Pareira Brava – Velvet Leaf/Virgin Vine

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried root of the plant Chondodendron to- mentosum Ruiz. et Pav., a Native of Central and South America. N.O. Menisperma- ceae.

The main indications are:

Inexhaustible strangury, has to cry out with the pain and kneel down in order to pass urine. Urine with thick, viscous, white mucus or brick-dust sediment. Pains ex- tend down into the thighs. Hypertrophy of the prostate. Renal colic.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chondodendron tomentosum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for pareira brava: disorders in voiding from the urinary bladder; uri- nary-tract inflammation; enlargement of the prostate gland.