Justicia Adhatoda
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General
JUSTICIA ADHATODA An Indian Shrub, Singhee (JUSTICIA ADHATODA BASAKA)
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 and Euphrasia, which compare.
Dose
Third potency and higher. Severe aggravation have been noticed from lower potencies.