MYRICA CERIFERALiquid

Myrica cerifera is a significant homoeopathic medicine prepared from the fresh root bark of the Bayberry (Wax Myrtle) plant, belonging to the Myricaceae family. It exhibits marked action on the liver, mucous membranes, and skin, making it especially valuable in conditions like jaundice, liver affections, catarrhal affections, and chronic digestive disorders. It is also known to aid in sleeplessness, general fatigue, and conditions accompanied by yellow discoloration of the skin and sclera. Myrica is well-suited to individuals experiencing fullness, liver tenderness, and nervous irritability.

Common Name

Hindi: Kafal 

English: Bayberry / Wax Myrtle

SBL’s Myrica cerifera can be helpful in the following conditions:

Liver and Digestive System

• Myrica cerifera aids in managing liver dysfunction with jaundice, especially when the skin appears bronze-yellow.
• Helps relieve dull hepatic pain and fullness in the stomach and abdomen.
• Supports cases with poor appetite but feeling of fullness and pressure in the stomach after eating.
• Manages offensive breath, bitter taste, and a furred tongue, particularly when related to liver stress.
• Assists in controlling flatus and expulsion of gas during walking, often with no stool passage.
• Helps in jaundiced states with light-colored, ash-like stools that lack bile.
• Supports patients with a craving for acids, nausea after meals, and a weak, sinking sensation in the stomach.
• Aids in improving nausea that feels better with brisk walking.

Skin and Urinary System

• Helps in treating jaundice with yellow, itchy skin and creeping, insect-like sensations.
• Acne may present in multiple spots, often with a tender pimple on the nose.
• Manages urticaria-like eruptions and yellow, frothy, scanty urine of biliary origin.
• Supports proper urinary elimination when there is dark, high-colored urine associated with liver dysfunction.
• Difficulty urinating, as the bladder seems unable to contract and expel urine properly.

Mind and Sleep

• Aids in alleviating mental gloom, cannot concentrate mind on any subject, despondency, irritability, and emotional indifference.
• Myrica cerifera helps patients who suffer from persistent insomnia, disturbed sleep, and frequent, unpleasant dreams.

Head and Face

• Supports relief from dull, heavy headaches, especially in the temples and forehead upon waking.
• Pressure in vertex and forehead with drowsiness accompanying headache.
• Helps with tight scalp sensations and aching in the eyeballs associated with jaundice.
• Assists in easing neck stiffness and pain in the nape, often accompanying head symptoms.
• Manages facial itching, stinging, and creeping sensations, with yellow discoloration.

Throat and Mouth

• Helps soothe a rough, constricted throat with constant desire to swallow.
• Aids in reducing thick, sticky mucus that is difficult to expectorate.
• Supports oral hygiene by relieving spongy, tender gums prone to bleeding.
• Manages bad taste in the mouth and nausea linked to digestive or hepatic derangement.

Extremities and Musculoskeletal

• Myrica cerifera assists in relieving pain under the shoulder blades, back of neck, and across general musculature with soreness and lassitude.
• Helps address staggering gait and weakness in the hollow of the right foot.
• Drawing pain in muscles above knee at night. Tearing pain in arm, extending to forearm, with darting pain in fingers.
• Languor on waking in the morning, accompanied by back pain and soreness in the thigh muscles.