HYDROCOTYLE ASIATICA

Indian Pennywort


  • Curative in disorders that exhibit interstitial inflammation and cellular proliferation in any part. 
  • Hypertrophy and induration of connective tissue. 
  • Has considerable reputation in leprosy and lupus, when there is no ulceration. 
  • The skin symptoms are very important. 
  • Of great use in ulceration of womb. 
  • Difficulty in maintaining the upright posture. 
  • Very copious perspiration. 
  • Pains of cervical cancer.

Face

  • Pain in left cheek-bones and about orbits.

Female

  • Pruritus of vagina. 
  • Inflammation of neck of bladder. 
  • Heat within vagina. 
  • Granular ulceration of womb. 
  • Profuse leucorrhoea. 
  • Dull pain in ovarian region. 
  • Cervical redness.

Skin

  • Dry eruptions. 
  • Great thickening of epidermoid layer and exfoliation of scales. 
  • Psoriasis gyrate, on trunk and extremities, palms and soles. 
  • Pustules on chest. 
  • Circular spots, with scaly edges. 
  • Intolerable itching, especially of soles. 
  • Profuse sweat. 
  • Syphilitic affections. 
  • Acne. 
  • Leprosy. 
  • Elephantiasis (Ars). 
  • Lupus non-exedens.

Relationship

  • Compare: 
    • Elisabeth-South American Palm--(scleroderma, elephantiasis, leprosy, skin thickened, itching and hardened. Anæsthesia). 
    • Hura; 
    • Trychnos Gaultheriana (bites of serpents, ulcers and cutaneous affections generally); 
    • Hoang-Nan. 
    • Chaulomoogra oil from seed of Taraktogenos; 
    • Hydrast; 
    • Arsenic; 
    • Aurum; 
    • Sepia.

Dose

  • First to sixth potency.