles as useful botanical medicines. THEY ARE, OF COURSE, ILLEGAL TO POSSESS. They are, however, just two other herbs to me.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Section Heading

 

1 EYES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

2 MOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

3 EAR, NOSE, THROAT . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

4 PULMONARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

5 CARDIOVASCULAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

6 NEUROLOGIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

7 ENDOCRINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

8 HEPATO-BILIARY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

9 RENAL-URINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

10 GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. . . . . . . . . .

 

11 SKIN – HAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

12 MUSCLES, BONES, CONNECTIVE TISSUE . . . . .

 

13 REPRODUCTIVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

14 OBSTETRIC-PREGNANCY . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

15 PEDIATRIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

16 BLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

17 ALLERGIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

18 INFECTIOUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

19 NUTRITIONAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

20 METABOLIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

21 LYMPH-IMMUNE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

22 PSYCHIATRIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

23 PAIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

CROSS INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

1 EYES

 

1.1 BLOODSHOT

General eyewash – Acacia leaves, Eriogonum, Prosopis

with arterial tension and bounding pulse – Veratrum

1.2 CATARACT

Cineraria externally

1.3 CONJUNCTIVITIS

Eyewash – Acacia leaves, Eriogonum, Mahonia, Pluchea, Prosopis

Acute – Irritating with sharp sinus pain – Euphrasia

with mucus – Euphrasia externally

1.4 DISCHARGE

Euphrasia externally

1.5 GLAUCOMA

General – Pilocarpus, externally and internally

In aged, tired – Anemone pulsatilla

1.6 GOITER, EXOPHTHALMIC

From long-term functional hyperthyroidism, with tachycardia and mild

dyspnea – Lycopus

1.7 HYPERAEMIA

with rhinitis, frontal headache, sneezing – Cetraria, Euphrasia

1.8 IRITIS

General – Grindelia

Rheumatoid – Bryonia, Cimicifuga

Viral – Anemone pulsatilla

General pain – Cannabis

1.9 LACHRYMITIS

Anemone pulsatilla, Asarum, Rosa

1.10 LIDS

Acute inflammation – Euphrasia

Styes, early stages – Commiphora externally, Mahonia externally, Thuja

externally

Styes, fullblown – Anemone pulsatilla

1.11 NEURITIS

Pilocarpus

1.12 OPHTHALMIA

Acute – Berberis, Hamamelis, Hydrastis, Mahonia, all externally

Post-acute – Polygala

Chronic catarrhal – Mahonia externally

1.13 OPHTHALMALGIA

Secondary to any acute disorder – Bryonia

General – Anemone pulsatilla, Erigeron externally, Grindelia

Pain in top and back of eyeball – Piper methysticum

Dull, rheumatoid ache in orbits – Cimicifuga

1.14 PARALYSIS

Temporary, following migraine headache – Paullinia

1.15 PRESSURE

Increased intraocular – Anemone pulsatilla, Cannabis, Pilocarpus

1.16 STRAIN

Bruised feeling with headache – Cimicifuga

With eyeball pain, conjunctivitis, watery and inflamed, with “Grainy”

vision – Anemone pulsatilla

 

PREPARATION NOTE: Refer to Herbal Materia Medica for making any eyewash. When

using a tincture externally in an eyewash (such as Commiphora or fresh Thuja)

use five drops in a tablespoon of isotonic water.

 

 

2 MOUTH

 

2.1 TONGUE DIAGNOSIS

SHAPE

Broad, thick – Aristolochia

Broad, pale with deficient G.I., CVS, CNS – Aconitum

Broad, full, coated with nausea, vomiting – Ipecac

Broad, slimy, flabby, foul burps – Ipecac

Elongated, pointed – Rhubarb, Rhubarb elixir

Elongated, reddened with prominent papillae – Limon

STATE

Dry, scanty saliva – Capsicum

Dry, cracked, purplish-grey – Bryonia

Red stripe down center, bounding pulse – Veratrum

Pale, sallow, full, with slightly jaundiced skin – Chelidonium

Pale, leaden, dry, or sticky-moist – Phytolacca

Pasty, foul-smelling, not from teeth – Eucalyptus

Full and deeply red with systemic infection – Baptisia

COAT

Translucent coat with liver pain – Bryonia

Dull, leaden coat – Chelidonium

White coat, light feces – Leptandra

White blotchy coat – Taraxacum

White coat with salivation – Podophyllum

Full white coat, especially heavy in the back – Lobelia

White coated, with white, foamy saliva – Phytolacca

White coated with nausea – Anemone pulsatilla

Creamy white, with taste of rancid fats – Anemone pulsatilla

Yellow coated, with anorexia, liver problems – Euonymus

Yellow coated, with fever and diarrhea – Aconitum

Yellow coated, dirty, with dizziness and biliousness – Podophyllum

Yellowish-brown coat – Mahonia

2.2 APHTHOUS STOMATITIS

General – Berberis, coptis, Echinacea, Hydrastis, Krameria, Mahonia,

Rhus glabra, all internally and externally

Acute, with painful inflammation – Commiphora

with hyperacidity and acid diarrhea – Myrica

Chronic – Arctium, Pyrola, Propolis externally

with pale mucosa, relaxed tissue – Ligustrum

with pale mucosa, relaxed tissue, hypersalivation- Myrica

with acne, greasy skin, mild autotoxicity -Taraxacum

2.3 BREATH

Foul, with cracked lips and phlegmy mouth – Baptisia

Foul, with sulphur burps – Echinacea, Eucalyptus

2.4 DRYNESS

General, with poor digestion – Capsicum

General, with glazed surfaces and poor digestion – Xanthoxylum

General, of mouth and throat – Althea, Ulmus fulva

2.5 GLOSSITIS

Acute with mouth sores – Myrica

Chronic with hypersecretions with congestion, not inflammation –

Xanthoxylum

2.6 GUMS

Bleeding, general mouthwash – Berberis, Echinacea, Geranium, Krameria,

Mahonia, Polygonum bistortoides, Quercus

Bleeding, sore and spongy – Echinacea, Krameria

Inflamed, from general immunosuppression – Baptisia, Phytolacca

Periapical abscess (gum boil) – Echinacea

Periodontitis (pyorrhea), general topical – Commiphora, Gambir,

Krameria, Myrica, Propolis

Periodontitis, acute topical – Bursera, Commiphora, Rumex hymenosepalus

Periodontitis, preventative – Heliopsis longipes (root chewed)

Sore, non-specific – Hamamelis (mouthwash)

2.7 HERPES

Early nerve pain, before eruptions – Leonurus, Scutellaria

General external – Coptis, Hydrastis (internally also), Krameria,

Propolis, Rhus glabra

Acute, early stages, topical – Anemopsis, Bursera, Commiphora, Quercus

Chronic – Arctium (internally), Myrica (externally)

2.8 PERIAPICAL ABSCESS Echinacea, internally and externally

2.9 PERIODONTITIS (Pyorrhea)

General external -Commiphora,Coptis, Gambir, Krameria, Myrica, Propolis

Acute external – Bursera, Commiphora, Rumex hymenosepalus

2.10 PULPITIS

Rhus glabra

2.11 STOMATITIS

Echinacea, Hydrastis

Chronic – Arctium, Myrica, Propolis, Xanthoxylum berries

2.12 VINCENT’S INFECTION (Trench Mouth) Coptis, Rhus glabra, Myrica

 

 

3 EAR, NOSE, THROAT

 

3.1 EAR, EXTERNAL

Ceruminosis, with eczema – Hydrastis externally

Discharge – Echinacea externally

Pain from cold – Cimicifuga

3.2 EAR, MIDDLE

Otitis Media – Erigeron oil (internal), Pulsatilla (internal)

from rhinitis, allergies – Ambrosia, Euphrasia

Pain, burning – Sanguinaria

Rheumatic, dull aching – Cimicifuga

Neuralgia – Piper methysticum

with head cold – Verbascum oil

3.3 EPISTAXIS (nosebleeds)

General – Achillea (fresh tincture), Ambrosia, Capsella, Erigeron

Chronic – Lycopus, Quercus

3.4 HEAD COLD

General decongestant – Ephedra vulgaris, Ephedra viridis, Eriodictyon

Beginning, with chills – Zingiber

dry, with tight membranes – Capsicum, Hedeoma

dry, with fever – Asarum, Hedeoma

dry, with irritative cough – Drosera, lobelia, Ligusticum porteri

Moist with fever, aches – Eupatorium perfoliatum, Verbena

Subacute with thick mucus – Anemopsis, Hydrastis

with hoarseness or laryngitis – Althea, Drosera,

Populus candicans, Tussilago, Ulmus fulva

3.5 LARYNGITIS

General – Acacia, Althea, Salvia

Dry – Capsicum

with head cold – Populus candicans, Tussilago, Ulmus fulva

Chronic, with excess, abundant mucus – Aralia racemosa, Eryngium

From singing or talking – Arisaema

Purulent with systemic effects – Baptisia, Echinacea

3.6 PEMPHIGUS Coptis

3.7 PHARYNGITIS

Gargle in acute – Acacia, althea, Ceanothus, Drosera, Echinacea,

Propolis, Ulmus fulva

Acute initial stages – Echinacea, Guaiacum, Ligusticum porteri,Lomatium

with hyperemia – Hamamelis

returning after almost healing – Anemopsis, Guaiacum, Myrica

granular – Hydrastis

Subacute, slow to heal – Echinacea, Guaiacum, Ligusticum porteri,

Lomatium, Myrica

with thick, gagging mucus – Hydrastis, internal and external

Chronic, with semi-edema, hypersecretion –

Myrica, Xanthoxylum

with hard, inflamed nodes – Phytolacca

with thick, tenacious mucus – Abies, Aralia racemosa, Grindelia,

Polygala senega

with pale, relaxed mucosa – Anemopsis, Hamamelis, Hydrastis

with joint pain, mild auto-immunity symptoms – Guaiacum

3.8 RHINITIS

Acute, allergic – Ambrosia, Encelia farinosa,Euphrasia

Subacute or chronic – Anemopsis, Coptis, Hydrastis, Mahonia

3.9 SINUSITIS

General decongestant – Ephedra (both)

Acute with runny eyes, nose – Ambrosia, Encelia farinosa, Euphrasia

with ulcerations, as nasal spray – Anemopsis, Bursera, Commiphora,

Echinacea, Rhus leaves

Subacute or chronic, with green viscous mucus – Asclepias asperula

as an insufflated powder

Chronic with inflammation, catarrh, stuffy heat – Anemopsis, Myrica

with necrotic, foul discharge – Baptisia

with nasal catarrh, thickened relaxed mucosa – Hamamelis

with edematous turbinates, relaxed and purplish -Anemopsis, Hydrastis

with thick ropy mucus, frontal headache – Anemopsis, Hydrastis

3.10 STREP THROAT

Echinacea, Guaiacum

3.11 TONSILLITIS

General – Ceanothus, Guaiacum, Polymnia, Salvia

Acute, early stage – Guaiacum, Ligusticum porteri, Lomatium

Dry membranes – Capsicum

with adenitis, swollen, engorged – Phytolacca

Subacute with crypt catarrh – Hydrastis

Chronic with necrosis – Baptisia

with hypersecretions, boggy – Myrica

with ulcers – Aconitum, Anemopsis, Myrica

Hyperemic and congested – Hamamelis as gargle

To abort processes with gargle – Anemopsis, Capsicum, Echinacea,

Guaiacum

For pain – Aconitum (brushed on tonsils), Gelsemium, Cinnamomum tea

 

 

4 PULMONARY

 

4.1 APNEA

After falling asleep – Grindelia

4.2 ASTHMA

General antispasmodic for long-term use – Ammi visnaga, Dracontium,

Passiflora

Bronchial, humid – Inula

with free expectoration – Eriodictyon

in aged – Polygala

Dry, non spasmodic – Asclepias asperula, Asclepias tuberosa

with pectoral soreness, raw throat – Grindelia

Extrinsic with dry spastic cough – Aconitum

(cured), Allium, Drosera, Lobelia, Sanguinaria

Intrinsic, humid – Marrubium

with chronic candidiasis – Tabebuia, Tecoma

with thick mucus – Grindelia

with moist cough – Anemopsis, Commiphora, Echinacea

Psychogenic – Angelica

Spasmodic – Ammi visnaga, Datura (smoked)

with constriction of chest – Dracontium, Drosera, Ptelea

With albuminuria – Lobelia

With apnea when sleeping – Ammi visnaga, Grindelia

4.3 BRONCHITIS

Acute, dry, hot – Asclepias asperula, Asclepias tuberosa

with red face, fever, contracted pupils – Gelsemium

becoming chronic with thick mucus – Cubeba, Polygala

in aged, with secretions – Commiphora,Eucalyptus

with muscular weakness – Eupatorium perfoliatum

Recuperating, with difficult expectoration – Grindelia

with congestion, hypersecretion, post-febrile – Lobelia

General – Prunus

Subacute or chronic in aged – Grindelia

Chronic – Inula, Lycopus, Marrubium

with profuse secretions – Abies, Anemopsis, Eryngium, Lobelia,

Polygala

with profuse secretions and debility – Aralia racemosa, Commiphora

Scanty, blood-streaked mucus – Bryonia

Supportive in hypertensive mesomorphs with sthenic pulse – Veratrum

4.4 BRONCHORRHEA

Ligusticum porteri, Lobelia

4.5 COUGH

Acute, initial stages – Ligusticum porteri

from nervousness – Verbascum

with pharynx and larynx irritability – Tussilago, Ulmus fulva

with faucial irritability – Althea, Aralia, Glycyrrhiza, Trifolium

spasmodic with bronchial tightness and dyspnea – Aesculus glabra

spasmodic with paroxysms – Cannabis, Drosera

reflex, intestinal and uterine – Cannabis

laryngeal – Drosera, Trifolium

dry, acute pulmonary – Asclepias tuberosa

hectic, painful breathing, rapid pulse – Prunus

hectic, with mucus vomiting, gagging, no

overt disease – Pulsatilla

hectic, aggravated by changes in humidity,

temperature – Bryonia

hectic, with dry mouth – Capsicum, Xanthoxylum

moist, persistent – Anemopsis, Eriodictyon, Inula, Lobelia

with mucosa irritation, wheezing, dry mucus – Aralia racemosa

with mucosa irritation, wheezing, dry mucus,

worse lying down – Verbascum

after influenza – Eriodictyon

after pneumonia with difficult expectoration – Asclepias asperula,

Eucalyptus, Lobelia, Polygala

after fever, dry – Grindelia, Lobelia

Subacute, moist – Polygala

stubborn, recurring – Guaiacum

Chronic with debility – Asarum, Commiphora, Lobelia

with indigestion, dry cough, intercostal pain

when inhaling – Asclepias tuberosa

with chest pains, anorexia, diminished strength – Benzoin,

Liquidamber, Styrax

4.6 DYSPNEA

General – Crataegus, Lophophora, Passiflora, Prunus

Functional, with pale face, palpitations – Aspidosperma, Prunus

with functionall cardiopathies, neurosis, fear – Cereus, Prunus

with bronchial tightness, spasmodic cough – Aesculus glabra

After bronchitis – Cubeba, Lobelia

with copious expectoration – Inula, Lobelia

After pneumonia with difficult expectoration – Asclepias asperula,

Eucalyptus, Lobelia

Induced by external chill – Aristolochia (all)

Adjunct in chronic conditions as muscle relaxant – Passiflora

4.7 EMPHYSEMA

with poor pulmonary circulation – Aspidosperma, Cereus

to strengthen septum cartilage – Equisetum

with moist labored breathing – Polygala

with dry labored breathing, sallow skin – Aconitum (cured Chinese),

Grindelia

4.8 HEMOPTYSIS

General – Erigeron, Lycopus

from fits of coughing – Bidens, Drosera, Verbascum

Chronic mild, from fits of morning coughing – Cinnamomum

4.9 INFLUENZA

General – Aralia racemosa, Eucalyptus oil, Lomatium, Prunus

General, for malaise and aches – Cimicifuga, Eupatorium perfoliatum

Dry, hot, asecretory – Lobelia and Capsicum, Asclepias asperula, A.

tuberosa

with deep aching pain, moist fever – Eupatorium perfoliatum

Acute, hypersecretory, excitability – Gelsemium

with coughing, dyspnea – Aspidosperma, Grindelia, Ligusticum, Prunus,

Verbascum

Coughing, harsh, hacking and irritated with

scanty blood-streaked mucus – Bryonia, Phytolacca

4.10 PAIN

Sore, bruised feeling in bronchi – Arisaema, Cimicifuga

4.11 PLEURISY

Acute – Asclepias (all)

interlobar – Asclepias tuberosa

effusive – Eriodictyon

with rapid perspiration, pain on movement,

flushed face, frontal headache – Bryonia

with hectic coughing, rapid breathing – Prunus

4.12 PLEURODYNIA

General – Asclepias (all), Capsicum plaster

4.12 PNEUMONIA

Acute bronchial with vascular disturbance, fever – Asclepias tuberosa

with dyspnea – Eupatorium perfoliatum, Ligusticum porteri, Prunus

with harsh cough, pain – Bryonia

with difficult expectoration – Eucalyptus

general anti-viral – Ligusticum porteri, Lomatium

primarily right lung – Chelidonium

Post-febrile, with debility, heavy secretions – Corallorhiza

Recuperation, with difficult expectoration, dry and

tough – Asclepias tuberosa, Eucalyptus

with protracted cough, wight loss, low chi – Corallorhiza

 

 

5 CARDIOVASCULAR

 

5.1 ANGINA PECTORIS

Vasomotoria (false) with slow pulse, precordial

heaviness, mild general cardiac neuralgia – Lobelia

Adjunct for fear of death, constant guarding against pain – Avena,

Crataegus

5.2 ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

Lipid lowering -Arctium, Eleutherococcus, Harpagophytum, Opuntia juice,

Panax quinquefolium, Tribulus

with confusion, sluggishness in aged – Capsicum , Zingiber

with dry membranes, skin – Myrica, Xanthoxylum

General – Crataegus, Ginkgo

5.3 CAPILLARY FRAGILITY

General – Quercus with flavonoids

Flavonoid sources – Crataegus berries, Eriogonum, Opuntia fruit/flowers

5.4 CARDIOPATHIES

Tachycardia, nervous – Cypripedium, Epipactis, Leonurus

with circulatory excitement, anxiety – Leonurus, Lycopus

Functional neurocirculatory disorders – Avena, Cereus, Leonurus,

Lophophora, Scutellaria

with depression, hypochondriasis, necrophobia – Cereus

with depression, intestinal hyposecretion, flatulence – Xanthoxylum

Supportive to other measures for anxiety syndromes in chronic

cardiopathies – Leonurus, Lycopus, Scutellaria

5.5 EDEMA

with weak circulation, debility – Apocynum, Aristolochia, Myrica,

Xanthoxylum

with constipation – Aralia hispida

with functional cardiac insufficiency – Apocynum, Asclepias asperula,

Asclepias incarnata

with vascular stasis and sepsis – Baptisia

with venous stasis in pelvis and legs – Collinsonia, Fouquieria

5.6 FATTY DEGENERATION OF HEART

Adjunct therapies – Fucus, Phytolacca

5.7 HEMORRHAGE

General – Achillea (fresh tincture), Cinnamomum, Erigeron

Passive capillary – Capsella, Hamamelis, Lycopus

From congested, boggy mucosa – Erigeron, Hydrastis

5.8 HYPEREMIA

General – Asclepias tuberosa

Venous – Collinsonia

with flushed face, bright eyes, contracted pupils, restlessness,

excitation – Gelsemium

with full bounding pulse, bloodshot eyes, pulsing neck, red stripe down

tongue – Veratrum

5.9 HYPERTENSION

Episodic, mild – Vinca

Episodic with headache, tachycardia – Viscum

Essential – Allium, Crataegus, Tribulus

with strong pulse – Asclepias tuberosa

with elevated diastole, arterial hypertonicity – Crataegus and

Passiflora

5.10 HYPERTROPHY

In aged – Asclepias asperula

Chronic, dilated – Lycopus

5.11 HYPOTENSION

Asthenic with dry skin and frequent blushing –

Angelica (cured Chinese), Panax (Chinese Kirin and Korean Red)

Asthenic with palpitations and dyspnea – Kola

with water retention and edema – Apocynum, Aristolochia serpentaria

with frequent urination – Glycyrrhiza

5.12 PALPITATIONS

Arrhythmia with tachycardia – Convallaria

with dyspnea – Crataegus

with agitation, neurotic – Cypripedium and Cereus

From overexertion – Prunus

with hypotension, asthenia, dyspnea – Kola, Lophophora

After febrile infection – Lycopus

From hiatus hernia or gastritis – Lycopus

In evening with emotional agitation – Passiflora, Scutellaria

In menopause or puberty from corticosteroid imbalances – Vitex

5.13 REGURGITATIONS

Mitral – Cereus

with sense of heaviness – Collinsonia

Tricuspid – Apocynum

5.14 TOBACCO HEART Cereus, Lycopus, Passiflora

5.15 VARICOSE VEINS

Legs, inner thighs, from diet or chronic poor fat digestion –

Collinsonia, Fouquieria

Legs, inner thighs – Aesculus (both)

with relaxed tissues, sense of fullness – Hamamelis

5.16 VASONEUROSIS

Impaired circulation to extremities – Dulcamara

Skin and mucosa – Calendula, Heterotheca, Xanthoxylum

5.17 VENOUS STASIS

In pelvis and legs, with dyspepsia and general G.I.

hypofunction, rectal heaviness – Aesculus, Collinsonia

In turgid veins, not from cardiac decompensation or portal hypertension

Hamamelis

 

 

6 NEUROLOGIC

 

6.1 CHOREA

Sydenham’s – Corydalis aurea, Scutellaria

General adjunct – Passiflora, Verbena

6.2 CONVULSIONS

General options when medications may not be necessary – Gelsemium,

Lobelia, Passiflora, Scutellaria, Verbena

Periodic, associated with uterine disorders – Cimicifuga

6.3 DELIRIUM TREMENS

In asthenics -Aristolochia serpentaria, Capsicum, Pulsatilla, Valeriana

In sthenics – Cimicifuga, Passiflora, Scutellaria

6.4 DIZZINESS

In aged with arteriosclerosis, “cerebral anemia” – Ginkgo, Cola, Panax

ginseng (Kirin, Korean Red)

In aged with arteriosclerosis, atonic digestive function, dry skin –

Xanthoxylum

6.5 EPILEPSY

To reduce force and lessen frequency – Lobelia, Solanum dulcamara

When aura is present, but condition is marginal for standard medication

– Passiflora, Scutellaria

Petit mal with chorea or agitation – Cimicifuga

while sleeping – Scutellaria

6.6 INSOMNIA

To prevent anxieties when insomnia feared – Avena, Passiflora,

Pulsatilla

with spasms, pain, nervous irritability, tachycardia – Piscidia, Viscum

Frequent waking with nightmares – Cannabis

In atonic, debilitated states – Cypripedium, Epipactis, Valeriana

with muscular pain, agitation, “rheumatoid” – Cimicifuga

From exhaustion following excitement – Pedicularis, Scutellaria

Wakefulness in chronic disorders – Scutellaria

with strong bounding pulse, bloodshot eyes – Veratrum

with indigestion and epigastric fullness – Humulus, Matricaria

General, in asthenic individuals – Cypripedium, Epipactis, Hypericum,

Symplocarpus, Valeriana

General, in sthenic individuals – Avena, Passiflora, Scutellaria,

Verbena

6.7 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Early stages or the beginning of remissions -Eleutherococcus, Guaiacum,

Panax quinquefolium

with distal numbness – Populus candicans

Agitated and irritable from distress and fear – Scutellaria

Aggravated by blood sugar shifts – Oplopanax

In the asthenic, feeble – Panax ginseng (Kirin or Korean Red)

In young women – Angelica (Chinese cured), Panax quinquefolium

6.8 NARCOLEPSY

Avena, Cola, Paullinia

6.9 NEURALGIA, GENERAL

with nervous muscular twitching – Corydalis, Hypericum

Brachial Neuritis – Humulus

Intercostal – Capsicum plaster

Aggravated by movement, with asthenia – Bryonia

with spasms or tenesmus – Cannabis

In convalescence, debility – Cypripedium, Epipactis, Cola, Valerian

6.10 NEURALGIA, CERVICAL

Cimicifuga, Piscidia, Capsicum plaster

6.11 NEURALGIA, TRIGEMINAL

General, internal – Aconitum, Piscidia, Scutellaria

General, external – Gaultheria oil, Heracleum (fresh root tincture)

From cold, caries, or gum inflammation – Gelsemium

To decrease hypersensitivity of trigger points – Humulus

6.12 PARALYSIS

Heracleum fresh root tincture applied locally, at and distal from

nerve injury

 

 

7 ENDOCRINE

 

7.1 ADRENAL CORTEX

Hypofunctions – Aralia (all), Eleutherococcus, Glycyrrhiza. Oplopanax,

Panax ginseng (uncured), Panax quinquefolium, Smilax

Hyperfunctions from stress, with elevated lipids, uric acid, blood

sugars with stomach hypersecretions – Arctium, Harpagophytum, Panax

quinquefolium, Tribulus

7.2 ADRENAL MEDULLA

Depressed from stimulant withdrawal, “exhausted”- Aconitum carmichaelii

(Chinese cured slices), Panax ginseng (Kirin Chinese or Korean Red)

7.3 GONADS

Poor availability or hyposecretion of primary hormones in either sex –

Angelica sinensis (Dong Quai)

Progesterone or prolactin deficiency – Vitex

7.4 PITUITARY/HYPOTHALAMUS

General moderation for overreactivity in stress and drug abuse –

Eleutherococcus, Panax quinquefolium

7.5 THYROID

Hyperfunction, general – Lycopus

Exophthalmus, general – Lycopus and Passiflora

Hypofunctions with depressions, dry skin – Centella asiatica

with obesity, fluid retention – Fucus

with fluid retention, immunodepression – Iris and Phytolacca

 

 

8 HEPATO-BILIARY

 

8.1 “BILIOUSNESS”

Acute, from drug or food excess – Berberis, Mahonia

Sick headache with nausea, dyspepsia, light feces – Iris

Dizziness, depression, frontal headache, tenderness and pain in right

hypochondrium – Leptandra

Chronic, with symptoms of autointoxication, sluggish liver catabolism –

Larrea

8.2 CHOLANGITIS

Acute – Leptandra

Light stools, cloudy or dark urine, pain in right hypochondrium to

shoulder – Chelidonium

Light stools, dark scanty urine, with steatorrhea, pain in right

hypochondrium to navel – Chionanthus

with sharp cutting pains, increased by motion – Chionanthus

General antispasmodic – Brickellia, Dioscorea, Picraena, Piscidia

8.3 CHOLECYSTALGIA

Pain in right hypochondrium to right shoulder, without any major

abdominal pain – Chelidonium, Leptandra

General antispasmodic – Dioscorea, Lobelia, Picraena

8.4 CHOLECYSTITIS

“Catarrhal” – Achillea, Brickellia, Bryonia, Chionanthus

Chronic without blockage – Chelidonium

with occasional jaundice – Chionanthus

For pain – Brickellia, Picraena

8.5 CHOLELITHIASIS

Reoccurring without blockage – Chelidonium

Preventative – Chionanthus, Leptandra

8.6 CIRRHOSIS

Alcoholic – Silybum

with portal congestion – Chionanthus, Fouquieria, Iris

Biliary – Chelidonium

Laennec’s – Silybum

8.7 HEPATITIS

General strengthening – Arctium, Silybum, Taraxacum

with jaundice, headache, orange colored urine – Bryonia

with jaundice, light frothy stools, scanty urine, right hypochondrium

pain – Chionanthus

Hot skin, cold feet, abdominal congestion, white coated tongue, bad

taste and breath, pain in right hypochondrium with pain referred to

right or left shoulder – Leptandra

Rebound elevations of bilirubin, SGOT and SGPT at a later time -Linaria

Chronic abdominal pain and hemorrhoidal aching after acute symptoms

long over – Fouquieria

8.8 JAUNDICE

Mild, with simple unobstructed hepatic dysfunction

– Chelone, Taraxacum

Pale, dry skin, thick coated tongue, moderate

hepatic pain, – Leptandra

Posthepatic, Cholestatic – Chelidonium

Functional – Chionanthus

General recuperative – Berberis, Linaria, Mahonia

 

 

9 RENAL-URINARY

 

9.1 ALBUMINURIA

Renal, subacute – Chimaphila, Pyrola

Toxic – Echinacea

Chronic renal weakness without inflammation – Juniperus

with inflammation – Agropyron repens

Early or incipient – Chimaphila

9.2 CYSTORRHEA

General – Agrimonia, Anemopsis, Eryngium, Piper methysticum, Uva Ursi,

Zea

Acute with urethral discharge – Agropyron with mucus and gravel –

Xanthium

Chronic – Cubeba, Urtica with acid pH – Barosma smelly – Agrimonia

without active inflammation – Juniperus

without active inflammation, in exhausted, feeble states – Commiphora

with sense of fullness, blockage – Eupatorium purpureum

9.3 CYSTITIS/URETHRITIS

General, for pain – Agropyron, Althea, Cannabis, Piper methysticum, Zea

Acute, general – Althea, Malva, Zea

with aching in loins. frequent burning and scanty urination –

Eryngium, Piper methysticum, Populus, Salix

with mucus in urine – Anemopsis, Eriodictyon

with mucus in urine, backache, cramps – Agropyron

with ammoniacal, purulent urine – Gaultheria oil

with cloudy, smelly urine – Agrimonia

with inflammation and irritation – Ephedra viridis, Equisetum

with inflamed urethral opening – Anemopsis, Salix

with relaxed, inflamed urethral opening and

mucus discharge – Uva Ursi

Irritability, more than pain – Argemone, Cannabis

Acid pH, frequent urination, little relief – Barosma

with pain from gravel and alkaline, phosphatic urine – Agropyron,

Hydrangea

with pain from gravel and acid, urate urine – Eupatorium purpureum

and Hydrangea

with systemic infections, fever – Astragalus, Galium

Chronic, with mucus – Cubeba, Xanthium

at menses – Cubeba

with prostatitis – Cupressus, Gaultheria, Serenoa, Thuja

with brick (urate) dust, scanty urine – Capsella, Chimaphila

with dark or mucopurulent urine and strained urination – Capsella,

Collinsonia, Eupatorium purpureum

with relaxed, inflamed urethra and mucus discharge – Uva Ursi

with acid pH, frequent urination, little relief – Barosma

without active inflammation – Bursera, Commiphora, Juniperus

9.4 DYSURIA

with dysmenorrhea – Mitchella

with partial impotence – Serenoa, Tribulus

with congestive prostate enlargements in sedentary males – Fouquieria,

Mitchella, Ptychopetalum

with incontinence from movement, during menses, after coitus or in

menopause – Eryngium

From heavy sexual activity – Capsella. Piper methysticum, Santal,

Serenoa

Non-inflammatory recurring dysuria after “surgical” menopause –

Juniperus

When spasms occur after urination – Populus

Concurrent with systemic, febrile infections – Galium

Acute, initial stages – Althea, Zea

with pain in back, difficult urination – Agropyron

from sphincter irritation – Gaultheria, Salix

from alkaline urine and passage of phosphatic urine -Hydrangea, Zea

Chronic acidic – Buchu, Verbascum

for pain – Cannabis, Piper methysticum, Verbascum

with mucopurulent, scanty urine – Chimaphila, Uva Ursi

with dark or milky urine – Eupatorium purpureum

9.5 GLYCOSURIA

From hepatic hyperglycogenolysis or diet – Brickellia, Chionanthus,

Vaccinium

Renal – Chimaphila, Vaccinium

9.6 HEMATURIA

General – Capsella, Eryngium, Trillium

with pain on urination – Achillea, Agropyron, Hydrangea, Xanthium

with sediment in urine – Capsella, Hydrangea, Trillium

Chronic, passive – Eupatorium purpureum, Lycopus

9.7 INCONTINENCE

General – Agrimonia, Krameria, Verbascum (root), Zea

While sleeping, from chronic cystitis – Equisetum and Rhus aromatica,

Verbascum (root)

Menstrual, menopausal, aggravated by movement – Eryngium

Recent sexual activity in sedentary, previously abstentious males –

Angelica sinensis and Eryngium

From chronic nephritis or acute lower urinary tract infections –

Agrimonia, Pulsatilla

In aged males with enlarged prostate, poor bladder control – Equisetum,

Thuja

Functional and occasional from sympathetic enervation and poor bladder

tone – Verbascum (root)

9.8 LITHIASIS

with irritation, inflammatory pain – Agrimonia, Althea, Capsella,

Malva, Zea

with clonic spasms – Dioscorea, Hydrangea

with hematuria, especially from lower tract – Capsella, Eryngium

Acidic, muddy, or with “brick dust” – Buchu and Uva Ursi

With hyperuricemia – Arctium, Capsella, Eupatorium purpureum,

Harpagophytum

Preventative for alkaline, phosphatic stones – Berberis, Eupatorium

purpureum, Mahonia

9.9 NEPHRITIS

General – Althea and Zea

with edema – Equisetum

and arthritis or auto-immune type syndromes – Chimaphila (fresh

tincture)

Acute, mild, with fine hyaline casts – Gaultheria

Subacute, mild, with moderate hematuria – Uva Ursi

Chronic without active inflammation – Commiphora, Juniperus

to lessen the tendency to sclerosis – Lespedeza

Deep-seated kidney pain accompanying primary

treatment – Agropyron, Hydrangea, Solidago

9.10 PAIN

In lumbar region, flanks to navel – Agrimonia, Krameria

Lumbar region only – Hydrangea

Sacral and lower lumbar with urethral mucus discharge – Agropyron,

Solidago

Renal and bladder colic – Dioscorea, Hydrangea, Melilotus

9.11 PHOSPHATURIA

General – Medicago, Zea

with vesical irritation – Cannabis, Capsella

with pain in kidneys – Agropyron, Erigeron, Hydrangea

Mucopurulent – Zea

Aggravated by cold, damp weather or present only in winter –

Aristolochia serpentaria

9.12 POLYURIA

From urethritis or prostatitis – Eryngium, Mitchella

During or after cold weather – Aristolochia serpentaria

Frequent, low specific gravity urine -Salvia (cold infusion), Vaccinium

9.13 PYELITIS

Acute, initial stages with painful urination – Zea

from ascending cystitis with boggy mucosa – Chimaphila, Uva Ursi

Chronic, with colic – Agropyron, Dioscorea

with mucopurulent, acidic urine – Barosma

with mucopurulent, alkaline urine – Chimaphila, Zea

post-lithiasis, painful urination – Eupatorium purpureum, Piper

methysticum, Solidago, Zea

With mucopurulent urine with RBC’s and leukocytes – Chimaphila, Pyrola

9.14 STRANGURY

General – Althea, Malva, Uva Ursi, Zea

Antispasmodic – Cannabis, Eschscholzia

9.15 URETERALGIA

Agropyron, Dioscorea, Equisetum, Hydrangea, Piper methysticum,Uva Ursi,

Zea

 

 

10GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

 

10.1 ANOREXIA

Anorexia nervosa, in stressed adolescents – Calamus, Cannabis, Panax

quinquefolium, Swertia

with chronic simple pelvic irritabilities – Actaea, Cimicifuga

In the feeble, asthenic – Aristolochia (all), Castela, Gentiana,

Picraena, Ptelea, Xanthoxylum

After G.I. infections – Castela, Frasera, Erythraea, Gentiana, Swertia

Asecretory/achlorhydria – Capsicum, Ptelea, Xanthoxylum

Chronic with recurring viral infections – Euonymus

with simple dyspepsia – Frasera, Swertia

with colon, rectal catarrh – Anemopsis, Hydrastis, Myrica

with depressed autonomic and myenteric stimulation – Asclepias

tuberosa, Lobelia, Xanthoxylum

with extensive hypersecretion of pulmonary, renal, and intestinal

mucus – Eriodictyon

Convalescence with ileocecal cramps – Chelone

From chemotherapy – Calamus, Cannabis, Euonymus, Panax (uncured)

10.2 ATONIC COLON

with mucus in feces – Hydrastis, Myrica

with mucus in feces, difficult defecation, but without inflammation or

fissures – Aloe, Rhamnus

with anorexia – Gentiana, Mahonia

with asecretory upper G.I. functions – Xanthoxylum

with anorexia and liver hypofunction – Euonymus

without inflammation but with hard, formed feces – Senna

without inflammation but with marbly, hard feces – Asclepias tuberosa,

Lobelia

with solitary red eruptions on buttocks, shoulders – Rumex crispus

After intestinal infections – Ptelea

10.3 CANDIDIASIS

After antibiotic or anti-inflammatory therapy – Castela, Chilopsis,

Tabebuia, Tecoma

10.4 COLIC

General – Dioscorea, Mentha piperita oil

Flatulent – Angelica, Anthemis, Asarum, Calamus, Carum, Lavandula,

Mentha (all), Micromeria, Pimenta oil

Gastric with flatulence – Angelica, Calamus, Eucalyptus

Small intestine – Lavandula oil, Mentha piperita oil

Cecum with uneasy, distressing pain – Chelone, Juglans major

with chronic, non-inflammatory diarrhea – Epilobium

Chronic with catarrh – Anemopsis, Hydrastis, Juglans

From cathartics – Curcuma, Zingiber

10.5 COLITIS

From candidiasis – Castela and Tabebuia

“Chronic” – Mentha piperita oil, Myrica, Rheum, Neutralizing Cordial

From intestinal putrefaction and liver or portal

dysfunction – Chelone, Fouquieria Ulcerative, bleeding – Erigeron

10.6 CONSTIPATION

With poor appetite – Agave

Dry feces with tenesmus – Rhamnus (all)

Dry feces with scanty secretions – Agar, Glycyrrhiza, Plantago ovata

with light feces – Iris, Mahonia

with poor appetite, post febrile – Euonymus, Ptelea

Chronic, atonic – Frangula, Juglans, Rhamnus (all), Senna (pods)

with chronic dyspepsia – Rheum, Xanthoxylum, Neutralizing Cordial

with atonic gastric functions, eruptions on face neck, back, or

buttocks – Juglans, Rumex crispus

with poor fat absorption, sluggish portal circulation – Aristolochia

(all), Fouquieria, Podophyllum

with sense of constriction and cramps – Rheum, Neutralizing Cordial

with autotoxicity, mouth sores – Taraxacum

10.7 DIARRHEA

Burning, acrid – Juglans, Rheum, Neutralizing Cordial

Septic – Ambrosia, Astragalus, Baptisia, Echinacea

For tenesmus – Dioscorea, Garrya

From dietary indiscretions – Mahonia, Monarda

Greenish – Paullinia

Large mucoid semi-formed feces – Iris, Myrica

In asthenics, with atomic gastric functions – Prinos

Giardia – Castela, Picraena

Amebic, as preventative – Castela, Rheum and Picraena

Chronic with semiformed feces, frequent evacuations and debility –

Geranium, Heuchera, Krameria, Rheum, Datura, Garrya

Recuperating – Anemopsis, Berberis, Coptis, Mahonia, Ptelea

Supportive for gas and cramps – Zingiber

10.8 DYSENTERY

with blood – Althea enema, Erigeron

with suppurations; bacillary – Baptisia and Echinacea, Fraxinus

General supportive astringent – Quercus

Recuperation – Hydrastis, Ptelea

Supportive for gas and cramps – Zingiber

General tonic when self-limiting – Epilobium, Rhus glabra, Xanthoxylum

(berries)

Chronic – Geranium

For concurrent mouth sores – Anemopsis, Coptis

10.9 DYSPEPSIA

with flatulence – Populus, Tanacetum

with flatulence, slow transit time, borborygmus – Aletris, Rheum,

Neutralizing Cordial

with flatulence that’s chronic anyway – Foeniculum

with flatulence from overeating and digestive abuse- Calamus, Juglans,

Ptelea, Xanthoxylum berries

with flatulence, nervous dyspepsia, nausea – Lavandula

Atonic – Asarum, Calamus, Zingiber

Atonic in alcoholics – Capsicum, Myrica, Picraena (acetum tincture)

From Fats – Berberis, Mahonia

From starches – Humulus

Asecretory – Capsicum, Xanthoxylum, Zingiber

Asecretory with anorexia, atonicity – Coptis, Euonymus, Ptelea

Fermentative, aggravated by food – Echinacea, Eucalyptus

Chronic catarrhal with constipation – Juglans, Myrica, Swertia

Chronic catarrhal with anorexia – Eriodictyon, Gentiana

with nausea, sick headache, light feces – Iris

with nausea, frontal headache – Mahonia

with dizziness, anorexia, sick headache, coated tongue – Podophyllum

with sluggish liver and portal circulation – Chelone, Collinsonia and

Rumex crispus

Aggravated by fats and proteins – Larrea, Leptandra

Simple nervous dyspepsia from agitation – Coriandrum, Matricaria,

Mentha viridis, Nepeta

10.10 FLATULENCE

without active inflammation – Capsicum, Xanthoxylum

with inflammation – Angelica, Calamus, Myrica, Neutralizing Cordial

with painful intestinal spasms – Mentha piperita oil, Zingiber

with emotional depressions, especially first hour after eating –

Valeriana

10.11 GASTRITIS

Acute – Acacia

with cough, bronchial irritation – Prunus

with catarrh – Anemopsis

with uterine reflex – Actaea

Recuperation – Anemopsis, Hydrastis, Ptelea

Chronic with abdominal tenderness – Amygdalus, Prunus

Static – Myrica

Catarrhal – Xanthoxylum

GASTRITIS continued

with sulfuric, putrid belching – Echinacea, Eucalyptus, Hydrastis,

Tabebuia

From alcoholic excess – Hydrastis, Mahonia, Myrica, Picraena

with poor HCl, extended transit time – Alnus

with pulsation of epigastric arteries – Eucalyptus oil (3-5 drops)

with liver weakness, poor portal circulation – Aristolochia

Convalescence – Ptelea

10.12 GASTROENTERITIS

with elongated red tongue, tender abdomen, nausea, vomiting – Rheum,

Neutralizing Cordial

with mucus hypersecretions – Anemopsis, Commiphora, Iris, Myrica

with flatulence and palpitations – Asafoetida

with colic, green diarrhea, no fever – Epilobium

with colic, green diarrhea, fever – Paullinia

with hepatic misfunction, slight jaundice – Mahonia

Recuperation – Anemopsis, Hydrastis, Ptelea

10.13 HEARTBURN

with vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain – Abies, Neutralizing Cordial

with anorexia – Castela, Gentiana, Picraena

From fats – Iris, Mahonia

10.14 HEMORRHAGE, MILD

Acute, with sharp pain – Capsella, Trillium

Subacute or chronic, with ache or no pain – Cinnamomum, Erigeron

10.15 HEMORRHOIDS

In athletic, strong individuals – Aesculus glabra

Bleeding – Capsella, Erigeron

Painful, extruding – Althea(poultice), Anemopsis (sitz bath)

with constant throbbing pain – Anemopsis (internally and externally)

with sense of fullness, weight, congestion – Gaultheria, Hamamelis

From any venosities, especially with leg or cervical varicosities –

Chionanthus, Collinsonia

Subacute, from recent liver or portal congestion – Chelidonium

Non-ulcerative with intestinal weakness, steatorrhea – Hydrastis

All cases aggravated or initiated by dietary or alcoholic excess –

Fouquieria

10.16 HICCOUGHS

General – Mentha piperita oil or spirits

Obstinate – Garrya, Viburnum prunifolium

10.17 IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

General – Mentha piperita oil (10-20 drops in a capsule 4x/day, or, if

possible, enteric coated capsules)

with chronic ileo-cecal inflammation or cramps – Myrica

with occasional colitis-like bleeding – Erigeron

with constipative phase dominant, in adrenergic stress individuals –

Glycyrrhiza

10.18 NAUSEA

After eating – Anemopsis, Mahonia, Mentha arvensis, Mentha piperita

Before eating with anorexia – Gentiana, Swertia

In morning from alcohol abuse – Hydrastis, Myrica, Picraena

In morning, after fatty breakfast – Iris, Larrea, Mahonia

From motion sickness, excitation – Cereus, Cola

After sick headache – Mentha viridis

General anesthetic – Lavandula, Matricaria, Nepeta

General antispasmodic – Dioscorea, Garrya

10.19 PERITONITIS

Recuperative for distention – Xanthoxylum

Post-operative – Bryonia

with lingering autotoxicity – Astragalus, Echinacea

10.20 PINWORMS

General treatment – Picraena enema

Preventative or recuperation – Artemesia absinthium, Artemesia vulgaris

10.21 PROLAPSUS

Ani – Aloe

Rectal mucosa – Abies

10.22 SHIGELLOSIS

Supportive to primary therapy – Baptisia and Echinacea

Recuperative period – Anemopsis, Hydrastis, Ptelea

For cramps – Garrya

For lingering autotoxicity – Mahonia, Taraxacum

10.23 STEATORRHEA

From overindulgence in fats – Chionanthus, Fouquieria

with bile deficiency, nausea, sick headache – Mahonia

with ileocecal irritability – Fouquieria, Larrea, Rumex crispus

with eruptions on buttocks – Juglans and Rumex crispus

10.24 ULCERS

Gastric, with vomiting – Geranium, Krameria

Gastric or duodenal, slow healing – Anemopsis, Mahonia

Bleeding – Capsella, Cinnamomum, Erigeron, Quercus

Subacute or chronic, not inflamed but congested – Bursera, Commiphora,

Hydrastis, Ptelea

Subacute or chronic with vomiting or spitting of ropy mucus -Anemopsis,

Myrica

Duodenal, with pain shooting to navel – Piper methysticum

Waking pain during first REM period – Myrica and Piper methysticum

General, for pain, in place of antacids – Symphytum leaf, Neutralizing

Cordial

10.25 VOMITING

General – Anemopsis, Coffea, Caryophyllus, Dioscorea, Mentha piperita,

Nepeta

From alcohol abuse the night before – Coptis, Hydrastis, Picraena,

Ptelea

From fats, pastry abuse – Iris, Mahonia

with diarrhea, pointed tongue – Rheum

with pointed tongue – Neutralizing Cordial

10.26 WORMS

Tapeworms – Aspidium

Ascaris – Chenopodium

Lumbricoid – Spigelia

Pinworms, threadworms – Castela, Picraena (both internal and as enemas)

10.27 OTHER PARASITES

Entameba histolytica – Castela OR Picraena and Rheum

Giardia – Castela, Picraena

 

 

11SKIN – HAIR

 

11.1 ABSCESS

Acute, local – Anemopsis, Calendula, Propolis (all topical)

with septicemia, swellings – Baptisia and Echinacea

with fetid discharge – Echinacea externally and internally

To stimulate granulation – Balsam of Peru, Calendula (both externally)

Stimulating poultice – Althea powder (poultice base), Astragalus,

Baptisia, Echinacea, Thuja or Zingiber tinctures as moistening

agents

11.2 ABRASIONS

with bruises and dermal irritations – Hamamelis, Hyssopus (both

externally)

As topical disinfectant – Coptis, Echinacea, Humulus, Hydrastis,

Propolis, Usnea

11.3 ACNE

Face and scalp – Mahonia

with constipation, flatulence – Juglans

without intestinal involvement – Arctium, long term

with few large eruptions on back, neck, buttocks – Rumex crispus

From moderate autotoxicity, with mouth sores – Taraxacum, long term

From excessive cortical hormones – Eleutherococcus- Panax quinquefolium

11.4 ALOPECIA

Apocynum, Capsicum, Pilocarpus, Polymnia, Silphium, all used externally

11.5 DECUBITUS

Simple, uncomplicated – Calendula externally

with necrosis – Echinacea, internally and externally

with granular ulcerations – Quercus externally

Preventative – Benzoin externally

Recuperative – Bursera, Commiphora, both externally

11.6 DRY, HOT SKIN

Aristolochia serpentaria, Asarum, Asclepias tuberosa, Capsicum,

Xanthoxylum, Zingiber

11.7 ECZEMA

General – Arctium (long term), Matricaria (as bath), Peganum

Dry – Aristolochia (all), Mahonia, Solanum dulcamara

Pustular with boil cycles – Alnus, Rumex crispus

with sticky exudate – Echinacea

Chronic vesicular – Grindelia externally

Endogenous, metabolic – Arctium, Solanum dulcamara

From candidiasis, iatrogenic sequela – Tabebuia

with constipation, flatulence – Juglans

w/history of lymphadenitis, non-dietary fissures in corners of mouth,

vagina, anus – Phytolacca

Brought on specifically by emotional crisis – Oplopanax

with secondary infections – Thalictrum externally

Facilitating any external measures – Berberis, Mahonia

with chronic poor fat digestion, dry skin – Angelica sinensis,

Fouquieria, Iris, Larrea, Rumex crispus

Obstinate, not reactive to any measures, with short

“honeymoon” – Asclepias tuberosa, Solanum dulcamara

11.8 EMOLLIENT

Althea, Symphytum, Ulmus

11.9 FISSURES

General orificial – Anemopsis, Calendula, Symphytum (all externally)

Rectal -Anemopsis (sitz bath), Coptis (sitz bath),Hydrastis (retention

enema)

Anal – Anemopsis as sitz bath, 8 fl. oz. strong decoction in bath at a

time

11.10 HAIR

Tonic – Ceanothus flowers, Matricaria, Urtica seeds (all external)

Hair loss – see ALOPECIA

Seborrhea – Arctium seed oil, Peganum (both externally)

Dry, itchy scalp, no dandruff – Lavandula oil, Rosmarinus oil (both

externally)

11.11 HERPES SIMPLEX

To speed regeneration – Bursera, Commiphora, Echinacea (all externally)

Subacute – Hydrastis, internally and externally

with secondary bacterial infection – Calendula

11.12 HYPERHIDROSIS

Xanthium

11.13 KELOIDS

Prevention – Cajeput oil (“Tea Tree”), Calendula oil (both externally)

11.14 POISON OAK/IVY

Alnus (external), Cypripedium (internally and externally), Echinacea

(externally), Epipactis (internally and externally), Grindelia

(externally), Impatiens (fresh plant externally), Lobelia acetum

tincture (externally). (nothin’ works that great…fresh Grindelia

and Impatiens the best)

11.15 PRURITUS

Pruritus senilis, with itching – Cannabis, Scutellaria

General – Mahonia

11.16 PSORIASIS

General – Berberis, Mahonia, Peganum

Chronic, no major intestinal involvements -Arctium when irritable bowel

syndrome or colitis triggers acute episode – Rumex

when pelvic congestion, hemorrhoids, dull urethritis triggers acute

episode – Fouquieria

with distinct metabolic causes – Solanum dulcamara

11.17 SCABIES

Balsam of Peru or Balsam of Tolu

11.18 SKIN ULCERS

General external – Anemopsis, Calendula, Coptis, Hydrastis

with septicemia, edema, fever – Baptisia and Echinacea

with necrosis – Echinacea (internally and externally)

with spongy granulation – Quercus externally

with fetid discharge or gangrenous lesions – Echinacea, Eucalyptus oil,

Thuja oil or fresh tincture (all externally)

with faulty circulation – Solanum dulcamara (internally and as bath),

Symphytum externally, fresh leaves juiced (one a day)

On oily, moist surfaces -Bursera, Commiphora, Propolis (all externally)

Chronic, indolent, with impaired circulation – Arctium (internally long

term),Grindelia (internally and externally)

General protective cover – Chlorophyllin, Lycopodium, Usnea

11.19 SUPPURATIONS (all externally)

without pyogenic membranes, shallow – Calendula

with pyogenic membrane – Arctium

with necrosis, in strong individuals – Echinacea, Thuja

with necrosis, in weak individuals – Echinacea and Baptisia

11.20 TINEA (all externally)

Barbae – Chlorogalum, Cupressus

Capitatis – Chlorogalum, Cupressus, Peganum

Versicolor – Thuja (fresh leaf tincture)

Corporis – Cajeput (“Tea Tree”) oil, Cupressus (fresh tincture),

Phytolacca (fresh berry tincture), Sanguinaria, Thuja (fresh

tincture best, oil serviceable)

11.21 URTICARIA

Aconitum carmichaelii (cured Chinese),Echinacea (externally), Paullinia

 

 

12MUSCLES, BONES, CONNECTIVE TISSUE

 

12.1 ARTHRITIS

Rheumatoid – Agave, Equisetum, Harpagophytum, Tabebuia, Yucca

Osteoarthritis – Harpagophytum

When accompanied by elevated lipids and uric acid – Harpagophytum

Topical applications – Anemopsis, Arnica, Gaultheria oil, Heterotheca,

Nicotiana

Baths – Anemopsis, Brickellia, Cacalia, Gutierrezia, Heterotheca,

Larrea, Matricaria

Diuretics – Anemopsis, Capsella, Guaiacum

Anti-inflammatories – Anemopsis, Gaultheria, Harpagophytum, Populus,

Salix, Yucca

12.2 ASTHENIA

Senile – Capsicum, Cola, Myrica, Xanthoxylum

with poor digestion, vascular weakness, pale mucosa -Abies, Aristolochia

12.3 BRUISES

Topical – Artemesia (acetum tincture), Arnica, Hypericum oil, Hyssopus

Internal – Opuntia flowers, Quercus

12.4 GOUT

For inflammation – Harpagophytum, Matricaria (bath)

For the hyperuricemia – Arctium, Capsella, Daucus, Harpagophytum,

Taraxacum, Tribulus

12.5 MUSCULAR PAIN

General – Anemopsis, Cannabis, Gaultheria oil (diluted, externally),

Kalmia, Pedicularis

From strain and overexertion – Arnica externally

without hyperemia – Hypericum externally

From change of weather – Cimicifuga

Dull, aching, “rheumatoid” – Actaea, Cimicifuga

Poultice or fomentation -Achillea, Hypericum oil, Hyssopus, Matricaria,

Nicotiana

When recuperating from debilitating, protracted illness -Cola and Panax

quinquefolium

12.6 RHEUMATIC PAINS

with heavy, aching, deep pains – Cimicifuga

Acute inflammatory – Actaea, Cimicifuga, Gaultheria oil (diluted),

Hypericum oil

Acute, non-inflammatory with mild auto-toxicity – Jeffersonia

Chronic – Capsicum plaster

with cold hands, feet, poor circulation, debility – Guaiacum,

Xanthoxylum

with dry cough, chronic indigestion, intercostal neuralgia -Asclepias

(all), Xanthoxylum

12.7 SPRAINS

General external – Artemesia (acetum tincture), Arnica, Gaultheria oil

without heat – Hypericum oil

with sharp muscle spasms – Pedicularis

with dull muscle ache – Cimicifuga

12.8 SYNOVITIS

Aseptic – Bryonia

without inflammation – Hypericum (internal and external)

12.9 TENDONITIS

Deep, aching dull pain with muscle involvement – Cimicifuga

Chronic – Echinacea for extended length

 

 

13REPRODUCTIVE

 

13.1 AMENORRHEA

Simple, crampy – Asarum, Hedeoma, Mentha pulegium

with depressions – Cypripedium, Epipactis, Pulsatilla

with constipation – Aloe

From recent viral infection – Aristolochia (all), Asarum, Asclepias

(all), Carthamus

with backache, fullness, aching pelvis – Gossypium

with anemia – Chamaelirium and astringent douches

From exposure to cold – Aristolochia serpentaria, Asarum

In adolescence (primary) – Senecio

with irritation, pelvic and lumbar pain – Cimicifuga, Leonurus

Accompanying chronic, debilitating disease -Aristolochia (all), Senecio

Chronic, with congestion, irritation – Caulophyllum, Cimicifuga

with mood swings and simple hypofunction in asthenic women – Angelica

sinensis (Dong Quai)

13.2 CERVICITIS

with ulceration – Calendula as douche, Echinacea tincture and glycerine

(1:4 ratio) as night-time suppository

with dysmenorrhea and dysuria – Mitchella, Rubus

with congestion and poor venous circulation – Angelica sinensis,

Caulophyllum

Concurrent with hemorrhoids, occasional ache on urination or varicose

vein aggravation – Fouquieria

13.3 DYSMENORRHEA

General -Cypripedium, Dioscorea, Epipactis, Garrya, Viburnums, Hayden’s

Viburnum Compound

with congestion, lengthy cycles (30 days or more) – Angelica sinensis,

Caulophyllum

Progesterone deficiency – Vitex

with depressions and lengthy history of PMS – Pulsatilla, Vitex

Slow onset, with clots – Gossypium

Towards end of menses with red blood – Rubus

Clonic spasms with intestinal cramps referred to thighs and sacral

dermatomes – Viburnum opulus

Non-clonic colicky lumbar and pelvic pain and scanty flow – Viburnum

prunifolium

with poor appetite, indigestion, old sensations and constipation –

Aristolochia (all), Xanthoxylum

Sensations of distention and congestion in uterus and rectum –

Chamaelirium

Irritability, lumbar and pelvic pain, unrest – Leonurus

with congested uterus and pain on walking or climbing stairs –

Cimicifuga

Iatrogenic complications from antihistamine or anti-inflammatory

medication – Gossypium

13.4 ENDOMETRITIS/METRITIS

General – Angelica sinensis, Caulophyllum

Antispasmodic – Cannabis

with fever – Echinacea and Baptisia

with senescent neutrophils or immunosuppression – add Commiphora to

the previous

13.5 FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE

Ceanothus with the deletion of all caffeine, theobromine and

theophylline in diet.

Acute phase – Ceanothus and Phytolacca

13.6 HYDROCELE

Acute – Ceanothus and Angelica sinensis

13.7 IMPOTENCE/”FRIGIDITY”

General – Gossypium, Ptychopetalum

with dysuria – Serenoa, Tribulus

with depressed circulation and intestinal function -Aristolochia (all),

Asafetida

General lassitude, poor sacral stimulation, cold hands and feet –

Ptychopetalum

From constant anxiety and depression regarding sexuality with fear of

no arousal, lubrication or erection – Pulsatilla, Turnera

Emotional distraction and cooling of skin during love-making –

Aristolochia serpentaria

with depressed testosterone and sperm count in males w/out prostatitis

– Corynanthe

with arousal but weak and vague uterine contractions or ejaculation in

orgasm – Gossypium

Physical response but with intellectual devolvement -Turnera(some claim

tequila works also…)

13.8 LEUKORRHEA

viscous but without smell, with pelvic atony and hemorrhoids -Corydalis

Hypersecretory, milky, little smell – Frankenia (as douche) and

Hydrastis (internally), Geranium (as douche), Pulsatilla

Viscous, fetid -Angelica sinensis, Chamaelirium, Chilopsis (as douche),

Hamamelis and Hydrastis (as douche), Tabebuia (as douche and

internally)

Supportive to poor mucosa tone and cramps – Viburnum (all)

Supportive to local itching and pain – Anemopsis and Larrea sitz bath

13.9 MENARCHE DELAY (primary amenorrhea)

General – Angelica sinensis, Cimicifuga, Turnera

with recent growth spurt and increased pubic hair – Panax (all uncured)

13.10 MENOPAUSE

Basic initial treatment – Angelica sinensis, Nuphar, Vitex

with cardiac arrhythmias – Cereus

with melancholia after hot flashes – Avena, Cypripedium, Epipactis

with recurring dysuria but no inflammation – Juniperus

with congested uterus and pain on walking, dancing, jiggling –

Cimicifuga

with pains and pelvic discomfort, referred down legs, no pathology –

Caulophyllum

with sense of pressure and pain in ovaries, uterus, sacrum, bladder,

with nervousness and sense of confusion – Avena and Caulophyllum

with early osteoporosis symptoms – Angelica sinensis with Equisetum and

Medicago sativa tea

“Surgical Menopause” after 35 years of age, as possible alternative to

hormone replacement therapy -“Dong Quai Jin” (common Chinese patent

medicine elixir formula), Angelica sinensis and Glycyrrhiza

13.11 MENORRHAGIA

General preventative – Angelica sinensis, Vitex

General treatment – Gossypium, Viburnums (all)

with heavy bleeding first several days – Capsella

with heavy bleeding towards end of menses – Trillium

with fibroids Trillium

with diarrhea or colon cramping – Cimicifuga

13.12 MITTELSCHMERZ

General – Dioscorea, Viburnums (all)

with diarrhea or colon cramping – Cimicifuga

13.13 ORCHITIS/EPIDIDYMITIS

Tenderness upon pressure – Bryonia

with venous congestion, heaviness – Cimicifuga

with portal congestion, hemorrhoids, varicosities – Fouquieria

with hemorrhoids only – Collinsonia

with red, enlarged and painful testicles, no major pathology –

Pulsatilla

with hard inguinal nodes, no current infection – Phytolacca

Chronic in aged – Angelica sinensis, Salvia apiana, Serenoa

13.14 P.M.S.

Initial approach – Angelica sinensis

Secondary approach – Vitex

with muscular rigidity, nervous tension or pain in chest – Leonurus

with insomnia, restless in evening – Passiflora

with easily startled disposition, easy adrenergic discharge, jumpy –

Avena

with oily skin and abdominal heaviness, food cravings, especially for

fats and proteins – Mahonia daily for the week before menses

with craving for sugar, fruit, carbo-junk food – Brickellia

Chronic every month, without insomnia – Populus for 3 days before

beginning of menses

Chronic, but with complete cycle always more than 28 days long –

Angelica sinensis

13.15 PROSTATITIS

Acute, general – Epilobium, Eryngium

with incontinence – Cupressus, Thuja

with discharge and inflammation – Anemopsis

with irritable bladder, dribbling – Agropyron, Equisetum

from excessive sexual activity – Piper methysticum

after protracted celibacy – Gossypium

Subacute/chronic, with pelvic and sacral pain – Cimicifuga, Eupatorium

purpureum

with urethritis – Gaultheria, Mitchella, Piper methysticum

with mucopurulent or acidic urine – Arctostaphylos and Barosma

enlarged with dull ache in older males -Angelica sinensis, Gossypium,

Salvia apiana, Serenoa

enlarged, no inflammation – Agropyron, Serenoa

enlarged, no inflammation, with discharge – Juniperus

with spermatorrhea – Eryngium

Preventative – Gossypium and pumpkin seeds

13.16 STERILITY/INFERTILITY

In females – Angelica sinensis, “Dong Quai Jin” or “Woman’s Longevity”

patent Chinese formulas, any of above for four or five consecutive

days a month, starting just before ovulation

In males with depressed testosterone, low sperm count – Angelica

sinensis, Corynanthe, Gossypium, Panax (all)

13.17 UTERUS

Atony – Angelica sinensis, Chamaelirium

especially sexual – Gossypium

with dull aching – Actaea, Cimicifuga

Colic – Gelsemium, Viburnums (all)

Congestion, with hemorrhoids or dull aching urination – Collinsonia,

Fouquieria, Hamamelis

Endometritis, chronic, reoccurring, with inflammatory episodes –

Caulophyllum

Fibroids, with cyclic bleeding – Capsella, Trillium

Inflammation – Caulophyllum, Gossypium, Trillium, Viburnum

with cramps – Dioscorea

Prolapse – Arctium, Chamaelirium, Cimicifuga, Gossypium

13.18 VAGINITIS

Acute – Caulophyllum, Commiphora, Gossypium (all internally), Althea

Echinacea, Krameria (all as douches), Arctostaphylos, Anemopsis,

Rubus, Symphytum leaf (all as sitz baths)

Subacute – Anemopsis, Coptis, Hydrastis, Simmondsia (all as sitz baths)

with bartholin gland cysts – Anemopsis (sitz bath)

Chronic with large dragging uterus, painful with movement – Cimicifuga

13.19 VICARIOUS MENSES

Capsella

13.20 VULVITIS

Acute, with fever – Aconitum

with incontinence – Gossypium

with irritation and burning – Piper cubeba, Thuja (internally),

Tabebuia (sitz bath)

Subacute – Tabebuia (internally), Anemopsis, Coptis, Myrica (all as

sitz baths)

Chronic, with pelvic congestion – Collinsonia

 

 

14 OBSTETRIC-PREGNANCY

 

14.1 HEMORRHAGE

Post – partum, passive from lack of contraction – Cinnamomum, Erigeron,

Gossypium

with good uterine tone – Capsella

with tearing or episiotomy – Arctostaphylos sitz bath

14.2 LABOR

False or Braxton-Hicks pains – Cimicifuga, Viburnum (all)

with feeble, erratic contractions, first stage – Cimicifuga

with simple uterine exhaustion – Gossypium

Arrested – Asclepias asperula

Delayed, from fatigue, weak uterus with history of inflammation –

Caulophyllum

Rigidity of cervix, thick, doughy – Lobelia thin, rigid – Gelsemium

with restlessness, fear, excitation – Gelsemium

with great sense of coldness – Aristolochia serpentaria

14.3 LACTATION

Poor quality and quantity – Medicago, Vitex

Suppressed from nervousness, mild sympathetic excess – Foeniculum,

Gossypium

with painful, swollen breasts – Pulsatilla

Excessive reflex pain – Cimicifuga

Poor letdown or other oxytocin reflexes – Gossypium

To wean – Salvia

14.4 MASTITIS

Acute -Phytolacca (external) with Gossypium and Ceanothus (internally)

with swollen lymphatics, marked inflammation – Bryonia

As soothing poultice – Melilotus

14.5 MISCARRIAGE

Impending, with cramps as main symptom – Dioscorea, Viburnum (all)

with nervous irritability and cramps – Chamaelirium

with moderate spotting as main symptom – Capsella

14.6 MORNING SICKNESS

Amygdalus persica (cold infusion), Dioscorea, Cola (in moderation)

14.7 PRE-PARTUM

Primipara, last 2-3 weeks – Cimicifuga

with irritability, distress last trimester – Aralia racemosa, Mitchella

with history of first or second trimester miscarriage – Mitchella

General, last trimester – Rubus

14.8 RIGID CERVIX

Thick, doughy – Lobelia

Thin, rigid – Gelsemium

14.9 STOMATITIS

While nursing – Echinacea

14.10 UTERINE SUBINVOLUTION

with poor drainage – Asclepias asperula

with poor tone and reflex contractions – Gossypium

with dull ache, sense of heaviness – Cimicifuga

with dull ache, rectal symptoms, aggravated by diet – Collinsonia

with vertex and occipital headache – Fraxinus

14.11 VARICOSITIES

Hamamelis (external fomentation), Achillea (fresh plant poultice)

 

 

15 PEDIATRIC

 

15.1 COLIC

with flatulence – Anisum, Asarum, Carum, Foeniculum, Nepeta

with crying, agitated, hysterical – Matricaria, Nepeta, Passiflora

with moderate pain, sour breath, nausea – Lavandula

General intestinal antispasmodic – Dioscorea

15.2 COUGH

with acute laryngitis and wheezing – Lobelia

with spasms – Cannabis, Lobelia, Prunus, Valeriana, Verbascum

Emotional, neurotic – Passiflora, Verbascum

15.3 CYSTITIS and URETHRITIS

Althea, Zea

Healing bath – Rubus

15.4 DIARRHEA

Epilobium with Mentha piperita, blackberry juice concentrate

15.5 ERUPTION

Measles – Asarum, Carthamus

with imperfect or tardy eruptions, dry irritable cough – Lobelia

Cradle cap – Anthemis, Cupressus, Peganum (all externally)

15.6 FEVERS

Suppressed sweating -Asarum, Hedeoma, Mentha arvensis, Mentha piperita,

Nepeta

with dry bronchitis, moist skin – Asclepias tuberosa

Agitated and hysterical with pain on palpation of hypochondrium or

epigastric region – Matricaria, Passiflora, Verbena

15.7 HEADACHE

Digestive – Asclepias tuberosa

General – Gaultheria tea

with moist skin, hot head – Matricaria, Nepeta

15.8 INCONTINENCE

Small quantity of urine while sleeping – Piper cubeba

Large quantity from relaxed bladder or trigone – Plantago major,

Verbascum root

15.9 PAIN

Eyes and nose, sharp itching pain, hay fever – Ambrosia, Encelia,

Euphrasia

Ears – Allium, Eugenia, Verbascum flowers, all as steeped (NOT

essential) oils

Joints, muscles – Heterotheca externally, Pedicularis internally

15.10 POST-NASAL DRIP

Populus candicans

15.11 TEETHING

In the otherwise nervous fretful child – Cypripedium, Epipactis

with usual agitation and G.I. disturbance of teething – Echinacea

with cold sores or stomatitis – Anemopsis rubbed on gums

15.12 THRUSH

Coptis, Ligustrum, Malva, Tabebuia (all externally)

15.13 VOMITING

General treatment – Spirit of Peppermint, Neutralizing Cordial, Mentha

piperita (tea), Nepeta

with green diarrhea – Amygdalus cold infusion, Epilobium, Matricaria

with acidic vomit – Lavandula

 

 

16BLOOD

 

16.1 COAGULATION/VISCOSITY

Thin, anemic – Rumex crispus, Silybum

with hypersensitivities – Aralia, Panax, Oplopanax, Taraxacum

Thick, frontal headaches after meals – Ceanothus, Tribulus

Chronic slow coagulation without hemopathy – Ceanothus

16.2 DYSCRASIAS

General – Echinacea

with scaly skin eruptions, impaired nutrition – Berberis, Mahonia

with sluggish digestion, hyposecretions – Corydalis

16.3 SEPTICEMIA

with ulceration, decay, swollen tissue – Astragalus, Baptisia

with strong immunologic vitality – Echinacea

with weak immunologic vitality – Baptisia

16.4 SERUM LEVELS

Bilirubinemia without active hepatitis – Linaria, Silybum

Cholesterol elevations – Allium, Arctium, Harpagophytum, Panax

quinquefolium, Tribulus

Creatinine, moderate elevation, renal cause – Equisetum, Hydrangea,

Lycopus

Hyperlipidemia, general -Allium, Aralia (all) Arctium, Eleutherococcus,

Harpagophytum, Oplopanax, Panax quinquefolium, Taraxacum, Tribulus

SGOT, SGPT elevations with elevated bilirubin, no active hepatitis –

Chionanthus, Larrea, Linaria, Silybum

WBC depressions, any cause – Echinacea and Commiphora

T4 low – Hydrocotyle

Uric acid elevation – Arctium, Capsella, Daucus, Harpagophytum,

Taraxacum

Alkalosis, metabolic – Panax (all)

Acidosis, subclinical – Arctium, Taraxacum, Urtica

LDL, VLDL elevated – Aristolochia serpentaria, Iris, Panax

quinquefolium, Tribulus

 

 

17ALLERGIES

 

17.1 GENERAL

General – Berberis, Mahonia, Tabebuia

17.2 HAY FEVER

General – Ephedra (all)

In particularly sensitive individuals – Ephedra viridis

with watery eyes, nasal membranes – Ambrosia, Encelia, Euphrasia

17.3 SECONDARY HYPERSENSITIVITIES

Gentiana, Mahonia, Menyanthes

(See also: PULMONARY – Asthma; GASTROINTESTINAL – Colitis, Dyspepsia,

Irritable Bowel Syndrome; SKIN – Acne, Eczema, Psoriasis; METABOLIC;

and LYMPH- IMMUNOLOGIC)

 

 

18INFECTIOUS

 

18.1 ENDOGENOUS

General – Echinacea

In feeble individuals – Echinacea with Baptisia and Phytolacca

with depressed WBC – Bursera, Commiphora

with serous membrane involvement – Bryonia

18.2 FEVERS

Septic – Echinacea and Baptisia

Delirium, secretory with nervous depression – Bryonia

Delirium, frequent fitful wakings – Cannabis

Dry with deep aching pain – Verbena

Moist with deep aching pain – Eupatorium perfoliatum

Post-febrile, excessive sweating, malaise, frequent, dilute urine –

Leucanthemum

Dry, hot, interrupted diaphoresis – Asarum, Hedeoma, Ligusticum

w/flushed face, bright eyes, contracted pupils, excitation,

hyperemia, not congested – Gelsemium

w/flushed face, bloodshot eyes, agitation, bounding pulse, suppressed

sweating, mucus inflammations – Aconitum

w/flushed face, bloodshot eyes, bounding pulse, vascular excess –

Veratrum

Periodic, in evenings with moist skin, unresolved sweating –

Aristolochia serpentaria

 

 

19 NUTRITIONAL

 

19.1 MALNUTRITION

Appetite poor, nervous, weak – Medicago or Trifolium tea with Avena

Recuperation from major illness, surgery – Medicago, Trifolium, Urtica

In mineral deficiencies – Fucus

Anemia, dyspepsia, anorexia, poor assimilation, functional pelvic

irritability – Angelica sinensis, Chamaelirium

19.2 MALABSORPTION

In the aged and convalescent -Gentiana, Menyanthes, Panax (all uncured)

with faulty starch digestion and dyspepsia – Humulus

with steatorrhea but no ileo-cecal inflammation, dark feces with bad

breath , subcutaneous pre-acne eruptions -Aristolochia serpentaria,

Aristolochia watsonii, Fouquieria

In radical dietary changes w/sluggish pancreatic and succus entericus

response – Iris

In moderate parathyroid imbalances – Equisetum, Medicago, Trifolium,

Urtica, all as tea

In poor absorption in ileum of bile acids, fat soluble vitamins,

intrinsic factor or B12 – Anemopsis, Rheum, Rumex crispus

In conjunction with lipotropic therapies – Aristolochia (all), Larrea

In poor protein absorption – Berberis, Mahonia, Menyanthes

 

 

20 METABOLIC

 

20.1 ASTHENIA

Frequent sense of chill in warm room, fingers cold, appetite poor but

elimination normal, though skin dry – Oplopanax, Panax (all)

Real chill aggravating chronic disorders, hypersensitive skin in

thoracic and lumbar dermatomes – Aristolochia serpentaria

20.2 CANCER

Supportive in lymph dysplasias – Fouquieria, Phytolacca

Supportive in upper G.I. neoplasias – Acorus, Gentiana, Marsdenia

Supportive in skin cancers – Larrea (externally)

Supportive antimetastatic – Trifolium

Immunosuppression from therapy – Echinacea with marked WBC depression –

Echinacea and Commiphora

Anorexia from therapy – Acorus, Cannabis, Euonymus, Panax quinquefolium

20.3 DEBILITY

with poor secretions, dryness – Capsicum, Zingiber

with atonic, asthenic, dyspneic symptoms, CNS depression – Cola

with vague, adrenergic-induced depression – Lobelia

with chronic skin disorders, ulceration, easily disordered fluid

homeostasis – Rumex crispus

20.4 DIABETES/HYPOGLYCEMIA

Functional hypergluconeogenesis – Brickellia, Hydrastis, Mahonia

Functional hyperglycemia, especially before meals – Brickellia,

Gentiana, Menyanthes, Swertia (all as a bitter just before eating)

Adult onset, insulin resistant diabetes – Brickellia, Cacalia, Opuntia

(juice), Phaseolus (dried pod tea), Tecoma

Juvenile onset, insulin dependent, adjunctive to lessen insulin use –

Vaccinium

General preventative for hypoglycemia and insulin resistent, early

stages – Oplopanax, Panax (all uncured)

20.5 HYPOGLYCEMIA

Sympathomimetics -Paullinia, Panax ginseng (Kirin Chinese/Korean Red)

Cerebral vasodilators to increase site glucose availability as opposed

to real increase in serum glucose – Capsicum, Ginkgo, Myrica,

Xanthoxylum

20.6 OBESITY

Appetite depressant – Mirabilis, Paullinia

 

 

21 LYMPH-IMMUNE

 

21.1 IMMUNITY

Innate, to stimulate -Althea, Aristolochia (all), Astragalus, Baptisia,

Bursera, Commiphora, Cupressus, Echinacea, Eupatorium perfoliatum,

Fouquieria, Iris versicolor, Stillingia, Thuja, Viola

Acquired, to stimulate – Echinacea

21.2 IMMUNOSUPPRESSION

Recent, from stress – Echinacea and Commiphora

Extended, with congestion, edema – Astragalus, Baptisia, or Hydrastis

combined with Echinacea

21.3 LEUKOCYTOSIS

Echinacea and Ligusticum porteri or Lomatium dissectum

21.4 LEUKOPENIA

Echinacea and Commiphora

21.5 LYMPHADENITIS

Inflammatory with fever – Echinacea

In inguinal nodes – Fouquieria, Phytolacca

In chronic debility – Ceanothus with Astragalus or Baptisia

Cervical or under jaw – Ceanothus

with ulcerations of mouth – Coptis, Corydalis

with hard, inflames, not shotty, nodes – Phytolacca

with congested cisterna chyli and thoracic ducts – Fouquieria

with depression or agitation, strong apocrine secretions, following

massage, workouts, or energetic manipulations – Stillingia

21.6 LYMPHANGITIS

Acute in strong individuals – Echinacea and Lomatium

Acute in weak individuals -Echinacea and Astragalus, “Alterative syrup”

Subacute, lingering – Iris versicolor, Stillingia, Xanthoxylum

21.7 MONONUCLEOSIS

Acute stages – Echinacea and Lomatium

with hepatomegaly – Polymnia

with widespread soft and inflamed nodes – Ceanothus

with steatorrhea, portal congestion, hemorrhoids – Fouquieria

General supportive – Ceanothus, Echinacea, Polymnia

21.8 MUMPS

Acute – Phytolacca and Aconitum (2:1), small frequent doses

with high fever – Gelsemium

with muscular aching – Cimicifuga

Topical lotion – Echinacea and Phytolacca (3:1), diluted well

21.9 SPLENITIS

Infectious, as supportive – Polymnia

Subacute, chronic, or secondary to hepatitis – Ceanothus

 

 

22PSYCHIATRIC

 

22.1 ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Mild in adolescence – Cannabis, Panax (all uncured)

with delayed menarche, pelvic congestion, pains in back of feet, sacral

irritation – Cimicifuga

Iatrogenic from drugs – Cannabis, Euonymus, Panax quinquefolium

22.2 APATHY

Tired, weary with confusion – Bryonia

Aggravated by cold, with hypersensitive thoracic dermatomes –

Aristolochia serpentaria

Aggravated by cold, confused, sluggish metabolism – Xanthoxylum

with pale face, depression, atonic digestion – Actaea

with dull aching in joints, muscles – Cimicifuga

22.3 DEPRESSION

with nervous irritation – Pulsatilla

with sluggish neurologic and parasympathetic functions – Valeriana

with shallow respiration, rapid pulse, dilated pupils – Lobelia

with painful, spasmodic diseases – Cannabis

with physical agitation, over-sensitivity to stimulus – Scutellaria

Unipolar depressive states – Hypericum, Peganum

22.4 HYSTERIA

In depressive states – Pulsatilla, Valeriana

From psychoactive drug use – Passiflora

Convulsive – Lobelia

with great sensitivity to stimulus – Aconitum, Scutellaria

with adrenergic-induced exhaustion – Avena

with heat along spinal cord, distal hypersthenia – Hypericum

with sweating and strong apocrine scent – Xanthium

w/full, bounding pulse, bloodshot eyes throbbing carotids,”Incredible

Hulk Syndrome” – Veratrum

 

 

23PAIN

 

23.1 GENERAL

After inflammatory or hyperemic states, recuperative period – Hypericum

In the asthenic, with sense of cold – Melilotus

In the sthenic, with sharp pain, gradually increasing – Aconitum,

Leonurus

Neurogenic, with agitation and increased CNS sensitivity – Leonurus,

Scutellaria

Made less bearable by fear, agitation – Scutellaria

23.2 HANGOVER

General – Paullinia

Liverish. dark circles under eyes – Larrea, Linaria, Mahonia

23.3 HEADACHE

Migraines, to prevent in anabolic-dominant types – Parthenium

vasoconstrictor – Paullinia, Vinca major

antispasmodic – Cypripedium, Epipactis

vasodilator – Anemone, Clematis, Pulsatilla

Migraine-like, chronic in evenings with out hypoglycemia – Passiflora

with dyspepsia – Populus tremuloides (before meals), Humulus

with vertigo, in asthenics – Jeffersonia

in temples, with moisture on back of neck – Clematis

Inner-orbital – Umbellularia, inhalation of tincture

Cervical-occipital, with confusion, aggravated by movement – Bryonia

From eyestrain – Gelsemium

From fevers – Cornus, Echinacea

In hypertensive states with ringing in ears – Passiflora, Viscum

In digestive disfunction, following meals – Chionanthus, Mahonia,

Menyanthes, Veronicastrum

Reflex uterine – Actaea

with throbbing head, cerebral hyperemia – Coffea, Paullinia

with red face, corners of eyes inflamed – All caffeine plants

23.4 SEROUS MEMBRANES

with excessive perspiration – Bryonia

with dry skin – Asclepias tuberosa

with fever, skin sensitivity – Aconitum

 

CROSS INDEX

 

abscess, gum 2.6, 2.7

abscess, skin 11.1, 11.18, 11.19

abrasions, skin 11.2

acid indigestion 10.9, 10.11

acne 11.3

adrenal cortex 7.1

adrenal medulla 7.2

albuminuria 9.1

allergies 3.8, 3.9, 17

alopecia 11.4

amebic dysentery 10.8, 10.27

amenorrhea 13.1, 13.9

anemia 19.1, 19.2

angina pectoris 5.1

anorexia 10.1, 22.1

anxiety 5.4, 22

apathy 22.2

aphthous stomatitis 2.2

apnea 4.1

arrhythmias 5.12

arteriosclerosis 5.2, 6.4

arthritis 12.1

asthenia 12.2, 20.1

asthma 4.2

atonic colon 10.2

bad breath 2.3

bed sores 11.5

bile disorders 8.1, 8.2

biliousness 8.1

birthing 14.1, 14.2, 14.8, 14.10

bladder infections 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.10

children 15.3

bleeding 5.7

gums 2.6

lungs 4.8

stomach 10.14

blood 18

chemistry 16.4

pressure 5.9, 5.11

breast cysts 13.5

sore 14.4

bronchitis 4.3

bronchorrhea 4.4

bruising 5.3, 11.2, 12.3

cancer 10.1, 20.2

candidiasis 10.3, 11.7

capillary fragility 5.3

cardiopathies 5.4

cataracts 1.2

ceruminosis 3.1

cervicitis 13.2, 13.3

cholangitis 8.2

cholecystalgia 8.3

cholecystitis 8.4

cholelithiasis 8.5

chorea 6.1, 6.5

cirrhosis 8.6

coagulation disorders 16.1

colds 3.4

colic, children 15.3

G.I. 10.4, 10.12

renal 9.10

colitis 10.5

colon, atonic 10.2

conjunctivitis 1.3

constipation 10.2, 10.6

convulsions 6.2, 6.4

coughs 4.5

in children 15.2

cradle cap 15.5

cramps, G.I. 10.4, 10.9,

10.10, 10.12

stomach 10.18

uterine 13.3

cystitis 9.3

in children 15.3

cystorrhea 9.2

debility 20.3

decubitus 11.5

delirium tremens 6.3

depression 5.4, 22.3

diabetes 20.4

diarrhea 10.7

in children 15.4

dizziness 6.4

dyscrasias 16.2

dysentery 10.8

dysmenorrhea 13.3

dyspepsia 10.9

dyspnea 4.6

dysuria 9.4

ears 3.1, 3.2

eczema 11.7

edema 5.5

emollient 11.8

emphysema 4.7

endogenous infections 18.1

endometritis 13.4, 13.17

enlarged heart 5.10

epididymitis 13.13

epistaxis 3.3

fevers 18.2

in children 15.6

fibrocystic breast disease 13.5

fibroids, uterine 13.11, 13.17

fissures 11.9

flatulence 10.9, 10.10, 10.11

frigidity 13.7

fungus, skin 11.2

gall bladder 8.1 – 8.5

gallstones 8.5

gas 10.9, 10.10, 10.11

gastritis 10.11

gastroenteritis 10.12

giardia 10.7

glaucoma 1.5

glossitis 2.5

glycosuria 9.5

goiter, exophthalmic 1.6, 7.5

gonadotrophins 7.3

gout 9.8, 12.4

gums 2.6

hair 11.4, 11.10

hangover 8.1, 10.11, 10.25, 23.2

hay fever 3.8, 3.9, 17.2

headache 23.2

in children 15.7

head cold 3.5

heart 5.1, 5.4, 5.6, 5.10

heartburn 10.9, 10.11, 10.13

hematuria 9.6

hemoptysis 4.8

hemorrhage 5.7

hemorrhoids 10.15

hepatitis 8.7

herpes 2.7, 11.11

hiatus hernia 5.12

hiccoughs 10.16

high blood pressure 5.9

hydrocele 13.6

hyperemia 5.8

eyes 1.7

hyperglycemia 20.4

hyperhidrosis 11.12

hypersensitivities 17.3

hypertension 5.9

hypertrophy, cardiac 5.10

hyperuricemia 9.8

hypoglycemia 20.5

hypotension 5.11, 5.12

hysteria 22.4

immunity 21

immunosuppression 21.2

impotence 13.7

incontinence 9.7

in children 15.8

infertility 13.6

influenza 4.9

insomnia 6.6

intraocular pressure 1.15

iritis 1.8

irritable bowel syndrome 10.17

jaundice 8.8

keloids 11.13

kidney infections 9.9, 9.13

pain 9.10, 9.15

stones 9.8

labor 14.2

lachrymitis 1.9

lactation 14.3

laryngitis 3.5

leukocytosis 21.3

leukopenia 21.4

leukorrhea 13.8

lipotropics 5.2

lithiasis 9.8

low blood pressure 5.11

lungs 4

lymphadenitis 21.5

lymphangitis 21.6

malabsorption 19.2

malnutrition 19.1

mastitis 14.4

menarche delay 13.9

menopause 13.10

menorrhagia 13.11

menstruation, lack 13.1, 13.9

heavy 13.11

painful 13.3

metritis 13.4

migraines 23.3

miscarriage 14.5

mittelschmerz 13.2

mononucleosis 21.7

morning sickness 14.6

mouth sores 2.2

multiple sclerosis 6.7

mumps 21.8

muscular pain 12.5

myalgia 12.5

narcolepsy 6.8

nausea 10.18

nephritis 9.9

neuralgia 6.9, 6.10, 6.11

nose 3.3. 3.4. 3.8

obesity 20.6

ophthalmia 1.12

ophthalmalgia 1.13

orchitis 13.3

osteoporosis 19.2

otitis media 3.2

pian 23

in children 15.9

palpitation 5.12

palsy 6.1

paralysis 6.12

ocular 1.14

pemphigus 3.6

periapical abscess 2.6, 2.8

periodontitis 2.6, 2.8

peritonitis 10.19

pharyngitis 3.7

phosphaturia 9.11

pinworms 10.20

pituitary 7.4

pleurisy 4.11

pleurodynia 4.12

P.M.S. 13.14

pneumonia 4.13

poison ivy 11.14

polyuria 9.12

post nasal drip, children 15.1

prolapsus, rectal 10.21

prostatitis 13.15

pruritus 11.15

psoriasis 1.16

pulpitis 2.10

pyelitis 9.13

pyorrhea 2.6, 2.8

rashes 11.7, 11.14, 11.21

regurgitation, cardiac 5.13

renal pain 9.10

rheumatic pain 12.6

rhinitis 3.8

ringworm 11.20

scabies 11.17

seizures 6.2, 6.5

septicemia 16.3, 18.1

serous membranes 4.11, 23.4

sexual lassitude 13.7

shigellosis 10.22

skin, dry 11.6, 11.7

in children 15.5

skin ulcers 11.18

splenitis 21.9

sprains 12.7

steatorrhea 10.23

sterility 13.16

stomatitis 2.2, 2.11, 14.9

strep throat 3.10

styes 1.10

suppurations 11.19

synovitis 12.8

tachycardia 5.4, 7.5

teething 15.11

tendonitis 12.9

thrush 15.12

thyroid 7.5

tinnitus 3.2

tobacco heart 5.14

tongue diagnostics 2.1

tonsillitis 3.11

trench mouth 2.12

ulcers, G.I. 10.24

skin 11.18

ureteralgia 9.15

urination, blocked 9.14

bloody 9.6

frequent 9.12

painful 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.10

uncontrolled 9.7

urticaria 11.21

uterine disorders 13.17, 14.1

vaginitis 13.18

varicose veins 5.15, 14.11

vasoneurosis 5.16

venous stasis 5.17

vicarious menses 13.19

Vincent’s infection 2.12

vomiting 10.25

in children 15.13

vulvitis 13.2

worms 10.26

yeast infection 10.3, 11.7, 13.8