Pinus lambertiana
Plant · Pinaceae
Pinus lambertiana suits individuals with suppressed menstruation or constipation. It has been used traditionally by Indian women to procure abortion and to restore menstrual flow when suppressed.
Key symptoms
- Gentle laxative action from small doses of inspissated sap
- Restores suppressed menses and removes painful sensations from suppression
- Produces abortion in pregnant women (emmenagogue action)
- Constipation amenable to its cathartic effect
Sugar Pine. (North America.) N. O. Coniferæ. Trituration of inspissated sap.
Clinical
Abortion. Amenorrhœa. Constipation.
Characteristics
The inspissated sap of P. Lamb. makes a sugary substance like manna. A small quantity (from a bit the size of a pea to a teaspoonful) has a decided but gentle laxative action, and in larger quantities emphatically so. It has also an action on the menstrual function, restoring menses when suppressed; and producing abortion in pregnant women.
Relations
Compare: Sabina, Junip., Pin. syl., and other coniferæ.
13. Stools
Gentle cathartic action.
16. Female Sexual Organs
Used by Indian women to procure abortion.─In suppressed menses restores the flow and removes painful sensations resulting from suppression.
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