Justicia Adhatoda
An Indian Shrub, Singhee
By William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
(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 dyspnœa 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.