| Traditionally, the herb
skullcap has been used for many purposes including neuralgia, insomnia,
excitability, restlessness, rickets, headaches, hiccoughs, incessant coughing , hypertension
and nervous disorders and tetanus. According to The Eclectic
Materia Medica , Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1985) by Harvey Wickes
Felter, MD, specific indications for skullcap are nervousness, after an illness,
or from mental or physical exhaustion or teething, nervousness with muscular
excitation, tremors, hysteria, with inability to control muscular action,
functional heart disorders of a purely nervous type, with intermittent pulse.
Skullcap is calmative to the nervous and muscular systems and
offers some tonic properties. By controlling nervous irritability and
muscular incoordination, it gives rest and permits sleep. When insomnia is
due to worry or nervous irritability, exhaustion, or restlessness then skullcap
may help.
According to the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing, the main influence
of skullcap is on the central and sympathetic nervous systems.
Skullcap has antispasmodic, nervine, antihistamine and anti-inflammatory
properties.
Skullcap has no known toxicity.
Skullcap is also known as:
Skutellaria
lateriflora
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