🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Ilex Aquifolium. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Ilx-a has been used in coughs, pleurisyInflammation of the lung linings causing sharp chest painInflammation of the pleurae, which impairs their lubricating function and causes sharp pain when breathing., colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., goutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet. and rheuma tism.
Infiltration of cornea,
staphyloma, nightly burning in orbits, rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. inflammation of eye.
Intermittent fever.
Marked eye symptoms,
spleen pain.
All symptoms better in winter.
COMMENTS - Cooper cured spleen pain with it.
His keynote indication for it is “symptoms better in winter.”
He improved with it a bad case of chronic deafness having that peculiar ity.
A feeling of irritation in the urethra
with constant dripping from orifice, probably from prostate, in a man about 50, disappeared after a drop of the
tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water..
Cooper said the diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. of Ilx -a is ac companied with mucus flux and he suggests that it may be useful in
pilosis (sprue).
Hale quoted an artic le by Dr.
Hendricks on the affect of Ilx -a on the eye.
With 5 - drop doses of the lx, given
four times a day.
Dr.
Hendricks cured several cases of “rheumatic inflammation of the eye with periostitis of
the frontal bone, which often leads to staphylomatous degeneration of the cornea.”
Hendricks noted the case of a girl, 17, who had been under the most renowned oculists since her fifth year.
She had great infiltration of cornea, staphyloma, eyeball looked like a lump of flesh.
Nightly burning pains in
orbits.
Ilx-a cured completely in six days
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: (1) Ilx-p. Ilx-v. (2) Ilx-c- Excellent diuretic and substitute for tea.
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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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