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tx
mental/emotional
anger
botanicals
primary herbs
Avena sativa: sedative
Chamomilla spp.: sedative
Cnicus benedictus: liver symptoms , associated with
Humulus lupulus: sedative
Hyoscyamus niger (toxic): destructiveness (Harper-Shove, p. 26)
Leonurus cardiaca: sedative, heart symptoms
Mitchella repens: female
Scutellaria lateriflora: sedative, cooling
Strychnos nux vomica (toxic): excitability of the senses exhibited by anger, vehemence, irascibility (Ellingwood, p. 162)
consider: treating liver (associated with anger in Chinese medicine)
liver botanicals include:
Taraxacum officinale
Chelidonium majus (toxic)
Chelone glabra
Chionanthus virginicus: liver congestion (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia)
Cnicus benedictus
Hydrastis canadensis: liver congestion (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia)
Peumus boldo: liver congestion (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia)
complementary herbs
splenic tenderness: Ceanothus americanus + Echinacea spp. (Sherman)
consider: antiviral botanicals in formulae: Achillea millefolium (NCNM Botanicals), Allium sativum (Mitchell, p. 16a), Glycyrrhiza glabra (Mitchell, p. 16a), Larrea divaricata (NCNM Botanicals), Melissa officinalis (NCNM Botanicals), Mentha piperita (NCNM Botanicals), Pau d'Arco (Mitchell, p. 16a)
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