Fagopyrum – Buckwheat

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant gathered just before mature. Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. N.O. Polygonaceae.

The main indications are:

Pruritus. Neuralgias. Eczemas. Hyperemesis gravidarum. Leucorrhoea. Rheuma- tism.

One symptom which can lead to Fagopyrum is pain in the eyeballs, as if they where being squeezed out. Another is a sensation of burning in the right ovary.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Fagopyrum exculentum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for fagopyrum: headaches; dermal and hepatic diseases associated with pruritus.