False unicorn

Clinical Notes. Especially useful in eliminating irritability/despondency Use of C. luteum root is discouraged b/c at-risk status Alternatives include: Tribulus terrestris, Dioscorea villosa, Paeonia lactiflora, and Asparagus racemosus

Action and Therapy. Tonic, diuretic, and vermifuge. (For relation to Aletris, compare Aletris.) Helonias is a valuable uterine tonic, specifically adapted to uterine weakness in which relaxation of tissue is so great as to give the sensation of downward pressure, dragging or expulsion-or as the patient expresses it, “a sensation as if everything in the pelvis would fall out or be expelled.” Marked irritability and despondency are often associated with such disorders, and when menstruation occurs there is a feeling of undue fullness, as if the womb and rectum were distended with blood, and about to be pushed out of the body.

Therapy. Homeopathists believe helonias to be particularly suitable for female disorders, where there is feeble constitution, where the nervous system is weakened and the patient is easily fatigued. It is restorative, promotes nutrition, promotes secretion of healthy fluids.

Physiological Action. Helonias in large doses is a cardiac poison. In medicinal doses it is emetic, tonic, diuretic, vermifuge. Cattle are killed by feeding on it and the decoction will kill insects.