Mucuna Urens

NAT. ORD., Leguminosae.



COMMON NAME, Horse-eye.



PREPARATION.--The pulverized bean is macerated in five times its weight

of alcohol.



(Delgado Palacios, of Venezuela, in 1897, wrote Messrs.

Boericke & Tafel concerning this remedy):



Reading the list of remedies of your "Physicians' Price Current," I was

very much astonished to meet with the nam Dolichos pruriens, which

the greater and modern authorities in botanical matters consider an

identical plant with Mucuna urens.



You will meet the botanical description of Mucuna urens and

altissima (two varieties) in the Flora of West Indian Islands, by A.

H. R. Grisebach, p. 198 (Grisebach regards Mucuna and Dolichos as

two different genus).



If one consider that there is a discussion upon this subject, and on the

other hand that the mother tincture you possess is that which is made

with the hair on the epidermis of the pod (North American Journal of

Homoeopathy, vol. 1, p. 209. Allgemeine Homoeopathische Zeitung,

vol. 53, p. 135. Oehme, Hale's Amerikanische Heilmittel, p. 242),

while the tincture which we employ is made with the pulverized bean (1:5

alcohol) enclosed in the pod of a special plant which grows in the calid

regions of Venezuela I believe you must try the same tincture we use and

the success will be that which we obtain.



I have used my tincture of Mucuna urens extensively in a great number

of haemorrhoids and with the most satisfactory results. It seems that the

characteristic symptom or key-note is a sensation of burning. The

haemorrhoids may be or not in a great stage of development, there may be

more or less blood, etc.



One can consider the Mucuna urens as a specific against the

haemorrhoidal diathesis. The diseases of other organs, depending upon

that cause, liver, uterus (haemorrhage) and intestinal affections, yield

admirably to its use.



I have been treating recently a remarkable case of chronic ingurgitation

of a testicle, small and frequent haematurias, and other intestinal

troubles with a prominent symptom, the haemorrhoidal state, which led me

to use Mucuna, and in a few months I have obtained a perfect success.



The experiences have taught me, and I have the conviction that this

tincture is a more perfect remedy for the cure of haemorrhoids than any

other remedy known. I rely upon it more faithfully than I do upon

Hamamelis, AEsculus, etc.



Its pathogenetics are not known.



I frequently use the mother tincture in the haemorrhoids, one drop daily.

I seldom use the lower dilutions. Mucuna may be used also, and with

success, as an ointment.



The beans are very difficult to obtain; the plant has a single yearly

crop.