Formica Rufa – Red Ant

The mother tincture is prepared from wood-ants, which occur in the whole of Eu- rope and North America, and also in Asia as far as the East Indies. Formica rufa L.

N.O. Formicariae.

The main indications are:

Rheumatism and neuralgias without fever. Acute glomerulonephritis. Haematuria. Albuminuria.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Formica rufa, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for formica rufa: gouty diseases, rheumatism; inflammations of the respiratory pas- sages; allergic diseases.