Fabiana Imbricata

Pichi

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

A South American shrub cultivated in Southern California. It is a terebrinthine diuretic. It has also tonic and chologogue properties, used in the treatment of nasal catarrh, jaundice, dyspepsia and to increase the secretion of bile (Albert Schneider). Useful in the uric acid diathesis, cystitis, gonorrhœa, prostatitis , dysuria, vesical catarrh with suppurative prostatic conditions; post-gonorrhœal urinary conditions; cholethiasis and liver affections. Vesical tenesmus and burning after urination. Excoriating urine and calculi.

Dose

Ten to twenty drops of the tincture.

Fabiana Imbricata across the other classic books

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“Fabiana imbricata. N. O. Solanaceæ. Fluid extract. Cystitis / Gall-stones / Gonorrhœa / Liver, affections of / Prostate, disease of Pichi is a solanaceous shrub of South America. It is unproved, but in 1 to 20 drop doses of the fluid extract it has been used with good effect in cases of chronic cystitis with enlarged…”

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