Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
665.76.16
665.76.16 Operculina turpethum
Names: Ipomoea Turpethum.
English: turpeth, fue vao, St. Thomas lidpod, Indian Jalap, transparent wood rose, turpeth root, white day glory.
Names: Hindi: Nisoth; Pitohri; Kannada: Aluthi gida, Bangada balli, Bilitigade; Devadanti; Nagadanti.
Malayalam: Tigad; Marathi: Nisottar; Sanskrit: Nishotra; Triputa; Trivrutha; Tamil: Adimbu; Caralam; Civatai; Kumpncan; Paganrai; Telugu: Tegada, Trivrut tellatega.
Mind
Nervous, restless, erratic.
Sensation: stuck to old patterns.
Delirium associated with restlessness, loquacity.
Tendency to escape from bed; ravings, pains cause fainting.
Body
Fever: plague, fevers, diarrhoea.
Abdomen: watery diarrhoea, profuse, with sinking sensation.
Rectum: cholera; dysentery; haemorrhoids, bleeding.
Skin: lymphatic glands enlarged and indurated; bubonic plague; boils and slowly suppurating abscesses.