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tx
nervous system
seizure disorders/epilepsy
botanicals

primary herbs

Adonis vernalis (toxic): see formulae below (Ellingwood, p. 234; Felter, p. 156)
Atropa belladonna (toxic): associated with congestive symptoms (Felter, p. 241)
Cimicifuga racemosa: seizure associated with menstrual failure; child after pertussis subject to periodic choreic seizures (Felter, p. 469)
Conium maculatum (toxic): (Ellingwood, p. 104)
Datura stramonium (toxic): followed by mania (Felter, p. 659)
Gelsemium sempervirens (toxic): especially with acute cerebral hyperemia, convulsions with cramping rigidity of muscles (Ellingwood, p. 77; Felter and Lloyd, p. 922)
Hyssopus officinalis: has been used for petit mal (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 116)
Lobelia inflata (toxic): may add Capsicum frutescens: spasms of all characters, from infantile convulsions to puerperal eclampsia, convulsions due to worms (Ellingwood, p. 238; Harper-Shove, p. 172)
Passiflora incarnata: lessens the number of paroxysms, not useful to stop seizure in progress (Ellingwood, p. 108)
Paeonia officinalis: convulsions of childhood; convulsion disorders (Ellingwood, p. 129)
Scutellaria lateriflora: grand mal, see formulae below (Ellingwood, p. 124; British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 194)
Solanum carolinense (toxic): all forms of "epilepsy," menstrual (Ellingwood, p. 127; Harper-Shove, p. 27)
Strychnos ignatii (toxic): according to indications (Felter, p. 425)
Valeriana spp.: chorea, mild spasmodic movements (Felter, p. 685)
Verbena officinalis: generalized seizures (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 228)
Viscum album (toxic): (Ellingwood, p. 153)


complementary herbs

grand mal seizure: Scutellaria lateriflora combines well with Humulus lupulus and/or Passiflora incarnata (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, p. 194).
Adonis vernalis (toxic) + potassium bromide + caffeine (see Ellingwood, p. 234)


footnotes