JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS

Catarrhal inflammation of kidneys. Dropsy, with suppression of urine. Old persons, with poor digestion and scanty secretion of urine. Chronic pyelitis.

Urinary

Strangury; bloody, scanty urine, violet odor ( Tereb ). Weight in kidney region. Prostatic discharge. Renal hyperæmia ( Eucalyptol ).

Respiratory

Cough with scanty, loaded urine.

Relationship

Compare: Sabina; Juniperus Virginianus -Red Cedar--(Violent tenesmus vesical. Persistent dragging in back; hyperæmia of the kidneys; pyelitis and cystitis; dropsy of the aged with suppressed urine. Dysuria, burning, cutting pain in urethra when urinating. Constant urging apoplexy, convulsions, strangury, uterine hæmorrhage). Terebinthina .

Dose

Best form is the infusion. One ounce to a pint of boiling water. Dose, one-half to two ounces, or tincture, one to ten drops.

JUSTICIA ADHATODA

An Indian Shrub, Singhee

(JUSTICIA ADHATODA BASAKA)

Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract (used in the beginning)

Head

Irritable, sensitive to external impressions; hot, full and heavy head; lachrymation, with coryza, profuse , fluent, with constant sneezing; loss of smell and taste; coryza with cough .

Throat

Dry, pain during empty swallowing, tenacious mucus. Mouth dry.

Respiratory

Dry cough from sternal region all over chest. Hoarseness, larynx painful. Paroxysmal cough , with suffocative obstruction of respiration. Cough with sneezing . Severe dyspnœa with cough. Tightness across chest . Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room. Whooping-cough .

Relationship

Seems to come between Cepa and Euphrasia , which compare.

Dose

Third potency and higher. Severe aggravation have been noticed from lower potencies.