Hydrocotyle Asiatica

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Hydrocotyle Asiatica Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Hydrocotyle Asiatica. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
GENERAL
  • Hydre has a considerable reputation in leprosy and lupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs., when there is no ulceration.
  • Elephantiasis.
  • Excessive thickening of skin and marked exfoliation of skin.
  • Copper colored eruptions in various places.
  • Intolerable itching espec ially of soles, va gina.
  • Very copious perspiration.
  • Ulceration of the womb.
  • Pains of cervical cancer.
  • Difficulty in maintaining an upright posture.
  • MEND - Weak concentration.
  • Forgetful.
  • Poor memory.
  • Indifference.
  • Gloomy thoughts, inclination for solitude.
  • Misanthropy.
  • Gaiety, loquacity
HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Compare: (1) Elaesis - South American Palm - scleroderma, elephantiasis, leprosy, skin
thickened, itching and hardened. Anesthesia. (2) Hura, orTrychnos Gaultheriana - bites of serpents, ulcers and
cutaneous disorders generally. Hoang-na. (3) Chaulomoogra oil, Hydr., Ars., Aur., Sep.

VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with torpor.
  • Vertigo with congestion and heaviness.
  • COMMENTS - The skin and the female generative organs are the chief seats of the drug's action, though the liver, the nerves and the mucus membranes are also powerfully acted upon.
  • Skin disorders including acne, eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., pemphigus, lupus, copper-colored eruptions, papular eruptions on face and intolerable itching in various places.
  • Granular ulceration.
  • Gouty and rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. disorders.
  • Bruised feeling in all the muscles.
  • Affections of the trigeminus nerve.
  • Aphthous and syphilitic stomatitisInflammation of the mouth liningInflammation of the mucous membranes inside the mouth, causing painful sores, redness, or swelling..
  • Irrita tion of the neck of the bladder increased secretion of urine.
  • Heat and itching in vagina.
  • Weight in uterus.
  • Weight in the “male uterus," the prostate gland.
  • A patient who was taking Hydre, for eczema with advantage complained of persistent dreaming all the time he was asleep and an unpleasant mouth on waking in the morning.
  • Auduit cured the case of a girl, 20, weak and sickly -looking, who was troubled with glandular swellings since childhood, and for eight years had lupus excedens of nose.
  • Her mother had a coppery eruption on her face.
  • On the right of her nose was a button the size of a sixpence covered with a thick crust covering yellow pus mixed with blood.
  • Margins were irregular and livid.
  • Five other buttons the size of lentils were near the root of the nose on both sides.
  • Hydre, was given in 6c, 3c, tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. and the 18c potencies in succession with intermissions and completely cured in five months
HEAD
  • Headache with general lassitude and prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
  • Congestion of blood to the head, heaviness.
  • Painful drawing in almost all cranial nerves.
  • NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. pain in external frontal nerve.
  • Intense pain with some swelling in posterior part of skull.
  • Occiput acutely sensitive to touch.
  • Constriction of bac k part of skull and scalp.
  • Tinea favosa.
EYES
  • Eyes look unsteady.
  • Injection of palpebral conjunctiva.
  • Pricking in eyes.
  • Vision dim, dazzling.
  • Tumours of eyelids.
  • Epithelioma
EARS
  • Pain in left internal meatus.
  • Throbbing in right ear, ringing in left with stoppage.
  • Confused noise in left, blowing sound
FACE
  • Intoxicated expression.
  • Intermittent pain in left cheekbone and about orbits.
  • Neuralgic affections of supra and infraorbital nerves.
  • UlcerOpen painful sore on skin or mucous membraneAn open sore on an external or internal surface of the body, caused by a break in the skin or mucous membrane. irregular and livid.
  • Papular eruption.
  • Copper colored eruption on face.
  • Large tubercle on right alae nasi.
  • Tubercles, as large as lentils, near root of nose at both sides and painless
MOUTH
  • Stomatitis aphthosa.
  • Syphilitic patches in mouth.
  • Whitish spots on left upper and under sides of tongue.
  • Impediment in speech.
  • Redness of velum palati with pain on swallowing, worse by food.
  • Hyperemia of mucus membrane.
  • Saliva increased.
  • Insipid or bitter taste, unpleasant in morning.
  • Nose - Dry coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
  • Stoppage of nose.
  • Swelling of nose.
  • Tickling, worse left nostril.
  • Feeling as before bleeding.
  • Lupus excedens of nose.
  • Perspiration - Profuse sweat
THROAT
  • Voiceweak.Tonsilsred.
  • Esophagus is dry and rough.
  • Burning and pricking in esophagus and pharynx.
  • Disorder of constrictor muscles of pharynx
CHEST
  • Pustules on chest.
  • Cardiac spasm.
  • StenosisAbnormal narrowing of a passageThe narrowing or constriction of a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure (e.g., spinal stenosis). of aorta.
  • Constriction of heart with quiet and regular pulse or with a few separate beats in certain arteries or with hot flushes in different parts of the face.
  • Irregular beating of heart.
  • Pulse stronger and fuller.
  • Kidneys - Slight formication in kidney.
  • Constriction of bladder.
  • Inflammation, irritation of neck of bladder.
  • Irritation of urethra.
  • Frequent desire to urinate, urine increased.
  • Urine becomes brown on cooling.
  • Urine turbid without sediment.
  • Pricking in vicinity of glottis.
  • Dry ness of windpipe of ventricles of larynx.
  • Oppression of chest, which suddenly ceases and then returns at longeror shorter intervals.
  • Breath short.
  • Speaking soon fatigues.
  • Irritation of air-passages.
  • Difficult expectoration of bronchial mucus
ABDOMEN
  • Anxiety in region of stomach.
  • Belchings frequent, acid.
  • Swelling of stomach.
  • Cramping pain in stomach, without nausea.
  • Contraction, cramp like pain.
  • Se nsation as if gases collected into a ball.
  • Heat in stomach region spreading out like a bar.
  • Nausea.
  • Temperature - Shivering in afternoon.
  • Cold hands and feet with general condition resembling precursory stage of fever without alteration of pulse.
  • FebrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. movements.
  • Heat of skin.
  • BorborygmiStomach gurgling or rumbling soundsGurgling, rumbling, or splashing noises heard from the abdomen, caused by gas moving through the intestines. in different parts.
  • Flatus.
  • Heat in hypogastrium.
  • Wind colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
  • Rumbling in different parts.
  • Violent contractions of intestines.
  • Pain, every five minutes, worse transverse colon.
  • Constriction.
  • Sensation as if all the organs were in motion.
  • Loathing of food.
  • AnorexiaLoss of appetiteA medical term for lack or loss of appetite for food., then strong appetite.
  • Aversion to tobacco smoking
GENITALS ETC
  • Drawing in spermatic cords, worse left.
  • Feeling of weight in prostate gland.
  • Acute and secondary gonorrhea.
  • Suppressed gonorrhea.
  • Scrotum relaxed.
  • Indifference to intercourse.
  • Impotence.
  • Menses too early.
  • Profuse leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection..
  • PruritusSevere itching of the skinAn uncomfortable, irritating sensation of the skin that creates an urge to scratch. of vagina.
  • Shooting and itching in vagina.
  • Vulva, vagina and cervix red.
  • Heat and redness of vagina and vulva.
  • Dull pain in ovarian region.
  • Uterus feels heavy.
  • Pain in whole uterus, left side.
  • Severe labor -like pain in uterus and appendages.
  • Granular ulceration of womb.
  • Partly fungus, partly granular ulcer on upper lip of neck of uterus, with profuse leucorrhea
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Bruised feeling in the muscles.
  • Rheumatic disorders.
  • GoutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet. with very severe paroxysms.
  • Contractions of forearms and legs.
  • Irresistible inclination to stretch.
  • Pain in all joints, muscles, worse left.
  • Sensations as if hot water r an through marrow of bones.
  • Y ellowish spots on legs.
  • Insupportable itching of soles of feet.
  • Back of right foot was covered with small indurations, having a large thick crust.
  • Liver - Cirrhosis of liver.
  • Pain in upper part of liver.
  • Obstruction in hepatic region
BACK AND NECK
  • Renewal of old rheumatic pains in left rhomboid, worse pressure.
  • Bruised pain in loins.
  • Obstruction in region of kidneys with heaviness.
  • Swelling of cervical glands
SKIN
  • Dry eruptions.
  • Erysipelatous redness.
  • Pemphigus benignus.
  • Eczema.
  • Copper-colored eruptions in various places.
  • Great thickening of epidermoid layer and exfoliation of scal es.
  • PsoriasisSkin disease causing scaly red patchesA skin disease that causes red, itchy, scaly patches, most commonly on the knees, elbows, trunk, and scalp. on trunk and limbs, palms and soles.
  • Intolerable itching.
  • Syphilitic disorders.
  • Acne.
  • Leprosy.
  • Elephantiasis (Ars.).
  • Lupus non-exedens.
  • Pustules.
  • Circular spots with dry scaly edges.
  • Yellowish spots.
  • Pricking on different parts
SLEEP
  • Yawing and stretching.
  • Sleepiness in the daytime.
  • Heavy, dreamless sleep.
  • Persistent dreaming

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
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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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

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