Materia Medica de A a Z

JUSTICIA ADHATODA = BASAKA (just)

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 dyspnoea with cough. TIGHTNESS ACROSS CHEST. Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room. WHOOPING-COUGH.

Relationship

Seems to come between Cepa (All-c) and Euphrasia (Euphr), which compare.

Dose

Third potency and higher. Severe aggravation have been noticed from lower potencies.