Allium Sativum – Garlic

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh bulbs. The plant, a native of the Near East and Southern Asia is now cultivated in many countries. Allium sativum;

N.O. Liliaceae.

Digestive complaints from high meat-intake; with eructations and heartburn. Allium Sativum can also be of service in dry coryza (less so in fluent coryza, see

Allium Cepa); also in asthma with a rough, hoarse voice, scratching in the larynx and a dry cough (paroxysmal in smokers).

Coughing, occurring after meals, seems to come from the stomach. Coughing in the morning is characterised by copious expectoration of a viscid, tenacious mucus, of putrid odour (bronchiectasis).

There may also be digestive complaints, colic from distension, glossitis or gin- givitis, with a sensation as of a hair on the tongue.

Haemorrhoids and anal prolapse.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Allium sativum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for allium sativum: inflammation of the respiratory passages; gastric digestive insuffi- ciency; rheumatism in the pelvic region.