DR KESSLER’S HOMEOPATHY BOOK

SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS
Skunk cabbage
IDEA: dysentery, respiratory diseases, nervous disorders, rheumatism, and dropsy
The rootstock and roots of skunk cabbage have been used to treat respiratory ailments, including:
hay fever, asthma, whooping cough, bronchial problems, and mucous congestion.
It is helpful for nervous disorders, spasmodic problems, rheumatism, and dropsy. Some Native
Americans boiled the root hairs to make a wash for stopping external bleeding. One tribe
inhaled the odor of the crushed leaves to cure headache or toothache (which may be a classic
case of a cure worse than the disease). Root poulticed for wounds, underarm deodorant; leaf
poulticed to reduce swelling, they ate the root to stop epileptic seizures.
Very reliable in tuberculosis, chronic catarrh, fevers, whooping cough, epilepsy, convulsions,
and pleurisy. Excellent remedy in dysentery, convulsions, dropsy, hysteria, epilepsy, and for
use during pregnancy.
Case: 60 year old male with long lasting food allergic dysentery “foul intestinal complaints”.
Diarrhea. Neurasthenia and depression.