I have these beautiful flowers in my garden right now, so must be time for a Passiflora post. Passiflora incarnata is the Purple Passionflower. There are over 500 types of passionflower, many are vines but some are shrubs or trees. This one is the NZ garden variety passion fruit vine, so may be a slightly different species. Homeopathically, Passiflora is not widely used, and when given is prescribed in the “mother tincture”, so is actually herbal with a physical effect. …
Lachesis is the remedy from the Bushmaster Snake, pit viper in the Amazon. It’s a large and venomous snake with fangs up to 3cm long. It is not a naturally aggressive snake, but camouflages well and if you step on it it might be the last step you take. The poison from the bushmaster is haemotoxic, cytolytic and proteolytic, which means it’s destructive the blood and soft tissues and can cause haemorrhage and necrosis (cell death). The bushmaster snake is …
Belladonna is commonly known as Deadly nightshade, with the active ingredient Atropine. It is called Belladonna “beautiful lady” in Italian, because of its history, where women would drip the juice of the berry into their eyes to dilate the pupil, considered fashionable and beautiful at the time. The active ingredient, atropine, is still used in medicine today, as an eye drop to dilate the pupil, and in surgery to reduce salivary secretions. Homeopathically, Belladonna is best known for fevers- with …