# Ocimum Sanctum

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

## Keynote Indications
Ocimum canum is a species of this shrub which grows abundantly in Brazil. Dr. Mure, who 
proved and introduced it, noted that it is largely used in Brazil “as a specific for diseases of the kidneys, 
bladder, and urethra.”  He gave a short list of nineteen symptoms which are partly clinical and partly 
pathogenetic. 
Dr. Mure's experience was several times verified by several noted homeopaths. Drs. Pramada Prasanna 
Biswas of Pabna, Bengal, N. Sinha and N. C. Ghosh have made provings of this drug.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Memory weak.
- Forgetfulness.
- Mistakes in talking.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Prostration and 
drowsiness.
- Patient falls asleep while answering questions.
- Child is peevish and cries, does not  like to lie in 
bed.
- Irregular delirium, disturbed.
- Memory weak.
- Forgetfulness.
- Mistakes in talking.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Prostration and 
drowsiness.
- Patient falls asleep while answering questions.
- Child is peevish and cries, does not  like to lie in 
bed.
- Irregular delirium, disturbed.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo on rising.
- COMMENTS - Oci-s.
- has an assured place in the treatment of influenza and in common nasal catarrh.
- Remittent fever associated with cough, cold or diarrhea, pneumonia, broncho -pneumonia, bronchitis and 
asthma.
- Typhoid fever or fever associated with delirium, comatose condition, prostration, and falls into slumber or 
drowsiness while answering questions (Bapt.).
- Fever in in fluenza, associated with cough, acute pains in the 
body, bone pains, soreness of the muscles, and terrible headache (Eup-per.).
- Fevers associated with cough, cold and diarrhea, especially in children.
- Fevers prevalent in rainy season, 
winter or spring.
- Intermittent fever.
- Fever with thirst or absence of thirst.
- Fever comes on in the afternoon with extreme chilliness, with shivering.
- Chilliness, even when exposed to the 
sun.
- Hands and the feet become cold and do not become warm easily.
- Numbness and tingling in hands and 
feet.
- Extreme heat and flushes of heat felt over the face and eyes during hot stage.
- Burning sensation in the palms 
of hands and soles of feet, relieved by cold breeze or placing cold water on the head.
- Sweat with heat.
- Heat, sweat, and chilliness may appear alternately.
- Sweat, delirium, drowsiness or comatose 
 
 
condition.
- Remittent fevers of children, fever during dentition period, diarrhea and worm affec tions (Cina.).
- Wormcomplaints of children, fretful and peevish, start from sleep, and do not allow the physician to examine 
them.
- The children become awfully peevish, always cry, become quiet while they are being carried (Cham.).
- Aching pains, in the feet and legs.
- Pains are felt all over the body.
- Offensive and filthy odor.
- Putrefaction.
- Contagious and infectious diseases caused by bacteria or bacilli.
- Terrible headache.
- Headach e due to con gestion, common cold, influenza or fever.
- Headache relieved by 
application of cold water on the head or by fanning the head.
- Better from keeping quiet or wrapping the head 
with a cloth, worse while walking or by motion.
- Face is flushed and hot .
- lips are red and parched, eyes are drowsy.
- Pain in the throat, felt while swallowing, 
coughing or sneezing.
- Redness inside the throat, both tonsils are enlarged.
- Offensive smell comes out of the mouth, offensive salivation.
- Tongue is red or reddish and shining at the edges 
with yellow or brown coating in the middle (Bapt.).
- Aphthae.
- Putrid ulcer in the mouth and teeth.
- Toothache, 
with terrible pains, worse at night, from touch or cold.
- Eyes congested, red, with lachrymation, especially in cases of the common cold.
- Watery discharges and sticky 
discharges.
- Ophthalmia, ophthalmia neonatorum.
- Ear ache and purulent discharges from the ear.
- Shortness 
of hearing.
- Difficult respiration.
- Asthma, the patient cannot lie on the back.
- Bends forward and supports the head with the 
hands, the elbows resting on the knees or leans forward and puts the head on the hands lain flat on such 
support (Aral., Lob., Blatta.).
- Asthma of children.
- Gastric and intestinal catarrh, with inflammation of the intestinal mucous membrane, 
fever and diarrhea.
- Pain in the region of liver and spleen.
- Abdomen distended, distension does not abate in 
spite of stools passed.
- After gurgling in the stomach, copious watery and offensive stools appear.
- Diarrhea with fever and cold, cough, 
pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia and bronchitis.
- Involuntary stools.
- Irregular, long lasting menses.
- Leucor rhea.
- Uterine complications after delivery.
- Terribly offensive lochia, of 
unnatural color, long lasting.
- Discharge mixed with mucus, is pus-like and like washing of fish.
- Ocimum sanctum is supposed to drive away mosquitoes; it may prevent malarial fevers if cultivated near a 
house.
- REFERENCES Ghose.

### Head
- Headache as from a nail.
- Heavy, throbbing pain as if thousand nails were being driven into it, relieved 
by pressure.
- Giddiness of head, worse while walking, likes to keep quiet, relieved by wrapping up the head.
- Heat on the vertex, relieved by pouring cold water on the head or by fanning.
- Kidneys - Kidney colic.
- Urethritis.
- Desire to urinate off and on.
- Burning in the urethra while urinating.
- Yellow 
like saffron, urine.
- Discharge of mucus with urine.
- Involuntary urination of the children.
- Headache as from a nail.
- Heavy, throbbing pain as if thousand nails were being driven into it, relieved 
by pressure.
- Giddiness of head, worse while walking, likes to keep quiet, relieved by wrapping up the head.
- Heat on the vertex, relieved by pouring cold water on the head or by fanning.
- Kidneys - Kidney colic.
- Urethritis.
- Desire to urinate off and on.
- Burning in the urethra while urinating.
- Yellow 
like saffron, urine.
- Discharge of mucus with urine.
- Involuntary urination of the children.

### Eyes
- Eyes red.
- Pain in the eyes, lachryma tion, eye complaints due to nasal catarrh.
- Ophthalmia.
- Foggy 
vision.
- Mist before eyes, especially when fixing them on something.

### Ears
- Watery secretion from the ear.
- Of fensive pus fro m the ears.
- Ears painful due to nasal catarrh.
- Hot 
flushes come out from the ears.
- Noises in the ears, loud sound appears to be very painful.
- Short ness of 
hearing.

### Face
- Face red or pale with reddish hue.
- Flushed and hot.

### Mouth
- Lips bright red.
- Lips dry and black as if burnt.
- Watery salivation or spitting from the mouth.
- Putrid and 
bitter taste in mouth.
- Ulcer, aphthae in mouth.
- Ulcer in mouth and tongue of children.
- The tongue is bright red 
or its edges and sides are red and the middle portion is deeply coated.
- Toothache, better pressing the gums 
together, warmth, pressure.
- Nose - Nasal obstruction.
- Nasal catarrh associated with frequent sneezing, white or yellow secretions.
- Coryza.
- Watery discharge from the nose.
- Nostrils ulcer 
ated.
- Nosebleeds.
- Perspiration - Offensive sweats.

### Throat
- Pain in the throat while walking or during cough.
- Pain and difficulty in swallowing.
- Redness, ulceration 
of throat.
- Glairy phlegm.
- Enlargement of tonsils.
- Hoarseness.
- Voice gets changed.

### Chest
- Pains are felt on both sides of the chest, worse while coughing or sneezing.
- Pleuritic pains in the chest.
- Pain is felt in the middle of sternum.
- Patient cannot lie quiet in bed.
- Asthmatic attack, wheezi ng and rattling sound felt in the chest.
- Asthma better from bending head 
forward, rocking.
- Asthma of infants and children.
- Croupy cough.
- Hacking cough, profuse expectoration.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Want of appetite.
- Thirstlessness during chill.
- Eructations, Hiccough.
- Temperature - Chills and fever.
- Influenza.
- Remittent and intermittent fevers.
- Bilious, continued fever.
- Quartan 
fever, tertian fevers.
- Typhus, typhoid fever.
- Abdomen distended.
- Heaviness in abdomen.
- Griping pain in the abdo men.
- Pain is felt over the 
region of liver and spleen.
- Pain in the right iliac region.
- Hepatic pain.
- Gurgling sound can be felt on pressure.

### Urinary & Genital
- Troublesome erections.
- Sexual desire increased or decreased.
- Impotency.
- Menses too late.
- Metrorrhagia.
- Leucorrhea alternating with bloody discharge.
- Leucorrhea offensive, 
profuse, white, yellow.
- Metritis after childbirth.
- Profuse bloody discharges after delivery.
- Lochia offensive, 
profuse, fetid, lasts for a long period.
- Sexual desire diminished or increased.

### Extremities
- Aching pains, better from pressure.

### Skin
- Skin disease.