Quassia Amara – Bitterwood

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried wood of trunks and branches of Quassia amara L. or Picrasma excelsa [Sw.] Planch., a native of tropical America.

N.O. Simarubaceae.

The main indications are:

Liver and biliary remedy; also in cirrhosis of the liver with ascites.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Picrasma excelsa, Quassia amara, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (Ger- man Federal Gazette) for quassia amara: hepatic diseases; digestive insufficiency.