Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
644.56.05
644.56.05 Tribulus terrestris, Hygrophila spinosa
English: Caltrop.
Names: Ikshugandha; bindii; bullhead; burra gokharu; caltrop; cat's head; devil's eyelashes; devil's thorn; devil's weed; goathead; puncturevine; tackweed; Sanskrit, gokshura, sarrata.
Content: harman; norharman.
Source: Ghose.
Botany: thorns.
Mind
Apathy.
Sensation: endurance.
General
Weather: < warmth; < heat.
Sleep: insomnia.
Body
Dropsy.
Fever: malarial, < morning, no chill or thirst, with urticaria.
Abdomen: hepatic obstruction.
Urinary: stone, gravel, calculus in the bladder; cystitis; urination painful, dribbling; incontinence; dropsy.
Male: sexual atony, neurasthenia; ! low testosteron; impotence << overindulgence, << masturbation, << prostate emissions and spermatorrhoea; gonorrhoea; infertility; ejaculation << stool, < urination; prostatitis, prostate inflamed, swollen, hard; vesicula seminalis inflammation.
Female: leucorrhoea; labour problems.
Limbs: rheumatism; ! paralysis.
Skin: urticaria, intolerable burning, intense itching > cold, < heat; swelling and redness, small red pimples, like meals, eruptions due to prickly heat. Ulcers due to impurities of blood.