Dr Saurav Arora

Hamamelis virginiana (Witch-hazel) Botanical name: Hamamelis virginiana Linn. Family: Hamamelideaceae Known: Eng: Witch hazel; French: Hamamelis; Ger: Hamamelis, Zamberhasel. Description: A deciduous shrub upto 5 metre high with numerous long flaxuous, forking branches, smooth, brown bark, becoming greyish and fissured with age. Leaves 7-15 cm long, obovate or oval, straight veined, wavy dentate, somewhat downy … Read more

Synonyms: English: Black powder, Brown powder, Carbon-sulfur-kali-nitricum; French: Poudre a canon. Description: Gunpowder is a black or brown explosive substance consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of potassium nitrate (saltpeter; nitre), charcoal, and sulfur. The proportions (by weight) are approximately 70-80% potassium nitrate, and 10-15% each of charcoal and sulfur. Gunpowder was the first and … Read more

Eugenia Jambos (Rose-apple) Eugenia produces a state of intoxication like alcohol. Everything appears beautiful and larger; excitement soon changing to depression. Head: Headache as if a board were lying on right side. Extremities: Nightly cramp in soles of feet. [Cupr.; Zing.] Skin cracks about toes. Clinical usage by Boericke and J. H. Clarke Acne rosacea … Read more

Cactus grandiflorus (Night-blooming cereus)   Botanical name: cereus grandiflorus mill Family: cactaceae. Synonym: Selenicereus spinulosus Distribution: Generally hot and stony places of tropical America, also in gardens in India. History and authority: Allen’s Encyclop. Mat. Med., Vol. II, 321. Part used: Flowering stem Prescribed dose: Tincture (best made from flowers), to third attenuation. Higher in … Read more

Keypoints to remember:- Rheumatism– Muscles related problems, Gout. Pain(s) in body, joints and muscles which is aggravated by motion and better by rest. This modality is a common symptom of weather change in most of the patients. Complaints when warm weathersets in after cold days–> exposure to variation in temperature makes an Individual vunlerable for … Read more

Key points to remember:- Acts on muscular fibers of the blood-vessels, muscular soreness (applied to almost every part of body), lameness, as if sprained sensation Wrist pains, soreness of back- railway spine (derived from historical instances when people use to have whole back pain after traveling in wooden carts and trains) First remedy in injuries … Read more

Alstonia scholaris (Dita bark) Botanical name: alstonia scholaris r. br. Family: apocynaceae Known: Hindi: Satwan; Eng: Dita Bark; French: Ecorce de dite; Ger: Ditarinde. Description: A tall evergreen tree with a straight, often fluted and buttressed stem, 12 m high and up to 3 m in girth. Leaves 3 to 7 in a whorl, glabrous, … Read more

Normal Pregnancy and Care

Remedies for old age