This document discusses the scope and therapeutic uses of mother tinctures in homeopathy. It provides information on 40 commonly used organopathic medicines that can be dispensed as mother tinctures, including their indications and dosage. The medicines are proposed for conditions like weakness, digestive issues, liver problems, wounds, infections, respiratory illnesses and more. Mother tinctures may be used as supportive treatment in acute, chronic, terminal or drug-dependent cases when well-selected potentized remedies are not providing sufficient relief.

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By
Dr. Subrata K. Banerjea, GOLD MEDALIST
B.H.M.S. (HONOURS IN NINE SUBJECTS OF CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY)
FELLOW : AKADEMIE HOMOOPATHISCHER DEUTSCHER ZENTRALVEREIN (GERMANY)
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (U.K.)
DIRECTOR : BENGAL ALLEN MEDICAL INSTITUTE
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SCOPE OF USING
ORGANOPATHIC MEDICINES
IN MOTHER TINCTURES
Part-I

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For acute condition: as SOS (Patient is on dynamic potentised prescription)
Chronic alarming symptoms
(your well selected Rx is not
holding or have failed)
Terminally ill patient, vitality too low
to take a dynamic prescription
Drug dependent cases: to
gradually wean off the drug
One sides cases
(to open)
Organopathic stimulation
Use of
Mother
Tincture
Pathology
Physical
symptoms
Lowered
Vital Force
Sensitive
Low
Intelligence
Drug dependent
Low
Potencies
Clarity of Picture
High
Potencies
Higher
Intelligence
Homoeo
Prophylaxis
Clear Mental
symptoms
Acute diseases
with clear
picture
Rx on NBWS (to clear up the suppression)
In absence of good totality
Scope of Mother
Tinctures (Q)
Patient on life saving drugs
 masking of symptoms
Organopathic stimulation 
bronchodilatation, hypertension
Palliation
Lack of organ (defects
in vital organ)
Lack of reaction for well indicated Rx – as an intercurrent

3. MATERIA MEDICA OF THE
MOTHER TINCTURES &
THERAPEUTIC UTILITY OF
COMMONLY USED 40
MEDICINES (USED AS
ORGANOPATHIC) CAN BE
DISPENSED IN
TINCTURES
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ALETRIS FARINOSA
• Anaemic woman, with
profuse menses.
• Tired all the time.
• Obstinate vomiting of
pregnancy.
• Tired: (i) Disgust for food;
(ii) Nausea; (iii) Constipation.
• Uterine tonic, corrects
uterine displacement &
prolapsed uterus.
• Weakness & anemia with8
leucorrhoea.
• Anaemia.
• Weakness.
• Morning sickness.
• Adult: 8-10 drops, 8-12 hourly.

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ALFALFA
• Toning up of appetite & digestion.
• Loss of weight, act as a fat
producer, correct tissue waste,
during convalescence, lactation &
after child birth.
• Nibbling of food especially
sweets/improves appetite & correct
the habit.
• Malnutrition with neurasthenia &
nervous indigestion.
• Increases quality & quantity of milk in
nursing women.
• Weakness: mental & physical vigor.
• Tones up appetite & digestion.
• Fat producer.
• Helps lactation.
• Children: 4-6 drops, 12 hourly.
• Adult: 10-15 drops, 12 hourly (must be
used for 8-12 weeks).

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ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS
• Tonic after exhausting diseases.
• Feeble digestion.
• Malarial fever with debility.
• Ulcers & rheumatic pains (topical
applications).
• Diarrhoea & dysentery: exhausting
(specially camp diarrhoea,
inflammatory state due to
contaminated water).
• Anemia with debility.
• Tonic after exhausting diseases.
• Anaemia with debility.
• Camp diarrhoea.
• Children: 3-5 drops, 6-8 hourly.
• Adult: 10-12 drops, 6-8 hourly.
• Children & Adult: Topical application,
5-10 drops in a cotton wool to apply
locally x 4-6 hourly.

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ANGELICO
• Produces disgust
for alcohol.
• Facilitate
expectorations.
• Nervous
headaches.
• Indigestion.
• Atony of organs.
• Dyspepsia.
• Moderate the
craving for alcohol.
• Adults: 5-8 drops, 8
hourly.

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ANNAGALLIS
• Softens the flesh.
• Keloids with severe itching
& tingling.
• Favours expulsions of
splinters.
• Keratosis: thickening of
skin.
• Post surgical cicatrices.
• Destroys warts.
• Softens skin & flesh.
• Reduces scar & keloids.
• Destroys skin tags & warts.
• Children & Adult: 5-10 drops,
in a cotton wool, to apply
locally x 8 hourly.

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ARALIA RACEMOSA
• Asthma with cough,
aggravation lying down.
• Dry cough, aggravation 11
PM.
• Asthma with a foreign body
sensation in throat.
• Asthma with profuse night
sweat.
• Hay fever with sneezing.
• Sneezing with profuse
excoriating coryza.
• Cough with choking in throat.
• Children: 2-4 drops x 6 hourly
SOS.
• Adult: 8-10 drops x 6 hourly
SOS.

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ARNICA MONTANA
• Mechanical injury: swelling or
ecchymosis, blueness (topical
application).
• Black eye (use as eye wash with water).
• Gastric ulcer with haemorrhage
(associated with shock).
• Bed sores (topical application).
• Hair tonic.
• Haematomas (topical application).
• Injuries.
• Anti-pus (bed sores).
• Children & Adult: Topical application, 5-10
drops in a cotton wool, a apply locally x 4
hourly.
• Adult: Hair tonic: 10 drops to massage in
the scalp x once at bed time x not to comb
after (to be continued for 10-12 weeks).
• Adult: Internal dose, 5-6 drops with water
(to sip), 8 hourly for haemorrhagic gastric
ulcer.

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ASPIDOSPERMA
• Cardiac asthma.
• Thrombosis of pulmonary
Artery: does vasodilation.
• Uraemic dyspnoea.
• Stimulate respiratory
centers (digitalis of the
lungs).
• Want of breath & panting
from exertion.
• Bronchodilator &
vasodilator.
• Children: 2-4 drops x 6
hourly.
• Adult: 6-8 drops x 6 hourly.

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AVENA SATIVA
• Tonic for debility after
exhausting disease.
• Acute coryza.
• Morphine habit.
• Nervous palpitations.
• Insomnia in alcoholics.
• Nervous exhaustion
neurasthenia.
• Nervous exertion (tonic for
debility / muscular, nervous
& sexual).
• Adult: 10-15 drops x 8
hourly.

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BERBERIS VULGARIS
• Lowers uric acid.
• Kidney stones, burning
bubbling pains.
• Jaundice.
• Arthritic pain with urinary
discomfort.
• Cholecystitis &
cholelithiasis (gall
stones): to remove pain.
• Liver congestion.
• Lowers uric acids level.
• Kidney stones, alleviates
pain.
• Jaundice.
• Adult: 5-10 drops x 8
hourly.

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CALENDULA
• Open wounds (skin is
broken) & ulcers: great
healer.
• Erysipelas (use topically).
• Anti-suppurative & anti-
pyaemic.
• Haemostatic.
• Lacerated & suppurative
wounds: the homoeopathic
antiseptic: restores vitality of
injured parts.
• Acrid discharges makes it
normal.
• Children & Adult: 5-10 drops in
a half cup of warm water x
apply with cotton wool, in the
affected part, 4-6 hourly (never
use raw on a broken skin).

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CARDUUS MARIANUS
• Gall bladder colic.
• Constipation: hard, knotty stool.
• Cirrhosis liver in alcoholics:
promotes liver functions.
• It tones up the liver, cures the
constipation & improve biliary
secretion.
• Profuse diarrhoea in rectal
cancer.
• Liver, left lobe: sensitive.
• Gall stone colic.
• Liver stimulant.
• Constipation with liver & biliary
stasis; diarrhoea in cancer.
• Children: 3-5 drops, 8-12 hourly.
• Adult: 10-15 drops, 8-12 hourly
(to be continued for 6-8 weeks to
make it act as liver stimulant).

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CASCARA SAGRADA
• Constipation.
• Gastric headache.
• Cirrhosis with jaundice.
• Liver congestion: tonic
effect.
• Vomiting with severe
gripping.
• Chronic indigestion.
• Indigestion.
• Tonic effect on liver.
• Children: 4-6 drops x 12
hourly.
• Adult: 10-15 drops x 8-12
hourly.

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CHAPARRO AMARGOSO
• Chronic diarrhoea.
• Tonic & anti periodic:
specially in fever.
• Promotes liver function.
• Dysentery: scraping of
intestine.
• Stool with profuse mucus
but little pain.
• IBS (Irritable Bowel
Syndrome).
• Children: 3-5 drops x 8-12
hourly.
• Adult: 8-10 drops x 8-12
hourly.

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CHELIDONIUM
• Liver tonic: effacious in
painful liver diseases.
• Bilious complications
during gestations.
• Constipation: like ships
dung.
• Gall stone colic.
• General lethargy from
liver congestion.
• Jaundice.
• Children: 4-6 drops x 8-12
hourly.
• Adult: 10-15 drops x 8-12
hourly (must be continued
for 4-6 weeks in jaundice
cases).

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CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA
• Cystitis: burning & scalding.
• Scanty urine with frequent
urging.
• Abscess & tumor of the breast.
• Prostatic enlargement.
• Unable to micturate without
standing, feet wide apart &
body inclined forward.
• Haematorrhoea.
• Acute & chronic cystitis.
• Breast tumour in women with
large breast.
• Children: 3-5 drops x 6-8
hourly.
• Adult: 8-10 drops x 6-8 hourly.

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CHOLESTERINUM
• Hepatic
engorgements.
• Jaundice.
• Insomnia.
• Burning pains,
specially of liver.
• Cancer of the liver.
• Gall stone colic.
• Children: 3x
trituration, 8 hourly.
• Adult: 3x trituration,
in half cup of water,
6-8 hourly.

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CINNAMONUM CEYLANICUM
• Haemostatic: blood bright
red & clear.
• Cancer with pain & foetor.
• Uterine Haemorrhage caused
by over lifting.
• Great weakness from loss of
vital fluid, including
haemorrhage.
• Postpartum haemorrhage
(PPH), aggravation from false
stepping.
• Haemorrhage aggravated by
any physical exertion.
• Children: 2-4 drops x 6-8
hourly.
• Adult: 6-8 drops x 6-8 hourly.

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