LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA

(LEPTANDRA)

A liver remedy, with jaundice and black, tarry stools . Bilious states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Malarial conditions.

Head

Dull frontal pain; vertigo, drowsiness, and depression. Smarting and aching in eyes.

Stomach

Tongue coated yellow . Great distress in stomach and intestines, with desire for stool. Aching in region of liver extending to spine, which feels chilly.

Stool

Profuse black, fetid stools , with pain at umbilicus. Bleeding piles. Typhoid stools turn black and look like tar. Clay colored stools with jaundice. Prolapse of rectum with hæmorrhoids. Rectal hæmorrhage.

Relationship

Compare: Podop; Iris; Bry; Merc; Ptel; Myrica .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.