Tussilago Farfara


Tussilago Farfara signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Tussilago Farfara is used…


      Common Colts foot. British Herb Tobacco. (Waste, sandy, clayey banks.) N.O. Compositae. Tincture of fresh plant.

Clinical

Coughs. Scrofula.

Characteristics

*”Tussil. farfara is used to this day in the form of a confection for coughs. The leaves are mucilaginous and were much used in scrofulous affections. Smoking the dried leaves relieves coughs” (Cooper). *Tus. far. has also a popular reputation in gonorrhoea.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica