Cotyledon umbilicus
van Edwin M. Hale — Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies
Volume I — Special Symptomatology
{Navelwort.)
[A pathogenesis and provings were published in (he British Journal of Homoeopathy. I find nothing concerning the domestic or pharmacological uses of the plant, except an assertion by Culpepper that it was useful in erysipelas, inflammations, etc. It seems to affect the mental sphere, like Ignatia, causing alternate states of exaltation and depression. On the nerves and muscular system — a decided action. This species is a common weed in the west of England, growing on the sides and in the crevices of damp rocks and walls. We have none of this genus in the United States. See pathogenesis in Allen's Encyclopedia of Materia Medica.]
Officinal Preparations. — Tincture of the plant; dilutions.
Analogues. — Ambergris, Asafoetida, Aconite, Gelseminum, Hyosciamus, Hepatica, Ignatia, Phosphorus, etc.
{See Therapeutics, Vol. II.)
Volume II — Special Therapeutics
I found the provings of this common English plant (Navelwort) in the “ British Journal of Homoeopathy.” It seems to affect the mental sphere like Ignatia, causing alternate states of exhilaration and depression. It also resembles Asafcetida. I am surprised that so many important symptoms were caused by such an insignificant plant. I more than suspect the imagination of the provers called them up, like the phantasmagoria which float through Houatt’s notorious pathogeneses.
The only clinical observation I have been able to find relating to Cotyledon is one quoted by Lilienthal, from C. Muller, to the effect that he had found it useful in eczema capitis (tinea), but in what doses he does not say.