Botanical Index No. 622

Levant Cotton

gossypium herbaceum

Medicinal Actions

Astringent, Contraceptive, Diuretic, Emmenagogue, Hypercholesterolemic, Hypertriglyceridemic, Hypocholesterolemic, Lactagogue, Oxytocic, Uterotonic, Climacteric

Primary Conditions Treated

Abortifacient Aphrodisiac Cytostat Emollient Hemostat Vasoconstrictor Adenopathy Amenorrhea Anemia Asthma Bite Bleeding Bronchosis Burn Cancer abdomen breast colon nose uterus Childbirth Cold Constipation Corn Cough Cramp Cystosis Debility Diarrhea Dysentery Dyslactea Dysmenorrhea Dysuria Earache Enterosis Epilepsy Fever Fibroid Gonorrhea Headache Hemorrhoid High Blood Pressure High Cholesterol Hypochondria Infertility Inflammation Laryngosis Menorrhagia Metrorrhagia Morning Sickness Nausea Neurosis Pain Polyp Pulmonosis Rheumatism Rhinosis Snakebite Tumor Urethrosis Uterosis UTI Wart Water Retention

General Dosage

100 g root in 1 liter water, reduced by boiling to 0.5 liter, take 50 g liquid every half hour; 1–2 tbsp fluid extract during childbirth; 3 leaves in 1 liter water for hypertension; 6–8 g seed/150 g water or milk, 3 ×/day as lactagogue; 1.8–3.75 g root bark, 20–40 drops liquid extract; 2–4 ml liquid extract.

Safety & Contraindications

Class 2b. Contraindicated in urogenital irritation or tendency to inflammation; may sterilize men. “Hazards and/or side effects not recorded for proper therapeutic dosages”. Drug toxic

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