Background to the plant drugs in children's diseases^{[ * ]}

Abstract

These are the ten plant drugs mentioned in Dr Borland's Children's Types. Their origins are spread out from the rain forests of Brazil to the Steppes of Central Asia. Some were known to Hippocrates, while one was not known even to Hahnemann.

Key Words

Pulsatilla - Lycopodium - Thuja - Ignatia - Stramonium - Aethusa - Capsicum - Chamomilla - Abrotanum - Cina

^* Lecture given at the Post Graduate Intensive Course with the theme ‘Paediatrics’ on 22 February 1977.