Aralia racemosa Anhang
[Sven Sauter]
»Aralia« ist der Name den die Nordamerikaner der Bergangelika geben.
Osten von Nordamerika (in den waldigen Bergen)
ORGANE:
Blut/Bronchien/Galle/Lunge/Magen/Nase/Niere/Schleimhäute/Weibliche Genitalien
ERKRANKUNGEN
* 2. Stadium Syphilinie?
* Allergien
* Anämie
-- Reizbarkeit, mit
* Asthma
-- allergisches
-- Auswurf
---- reichlich
---- spärlich (zu Beginn)
-- chronisches
-- Schnupfen vor Asthma
* Asthma cardiale
* Atemnot
* Bronchitis
-- akut
-- chronische
* Emphysem
* Fluor
-- übelriechend
-- wundmachend
* Gicht
* Heuschnupfen
* Husten
-- < nachts
-- akut
---- trocken
-- brennend
---- hinter dem Brustbein
-- feucht
-- kitzelnd
-- krampfig
-- einschlafen, im ersten Schlaf
-- trocken
-- Zusammenschnürung der Brust
* Lungenbeschwerden
-- Fluor, und
-- Schnupfen, Lungenbeschwerden nach Schnupfen
* Menstruation
-- Beschwerden durch unterdrückte
---- Erkältung, Mens unterdrückt durch
---- Kälte, Mens unterdrückt durch
-- Dysmenorrhoe
* Reizhusten
* Rheuma
* Schnupfen
-- wundmachend
Gemüt:
* empfindlich
* launisch
* reizbar
Ohren:
* Ohrenschmerzen
-- Taubheit, mit
Nase:
* Heuschnupfen
-- Asthma nach Heuschnupfen
-- Frühling
---- besser
---- schlechter
-- Herbst, schlechter
* Schnupfen
-- Trockenheit der Nasenscheimhaut, hinterlässt
-- wundmachend
Mund:
* salziger Geschmack der Sekrete im Mund
Hals:
* Entzündung
* Fremdkörpergefühl
* Laryngitis
-- chronische
-- frühe Stadien
-- Sekretion, mit reichlich
* Pharyngitis
-- mit reichlichem, zähem Schleim
* Husten:
-- < nachts
-- akut
---- trocken
-- brennend
---- hinter dem Brustbein
-- feucht
-- kitzelnd
-- krampfig
-- einschlafen, im ersten Schlaf
-- trocken
-- Zusammenschnürung der Brust
Brust:
* Asthma
-- allergisches
-- Auswurf
---- reichlich
---- spärlich (zu Beginn)
-- chronisches
-- Schnupfen vor Asthma
* Asthma cardiale
* Atemnot
* Bronchitis
-- akut
-- chronische
-- mit reichlicher Sekretion
* Emphysem
-- Atemnot
-- Herz-Insuffizienz durch Emphysem
* Lungenbeschwerden
-- chronische
-- Frauenkrankheiten (Fluor), und
-- Schnupfen, Lungenbeschwerden nach Schnupfen
* Reizhusten
Abdomen:
* Magenschmerzen
-- Gallebeschwerden, durch
-- Gicht, und
Rektum:
* Diarrhoe
* Hämorrhoiden
* Prolaps
* Schmerz, ausstrahlend
-- aufwärts zum Rücken
-- seitlich zur linken Seite
* Stuhl: gelb, gering
Harnorgane:
* Blasenreizung
-- Harnmenge vermindert
* Harnmenge vermindert
* Nierenbeschwerden
Weibliche Organe:
* Fluor
-- übelriechend
-- wundmachend
* Uterus-Prolaps
* Dysmenorrhoe
* Unterdrückt; Beschwerden durch unterdrückte Menses
-- Erkältung, Menses unterdrückt durch
-- Kälte, Menses unterdrückt durch
* Lochien, unterdrückte
Glieder:
* Gicht
* Rheuma
Haut:
* Geschwüre
-- fötide
* Hautkrankheiten, chronische (als Umschlag)
Allgemeines:
* 2. Stadium Syphilinie?
* Abmagerung
* Allergien
* Anämie
-- Reizbarkeit, mit
* Bindegewebeschwäche
* Erkältungen
* Fissuren
* Frauenleiden ALLE
* Gicht
* Grippe
* Heuschnupfen
* Kachexie
[Frans Vermeulen]
Scientific name Aralia racemosa
L.
Rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial, with few-leaved stems, sometimes
becoming woody in basal part.
Native range: Eastern North America. Habitat: Rich wooded slopes,
ravines, shaded moist ledges and bluffs.
Leaves ternate or 1–2-pinnate, rather stiff, both surfaces green.
Flowers greenish-white, in umbels 12–30 cm across.
Fruit a brown to purple drupe.
Medicinal Uses
‘Like other close relatives of ginseng, spikenard has shown an ability
to stimulate phagocytosis in white blood cells,
increase interferon synthesis in infected cells, and increase the capacity
for metabolic stress in rats. [I haven’t done too much counselling with
rats, but I can vouch for its helping human beings.] This function of spikenard
is sometimes adaptogenic, increasing
mobilisation but decreasing the metabolic costs of stress responses.
This may mean [the jury is still out] that moderate amounts of the tincture or
tea on a regular basis can strengthen someone
with metabolic or chronic disease, whatever the type.
‘More prosaic but more predictable, spikenard is a first-class medicine
for the initial stages of bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchorrhoea
. . . all that stuff we usually call a “chest cold.”
The tincture [1⁄4 – 1⁄2 teaspoon in hot water], the tea [2–4
ounces hot], or the honey cough syrup [1–2 teaspoons] works well for adult or
child. Conversely, the same amounts will help the
individual with moist, tired, chronic coughing; the aged person with
impaired pulmonary function; or the heavy smoker or former smoker with a moist,
phlegmy cough in the mornings and
evenings. For this latter group, the more the sense of chest and lung
tiredness, the better spikenard works. . . . A hot tea of the root will usually
help start menstruation when the month has
been a hard one, with a head cold or sudden change of weather possibly
delaying the onset.’ [Moore 1989]
Enlightening Failures
[Compton Burnett 1896]
‘I happened to read Jones’s
proving in Hale New Remedies some six or seven years ago and I was much struck
with the character of the cough. I fancy the thing that helped to impress it
upon my mind was the fact that I had had just at that period a lady
under my care who was suffering from a cough that came on after lying down at
night. I had been tinkering away at this
cough and could not cure it; so I blamed the damp house in which the
lady resided and its proximity to a brook prettily hidden among the willows
close by. Hyoscyamus, Digitalis and a number
of other remedies came into play, but the cough would not budge a bit.
‘Need I tell the heart-rending tale that the patient lost faith in her
doctor [the writer] and in his much-vaunted pathy,
and set about healing herself with quack medicines and orthodox sedative
cough mixtures?
Of course, I felt humiliated and I therefore made up my mind to read my Materia Medica a little more
diligently. It was quite evident that the cough was a curable one, for the most
careful physical examination failed to detect anything besides a few moist rales that tallied with the moderate amount of
expectoration.
‘Failures are very instructive at times. Just after having received my congé from this lady, I was reading Hale’s New Remedies and
came across Dr. S.A. Jones’s proving of Aralia racemosa, where he says:
“At 15 h. I took ten drops of the mother tincture in two ounces of
water. An interesting book caused me to forget my ‘dose’. The events of the
night jogged my memory very effectually.” He goes on to say that he retired to
rest at midnight, feeling as well as ever, but he “had no sooner lain down than
he was seized with a fit of asthma.” I put down the book -Hale’s New Remedies
was not quite so thick then as it is now- and said to myself, “That’s Mrs. N.’s cough, that is just how she goes. She lies down and
forthwith begins to cough, to get laboured breathing and to make her poor
hard-toiling husband wish he were a bachelor”; at least he might have wished
it, for ought I know to the contrary.
‘A little time elapsed and the writer was sent for to see one of this
coughing lady’s children with eczema. The bairn’s
common integument having been prescribed for, I timidly inquired about the
cough.
“Oh,” said Mrs. N., “it is as bad as ever; I have tried everything and
do not know what to do.” I sat down and wrote: Rx Tc.
Aralia racemosa 2, and it
cured cito, tuto, et jucunde [rapid, safe and pleasant] and that not because Aralia is good for coughs and has an affinity for the
respiratory organs merely, but because it is capable of causing a cough like
the one that was to be cured.
This happened somewhere about 6 or 7 years ago and I have since cured
this kind of cough with Aralia whenever I have come
across it and at a rough guess I should say that would be 30 or 40x.
MATERIA MEDICA ARALIA RACEMOSA
1 Self-experimentation Jones [USA], tincture; 1870.
2 Clinical observations, including eclectic indications, in Hale.
Mind:
Constant dread of disease [right lung], unable to shake off fear.
Generals:
Drenching perspiration at night.
Locals:
Leucorrhoea, & pressing down pains in uterus. Leucorrhoea, acrid and
offensive.
Seized with a fit of asthma as soon as he lies down in bed, upon back.
Dry wheezing respiration, sense of impending suffocation, and rapidly
increasing dyspnoea.
Wheezing so laboured as to make the whole bed vibrate. ‘Could not
possibly lie down; felt that I would suffocate if I did not sit up.’
Discomfort and oppression in right lung when lying on right side and in left
lung when lying on left side, with entire relief in opposite lung.
Raw, burning, sore feeling behind whole length of sternum and in each
lung, most intense behind sternum, on making a forcible expiration.
Hay Asthma
‘Dr. Jones relates a case of hay asthma, cured by Aralia,
in which the characteristic symptoms were:
Yearly attacks of suffocative catarrh, with “extreme sensitiveness to a
draught, the least current of air causing sneezing, with copious watery, acrid
discharge from nostrils and posterior nares,
of a salty, acrid taste, excoriating all the passages.” Waking at
midnight, with suffocative breathing, inability to lie down, and the copious
discharge above mentioned. Relief of the asthma by
bending forward, elbows on knees. Inspiration more difficult than
expiration. When the coryza ceased, the trouble went
to the lungs, with dry, wheezing cough, ejecting yellow, thread-like pieces
of tough mucus. Aralia, 10 drops, 3x daily; cured in three days.’ [cited in Hale, Vol. II]