alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand

Botanical Keys
� Ivy and Ginseng family with 43 genera holding about 1450 species of rather
stout-stemmed and little-branched shrubs or trees, often strong-smelling and
with large and prominent scars from the fallen leaves.
� Distribution: Worldwide, but centred in tropics.
� Sister family to Apiaceae and by some authorities included in a broadly circumscribed
Apiaceae.
� Leaves often compound, with broad, more or less sheathing leaf-bases.
� Flowers small, in compound inflorescences, usually either capitate [head-like]
or umbellate.
� Fruit a globose drupe with several seeds.
� Classified in order Apiales by both Cronquist and Dahlgren.
� Compare other families in order Apiales: Apiaceae [Umbelliferae]; Pittosporaceae.
ARALIACEAE IN HOMEOPATHY
FAMILY ARALIACEAE – ORDER APIALES
Homeopathic name Common name Abbreviation Symptoms
Aralia californica Elk-clover Aral-c. None
Aralia hispida Bristly sarsaparilla Aral-h. 5–10
Aralia nudicaulis Wild sarsaparilla Aral-nu. None
Aralia racemosa American spikenard Aral. c. 240
Aralia spinosa
Eleutherococcus
Devil’s-walking-stick Aral-sp. None
senticosus Siberian ginseng Eleut. None
Ginseng1 Ginseng Gins. c. 5402 Hedera helix English ivy Hed. c. 220
Hydrocotyle vulgaris Marsh pennywort Hydrc-vg. None
Oplopanax horridus Devil’s club Oplo-h. None3 Panax quinquefolius American ginseng Panax-q. None4 © Saltire Books Ltd
1 = Identity uncertain: unclear whether it concerns Panax ginseng [Chinese ginseng]
or Panax quinquefolius [American ginseng], or both. 2–4 = Symptoms provings not yet
included.
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