Materia Medica

Vanilla – Boericke

Vanilla
vanil

PLANIFOLIA (Vanilla)
Marked skin irritation resembling milk Poison-oak; is sometimes produced by handling the beans, also by local use of vanilla essence in a hair wash. Vanilla is supposed to stimulate the brain and sexual propensities. Do not use the synthetic Vanilla extract. Various disorders of the nervous system and circulation are produced in workers with Vanilla. Is an emmagogue and aphrodisiac. Menses prolonged.

 

Dose

Vanilla, 6th to 30th, has been found effective in curing the skin affection.