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reproductive system
orchitis
botanicals

primary herbs

Aconitum napellus (toxic): acute, pain and fever (Ellingwood)
Anemone pulsatilla (toxic): edematous, pain, congested, dark red, enlarged, sensitive; infection from mumps (Harper-Shove, p. 105; British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 174)
Bryonia alba (toxic): chronic orchitis; tenderness on pressure, worse from movement; sharp, cutting, lancinating or tearing pain, sore as if bruised (Felter and Lloyd, p. 370)
Cimicifuga racemosa: orchialgia; heavy, tensive aching pain (Felter, pp. 466, 469)
Datura stramonium (toxic): applied locally in all forms of orchitis (Felter and Lloyd, p. 1841)
Echinacea spp.: locally (Harper-Shove, p. 105)
Equisetum arvense: inflammation of spermatic cord (Mitchell, p. 53)
Phytolacca decandra (toxic): from mumps and other causes, glandular swellings are hard, painful (Felter and Lloyd, pp. 1474, 1475)
Pilocarpus jaborandi (toxic): acute, according to indications (Ellingwood, p. 465)
Serenoa serrulata: orchitis, orchialgia, epididymitis; tenderness (Felter, p. 629)
Veratrum viride (toxic): according to indications (Felter and Lloyd, p. 2053)
Verbascum thapsus: internally and externally (Ellingwood, p. 397)

see: parotitis, mumps, venereal disease


complementary herbs

orchitis from mumps: Anemone pulsatilla (toxic) + Phytolacca decandra (toxic) (Harper-Shove, p. 106)
orchitis from mumps: lotion of Aconitum napellus (toxic) + Phytolacca decandra (toxic) + Atropa belladonna (toxic) (Scudder, 1881, p. 225)
orchitis from mumps: externally, Echinacea angustifolia + Phytolacca decandra (toxic) + Atropa belladonna (toxic) (Harper-Shove, p. 181)


footnotes