Ficus Religiosa

We owe this remedy to Dr. Sarat Chandra Ghose, of Midnapore, who made

the first proving and thereby discovered its power to cause and cure h¢morrhages of many kinds.

Dr. Ghose kindly sent me a supply of the remedy, and I have had very satisfactory results with

the 1x potency in controlling menorrhagia. The provers were Dr. Ghose himself, his wife, and a

dog. As the experiments are quite remarkable I will give them in detail. The dog, which was

perfectly strong and healthy, received 40 drops of the tincture one morning. No result followed

that day, and the dose was repeated next morning, and the animal commenced and continued to

vomit blood of a bright red colour. It kept very quiet and was unwilling to move. After three

doses of five drops of the tincture given in quick succession, the vomiting ceased. It is

remarkable that the same treatment (minute doses of the same remedy) was effectual in arresting

• ▸the effects of the drug in the other two provings.
• ▸Mrs.
• ▸G.
• ▸took the tincture in 20-drop doses

repeatedly throughout two days. On the third day dysentery and menorrhagia set in

simultaneously. The blood was bright red. Other symptoms were: Headache; very weak and

restless; sight dim; burning at the top of the head. The face became yellowish; breathing difficult.

She became sad and melancholy. With the profuse discharge of bright red blood there were

• ▸bearing-down pains in lower abdomen.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸G.
• ▸took 40 drops in one dose.
• ▸The result was:

Frequent desire to pass water, which gradually became bloody, and contained much blood. Then

inclination to cough, causing him to spit blood. Slight headache; giddiness and nausea. Sight

dim. Very weak and restless. The tincture was taken three drops every two hours, and after the

third dose the symptoms vanished. Dr. Ghose relates some striking cases cured with the

remedy—dysentery, hCmatemesis, h¢morrhage of typhoid, bleeding piles, and epistaxis.

Melancholic-quiet; burning at vertex; vertigo and slight headache.

Nausea, vertigo, and slight headache.—Headache (with h¢morrhages).—Burning at

vertex.

Nausea, vomiting of bright red blood; pain and sick feeling in stomach.

Difficult breathing; cough with vomiting of blood; pulse very weak.

Compare: Acalypha; Millefol; Thlaspi; Ipecac.

First potency.