🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Arctium Lappa. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Lappa arctium has been extensively proved, notably by Dr.
Jeanes and Dr.
S.
A Jones.
The provings generally confirm older teachings.
Lappa chiefly affects the skin, liver joints an d uterus.
Historically, it was given for prolapsed uterus, infertility,
milky urine and sores about the joints.
It was one of Culpepper's remedies for fetid sweat of axilla.
Useful in
skin therapeutics.
A large number of symptoms were observed upon the skin and mucus membranes.
Acne, eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., especially
of the scalp, with discharge.
Eruptions on the head, face and neck.
In skin disorders, it has been used externally
as a glycerol, as well as internally.
Styes and ulcerations on the edge of the eyelids.
Cro ps of boils and styes (Anthr.).
Profuse and frequent
urination.
Heavy, sore aching, as if lying uncomfortably.
Numbness, lumbar region of aching calves.
Constriction
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Better from cloudy weather.
Worse cold, wet, shaking, violent exertion, lying on right side.
VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with nausea and vomiting
▲HEAD
Weight on vertex.
Pain in head.
Eczema of scalp.
▲EYES
Redness about eyes.
Crops of styes.
Feeling as if the eye was small and con stricted
▲FACE
Inveterate acne, worse touch.
Spreading vesicular eruption, great tearing and itching.
Herpetic eruption
on right ala nasi
▲CHEST
Trembling in chest.
Acute tingling, cutting pain under middle of sternum, extending across breast.
Pain in heart with indescribable movement under sternum.
Exceedingly rapid pulse with frequent
intermissions.
Kidneys - Profuse and frequent urination.
Milky phosphatic urine.
Tickling in glottidis, loose-sounding cough, no expectoration.
Short breath on exertion
▲ABDOMEN
Sour stomach, sour taste, all food turns sour, vomits it.
DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. alternating with rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues.
symptoms.
Flatulent dyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux., belching inodorous gas
▲GENITALS ETC
Cutting, squeezed pain in whole length of urethra, scalding on urination.
Ringworm-like patch of eruption
on thigh beside testicles, groins raw.
Bruised, sore, heavy feeling in uterus
with great relaxation of vaginal tissue.
Prolapsed uterus with much bearing down pain.
LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection.
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Eruption on limbs.
Soreness of muscles.
Pain in all joints.
Old sores about joints.
Rheumatic and gouty
pains.
Rheumatic pains entirely relieved by onset of diarrhea.
Sharp, darting, fugitive pains in tendons.
Dupuytren's contraction.
Front
of thigh weak.
Pain in hands, knees and ankles extending downward to fingers and toes.
Bunion
▲BACK AND NECK
Pains in back about eighth dorsal vertebra
▲SKIN
Eruptions, sticky on head, face.
Many small painful boils.
Moist, offensive eruptions, grayish white crusts,
especially when glands are swollen.
Moist, foul eczema of infants.
Old sores, about joints.
Axillary sweat
cold, runs down chest, foul
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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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