Gossypium herbaceum

Gossypium herbaceum
(cotton-plant)
* A powerful emmenagogue, used in physiological doses.
* Homoeopathically, it corresponds to many reflex conditions, depending on disturbed
uterine function and pregnancy.
* Gossypium will relieve tardy menses, especially with sensation that the flow is about to
start and yet does not do so.
* Tall, bloodless patients, with nervous chills.
Head
- Pain in cervical region with tendency for head to draw backward with nervousness.
Stomach
- Nausea, with inclination to vomit before breakfast.
- Anorexia, with uneasy feeling at scrobiculum at time of menses.
Female
- Labia swollen and itching.
- Intermittent pain in ovaries.
- Retained placenta.
- Tumor of the breast with swelling of axillary glands.
- Morning sickness, with sensitive uterine region.
- Suppressed menstruation.
- Menses too watery.
- Backache, weight and dragging in pelvis.
- Uterine sub-involution and fibroids, with gastric pain and debility.
Relationship
- Compare : Action similar to Ergot when made fromfresh green root.
- Lilium; Cimicif.; Sabina.
Dose
- Tincture, to sixth attenuation.