# Ficus Indica

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
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. 
Hemorrhage from the throat or mouth. Dysentery and piles mixed with blood. Hemorrhage before evacuations. 
Acute or chronic bloody dysentery associated with great urging, colic and tenesmus (Merc-c.). 
Diarrhea, 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 leucorrhea. Nervous weakness due to seminal discharge. 
Gonorrhea and diabetes associated with burning sensation during urination and in hematuria.  
COMMENTS - Proving 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 tincture 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. Dyspepsia. Ill humor. Irregular stool. Disturbed sleep.”

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