Justicia adhatoda basaka
An Indian Shrub, Singhee
Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 360
Highly efficacious medicine for acute catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract (used in the beginning).
Head
Irritable, sensitive to external impressions; hot, full and heavy head; lachrymation, with coryza, profuse, fluent, with constant sneezing; loss of smell and taste; coryza with cough.
Throat p. 361
Dry, pain during empty swallowing, tenacious mucus. Mouth dry.
Respiratory p. 361
Dry cough from sternal region all over chest. Hoarseness, larynx painful. Paroxysmal cough, with suffocative obstruction of respiration. Cough with sneezing. Severe dyspnœa with cough. Tightness across chest. Asthmatic attacks, cannot endure a close, warm room. Whooping-cough.
Relationship p. 361
Seems to come between Cepa and Euphrasia, which compare.
The book’s Dose section is left out: LikeCures quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.