Ephedra Vulgaris – Teamaster’s Tea

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of Ephedra distachya

L. N.O. Ephedraceae.

The main indications are:

Asthmatic bronchitis and bronchial asthma. Dyspnoea. May be tried in emphysema. According to the provings carried out by the Russian doctor Mouravow, it acts on the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system and causes congestion of the spinal cord with great apathy, stiffness of the neck and backward pulling of the whole body on turning the head; there was also protrusion of the eyes and violent headache with

a slow pulse and violent pains in the region of the spleen.

Ephedra should also be tried in goitre with exophthalmos and headache.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Ephedra distachya, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for ephedra vulgaris: Basedow’s disease.