Gart der Gesundheit, Cuba, 1485

Kohler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

Calamus root. (Adam, 2016)

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Uses:

1. Clears Wind-Damp-Phlegm, Benefits Brain: (TCM, West, Tibet, Ayurveda)

-Special medicine to restore Memory and Brain function
-Epilepsy, Headache, Vertigo, Dizziness, Paralysis
-Dullness of the Senses, Deafness, Loss of Speech, Stuttering, Head Trauma
-promotes alertness and increases intelligence and memory (Ayurveda)

2. Moves the Blood and Qi, Clears Damp, Resolves Stagnation: (TCM, West, Tibet, Ayurveda)

-promotes Menstruation, used for stoppage or painful Menstruation
-moves the Blood; internally and externally for Bruising, Trauma, Blood stagnation
-“improves the complexion” (Avicenna)

3. Clears Damp, Moves Qi, Benefits the Stomach: (TCM, West, Tibet, Ayurveda)

-promotes appetite and digestion; Indigestion, Colic, Diarrhea
-obstructions of the Liver and Spleen

4. Clears Damp, Promotes Urine, Warms the Kidneys: (West, Tibet, Ayurveda, TCM)

-Edema or obstructed Urine from Cold and Damp
-lack of Bladder control
-Arthralgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis (TCM, Tibetan Medicine)

5. Resists Poison: (West, Tibet, TCM)

-classically used against various Poisons
-Infectious and Epidemic diseases; Plague; both to preserve and cure

6. Emetic

-decoction has been used as an emetic

7. Externally:

-applied as a fomentation for colic and abdominal pain
-applied to Wind-Cold_damp type nerve, muscle and joint pains
-“useful for treating corneal thickness and opacity” (Avicenna)
-externally for Sores and Scabies
-Pityriasis and Leukoderma (Avicenna)
-decocted in wine and gargled to clear Phlegm and Damp from the Head
-pain of the stomach or abdomen, powder, fry and apply the powder while hot (TCM)

Dose:

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Substitutes:

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Main Combinations:

Calamus, Galangal
Calamus, Peony
Calamus, Rue
1. Epigastric pain and distention, nausea, poor appetite from Damp-Cold-Phlegm, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
2. Warm and strengthen the Kidneys, Brain and Nerves; Epilepsy, Poor Memory, increase Libido, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
3. Epilepsy, Hysteria, Headache, Vertigo, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
4. Poor Memory, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
5. Also for Poor Memory, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
6. Strengthen the Brain, Mental Fatigue, Stress, following Brain Injury, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
7. Wind-Phlegm-Heat diseases of the Head such as Epilepsy and Seizures, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
8. Schizophrenia, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
9. Stomach weakness, Gastritis, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
10. Stomach and Kidney weakness, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
11. Gastritis with irritation, Colic, combine Calamus with  … available in PRO version
12. As a diuretic, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
13. Chronic Internal Bleeding, Calamus with  … available in PRO version
14. Syphilis, make an ointment Calamus with  … available in PRO version

Major Formulas:

Syrup of Calamus (Wirtzung)
Electuary of Calamus (Mesue)
Medicine for Infants (Pillaru Marundu) (Siddha)