# Acalypha Indica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Acai, is a remedy having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs. 
The herbal tincture of the Acai, is a specific in hemorrhage from the lungs. Hemoptysis. Acai, is indicated in 
incipient tuberculosis with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration,  arterial hem orrhage, but no febrile 
disturbance. 
All hemorrhages are aggravated in the morning.  Very weak in the morning, gains strength during the day. 
Progressive emacia tion, sense of weight in the stomach with sense of burning, flatulence and sputtering 
diarrhea.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse in mornings. Cough is aggravated at night.

## Symptoms by System

### Chest
- Dullness of chest on percussion, constant severe pain in chest.
- Constitutions - Tubercular constitution.
- Hemorrhagic diathesis.
- Pulse soft and compressible.
- Dry, hard coughs, followed by hemoptysis,  worse in morning and at night.
- Expectorates pure 
blood in the morning and dark clotted blood in the evening.
- Cough most violent at night.
- Lung cancer with 
violent coughs followed by bloody expectoration or pure blood.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Burning, sense of a weight in the stomach.
- COMMENTS - Dr.
- Tonnere of Calcutta, India, seems to have been the first to call attention to this plant as a 
remedy.
- It first appears in a small work.
- Additions to the Homeopathic Materia Medica, collected and arranged 
by Henry Thomas, M.
- D.
- and published in London in the year 1858: 
Thomas employed a 6x dilution in three cases of tuberculosis.
- In one case, there was a tuberculous affection 
of the upper portion of the left lung of two years' standing.
- He moptysis had been go ing on for three months, 
the expectoration had been pure blood in the morning, dark lumps of clotted blood in the evening, and the fits 
of coughing were very violent at night.
- In this case, all homeopathic remedies had been tried unsuccessfully, then Thoma s accidentally discovered 
the virtues of the Acalypha Indica, that remedy having been given him by a native for jaundice.
- Henry Thomas said, “I prepared the mother tincture upon the homeopathic principle and" took 10 drops, which 
brought on a severe fit of  dry cough, followed by spitting of blood.
- After having noted all the symptoms 
experienced by myself and finding that they were nearly all similar to those of my patients.”  
Thomas gave six drops of the 6x dilution in half a tumbler of water.
- A spoonful was to be taken every half hour, 
beginning immediately at 9 a.m.
- At 6 p.m., the blood had stopped.
- He continued this for eight days and the 
blood never reappeared.
- The patient improved and auscultation proved the disease decreased.
- Thomas was 
hopeful to effect a cure.
- In one case of passive hemorrhage from the lungs, after Arnica was used with little benefit, Acai, benefited 
and then failed, after which the use of Arnica entirely stopped the hemorrhagic flow.
- Grimmer stated that “Lung cancer with a violent cough which followed by bloody expectoration or of pure blood, 
bright in the morning, dark and clotted in the evening.
- Dullness of chest on percussion, constant severe pain 
in chest.
- Progressive emacia tion with a sense of weight in the stomach with burnin g.
- Flatulence with a 
sputtering diarrhea.” Burning in the intestines.
- Sputtering diarrhea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus.
- Bearing 
down pains and tenesmus.
- Rumbling distention and grip ing pain in abdomen.
- Rectal hemorrhage, worse in 
morning.

### Skin
- Jaundice.
- Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.