🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Helonias Dioica. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Helonias has an extensive range of action, as its provings show, but it predominantly affects
the uterus.
One of the keynote indications for its use is a “consciousness of the womb.” Relaxation of the
uterine ligaments, misplacements and prolapse (Sep.).
Exhaustion from the least mental or physical exertion.
Emaciation or chronic fatigue since childbirth (Sep., Caul.), or multiple abor tions ormiscarriages.
Tendency
toprolapse and other malposition of the womb, from uterineatony.
Uterine reflexes.
DropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. after uterine
hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse..
Toxemia of pregnancy with great fatigue.
Premenstrual syndrome with fatigue, swol len breasts, and
metrorrhagia.
Suppressed menses.
Congested kidneys, as if the monthly congestion, instead of venting itself
through the uterine vessels, had extended to the kidneys.
Bearing down pain, and chronic vaginal infections since childbirth.
Sensation of weakness, dragging in the
sacrum and pelvis with great languor and prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
Tired backaches in females.
Constant ach ing and tenderness over kidneys.
Muscles, heavy, sore, aching,
burning.
Sleepless, with a worn out feeling.
Diabetes mellitus and insipidus.
AnemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness.
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Better if busy.
Better from diversion.
Better holding abdomen.
Worse from fatigue.
Worse
pregnancy.
Worse stooping.
Worse motion.
Worse touch, pressure of clothes.
Worse pressure on breasts,
nipples or kidneys
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: ( 1 ) Alet., Lil -t, Puls., Senec., Stann. (2) Agri. - painful kidneys, indigestion and
menstrual difficulties, bron- chorrhea and catarrh of bladder. Cough with profuse expectoration attended with
expulsion of urine. Tincture 1 to 10 drops.
▲MIND
Extreme depression, gloom.
Profound melancholiaSevere depression or deep sadnessDeep sadness or depression, historically considered a mental illness characterized by lack of activity and apathy..
May have a preliminary feel ing of wellness
depression.
Irritable, cannot endure the least contradiction.
Finds faults with everyone.
Conversation
unpleasant, desires to be left alone.
Better when busy.
Patient must be doing something to eng age mind.
Consciousness of the womb.
▲HEAD
Burning sensation on top.
Heat or upward pressure in vertex, as if skull were too full.
Headache, better
mental exertion.
▲FACE
Pale, earthy.
Sallow, having an expression of suffering
▲MOUTH
Salivation of pregnant women and teething children.
AphthaeSmall painful mouth ulcers (canker sores)Small, painful, shallow ulcers that develop inside the mouth, on the tongue, cheeks, or gums. during pregnancy.
Bitter taste in early
a.m
▲CHEST
Chest sensitive to the air.
Aching, as if the front of chest had been compressed in a vice, as if
squeezed.
Constitutions - Suited to nervous, run -down females, easily fatigued by any work, who complain of a tired
backache, a tired feeling extending into the limbs.
Some of this passes off after commencing to work.
PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
Kidneys - Burning sensation at the kidneys.
Constant aching, extreme tenderness of kidneys.
Dull ache and
heat in region of the kidneys instead of menses.
NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling. of pregnancy with obstinate vomiting
▲ABDOMEN
Cramp-like pain in the stomach.
Burning in stomach, belchings.
Irritable stomach with general
dropsy.
Temperature - Feels hot when tired.
Flushes of heat pass over him with every move ment while in a room.
Chills, seemingly radiating from solar plexus all over body, caused by motion of arms.
COMMENTS - Alternate sensations of heat and cold.
Burning sensations, particularly at the epigastrium.
Useful for menopausal temperature disturbances.
Irritation in mucous membranes, sore mouth, irritable stomach, burning and scalding when ur inating, irritated
vaginal mucous membrane.
Backache in the lumbar region, over the kidneys or in the sacrum.
Pains are worse on commencing to work,
better after working a little (Rhus-t.).
Pain from the kidneys, especially the right.
Generally scanty urine.
Marvin A Custis reported a case.
“Mrs.
L, 28, has two children, both living.
Has prolapse of uterus, ulceration
of cervix, dark offensive leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
Her system is worn out and her expression one of great distress.
“Irritable, finds fault with every o ne and cannot bear contradiction.
Restless, wants to move around, as she
feels better when mind and body are employed.
“She had a severe backache and a sore and heavy feeling in the womb, she said she was always ‘conscious
of her womb.'
“Helon.
30c every three hours for two days, and then every night, was prescribed with a warm water injection
night and morning.
At the end of three weeks the leucorrhea had almost ceased, the womb was in the first
position and she ‘forgets that she has such an organ.'”
L.
L.
Danforth treated Mrs.
W., who had intense pruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch., vulvar and vaginal, for several weeks.
“She could
tear the flesh out” it was so intense.
There was vulvo vaginitis, the labia and adjoining skin were red, swollen
and covered with thin, white, curdy deposits.
Further examination showed a thin, albuminousContaining albumin proteinReferring to substances or body secretions (like urine) containing the protein albumin. leucorrhea pouring from a congested cervix, evidently the
cause of the pruritus.
The leucorrhea coagulated on the vagina, forming small curds covering the mucous
membrane of vagina and vulva.
Helon tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. on tablets speedily relieved.
S.
A Jones found that Helon turned an alkaline urine acid, and increased the amount of urea as well as the
amount of urine secreted.
Jones considered this the result of a condition of debility, venous paresis, the result
of previous arterial tonic contraction.
Burning in the lower third of abdomen.
Pain in left side, as if in spleen, which feels as if distended,
causing a dull ache.
ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants.-like pains in hypogastric region off and on all day.
Motion and rumbling in abdomen,
as if diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. would come on, cramps in the stomach.
Loss of appetite, food tasteless.
Belchings, cramps.
Fullnes s and painful congestion ofthe stomach.
Bilious, sleepy during the day
▲GENITALS ETC
Sexual desire and power increased.
Erections unusually strong and frequent.
Impotence.
Conscious of womb.
Uterus, weak heavy, sore, tender, ulcerated or prolapsed or other
malpositions.
Weight and soreness in womb.
Dragging in sacral region with prolapse, especially a fter a
miscarriage.
Debility attending menopauseEnd of menstrual cycles in womenThe natural biological transition in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55..
Hemorrhage from atony of dark, foul blood.
Pruritus vulvae.
Parts
hot, red, swollen, bum and itch terribly.
Vulva, aphthous inflamed.
Loss of sexual desire and power with or
without sterility
▲EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Severe pains in right hip joint, worse during motion.
Sore pain in outer side of thighs.
Sensation as if
cool wind streamed up calves.
Feet feel numb, when sitting
▲BACK AND NECK
Pain and weight in back, tired and weak.
Aching and burning across the lumbar region, can trace
outlines of kidneys by constant burning.
Boring pain in lumbar region, extending down legs.
A ching
between scapulae.
Weakness, weight and dragging down in sacrum, down to buttocks.
Great languor, better
exercising.
Bladder - Frequent desire and urging.
Involuntary discharge of urine after the bladder feels empty.
StrangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge..
Burning, scalding when urinat ing.
Diabetes
mellitus and insipidus.
Breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender, worse pressure of clothes
▲SKIN
Pale, earthy, sallow.
Epidermis of the labia peels off thin, transparent
exfoliation
▲SLEEP
Drowsy, heavy.
Sleepy during the day
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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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