🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Justicia Adhatoda. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲HERBAL GENERAL ACTIONS
Dry, spasmodic, con stricted cough.
Violent dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions. associated with the cough.
Threatened suffocation.
Whooping cough, with breath loss, pale, stiff and blue, and rigidity of the body.
Cough
with tightness of chest, as if it would burst with bronchial rattle, obstruction of breath and sneezing.
Vomiting with the cough, no food or drink is retained.
Dry mucus membranes, especially of the mouth and
throat, with thirst.
Tough expectoration.
Acute catarrhalRelating to membrane inflammation and mucusRelating to catarrh, which is inflammation of mucous membranes with increased watery discharge. conditions of the respiratory tract, particu larly in the
beginning.
Colds.
CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge., fluent, acrid with vi olent sneez ing, coughing or asthmatic attacks.
Fits of sneezing with
lachrymation and loss of smell and taste.
Allergies and hay fever.
BronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing., pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection..
First stages of
tuberculosis, with spitting of blood.
Hoarseness.
Functional derangements of the liver.
JaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin..
Thirst.
Great loss of appetite.
Obstinate constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
Stiffening out, trembling and convulsions with cough or fever.
Puffy hands and feet in morning.
Chilliness.
Fever.
Marked oversensitiveness to external impressions
▲HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
Worse in a close room, from dust, noise, eating
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
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▲NERVOUS SYSTEM & MIND
Irritability, easily angered.
Badhumor.
Anxious and discouraged.
Depression of spirits.
Averse to
conversation.
Sensitive to external impressions.
Badhumor.
▲HEAD & BRAIN AFFINITY
Hot, full and heavy head.
▲VISION & EYES
Lachrymation
▲ORAL CAVITY
Mouth is dry.
Loss of taste.
Nose-Allergies and hayfever.
Profuse, fluent coryza, with constant sneezing.
Coryza with cough.
Fits of
sneezing with lachrymation and loss of smell and taste
▲RESPIRATORY & THROAT
Hoarseness, larynx painful.
Dry and painful during empty swallowing.
Tenacious mucus.
COMMENTS - Blackwood wrote, “This one of the most ancient drugs in India, the most highly valued by
Ayurveda.
Its field of use is in colds, coryza, cough of any kind, vomiting, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis,
spitting of blood.
Fevers, jaundice, loss of appetite, and constipation.
These ailments are what the ancient
physicians use it for.”
It was proved by two men, twenty -seven and thirty -two years of age; their symptoms were later clinically
verified.
ProvingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. symptoms included catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane., violent sneezing, watering eyes, profuse coryza, loss of appetite,
vomiting, liver pains, hoarseness and very painful suffocative cough with blood streake d mucus and high
temperature.
Ghose recorded a case of coryza.
“My son had an attack of cold.
He had fluent coryza, with constant sneezing;
there was hoarseness with swollen nose; there was stoppage of nose at night; there was also thirst; no appetite
existed; there were occasional coughing fits, but no expectoration ensued.
“I prescribed Justicia 1 x every three hours.
After administration of the third dose he fell asleep.
He came round
within three days.
From the second day there was no hoarseness.”
Ghose also recorded another case of co ryza.
The son of Babu Bhupati Choudhuri, of Bhowanipore suffered
from a severe attack of cold.
Copious fluent coryza, ac companied by violent coughing, the eyes were
somewhat swollen and watered all the time; he was feverish.
Ghose prescribed Just, lx every three hours, and
he was fully cured within two days
▲CARDIOPULMONARY & CHEST
Tightness across chest, as if it would burst.
Coughs - Cough with sneezing.
Dry cough from sternal re gion all over chest.
Paroxysmal cough with
suffocative obstruction of respiration.
Whooping cough.
Acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract.
Severe dyspnea with cough.
Obstruction of breath
and sneezing.
Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room.
Bronchitis and pneu monia.
Rattling in
bronchi.
Tough mucus.
Tuberculosis
▲GASTROINTESTINAL & ABDOMEN
Nausea and vomiting
▲MUSCULOSKELETAL & LIMBS
Puffy hands and feet in morning.
Liver - Jaundice.
Liver weakness.
Liver pains
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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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