ACALYPHA INDICA

Synonym: Indian Nettle, Indian Acalypha, three-seeded mercury

Prover name: Dr. P.C. Mazumder of Calcutta

Guiding symptoms:

• Acalypha indica is an infalliable remedy for haemorrages especially haemoptysis in our Materia medica.
• A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs.
• It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with bard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial haemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance.
• Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day.
• Progressive emaciation.
• Morning aggravation.

Particularis:

Respiratory symptoms:

• Acalypha indica is employed in the beginning of phthisis associated with hard, dry and severe cough followed by bloody expectoration.
• Expectoration of pure bright red and not profuse blood comes on in morning and dark clotted in afternoon.
• Cough most violent at night.
• There is dullness of chest percussion and severe pain in chest with progressive emaciation.
• Constant and severe pain in chest.
• Night sweet and evening rise of temperature.
• Pulse soft and compressible.
• Burning in pharynx, esophagus, and stomach.
• It is indicated in incipient phthisis with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hemorrhage but no febrile disturbance
• Worse in morning and at night.

Gastrointestinal symptom:

• Burning in intestines.
• Sensation of weight in stomach.
• Spluttering diarrhoea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down
• Pains and tenesmus.
• Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen.
• Rectal haemorrhage; worse in morning.

Skin of Acalypha:

• Jaundice.

• Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.

Modalities:

• Worse; in morning.

Relationship:

• Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit.

Dose:

• Third to sixth potency.