LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA
Culver’s Root
(LEPTANDRA)
A liver remedy, with jaundice and black, tarry stools. Bilious states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Malarial conditions.
Head.–Dull frontal pain; vertigo, drowsiness, and depression. Smarting and aching in eyes.
Stomach.–Tongue lined yellow. Great misery in belly and intestines, with wish for stool. Aching in area of liver extending to spine, which feels chilly.
Stool.–Profuse black, fetid stools, with ache at umbilicus. Bleeding piles. Typhoid stools flip black and appear like tar. Clay coloured stools with jaundice. Prolapse of rectum with haemorrhoids. Rectal haemorrhage.
Relationship.–Compare: Podop; Iris; Bry; Merc; Ptel; Myrica.
Dose.–Tincture, to 1/3 potency.
