alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand
alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand
alphabetical index of plant families and groups - Sunrise Versand
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� Difficult respiration <strong>and</strong> cough in a warm room.<br />
� Needle-like pain in heart region while talking; awakening with it between 3<br />
<strong>and</strong> 5 a.m.<br />
� Numbness h<strong>and</strong>s on waking, > motion.<br />
Hydrocotyle vulgaris<br />
Hydrocotyle vulgaris L. Pennywort.<br />
Native range: Europe. Habitat: Sunny, moist or wet places, <strong>of</strong>ten on peaty soil.<br />
Shores <strong>of</strong> lakes <strong>and</strong> streams, fens <strong>and</strong> temporarily wet depressions. Rhizomatous,<br />
herbaceous perennial, creeping or floating. Leaves glabrous, peltate, almost<br />
orbicular, coarsely crenate. Inflorescences 1–2 at each node, each consisting <strong>of</strong><br />
3–6 flowers; sepals absent. Flowers dark to light violet or almost white, usually<br />
with orange gl<strong>and</strong>s on the outside. Fruit elliptic, green, covered with brownish<br />
gl<strong>and</strong>s. Formerly included in Apiaceae, or sometimes separated in the family<br />
Hydrocotylaceae, but now transferred to Araliaceae, based on results from molecular<br />
studies.<br />
The therapeutic properties are unknown, sometimes confused with those <strong>of</strong><br />
the closely related Centella [previously Hydrocotyle] asiatica <strong>of</strong> the Apiaceae.<br />
� No symptoms in MM.<br />
OPLOPANAX HORRIDUS<br />
Scientific name Oplopanax horridus (Sm.) Miq.<br />
Synonyms Echinopanax horridus (Sm.) Decne. & Planch.<br />
Fatsia horrida (Sm.) Benth. & Hook.<br />
Panax horridum Sm.<br />
Common names Devil’s club. Devil’s walking stick.<br />
Family Araliaceae – order Apiales.<br />
Homeopathy Oplopanax horridus – Oplo-h.<br />
Botanical Features<br />
� Deciduous shrub, 1–6 m high, heavily armed with yellowish, needle-like, brittle<br />
spines up to 2 cm long.<br />
� Native range: Western North America.<br />
� Habitat: Moist woods, near streams; most abundant in old growth conifer<br />
forests.<br />
� Leaves spirally arranged, simple, maple-shaped palmately lobed with 5–13<br />
lobes, 20–40 cm across.<br />
� Flowers small, whitish, in dense, upright, conical-shaped, terminal clusters to<br />
18 cm long.<br />
� Fruit a shiny, flattened, bright red, berry-like drupe in upright, terminal<br />
clusters, inedible.<br />
� Entire <strong>plant</strong> has been described as having a ‘primordial’ appearance.<br />
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510 Family ARALIACEAE