Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.45.04
666.45.04 Blumea balsamifera
Indonesian: Sembung; Capa.
Content: essential oil, L-borneol, limonene, sesquiterpene, sesquiterpene alcohol.
Botany: shrub; stems hairy; sunny, wet with wind and draught; leaves are bitter and spicy.
Content: camphor.
General
Sweat: scanty.
Food: < opium.
Sleep: insomnia.
Physical: < opium addiction.
Body
Energy: weak; languor.
Fever.
Infection: influenza; malaria.
Head: headache.
Nose: colds; coryza.
Mouth: thrush.
Lungs: cough, chest pains.
Heart: weakness; hypertension.
Stomach: spasm, cramp.
Abdomen: bloated; flatulence; colic, biliary, < mucous, < flatus, gas; liver disease; gall scanty, stones.
Rectum: diarrhoea; dysentery, cholera; stools loose.
Urinary: urine protein, albumen.
Female: menses painful.
Limbs: joint pains.