English, Blue pimpernel, Blue skull cap, Large-flowered skull cap, Hoodwort, Mad dog skull cap, Hooded willow herb mad-dog weed, Mad weed skull cap, Wood wort, Side flowering skull cap ;
French, Scutellaire, La toque;
German, Helmkraut, Schildkraut.
A perennial, bitter herb with fibrous root. The stem, 1 to 2
feet high, is upright, much-branched, four sided, smooth(except
on the softly pubescent angles) the leaves, 2 to 3 inches long, are
opposite, petioled lanceolate-ovate, or ovate-oblong, rounded,
pointed coarsely-serrate. The small blue single flowers appear
in July and August in opposite, axillary, unilateral leafy racemes;
the first pair of leaves similar to those of the stem, the rest
gradually reduced to bracts.
Found in :-
North America from Canada to Florida, and westward to British
America, Oregon and New Mexico; common in wet shady places and
wet borders of streams.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice :-- |
By Dr. Hale, New Rem. Ist ed. 389. in 1864. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. VIII. 549.)
The fresh plant.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Scutellaria, moist magma containing solids | 100 gm
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Plant moisture 500 Cc. | = 600
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Strong alcohol | 357 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,
four parts distilled water,
five parts alcohol ; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
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