Batoota, Author at Medicine Guide

SOLANUM OLERACEUM (VELLOZ.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

SOLANUM OLERACEUM (VELLOZ.) SOL. OL. - PORTUG.: GYQUIRIOBA, JUQUERIOBA. This is an herbaceous plant with a creeping and somewhat ligneous, cylindrical stem, the upper branches being covered with short and…

SOLANUM ARREBENTA (VELL.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

SOLANUM ARREBENTA (VELL.) SOL. AR. PORTUG.: ARREBENTA CAVALLOS THIs bush grows spontaneously in the provinces of Rio Janeiro, along roads and in cultivated places. It is from 10 to 16…

SEDINHA – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

SEDINHA SEDINHA HERBACEOUS plant, with a slender, round and pubescent stem; the leaves are opposite, lanceolate and very sharp; their upper surface is hairy and of a darker green than…

PLUMBAGO LITTORALIS (NOBIS) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

PLUMBAGO LITTORALIS (NOBIS) P. LIT. PICAO Di PRAIA This is a creeper, inhabiting the shores in the bay of Rio Janeiro. Its stem is herbaceous, rounded, covered with short and…

PETIVERIA TETRANDRA (GOM.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

PETIVERIA TETRANDRA (GOM.) PET. MAPPA GRAVEOLENS (WELL.) PIPI. ERVA DE PIPI. This bush is common in the fields around Rio-Janeiro, where it blossoms the whole year. Its branches are erect,…

PEDICULUS CAPITIS (COMMON LOUSE) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

PEDICULUS CAPITIS (COMMON LOUSE) It is scarcely necessary to give a description of this species which is sufficiently known; we shall content ourselves with indicating the principal characteristics which distinguish…

PAULLINIA PINNATA – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

PAULLINIA PINNATA PAUL. PAULLINIA TIMBO (VELL). -PORTUG.: GUARATIMBO, TIMBO-SIPO, CURURU-APÃ‰. This beautiful liana is commonly found in the woods of Brazil; its stem, of a flexible and tenacious wood, furnishes…

PANACEA – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

PANACEA WE regret to say that we lost the drawings and the notes which we had collected about the tree called by the Brazilians "panacea" on account of the many…

OCIMUM CANUM (D. C.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

OCIMUM CANUM (D. C.) OCIM. OCIMUM INCANESCENS (MART.) OCIMUM FLUMINENSE (WELLS.) PORTUG.: ALFAVACA THIs is an herbaceous plant having an aromatic odor, with an erect and ramose stem, about 16…

MYRISTICA SEBIFERA (SWARTZ.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

MYRISTICA SEBIFERA (SWARTZ.) MYR. VIROLA SEBIFERA (AUBLET). PORT.: UCUUBA THIS is a tree of some height, the trunk and branches of which are covered with a thick, brownish and reticulate…

MURURE LEITE – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

MURURE LEITE MUR. L. This rosin is used as an anti-syphilitic. 1. Blennhorrhoeal discharge. Ulcers on the legs. Yellow and fetid urine. Cracking sensation in the tibia. 5. Profuse flow…

MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.) MIM. This species which is one of the smallest of the genus Mimosa, is found in the prairies around Rio-Janeiro. Its stem is feeble, rather woody, ramose,…

MELASTOMA ACKERMANI – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

MELASTOMA ACKERMANI MELAST. TAPIXIRICA This species has never yet been described by authors. It is a bush with round branches, triangular at their extremities, and covered with a brownish bark.…

LEPIDIUM BONARIENSE (D. C.) – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

LEPIDIUM BONARIENSE (D. C.) LEP. MASTRUCO This plant is very common in the neighborhood of Rio, where it is found along the roads and in stony regions. It is herbaceous,…

ILLICIUM ANISATUM – by Benoît Mure

By Batoota June 30, 2024

ILLICIUM ANISATUM ANISUM STELLATUM BOTH the illicium anisatum and the millefolium, which have been introduced into our practice empirically, will undoubtedly become important adjuncts in the homoeopathic materia medica, the…