Ambrosia Artemisiaefolia

Alias: Ambro., Ambrosia

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke

Rag-Weed (AMBROSIA)

A remedy for hay-fever, lachrymation and intolerable itching of the eye-lids. Some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up. Many forms of diarrhoea, especially during summer months, also dysentery.

Nose.--Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. Nosebleed. Stuffed up feeling of nose and head. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks (Aral; Eucalypt). Wheezy cough.

Eyes.--Smart and burn. Lachrymation.

Relationship.--Compare in hay-fever: Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succin ac; Ars jod; Arundo.

Dose.--Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epistaxis. In hay-fever high potencies.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Ragweed. Roman Wormwood. Hogweed. (America.) N. O. Compositae. Tincture of fresh flower heads and young shoots.

Clinical.─Coryza. Hay-fever.

Characteristics.─Dr. E. T. Marsh and another experimenter suffered severely from symptoms of coryza and hay-fever whilst observing the pollen of this plant. It should therefore be of service in similar affections.