BAYBERRY-WAX MYRTLE-CANDLE BERRY.
Introduction
(Myrica-myro, to flow, as the plant grows near water)
Myrica, an indigenous shrub, growing to a height of from four to eight feet along the Atlantic coast, was first proved by members of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medicinal Society in 1864. The berries yield a vegetable wax but for our tincture the bark of the root is used.
Symptoms
There are but two conditions that I will speak of in reference to this remedy.
First, as spoken of by Hale, “for all profuse catarrhal discharges of long standing.”
Second, for jaundice (122), with dull, heavy headache in the morning, “due,” says Farrington, “to the imperfect formation of bile in the liver, and not to obstruction in the flow.” I have used Myrica only in the tincture.