Justicia adhatoda
Adhatoda vasica · Plant · Acanthaceae
Justicia adhatoda is highly efficacious for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract, particularly in the beginning stages. The remedy suits patients who develop violent sneezing, profuse watery coryza, and paroxysmal cough with dyspnea. It occupies a place between Allium cepa and Euphrasia, and asthmatic attacks with inability to tolerate warm closed rooms is a guiding symptom.
Key symptoms
- Acute catarrhal inflammation of the respiratory tract
- Profuse fluent coryza with constant violent sneezing
- Coryza with cough and lachrymation
- Paroxysmal cough with suffocative obstruction of respiration
- Tightness across chest with severe dyspnea
- Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close warm room
- Hoarseness with painful larynx
- Whooping-cough
Worse (aggravation)
- Warm closed room
Better (amelioration)
- Open air
An Indian Shrub, Singhee (JUSTICIA ADHATODA BASAKA)
Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract (used in the beginning)
Head
Irritable, sensitive to external impressions; hot, full and heavy head; lachrymation, with coryza, profuse, fluent, with constant sneezing; loss of smell and taste; coryza with cough.
Throat
Dry, pain during empty swallowing, tenacious mucus. Mouth dry.
Respiratory
Dry cough from sternal region all over chest. Hoarseness, larynx painful. Paroxysmal cough, with suffocative obstruction of respiration. Cough with sneezing. Severe dyspnœa with cough. Tightness across chest. Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room. Whooping-cough.
Relationship
Seems to come between Cepa and Euphrasia, which compare.
Dose
Third potency and higher. Severe aggravation have been noticed from lower potencies.
Phatak's chapter on Justicia adhatoda is available in the app.
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