Cantharanthus
I can't find any reference to this remedy. Can anyone?
Regards
Rochelle
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My very recent experiments
have proved
Cantharanthus 6 acting successfully also in some
cases. Proper grouping
of
symptoms yet could not be made. This drug
Cantharanthus has been
scientifically introduced in my advanced method by Dr.
Santwana
Mukherjee.
Best
Robyn
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Cantharanthus l
Re: Cantharanthus l
Rochelle Wrote:
Rochelle,
This remedy used to be called Vinca roseus but they are now considered 2
different genera.
Dr. Mukherjee did her PhD on this remedy apparently - a series of provings
were carried out by Dr. Banerji and Mukherjee in 1979 - 83, and thereafter
cllinical trials were undertaken in their research centre, and was
introducred by them in 1980.
It is a plant that Allopathy uses in Vincristine - an anticancer drug.
Vinca minor (common Periwinkle) which is in Hering is similar but not the
same
I have some of the guiding symptoms from their research for Alopecia and
Menorrhagia (preclimacteric) and other information if interested
I don't understand why this information has not been added to modern mat
med, and repertory - but alot of the Indian research seems to stay in India!
Robyn
Found this in EH, but not sure if it is the same Catharanthus as referred to
by Banerji - very confusing when names are changed, or differences in genera
are noted by some and not by others!
Varma
Vinca rosea
Generals
GENERALS - DIABETES MELLITUS
Urine
URINE - SUGAR
Vinca rosea
Botanical name: Catharanthus roseus (Linn)
Family: Apocynaceae
Uses: Catharanthus rosens - Vinca rosea. Homoeopathically used in
urticaria especially from meat, egg, raddish, tomato, which is worse in
winter and from exertion, stomatitis especially from dry fruits. It is also
used in menorrhagia, frontal headache, drowsiness, bodyache, euporia and
burning pains.
Synonyms: Vinca Rosea (Linn.); Hindi: Sadabahar, Sada Suhagan; English: Red
Periwinkle.
Description: Is an erect, much branched, annual or perennial suffruticose
herb or undershrub, succulent when young ligneous and tough afterwards.
Leaves oblong, elleptic, acute, rounded or mucronate, apex glossy, slightly
foetid. Flowers fragrant, white to pinkish purple, in terminal or axillary
cymose clusters, pedicellate, hermaphrodite, complete, actinomorphic,
hypogynous; calyx five; sepals - polysepalous, 5-7 mm long, green,
glandular, segments narrowly lanceolate; corolla rose limbed, tube long,
cylindrical, swollen at insertion of stamens slightly below mouth, limb
spreading, 2.5 to 5 cm across, petals 5, gamopetalous, salver shaped, throat
of corolla hairy, forming a corona like structure. Stamens five, alternating
with petals, included in corolla tube, epipetalous. Gynoccium bicarpellary,
syncorpous. Fruit : a pair of elongated follicales, 1.5 to 3.5 cm long,
hairy, many seeded; seeds oblong, minute, about 2 mm long, 1 mm broad,
black, longitudinally muricate.
Distribution: Catharanthus roseus originally an endemic of Madagascar, it
has acquired a pantropical distribution, and is commonly grown in India.
History and authority: Catharanthus roseus is native of Madagascar, which
is situated at South East Coast of Africa. Catharanthus roseus has long been
esteemed as an ornamental plant but has now gained considerable commercial
importance, since early 1980's, due to anticancer activity of its alkaloids.
In early twenties in the year 1923, considerable interest was aroused in the
medical world by the statement that Vinca rosea has the power to cure
diabetes mellitus and would probably prove an efficient substitute for
insulin therapy. But investigators were unable to confirm this property.
Instead Candian researchers in the year 1955-60 discovered that the extract
of leaves produced leukopenic action due to the destruction of bone marrow.
These observations promoted the researchers and led to the discovery of six
alkaloids for their anti-cancerous activity, of which only two alkaloids
viz. Vinblastine, vincristine have undergone extensive clinical
investigations. Uses taken from thesis for M.D. Rajasthan University
(India), of Dr. V.K. Gupta, former Principal of Nehru Homoeopathic
College, New Delhi.
Part used: Leaf.
Preparation: a)
Mother Tincture ø Drug strength 1/10
Catharanthus roseus in coarse powder or pulp. 100 g
Purified Water 233 ml
Strong Alcohol 800 ml
To make one litre of the Mother Tincture.
b) Potencies: 2x and higher with Dispensing Alcohol.
Prescribed dose: Mother Tincture, 3x
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Rochelle,
This remedy used to be called Vinca roseus but they are now considered 2
different genera.
Dr. Mukherjee did her PhD on this remedy apparently - a series of provings
were carried out by Dr. Banerji and Mukherjee in 1979 - 83, and thereafter
cllinical trials were undertaken in their research centre, and was
introducred by them in 1980.
It is a plant that Allopathy uses in Vincristine - an anticancer drug.
Vinca minor (common Periwinkle) which is in Hering is similar but not the
same
I have some of the guiding symptoms from their research for Alopecia and
Menorrhagia (preclimacteric) and other information if interested
I don't understand why this information has not been added to modern mat
med, and repertory - but alot of the Indian research seems to stay in India!
Robyn
Found this in EH, but not sure if it is the same Catharanthus as referred to
by Banerji - very confusing when names are changed, or differences in genera
are noted by some and not by others!
Varma
Vinca rosea
Generals
GENERALS - DIABETES MELLITUS
Urine
URINE - SUGAR
Vinca rosea
Botanical name: Catharanthus roseus (Linn)
Family: Apocynaceae
Uses: Catharanthus rosens - Vinca rosea. Homoeopathically used in
urticaria especially from meat, egg, raddish, tomato, which is worse in
winter and from exertion, stomatitis especially from dry fruits. It is also
used in menorrhagia, frontal headache, drowsiness, bodyache, euporia and
burning pains.
Synonyms: Vinca Rosea (Linn.); Hindi: Sadabahar, Sada Suhagan; English: Red
Periwinkle.
Description: Is an erect, much branched, annual or perennial suffruticose
herb or undershrub, succulent when young ligneous and tough afterwards.
Leaves oblong, elleptic, acute, rounded or mucronate, apex glossy, slightly
foetid. Flowers fragrant, white to pinkish purple, in terminal or axillary
cymose clusters, pedicellate, hermaphrodite, complete, actinomorphic,
hypogynous; calyx five; sepals - polysepalous, 5-7 mm long, green,
glandular, segments narrowly lanceolate; corolla rose limbed, tube long,
cylindrical, swollen at insertion of stamens slightly below mouth, limb
spreading, 2.5 to 5 cm across, petals 5, gamopetalous, salver shaped, throat
of corolla hairy, forming a corona like structure. Stamens five, alternating
with petals, included in corolla tube, epipetalous. Gynoccium bicarpellary,
syncorpous. Fruit : a pair of elongated follicales, 1.5 to 3.5 cm long,
hairy, many seeded; seeds oblong, minute, about 2 mm long, 1 mm broad,
black, longitudinally muricate.
Distribution: Catharanthus roseus originally an endemic of Madagascar, it
has acquired a pantropical distribution, and is commonly grown in India.
History and authority: Catharanthus roseus is native of Madagascar, which
is situated at South East Coast of Africa. Catharanthus roseus has long been
esteemed as an ornamental plant but has now gained considerable commercial
importance, since early 1980's, due to anticancer activity of its alkaloids.
In early twenties in the year 1923, considerable interest was aroused in the
medical world by the statement that Vinca rosea has the power to cure
diabetes mellitus and would probably prove an efficient substitute for
insulin therapy. But investigators were unable to confirm this property.
Instead Candian researchers in the year 1955-60 discovered that the extract
of leaves produced leukopenic action due to the destruction of bone marrow.
These observations promoted the researchers and led to the discovery of six
alkaloids for their anti-cancerous activity, of which only two alkaloids
viz. Vinblastine, vincristine have undergone extensive clinical
investigations. Uses taken from thesis for M.D. Rajasthan University
(India), of Dr. V.K. Gupta, former Principal of Nehru Homoeopathic
College, New Delhi.
Part used: Leaf.
Preparation: a)
Mother Tincture ø Drug strength 1/10
Catharanthus roseus in coarse powder or pulp. 100 g
Purified Water 233 ml
Strong Alcohol 800 ml
To make one litre of the Mother Tincture.
b) Potencies: 2x and higher with Dispensing Alcohol.
Prescribed dose: Mother Tincture, 3x
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