Lupulus, Hops

Lupulus salictarius, Lupulus reptitius, Volubilis, Humulus, Habiola
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Picture Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

Picture Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914

Picture Koehler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

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Botanical name:


Humulus lupulus

Parts used:


Flower

Temperature & Taste:


Cool (Warm in the west), dry. Bitter

Classifications:


2A APERIENT

Uses:


1. Clears Damp-Heat, Opens Obstructions:
-Indigestion, Stomach weakness
–loss of appetite as a result of chronic gastric catarrh
-Jaundice, Biliousness, pain or distention of the Hypochondria

2. Clears Heat, Calms the Mind and Nerves:
-Insomnia, restlessness, nervous tension, stress, anxiety and worry (especially with indigestion)
-induces sleep.
–Headache, Hysteria, Nervousness, Melancholy, Fits, Delirium and Neuralgia

3. Clears Heat from the Blood, Resists Poison:
-‘Cleanses the Blood’ (Culpeper)
-Eczema, Eruptions, Spreading Sores, Itching, skin discoloration
-Scrofula; Leprosy; Venereal diseases including Gonorrhea

4. Clears Deficient Heat:
-Chronic Fever; ‘Profitable against long lingering Agues’. (Gerard)
-Low-Grade Fevers, Night-sweats
-Menopausal symptoms with irritability, flushes

5. Promotes Menstruation:
-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea
-PMS, Menopausal symptoms

6. Promotes Milk

7. Externally:
-relieves Pain and Inflammation
-externally eases Pain, cures Contusions, Dislocations and Tumors
-poultice applied to Boils, skin infections, Swellings, Tumors
-ointment is used for the pain of Cancer (Pharmacopee Usuelle, Louvain, 1821)
-wash for Dandruff
-in douches for Uterine prolapse


Dose:


Decoction: 3–6 grams

Correctives:


… available in PRO version

Substitutes:


… available in PRO version
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Main Combinations:
Hops & Fumitory

1. Hops is often combined with Fumitory (as in Syrup of Fumitory) to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, and to clear Heat, Bile and toxin from the Blood:
i. Skin diseases, Eczema, Psoriasis from heat of the Blood Hops with  … available in PRO version
ii. Eczema, Psoriasis, Acne, Syphilis, Leprosy Hops with  … available in PRO version
iii. Skin diseases from Melancholy, Hops with  … available in PRO version
2. Restless, irritability, insomnia, Hops with  … available in PRO version
3. Insomnia:
i. Hops with  … available in PRO version
ii. Hops with  … available in PRO version
4. Visceral pain, it has been combined Hops with  … available in PRO version
5. Excess Sweating, Hops with  … available in PRO version
6. Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea:
i. Hops with  … available in PRO version
ii. Hops with  … available in PRO version
7. Anaphrodisiac, Hops with  … available in PRO version
8. For Stomach weakness and Indigestion, Hops with  … available in PRO version
9. Migraine associated with suppressed menstruation, Hops with  … available in PRO version
10. Prolapsed Uterus, use a douche of Hops with … available in PRO version
11. Trauma, Bruising Hops with  … available in PRO version

Major Formulas


Decoction of Fruit
Decoction of Fruit and Flowers
Decoction of Fumitory of Mesue
Decoction of Fumitory of Andernacus
Syrup of Fumitory
Byzantine Syrup-Simple & Compound (Mesue)
Triphera Persica (Mesue)

Cautions:


1. Generally not recommended in first trimester of Pregnancy. Use cautiously during Pregnancy.
2. Not suitable for Depression associated with nervous debility (weakness).

Main Preparations used:


Distilled Water of the Flowers, Syrup of the Juice (with Fumitory juice)