The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
TERMINALIA CHERULA
(Haritaki, Abhaya, Parthya—Indian)
General.–Bleeding piles; diarrhea; chronic dysentery; constipation; colic (biliary); headache; vertigo; dropsy and in some skin diseases, it is found efficacious.
Mind.–Indifferent, easily indisposed with constant yawning.
Head.–Vertigo remains whole day and night aggravated by “hot sun rays,” motion, hard pressure; ameliorated by cy cold bath, in evening, by dry cold air, and eating.
Mouth.–Profuse salivation with intense thirst for cold water; sensation of dryness in upper jaw; gums swollen and hard; foul breath; fetid eructation.
Tongue.–Flabby, dry, brown coating on tip, sore and raw.
Stomach.–sensation of fullness.
Pain.–Intense pain in loins, aggravated by sitting, better by lying down on bed or sleeping; pain in back of neck; pressive pain in right chest or heart.
Stool.–frequent desire, but passes only small quantity with great force or nothing comes out; sweat during stool; pressive pain; itching and sensation of fullness in rectum. In diarrhea, small quantity of feces-mixed mucus, flatulence associated with burning in stomach. In constipation, hard small stool.
Urine.–Scanty, frequency increases at night.
Extremities.–Muscular pain in deltoid muscles; itching better by scratching.
Pulse.–Quick, irregular, hard or weak sometimes.
Respiratory.–Hot, deep breathing.
Dose.–Mother tincture, 3x, 6x, 30.