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Rhododendron…Remedy profile
 

Miss P.Gnanam , BHMS
Final year, RVS Homoeopathic Medical College
Sulur, Coimbatore641402
Mobile : 92445 32021


 

Botanical Name : Rhododentron Chrysanthum pall

Common Names : English Golden flowered Rhododentron,French Rose de Siberie;German Goldgeble Alpenrose.

Natural Order : Ericaceae

Description : It is evergreen Shrub. The leaves are thick, coriaceous, 3-4cm long, 1-2 wide

Parts used : Leaves and flower buds

History and Authority: Proved and introduced by Seide in 1831:Allen Encyclopedia and Materia Medica Vol VIII,311,Hering Guiding symptoms,Vol.IX

Distribution : Dr.Clarke says that Rhododendron plants are growing among flogs and storms of Siberian mountains, which indicates that the plant grows before and during thunderstorm. Thus making Doctrine of signature” Complaint before and after thunderstorm”

Preparation : Mother tincture is prepared with drug strength 1/10 using the coarse powder 100gms, purified water 200ml and srong alcohol 824ml

Sphere of action : Acts on muscular and fibrous tissues.so useful in Arthritis and Rheumatic condition. Also produces induration of testis and epididymitis

Clinical indications
Amenorrhora, Bone Pains, Bunions, Cillary neuralgia, Diarrhoea, Eye affection, Flatulence, Hydrocele, Lumbago, Memory Weak, Neuralgia, Orchitis , Rheumatism, Stiffneck, Toothache.

MIASM
Psora predominates

DIATHESIS
Rheumatic and gouty diathesis

THERMAL
Chilly patient.