Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
655.41.03
655.41.03 Dictamnus albus
English: Dittany of Crete; Burning-bush; False Dittany; White Dittany; Gas-plant.
Dutch: Vuurwerkplant.
Botany: has oil glands everywhere, can be set on fire on hot days, without any danger to plants near it; it has a strong spicy smell; perennial herb; southern Europe, north Africa and southern and central Asia.
Content: essential oil, lemon-like smell, flammable.
Mind
Hysteria.
Fever: malignant, pestilential
Dreams: exhausting; piecing together the bodies of her children; flying, unable; killing her own children.
General
Sleep: sleepless.
Body
General: decaying flesh, malignancies, obstructions.
Nervous: epilepsy.
Head: headache.
Mouth: taste bitter, unpalatable, acrid.
Heart: problems.
Stomach: indigestion.
Abdomen: flatulence.
Rectum: constipation.
Urinary: cystitis; urine scanty, gravel; pain, colic.
Female: menses absent, scanty, obstructed; leucorrhoea; labour difficult.