Dose: As a tea 1 teaspoonful of the herb to 1 cupful of boiling water. Externally: Crushed Violet bound as compress on inflamed tumours, sore throat, swollen breasts, to the back of the neck for headache, or the cloth saturated in Violet tea will often give unbelievable results, if applied assiduously. Keep a supply of the dried leaves and flowers for out-of-season use. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of fresh plant in flower— Cancer, Choroiditis, Cough( spasmodic; by day), Hoarseness, Hysteria, Neuralgia( supra-orbital), Otorrhoea( suppressed), Rheumatism, Seminal emissions, Styes, Whooping cough, Wrist( rheumatism of). Russian Experience: Fialka Polevaya, Violet, is a popular all-the-year-round decoration-in the fields in the summer time and as a house plant in winter. Tri-colour Violets are formally and tenderly called Anutini Glazki,“ Eyes of Annie”, but much sentiment is lost in the English translation. The country folk are less illuminating in speech and use Ivan and Mary, Ivan da Maria. Medical properties and uses are carried over from ancient history( Vishaya Schkolla, Moscow, 1963). Folk Medicine use decoctions, tea, Nastoika( with vodka), internally and externally, as diuretic, diaphoretic, blood purifier. For diathesis, coughs, eczema, TB of the skin and other skin conditions( Bello-Russia). Decoction for female condition, toothache, chest pain of cold( Bello-Russ. Academy of Science, Minsk, 1965). Externally: Decoction to drink and as poultices, or for complete bath immersion, for chronic and persisting skin conditions, scrofula, eruptions, children’ s eczema( Bello-Russ. Academy of Science, 1965).
VIOLET Viola odorata, L.( Vishaya Schkolla, Moscow, 1963)
Medically: Special preparations of the whole plant are administered for lung and chest trouble as expectorant in chronic catarrhal accumulation( Atlas, Moscow, 1963). India and Pakistan: Known as Banaf Shah, the flowers are emollient, demulcent, astringent, diaphoretic, diuretic, laxative. Used in cases of prolapsus of the uterus and rectum, nervous disorders, biliousness, epilepsy, inflamed swellings. For diaphoretic use when needed for colds, coughs, kidney and bladder disorders. In large doses the flowers are emetic; 2 oz. of stem will act as purgative, emetic; juice will cause nausea, vomiting and nervous conditions. The underground stem is emetic and purgative and is valuable if used instead of Ipecacuanha. Their use goes further still, antipyretic and febrifuge. From“ Medical Plants of India”, page 175( by J. F. Dastur, Bombay, India, 1962), credit is given to the control of cancer in the following way:“ The fresh leaves are a reputed drug for the treatment of Cancer: they relieve pain of cancerous growths, especially in the throat; two and a half ounces of the fresh leaves are infused in a pint of boiling water in a covered stone jar for 12 hours; the strained liquid is taken in the course of a day, in doses of a wineglassful at a time; for treatment of cancer of the tongue only half the quantity is taken in a day; the other half is used to foment the tongue; a liquid extract of the fresh leaves, in teaspoonful doses, is equally efficacious. On cancerous growths either the hot infusion or an extract of the fresh leaves is applied as a compress.”