DOSE: Tincture of Senecio alone, 10–20 drops in water three or four times a day.
HOMEOPATHIC CLINICAL: Tincture of fresh plant in flower for amenorrhea, ascites, coryza, cough,
dropsy, dysmenorrhea, dysuria, epistaxis, fainting, gleet, gonorrhea, hemorrhages, homesickness, hysteria,
kidney (inflammation of), lumbago, mania, menorrhagia, menstruation (delayed, early, profuse, obstructed,
vicarious), nails (brittle), nervousness, neurasthenia, phthisis, prostatitis, puerperal mania, renal colic,
sciatica, spermatic cord (pain in), wounds.
RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE: Life root, Senecio platyphylus (broadleaf), grows in Russia’s Caucasus
Mountains; known in Russian as krestovnik. There is no folk medicine practice indicated in Russian
literature. Clinically: Extracts of the root and herb are used in powder form and ampoules (Atlas,
Moscow, 1962). Clinically given for stomach and intestinal spasm, spasmodic constipation, ulcers,
colitis, colic, liver malfunction, bronchial asthma, high blood pressure, angina pectoris, disturbance and
circulation of the blood stream due to spasmodic character. Also used in eye practice. Commercial: to
meet the demand for life root, successful plantations are located in many parts of central Russia,
Byelorussia, and Ukraine. For one acre they seed 5–6 pounds in square nest system; row system, 7–8
pounds. The first year’s collection of the dried herb is about 100–200 pounds per acre. The third year’s
harvest jumps to 800–1,000 pounds of the dried roots and herb for the same acre.