Achyranthes aspera
Achyranthes aspera commonly known as Latjira in Hindi,
belongs to the family Amarantaceae; it is a small herb and very commonly
found in India. The plant has been
traditionally used for the treatment of boils, carbuncles, poisonous
ulcers, diarrhoea and dysentery. The medicine was studied by CCRH in various
potencies, viz. Q, 6c, 30c & 200c during the period 1984 – 2003. It was
found that the drug was not only useful in clinical conditions like headache,
painful aphthae, gastritis, intestinal colic, coryza, diarrhoea, dysentery,
constipation, boils, abscess, acne, herpetic eruption, burning in whole body,
cough, poisonous wounds, bad effects of insect bite and pyrexia as mentioned in
homoeopathic literatures but also in blepharitis, worm complaints in children,
colic, scabies, backache, pain in calf muscles and fistula etc., which can be
inferred as its additional clinical symptoms as observed during the trial.