Latin, Hydroctotyle nummulariodes, H. pallida ;
English, Indian pennywort, Thick-leaved pennywort, Water pennywort ;
French, Hydrocotyle ;
German, Wassernable.
An evergreen creeping herb, having a vertical rhizomes, with long, slender, prostate,
smooth branches and long inter-nodes. The leaves, crowded at the nodes, are long,
petiolate, sheathing at the base, radiately-veined, reniform dentate-crenate,
smooth, thick, dark-green, depressed in the center, so as to hold a drop of
water, hence the name. The small, pink flowers appear from July to October
in many flowered, axillary, sessile umbels.
Found in :-
Tropical regions; also found in Pakistan and India, growing in shady, swampy places.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Dr. Andouit, Jour. d. I. Soc. Gal. ns. 1,337. in 1857.
(Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. IV. 625.)
The whole dried plant.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Hydrocotyle, a moderately coarse powder | 100 gm
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Distilled water, a sufficient quantity in this proportion | 300 Cc
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Strong alcohol, a sufficient quantity in this proportion | 730 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part of tincture,
two parts distilled water,
seven parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
(c) Triturations: 1x and higher.
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