Ficus religiosa
Plant · Moraceae
Ficus Religiosa is indicated in haemorrhagic conditions of various organs, particularly haematemesis, menorrhagia, haemoptysis, and bloody urine. The patient is sad, melancholic, quiet, disinclined to move, and weak, often with simultaneous bleeding from multiple sites.
Key symptoms
- Haemorrhages of many kinds: haematemesis, menorrhagia, haemoptysis, bloody urine
- Vomiting of bright red blood with pain and sick feeling in stomach
- Dysentery with simultaneous menorrhagia and bright red blood
- Burning at vertex with nausea and slight headache
- Difficult breathing with cough causing spitting of blood
- Sight dim; very weak and restless
Ashwathya
This East Indian drug causes and cures hæmorrhages of many kinds. Hæmatemesis, menorrhagia, hæmoptysis, etc. Bloody urine.
Head
Melancholic-quiet; burning at vertex; vertigo and slight headache.
Stomach
Nausea, vomiting of bright red blood; pain and sick feeling in stomach.
Respiratory
Difficult breathing; cough with vomiting of blood; pulse very weak.
Relationship
Compare: Acalypha; Millefol; Thlaspi; Ipecac.
Dose
First potency.
Pakur. (India.) N. O. Moraceæ. Tincture (Juice of fresh leaves mixed with equal parts of alcohol).
Clinical
Hæmorrhages. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia.
Characteristics
We owe this remedy to Dr. Sarat Chandra Ghose, of Midnapore, who made the first proving and thereby discovered its power to cause and cure hæmorrhages of many kinds. Dr. Ghose kindly sent me a supply of the remedy, and I have had very satisfactory results with the 1x potency in controlling menorrhagia. The provers were Dr. Ghose himself, his wife, and a dog. As the experiments are quite remarkable I will give them in detail. The dog, which was perfectly strong and healthy, received 40 drops of the tincture one morning. No result followed that day, and the dose was repeated next morning, and the animal commenced and continued to vomit blood of a bright red colour. It kept very quiet and was unwilling to move. After three doses of five drops of the tincture given in quick succession, the vomiting ceased. It is remarkable that the same treatment (minute …
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