# Ficus Religiosa

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

## Keynote Indications
Dr. Sarat Chandra Ghose of Midnapore made the first proving and thereby discovered its 
power to cause and cure hemorrhages of many kinds. Ghose related s ome striking cases cured with the 
remedy in cases of dysentery, hematemesis, hemorrhage of typhoid, bleeding hemor rhoids and nosebleed. 
General hemorrhages. Vomiting of a bright red blood. Hemoptysis. Menorrhagia. Pro fuse discharge of bright 
red blood, bearingdown pains in lower abdomen. Bloody urine. Very weak and restless. Headache, burning at 
 
 
the top of the head. Sight dim.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Quiet and disinclined to move.
- Sad and melancholic.
- Quiet and disinclined to move.
- Sad and melancholic.

### Head
- Burning at vertex, vertigo and slight headache.
- Kidneys - Frequent desire to urinate.
- Urine contains much blood.
- Burning at vertex, vertigo and slight headache.
- Kidneys - Frequent desire to urinate.
- Urine contains much blood.

### Eyes
- Sight dim.

### Face
- Face became yellow.

### Chest
- Difficult breathing, cough with vomiting of blood, pulse very weak.
- Nose - Nosebleed.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pain and sick feeling in stomach.
- Nausea, vomiting of bright red blood.
- COMMENTS - Dr.
- Ghose participated in his own proving, along with his wife and a dog.
- The dog, which was 
perfectly strong and healthy, received 40 drops of the tincture one morning.
- No result followed that day and 
the dose was repeated the next morning.
- The animal commenced and continued to vomit blood of a bright red color.
- It kept very quiet and was unwilling 
to move.
- After three doses of five drops of the tincture given in quick succession, the vomiting ceased.
- The 
same treatment (minute doses of the remedy) was effectual in arresting the effects of the drug throughout the 
provings.
- Mrs.
- Ghose took the tincture in 20-drop doses repeatedly throughout two days.
- On the third day dysentery and 
menorrhagia set in simultaneously.
- The blood was bright red.
- Other symptoms included a headache, very weak a nd restless, sight dim, burning at the top of the head.
- The 
face became yellow ish, breathing difficult.
- She became sad and melancholic.
- With the profuse discharge of 
bright red blood there were bearing-down pains in the lower abdomen.
- Dr.
- Ghose took 40 drops in one dose.
- The result was a frequent desire to pass water, which gradually became 
bloody, containing much blood.
- Inclination to cough, causing him to spit blood.
- Slight headache, giddiness and 
nausea.
- Sight dim.
- Very weak and restless.
- The tincture was taken three drops every two hours, and after the 
third dose the symptoms vanished.
- Bearing-down pains in lower part of abdomen.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menorrhagia, bright red blood, bearing-down pains in lower abdomen.