Gossypium herbaceum
Remedy of uterine subinvolution and morning sickness. Uterine debility after childbirth. Tardy involution. Morning sickness — nausea before breakfast, better from eating. Intermittent pain in ovaries. Suppressed menstruation.
Source
Prepared from the bark of the root of Gossypium herbaceum (Malvaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Uterine subinvolution — uterus fails to return to normal size after delivery. Morning sickness — nausea before breakfast, relieved by eating. Intermittent, shooting pains in ovaries. Suppressed menstruation from cold. Labia intensely itchy. Backache with uterine symptoms. Promotes menses.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Depressed. Irritable. Restless.
General Symptoms
Female reproductive. Worse from motion, before breakfast. Better from eating, rest.
Physical Symptoms
Female Genitalia
Uterine subinvolution — the chief indication. Morning sickness — nausea before breakfast, better from food. Suppressed menses from cold. Ovarian pain — intermittent, shooting. Labia itchy. Backache with uterine symptoms.
Stomach
Morning nausea — better from eating.
Back
Backache with uterine symptoms.
Modalities
Better From
Eating, rest
Worse From
Motion, before breakfast, cold
Constitutional Type
Post-partum women with subinvolution. Morning sickness cases.
Clinical Indications
Uterine subinvolution, morning sickness (better eating), suppressed menses, ovarian pain, pruritus vulvae
Comparative Materia Medica
Helonias has uterine debility but better from occupation. Sepia has uterine prolapse with indifference. Caulophyllum has uterine atony with rheumatism.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Cotton root bark is used in herbal medicine as a uterine tonic and emmenagogue. Contains gossypol — which can be toxic in large crude doses (affects male fertility). Safe in potentised forms.
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