Embelia Ribes – Medicinal Plants in India

Embelia ribes
Embelia ribes Burm.
(Biranga)
Common Name
:
Biranga
Sanskrit
:
Vidanga
Hindi
:
Baberang, Wawerung
Family
:
Myrsinaceae
Description

        Seeds are used to prepare the medicine. It is also called. Krimighan which literally means ‘killer of worms’. In Hindu medicine it has been used for worms & piles. In children, it is used for habitual constipation and acute capillary bronchitis.

Homoeopathic uses

        It has been verified in worm affections when prescribed on following symptoms :

– Fretfulness, moroseness

– Grinding of teeth

– Picking at nose

– Tongue dry
– Stool undigested
– Urine very high colored & pungent.
– Patient shrieks during sleep
– Itching in rectum

– Appetite ravenous

      Potency-Q (mother tincture)