Vinca Minor – Lesser Periwinkle

The mother tincture is prepared from the aerial parts in flower with attached fi- brous roots, of Vinca minor L., a native of Europe and the Caucasus. N.O. Apocy- naceae.

The main indications are:

Crusty, moist eruptions of the scalp. Plica polonica. Stomatitis. Glossitis.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Vinca minor, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for vinca minor: weeping inflammations of the upper respiratory passages; nasal polyps; eczema; mucosal haemorrhages.