NAT. ORD., Leguminosae.
COMMON NAME, Horse-eye.
PREPARATION.--The pulverized bean is macerated in five times its weight
of alcohol.
(Delgado Palacios, of Venezuela, in 1897, wrote Messrs.
Boericke & Tafel concerning this remedy):
Reading the list of remedies of your "Physicians' Price Current," I was
very much astonished to meet with the name _Dolichos pruriens_, which
the greater and modern authorities in botanical matters consider an
identical plant with _Mucuna urens_.
You will meet the botanical description of _Mucuna urens_ and
_altissima_ (two varieties) in the Flora of West Indian Islands, by A.
H. R. Grisebach, p. 198 (Grisebach regards _Mucuna_ and _Dolichos_ as
two different genus).
If one consider that there is a discussion upon this subject, and on the
other hand that the mother tincture you possess is that which is made
with the hair on the epidermis of the pod (_North American Journal of
Homoeopathy, vol. 1, p. 209._ _Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung,
vol. 53, p. 135._ _Oehme, Hale's Amerikanische Heilmittel, p. 242_),
while the tincture which we employ is made with the pulverized bean (1:5
alcohol) enclosed in the pod of a special plant which grows in the calid
regions of Venezuela I believe you must try the same tincture we use and
the success will be that which we obtain.
I have used my tincture of _Mucuna urens_ extensively in a great number
of haemorrhoids and with the most satisfactory results. It seems that the
characteristic symptom or key-note is a sensation of burning. The
haemorrhoids may be or not in a great stage of development, there may be
more or less blood, etc.
One can consider the _Mucuna urens_ as a specific against the
haemorrhoidal diathesis. The diseases of other organs, depending upon
that cause, liver, uterus (haemorrhage) and intestinal affections, yield
admirably to its use.
I have been treating recently a remarkable case of chronic ingurgitation
of a testicle, small and frequent haematurias, and other intestinal
troubles with a prominent symptom, the haemorrhoidal state, which led me
to use _Mucuna_, and in a few months I have obtained a perfect success.
The experiences have taught me, and I have the conviction that this
tincture is a more perfect remedy for the cure of haemorrhoids than any
other remedy known. I rely upon it more faithfully than I do upon
_Hamamelis, AEsculus_, etc.
Its pathogenetics are not known.
I frequently use the mother tincture in the haemorrhoids, one drop daily.
I seldom use the lower dilutions. _Mucuna_ may be used also, and with
success, as an ointment.
The beans are very difficult to obtain; the plant has a single yearly
crop.