🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Ficus Indica. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
🌸Bach Flower Remedy:
This remedy is one of the 38 natural remedies discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. It works primarily on balancing emotional and mental states, fears, despair, and psychological imbalances, rather than physical symptoms.
▲GENERAL
The banyan tree is planted throughout India.
It grows to a height of about a hundred feet
and is a common roadside tree.
Ficus Indica has being used successfully in all kinds of hemorrhages.
Pure red blood.
It possesses greater
anti-hemorrhagic properties than Ficus religiosa.
HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. from the throat or mouth.
DysenteryIntestinal infection with severe bloody diarrheaInfection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces. and pilesHemorrhoids or swollen rectal veinsSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding. mixed with blood.
Hemorrhage before evacuations.
Acute or chronic bloody dysentery associated with great urging, colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. and tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain. (Merc-c.).
DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., with nausea.
Feels as if bowels were settled down in lower abdomen.
Enteroptosis with loose
and frequent evacuations.
Sick feeling in lower third of abdomen.
Copious hemorrhages during menses.
Bloody leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
Nervous weakness due to seminal discharge.
Gonorrhea and diabetes associated with burning sensation during urination and in hematuriaPresence of blood in the urineA condition where red blood cells are present in the urine, making it look pink, red, or smoky..
COMMENTS - ProvingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. by Dr.
O.
N.
Banerjee, Calcutta, India, in the Homoeopathic Recorder, July, 1891.
Dr.
O.
N.
Banerjee wrote “In June, 1888, while visiting a patient in the country I saw in the garden a large tree
of the variety known as Ficus Indica.
As the tree is considered s acred I regarded it and its branches, which
were ladened with ripe, yellow fruit, with the greatest interest, and plucking one of the fruits, ate it upon an
empty stomach.
“To my great astonishment there occurred one hour thereafter an unusual frequent de sire to urinate, I did not
relish my breakfast, there was loss of appetite and sour belching; in the afternoon the urine became phosphatic
and I suffered from headache ; in the evening I felt an itching of the thighs, heaviness of the head, dullness of
the mind, and a burning heat over the body; there was but a scanty discharge of urine during the day.
“After gathering a large quantity of fruit I returned to Calcutta and made an alcoholic tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. thereof.
This was
distributed among nine provers and two drops of the mother tincture were taken every morning before breakfast
for eight days.
“As a remedy it has been used success fully in every case presenting the following conditions: Frequent, at
times unsatisfactory discharge of amber-colored or phosphatic urine with discharge of seminal fluid.
Headache,
heaviness of the head.
Itching of the limbs.
Thirst.
DyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux..
Ill humor.
Irregular stool.
Disturbed sleep.”
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
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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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