Hydrocotyle The Homoeopathic Medicine

Hydrocotyle The Homoeopathic Medicine

2. Kingdom:  Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom:  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision:  Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division:  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class:  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass:  Rosidae
Order:  Apiales
Family:  (Apiaceae Umbelliferae) – Carrot family
Genus:  Hydrocotyle L. – hydrocotyle

3. Common Name: Thankuni
Sanskrit: Nandukparni
Hindi :Brahma manduki
English :Indian pennywort
Family :Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)
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4. Synonyms:- Hydrocotyle Nummularioides. Hydrocotyle Pallida. 
Common Names: Indian Pennywort. Water Pennywort. 
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A british bronze coin and monetary unit equal to one 
hundredth of a pound.
The sweet infusion of ground malt or other grain before 
fermentation.

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Chinese name FO-TI-TIENG, FO-TI-TIENG, or Hydrocotyle asiatica, a plant 
with extraordinary rejuvenating effects on the human brain cells and 
endocrine glands.

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FO-TI-TIENG is called 'Elixir of Life' or 'Long Life Elixir'. 

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12. Synonyms: Hydrocotyle Nummularioides. Hydrocotyle Pallida.  
Common Names: Indian Pennywort. Water Pennywort. 
This perennial creeping plant is indigenous to tropical regions in both continents. 
Leaves smooth petiolate, grouped on the nodes of the stem, round-kidney shape, dark 
green in color, an inch broad, with crenate margin. Flowers pinkish, in three-flowered 
umbels. The fresh bruised leaves have a peculiar odor, and a bitter pungent taste
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14. This  is  a  small  herbaceous  plant  with  palmately 
nerved or dissected leaves and simple umbels of small 
flowers found throughout India from the Himalayas to 
Cape of Comerin at the altitudes updo 2000 ft above 
sea-level. 
It is particularly grown in the damp places of West 
Bengal. The plant was known to the Sanskrit writers 
of very remote times. Its properties being similar to
those of Herpestle Monniera (Brahmi). Both plants 
are regarded as a tonic, useful in the skin diseases, 
nervous system, blood and brain cells. 

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21. It  can  be  administered  for  both  internal  or, 
external use. It has a special gravity on leprosy. 
Still the confirmatory actions on curing leprosy 
are under research.
Some parts of Indians are habituated in taking 
the  leaves  with  milk  for  improving  their 
memory and use as a body building tonic. The 
leaves are very effective in skin eruptions and 
syphilitic treatment

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Yields an oily volatile oily volatile liquid called vellarin,vellarin, which has a strong smell 
reminiscent of the plant, and a bitter, pungent, persistent taste. In large 
doses, vellarin causes intense itch over the entire body, pain in the ovaries 
and irritation of the urinary canal. 

24. Water  pennyworts,  Hydrocotyles,  are  very 
common. They have long creeping stems that 
often  form  dense  mats,  often  in  and  near 
ponds,  lakes,  rivers,  marshes  and  some 
species in coastal areas by the sea.
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25. Leaves:
Simple, with small leafy outgrowth at the base, kidney shaped to round. Leaf edges are scalloped.
Flowers
Flower clusters are simple and flat-topped or rounded. Involucral bracts Inconspicuous bracts at the base of 
each flower. Indistinct sepals.
Fruits and reproduction
Elliptical to round with thin ridges and no oil tubes (vitta) which is characteristic in the fruit of umbelliferous 
plants.
The prostrate plants reproduce by seed and by sending roots from stem nodes.

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27. Medical use: The entire plant.

28. Hydrocot. has been long known as an Indian remedy. 
Boileau was the first to use it as a remedy in leprosy. 
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30. It was introduced into the Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Dr. Audouit,
France.
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31. Auduit cured a case: Girl, 20, weak and sickly-looking, since childhood troubled with 
glandular swellings, for eight years had lupus excedens of nose. Her mother had coppery 
eruption on face.
On right of nose was a button the size of six pence covered with a thick crust covering 
yellow pus mixed with blood. Margins irregular and livid. Five other buttons size of 
lentils near root of nose both sides.
Hydroc.  was  given  in  6c,  3c,  tincture  and  the  18c  potencies  in  succession  with 
intermissions and completely cured in five months. Planets: Mercury, Saturn
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Preparation:-The carefully dried plant is coarsely powdered, covered with five 
parts by weight of alcohol, and allowed to remain eight days in a well-stoppered 
bottle, in a dark, cool place, being shaken twice a day. The tincture is then poured 
off, strained and filtered.
Drug power of tincture, 1/10.
 
Dilutions must be prepared as directed under Class IV.
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33. Gotu Kola is known as Indian Pennywort. It produces hypertrophy and
induration of connective tissue. Curative in disorders that exhibit interstitial
inflammation and cellular proliferation in any part.
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35. Generals - MUCUS membranes, general - syphilitic
Hydrc. MERC.
Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.
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37. GENERALS - HYPERTROPHY - Connective tissue: hydrc.
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38. HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION
Gotu kola is an herb that is commonly used in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. The
above-ground parts are used to make medicine.
Gotu kola is used to treat bacterial, viral or parasitic infections such as urinary tract infection (UTI),
shingles, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, syphilis, common cold, influenza, H1N1 (Swine) flu, elephantiasis,
tuberculosis and schistosomiasis.
Gotu kola is also used for fatigue, anxiety, depression, psychiatric disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and
improving memory and Intelligence. Other uses include wound healing, trauma and circulation
problems (venous insufficiency) including varicose veins, and Blood clots in the legs.

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40. HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION :
Some people use gotu kola for sunstroke, tonsillitis, fluid around the lungs (pleurisy),liver disease
(hepatitis), jaundice, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), stomach pain,diarrhea,
indigestion, stomach ulcers, epilepsy, asthma, “tired blood” (anemia), diabetes, and for helping them live
longer.
Some women use gotu kola for preventing pregnancy, absence of menstrual periods, and to arouse
sexual desire.
Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin for wound healing and reducing scars, including stretch
marks caused by pregnancy.

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45. HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION:
Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin for wound healing and reducing the scars, including stretch
marks caused by pregnancy.
How does it work?
Gotu kola contains certain chemicals that seem to decrease inflammation and also decrease blood pressure in
veins. Gotu Kola also seems to increase collagen production, which is important for wound healing.

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47. Mind:
Gloomy thoughts,

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49. Misanthropy
A dislike of humankind.
Hatred of mankind,
Antisocial behaviour

50. Desire for solitude
Isolation refer to a state of being
or living alone.

51. Indifference
lack of interest, concern, or sympathy

54. Mind - CONFIDING
hydrc. kres. mur-ac. op. spig.
Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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55. Tell someone about a secret or private
matter while trusting them not to repeat it to
others
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56. Expression of face more or less as if intoxicated.
Very severe intermittent pain in the left cheek-bone.

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58. Face - CANCER – lupus:
alumn. Arg-n. ARS. aur-m. carb-ac. Carb-v. cist. HYDRC. kali-ar.
Kali-bi. kali-chl. kreos. lach. psor. Sep. Sil.
Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.

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60. Face - ERUPTIONS, facial – coppery:
ARS-I. Ars. Aur. benz-ac. calc. CARB-AN. Graph. Hydrc. Kali-i. Lyc.
merc. Psor. rhus-t. ruta verat.
Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.
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66. FACE - HEAT - heart, constriction of: hydrc.
Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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67.  Swelling of the nose.
Stoppage of the nose.
Feeling as if epistaxis were coming on.
Tickling in the nose.

68.  Nose - LUPUS - wing, on: Aur-m. Hydrc.
Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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69. A chronic inflammatory disease that is caused by autoimmunity
The first symptom is a red (or dark), scaly rash on the nose and cheeks, often
called a butterfly rash because of its distinctive shape. As inflammation continues,
scar tissue may form, including keloid scarring in patients prone to keloid
formation.
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71. NOSE - Internal nose - eruptions, growths -
Lupus
Ars. calc. cic. hydr. Hydrc. merc. rhus-t. sulph. tub.
Boericke Rep.
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73. Depression, heaviness, and dull feeling throughout the system generally.
General lassitude.
General weariness.
Profound ennui.
General symptoms

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75. Ennui: A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from
a lack of occupation or excitement.
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76. Debility.
Lasting prostration of strength.
Excessive heaviness, dulness, and unfitness for everything.

77. General malaise.
Drawings in several muscles.
Bruised sensation on waking.
Bruised feeling in all the muscles.

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79. General head
Congestion of blood to the head.
Heaviness of the head.

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83. Vertigo with torpor; neuralgic pain in external
frontal nerve; occiput acutely sensitive.
 Note - 'Sushruta' has found it useful in
increasing memory.
Head
BANERJEE P., Materia Medica of Indian Drugs

84. Very severe pain left internal auditory meatus.
Ear:

85. Four whitish places on the left side of the tongue, three on its upper, and
one, about as large as a two-cent piece, on its under surface.
Slight hyperaemia of the buccal mucous membrane.
Increased action of the salivary glands.
Mouth
ALLEN T. F., Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

86. MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - patches - left
upper and under side of tongue: hydrc.
SYNTHESIS REPERTORY 9.0
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89. MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - Sides –
patches: hydrc. sang.
SYNTHESIS REPERTORY 9.0
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90. Insipid or bitter taste.
Slight impediment in speech.

91. Speech disorders or speech impediments are a type of communication
disorder where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This can
mean stuttering, lisps, etc.
A disorder affecting the capacity to produce normal
speech slight speech impediment made it difficult
⇒
for me to understand him.
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92. Bright redness of he velum palati, with pain on swallowing saliva, and
especially on swallowing food.
 Redness of the tonsils.
Throat

93. THROAT - PAIN - burning - Esophagus – prickling: hydrc.
SYNTHESIS REPERTORY 9.0
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94. Slight disorder of the constrictor muscles of the pharynx.
Pricking in the pharynx.
Dryness and roughness in the oesophagus.
Burning and pricking in the oesophagus.

95. Stomach
Loathing of food,
 Anorexia, then strong appetite.
Aversion to tobacco smoking.

96. Female:
Heat in the bottom of the vagina; pricking and itching at its
orifice.
Leucorrhoea; heaviness in uterus; vulva, vagina and cervix are red,
severe labor-like pain in uterus.

97. FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Ovaries - Pain - Dull –
constant: aur-br. hydrc. nicc. sep.
BOERICKE REPERTORY
FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Uterus - Cervix - Redness
hydrc. mit.
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98. FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Uterus - Inflammation - Chronic –
follicular: Hydr. hydrc. iod. merc.
BOERICKE REPERTORY
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101. BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - cancer; from: hydrc.
SYNTHESIS REPERTORY 9.0
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102. Weak voice.
Speaking soon becomes fatiguing.
Voice

103. Slight irritation of all the air-passages.
Dryness of the whole windpipe.
Sensation of dryness in the ventricles of the larynx.
Larynx

104. Easy expectoration of bronchial mucus (secondary effect).
Difficulty in expectorating the bronchial mucus,
Expectoration

105. Lungs - ASTHMA, general - recent, uncomplicated cases:
ars. hydrc.
Murphy Repertory
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106. Irregular beating of the heart.
Cardiac spasm.
Constriction of heart.
Heart's action

107. Pulse stronger and fuller (Hunter)
Pulse

108. Urine becomes brown on cooling.
Turbid urine, but without sediment.
Urine

109. Yawning and stretching.
Drowsiness.
Drowsiness in the daytime.
Quite sleep.
Heavy, dreamless sleep.
ALLEN T. F., Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Sleep:

110. Drawing pain in spermatic cords.
Impotency.
Indifference to intercourse.
Male sexual system

111. Male - TUBERCLES, genitalia: Hydrc. Thuj.
Murphy Repertory
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112.  Burning and itching in anus; weight in rectum
Rectum

113. EXTREMITIES - WATER - warm water were running through
marrow of bones; as if: hydrc.
SYNTHESIS REPERTORY 9.0
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114. Excellent medicine in jaundice.
Leprosy
Skin diseases
Syphilis
Gonorrhoea
Dropsy
Clinical
Leucorrhoea
Elephantiasis.
It is a diuretic, aperient and tonic.
Effacious in nervous debility and seminal weakness.

115. Skin:
 Erysipelatous redness,
Three spots, almost completely circular, with slightly raised, scaly edges.(They appeared after taking 8
drops daily of the 6th dilution for six weeks, in a subject aged 19 years; as soon as the medicine was
stopped they began to diminish, and disappeared entirely in fourteen days),
Yellowish spots on both legs.
Papular eruption on the face.
Two small pustules on the chest.

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118. Subjective
Pricking on different parts (10 drops tincture).
Intolerable itching in several places,

119. Circular spots with raised scaly edges.
Miliary eruptions on neck, back, chest; itching at the tip of the nose.
Thickening of the epidermoid layer and exfoliation of scales.
Syphilitic affections.
Stomatitis, either apthous or syphilitic.

120. SKIN - Lupus erythematosus
apis cist. guar. Hydrc. Iod. Kali-bi. Phos. sep. Thyr.
Boericke Repertory
SKIN - Pruritus - of - feet - soles of
anan. hydrc.
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121. HydrocotyleHydrocotyle Arsenic AlbumArsenic AlbumKali ArsenicosumKali Arsenicosum GraphitisGraphitis
 Erysipelatous redness.Chronic Eczema. Dry Chronic Eczema. Forming massive, dirty
scales, which mat the hair;
scabs sore to touch.
Almost completely
circular, with slightly
raised, scaly edges.
Induration and hardening
of the skin with vesicles
which turn into pustules
and form scabs.
Covered with filimsy
exfoliations.
Eczema with profuse
serous, sticky exudations.
Yellowish spots on both
legs.
Dry, scaly eruptions upon
scalp, face, legs and
genitals.
Skin of arms thicker and
rougher than natural
Eczema Capitis of entire
scalp,
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122. HydrocotyleHydrocotyle Arsenic AlbumArsenic AlbumKali ArsenicosumKali Arsenicosum GraphitisGraphitis
With acrid and sometimes
fetid discharge with
terrible burning and
itching.
Itching and tingling on
getting warm.
In blondes, inclined to
obesity, dryness of the skin
and absence of
perspiration.
Small pustules on the
chest.
Itching at night and in
cold air.
Intensely fissured about
joints.
Eczema Impetiginoid,
begins as moisture and
eruptions behind the ears,
spreading over cheeks and
neck with fissures on and
behind the ears.
Intolerable itching in
several places.
Amel. By external warmth.Occasional exacerbation
with eruption of distinct
vesicles.
Eczema with thick and
scaby skin but less burning
than Arsenic.
Covered with filimsy
exfoliations,
Papular eruption on the
face.
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123. Juglans CinereaJuglans CinereaCroton tigliumCroton tiglium Sarsaparilla Sarsaparilla Rhus tox.Rhus tox.
Eczema, especially on
lower extremities, sacrum,
hands and wrists.
Pure idiopathic EczemaItching eruptions on
forehead and face.
Moist eruptions on head.
Eczema frequently
recurring.
Eczema Seen in children,
eczema of face and
genitals.
Milk-crusts with burning,
becoming humid on
scratching.
Forming thick crusts, with
violent itching at night and
extending to shoulders.
Eczema intolerable itching
and soreness.
Eczema relieved by slight
rubbing
Base of eruption is much
inflamed, crusts become
detached in open air.
Eczema Scroti on inside of
thighs, discharging watery
freely.
Child cries much Worse in wet and winter
weather.

124. Natrum Mur.Natrum Mur. PetroleumPetroleum SepiaSepia MezereumMezereum
White scaly scabs on the
head from ear to ear.
Yellowish-green thick
crusts on face and neck,
occiput, scrotum,
perineum, and thighs.
Eruptions during
pregnancy and nursing
Head covered with a thick,
leathery crust under which
pus collects and mats the
hair.
Eruptions about mouth,
bends of knees and folds of
skin generally.
Itching, sore places or
deep cracks on skin chiefly
on dorsa of hands.
Itching on face, on arms,
hands, back, lips, feet,
abdomen and genitals
Violent itching on scalp,
scratching increases the
itching;
Borders and corners of
eye-lids raw and ulcerated
oozing a corroding gluey
fluid
Eruptions between toes
with foul sweat
Often changing to burning
on scratching
Continually scratches the
face, and tears off the
scab, so that the face
becomes covered with
blood and fat pustules
form on the raw spots.
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Worse in winter, better in
summer.
Eruption is dry, or soon
becomes moist
Eczema, itching
intolerably, with copious
serous exudation
Becomes moist and
discharges copious
offensive pus-like fluid,
Covering the whole area
with elevated white scabs,
and roughness and scaling
here and there.
Discharge becomes dry,
cracks and exfoliates.
Worse on parts devoid of
fat, worse in warmth.
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