Fabiana imbricata
Alias: Fab., Pichi
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Pichi
A South American shrub cultivated in Southern California. It is a terebrinthine diuretic. It has also tonic and chologogue properties, used in the treatment of nasal catarrh, jaundice, dyspepsia and to increase the secretion of bile (Albert Schneider). Useful in the uric acid diathesis, cystitis, gonorrhoea, prostatitis, dysuria, vesical catarrh with suppurative prostatic conditions; post-gonorrhoeal urinary conditions; cholethiasis and liver affections. Vesical tenesmus and burning after urination. Excoriating urine and calculi.
Dose.--Ten to twenty drops of the tincture.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Fabiana imbricata. N. O. Solanaceae. Fluid extract.
Clinical.─Cystitis. Gall-stones. Gonorrhoea. Liver, affections of. Prostate, disease of.
Characteristics.─Pichi is a solanaceous shrub of South America. It is unproved, but in 1 to 20 drop doses of the fluid extract it has been used with good effect in cases of chronic cystitis with enlarged prostate; liver affections and gall-stones; excess of uric acid. Hansen gives these indications: Excoriating urine and urinary calculi. Inflammation of whole urethral tract, must pass water frequently; burning pains and violent vesical tenesmus after urination. Acute or chronic cystitis, caused by gravel, painful urination, much mucus and pus. Subacute or chronic gonorrhoea, painful urination, much mucus and pus.