Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Apiales
Family: (Apiaceae Umbelliferae) – Carrot family
Genus: Hydrocotyle L. – hydrocotyle
Common Name : Thankuni
Sanskrit : Nandukparni
Hindi : Brahma manduki
English : Indian pennywort
Family : Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)
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Synonyms:- Hydrocotyle Nummularioides. Hydrocotyle Pallida.
Common Names: Indian Pennywort. Water Pennywort.
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Synonyms: Hydrocotyle Nummularioides. Hydrocotyle Pallida.
Common Names: Indian Pennywort. Water Pennywort.
This perennial creeping plant is indigenous to tropical regions in both continents.
Leaves smooth petiolate, grouped on the nodes of the stem, round-kidney shape, dark
green in color, an inch broad, with crenate margin. Flowers pinkish, in three-flowered
umbels. The fresh bruised leaves have a peculiar odor, and a bitter pungent taste
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This is a small herbaceous plant with palmately
nerved or dissected leaves and simple umbels of small
flowers found throughout India from the Himalayas to
Cape of Comerin at the altitudes updo 2000 ft above
sea-level.
It is particularly grown in the damp places of West
Bengal. The plant was known to the Sanskrit writers
of very remote times. Its properties being similar to
those of Herpestle Monniera (Brahmi). Both plants
are regarded as a tonic, useful in the skin diseases,
nervous system, blood and brain cells.
It can be administered for both internal or,
external use. It has a special gravity on leprosy.
Still the confirmatory actions on curing leprosy
are under research.
Some parts of Indians are habituated in taking
the leaves with milk for improving their
memory and use as a body building tonic. The
leaves are very effective in skin eruptions and
syphilitic treatment
Water pennyworts, Hydrocotyles, are very
common. They have long creeping stems that
often form dense mats, often in and near
ponds, lakes, rivers, marshes and some
species in coastal areas by the sea.
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Leaves:
Simple, with small leafy outgrowth at the base, kidney shaped to round. Leaf edges are scalloped.
Flowers
Flower clusters are simple and flat-topped or rounded. Involucral bracts Inconspicuous bracts at the base of
each flower. Indistinct sepals.
Fruits and reproduction
Elliptical to round with thin ridges and no oil tubes (vitta) which is characteristic in the fruit of umbelliferous
plants.
The prostrate plants reproduce by seed and by sending roots from stem nodes.
Medical use: The entire plant.
Hydrocot. has been long known as an Indian remedy.
Boileau was the first to use it as a remedy in leprosy.
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It was introduced into the Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Dr. Audouit, France.
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Auduit cured a case: Girl, 20, weak and sickly-looking, since childhood troubled with
glandular swellings, for eight years had lupus excedens of nose. Her mother had coppery
eruption on face.
On right of nose was a button the size of six pence covered with a thick crust covering
yellow pus mixed with blood. Margins irregular and livid. Five other buttons size of
lentils near root of nose both sides.
Hydroc. was given in 6c, 3c, tincture and the 18c potencies in succession with
intermissions and completely cured in five months. Planets: Mercury, Saturn
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Gotu Kola is known as Indian Pennywort. It produces hypertrophy and
induration of connective tissue. Curative in disorders that exhibit interstitial
inflammation and cellular proliferation in any part.
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Generals - MUCUS membranes, general - syphilitic
Hydrc. MERC.
Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.
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GENERALS - HYPERTROPHY - Connective tissue: hydrc.
Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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Preparation:-The carefully dried plant is coarsely powdered, covered with five
parts by weight of alcohol, and allowed to remain eight days in a well-stoppered
bottle, in a dark, cool place, being shaken twice a day. The tincture is then poured
off, strained and filtered.
Drug power of tincture, 1/10.
Dilutions must be prepared as directed under Class IV.
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HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION
Gotu kola is an herb that is commonly used in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. The
above-ground parts are used to make medicine.
Gotu kola is used to treat bacterial, viral or parasitic infections such as urinary tract infection (UTI),
shingles, leprosy, cholera, dysentery, syphilis, common cold, influenza, H1N1 (Swine) flu, elephantiasis,
tuberculosis and schistosomiasis.
Gotu kola is also used for fatigue, anxiety, depression, psychiatric disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and
improving memory and Intelligence. Other uses include wound healing, trauma and circulation
problems (venous insufficiency) including varicose veins, and Blood clots in the legs.
HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION:
Some people use gotu kola for sunstroke, tonsillitis, fluid around the lungs (pleurisy),liver disease
(hepatitis), jaundice, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), stomach pain,diarrhea,
indigestion, stomach ulcers, epilepsy, asthma, “tired blood” (anemia), diabetes, and for helping them live
longer.
Some women use gotu kola for preventing pregnancy, absence of menstrual periods, and to arouse sexual desire.
Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin for wound healing and reducing scars, including stretch
marks caused by pregnancy.
HYDROCOTYLE (GOTU KOLA) OVERVIEW INFORMATION:
Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin for wound healing and reducing the scars, including stretch
marks caused by pregnancy.
How does it work?
Gotu kola contains certain chemicals that seem to decrease inflammation and also decrease blood pressure in
veins. Gotu Kola also seems to increase collagen production, which is important for wound healing.
Mind:
Gloomy thoughts,
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Misanthropy
A dislike of humankind.
Hatred of mankind,
Antisocial behaviour
Desire for solitude
Isolation refer to a state of being or living alone.
Indifference
lack of interest, concern, or sympathy
Mind - CONFIDING
hydrc. kres. mur-ac. op. spig. Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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Tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
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Expression of face more or less as if intoxicated.
Very severe intermittent pain in the left cheek-bone.
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Face - CANCER – lupus:
alumn. Arg-n. ARS. aur-m. carb-ac. Carb-v. cist. HYDRC. kali-ar.
Kali-bi. kali-chl. kreos. lach. psor. Sep. Sil.
Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.
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Face - ERUPTIONS, facial – coppery:
ARS-I. Ars. Aur. benz-ac. calc. CARB-AN. Graph. Hydrc. Kali-i. Lyc.
merc. Psor. rhus-t. ruta verat.
Murphy Rep.Murphy Rep.
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FACE - HEAT - heart, constriction of: hydrc.
Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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Swelling of the nose.
Stoppage of the nose.
Feeling as if epistaxis were coming on.
Tickling in the nose.
Nose - LUPUS - wing, on: Aur-m. Hydrc.
Synthesis Rep. 9.0
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A chronic inflammatory disease that is caused by autoimmunity
The first symptom is a red (or dark), scaly rash on the nose and cheeks, often called a butterfly rash because of its distinctive shape. As inflammation continues, scar tissue may form, including keloid scarring in patients prone to keloid formation.
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NOSE - Internal nose - eruptions, growths - Lupus
Ars. calc. cic. hydr. Hydrc. merc. rhus-t. sulph. tub.
Boericke Rep.
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Depression, heaviness, and dull feeling throughout the system generally.
General lassitude.
General weariness.
Profound ennui.
General symptoms
Ennui: A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from
a lack of occupation or excitement.
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Debility.
Lasting prostration of strength.
Excessive heaviness, dulness, and unfitness for everything.
General malaise.
Drawings in several muscles.
Bruised sensation on waking.
Bruised feeling in all the muscles.
General head
Congestion of blood to the head.
Heaviness of the head.
Vertigo with torpor; neuralgic pain in external
frontal nerve; occiput acutely sensitive.
Note - 'Sushruta' has found it useful in
increasing memory.
Head
BANERJEE P., Materia Medica of Indian Drugs
Very severe pain left internal auditory meatus.
Ear:
Four whitish places on the left side of the tongue, three on its upper, and
one, about as large as a two-cent piece, on its under surface.
Slight hyperaemia of the buccal mucous membrane.
Increased action of the salivary glands.
Mouth
ALLEN T. F., Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - patches - left upper and under side of tongue: hydrc.
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MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white - Sides – patches: hydrc. sang.
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Insipid or bitter taste.
Slight impediment in speech.
Speech disorders or speech impediments are a type of communication
disorder where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This can
mean stuttering, lisps, etc.
A disorder affecting the capacity to produce normal
speech slight speech impediment made it difficult ⇒
for me to understand him.
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Bright redness of he velum palati, with pain on swallowing saliva, and especially on swallowing food.
Redness of the tonsils.
Throat
THROAT - PAIN - burning - Esophagus – prickling: hydrc.
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Slight disorder of the constrictor muscles of the pharynx.
Pricking in the pharynx.
Dryness and roughness in the oesophagus.
Burning and pricking in the oesophagus.
Stomach
Loathing of food,
Anorexia, then strong appetite.
Aversion to tobacco smoking.
Female:
Heat in the bottom of the vagina; pricking and itching at its orifice.
Leucorrhoea; heaviness in uterus; vulva, vagina and cervix are red, severe labor-like pain in uterus.
FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Ovaries - Pain - Dull – constant: aur-br. hydrc. nicc. sep.
BOERICKE REPERTORY
FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Uterus - Cervix - Redness hydrc. mit.
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FEMALE SEXUAL SYSTEM - Uterus - Inflammation - Chronic – follicular: Hydr. hydrc. iod. merc.
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BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - cancer; from: hydrc.
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Weak voice.
Speaking soon becomes fatiguing.
Voice
Slight irritation of all the air-passages.
Dryness of the whole windpipe.
Sensation of dryness in the ventricles of the larynx.
Larynx
Easy expectoration of bronchial mucus (secondary effect).
Difficulty in expectorating the bronchial mucus,
Expectoration
Lungs - ASTHMA, general - recent, uncomplicated cases: ars. hydrc.
Murphy Repertory
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Irregular beating of the heart.
Cardiac spasm.
Constriction of heart.
Heart's action
Pulse stronger and fuller (Hunter)
Pulse
Urine becomes brown on cooling.
Turbid urine, but without sediment.
Urine
Yawning and stretching.
Drowsiness.
Drowsiness in the daytime.
Quite sleep.
Heavy, dreamless sleep.
ALLEN T. F., Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Sleep:
Drawing pain in spermatic cords.
Impotency.
Indifference to intercourse.
Male sexual system
Male - TUBERCLES, genitalia: Hydrc. Thuj.
Murphy Repertory
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Burning and itching in anus; weight in rectum
Rectum
EXTREMITIES - WATER - warm water were running through marrow of bones; as if: hydrc.
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Excellent medicine in jaundice.
Leprosy
Skin diseases
Syphilis
Gonorrhoea
Dropsy
Clinical
Leucorrhoea
Elephantiasis.
It is a diuretic, aperient and tonic.
Effacious in nervous debility and seminal weakness.
Skin:
Erysipelatous redness,
Three spots, almost completely circular, with slightly raised, scaly edges.(They appeared after taking 8 drops daily of the 6th dilution for six weeks, in a subject aged 19 years; as soon as the medicine was stopped they began to diminish, and disappeared entirely in fourteen days),
Yellowish spots on both legs.
Papular eruption on the face.
Two small pustules on the chest.
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Subjective
Pricking on different parts (10 drops tincture).
Intolerable itching in several places,
Circular spots with raised scaly edges.
Miliary eruptions on neck, back, chest; itching at the tip of the nose.
Thickening of the epidermoid layer and exfoliation of scales.
Syphilitic affections.
Stomatitis, either apthous or syphilitic.
SKIN - Lupus erythematosus apis cist. guar. Hydrc. Iod. Kali-bi. Phos. sep. Thyr.
Boericke Repertory
SKIN - Pruritus - of - feet - soles of anan. hydrc.
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HydrocotyleHydrocotyle Arsenic AlbumArsenic Album Kali ArsenicosumKali Arsenicosum GraphitisGraphitis
Erysipelatous redness. Chronic Eczema. Dry Chronic Eczema. Forming massive, dirty scales, which mat the hair; scabs sore to touch.
Almost completely circular, with slightly raised, scaly edges.
Induration and hardening of the skin with vesicles which turn into pustules and form scabs.
Covered with filimsy exfoliations.
Eczema with profuse serous, sticky exudations.
Yellowish spots on both legs.
Dry, scaly eruptions upon scalp, face, legs and genitals.
Skin of arms thicker and rougher than natural
Eczema Capitis of entire scalp,
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HydrocotyleHydrocotyle Arsenic AlbumArsenic Album Kali ArsenicosumKali Arsenicosum GraphitisGraphitis
With acrid and sometimes fetid discharge with terrible burning and itching.
Itching and tingling on getting warm.
In blondes, inclined to obesity, dryness of the skin and absence of perspiration.
Small pustules on the chest.
Itching at night and in cold air.
Intensely fissured about joints.
Eczema Impetiginoid, begins as moisture and eruptions behind the ears, spreading over cheeks and neck with fissures on and behind the ears.
Intolerable itching in several places.
Amel. By external warmth. Occasional exacerbation with eruption of distinct vesicles.
Eczema with thick and scaby skin but less burning than Arsenic.
Covered with filimsy exfoliations,
Papular eruption on the face.
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Juglans CinereaJuglans Cinerea Croton tigliumCroton tiglium Sarsaparilla Sarsaparilla Rhus tox.Rhus tox.
Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum, hands and wrists.
Pure idiopathic Eczema Itching eruptions on forehead and face.
Moist eruptions on head.
Eczema frequently recurring.
Eczema Seen in children, eczema of face and genitals.
Milk-crusts with burning, becoming humid on scratching.
Forming thick crusts, with violent itching at night and extending to shoulders.
Eczema intolerable itching and soreness.
Eczema relieved by slight rubbing
Base of eruption is much inflamed, crusts become detached in open air.
Eczema Scroti on inside of thighs, discharging watery freely.
Child cries much Worse in wet and winter weather.
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White scaly scabs on the head from ear to ear.
Yellowish-green thick crusts on face and neck, occiput, scrotum, perineum, and thighs.
Eruptions during pregnancy and nursing
Head covered with a thick, leathery crust under which pus collects and mats the hair.
Eruptions about mouth, bends of knees and folds of skin generally.
Itching, sore places or deep cracks on skin chiefly on dorsa of hands.
Itching on face, on arms, hands, back, lips, feet, abdomen and genitals
Violent itching on scalp, scratching increases the itching;
Borders and corners of eye-lids raw and ulcerated oozing a corroding gluey fluid
Eruptions between toes with foul sweat
Often changing to burning on scratching
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Worse in winter, better in summer.
Eruption is dry, or soon becomes moist
Eczema, itching intolerably, with copious serous exudation
Becomes moist and discharges copious offensive pus-like fluid,
Covering the whole area with elevated white scabs, and roughness and scaling here and there.
Discharge becomes dry, cracks and exfoliates.
Worse on parts devoid of fat, worse in warmth.
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