Ficus carica is a gemmoderivato used in gemmotherapy for gastritis and heartburn caused by anxiety somatization. This action is essentially due to an encephalic type mechanism. In fact, in the brain there are nerve centers that control the secretion of gastric acids and intestinal motility.
If we suffer emotionally from anxiety disorders, due to the tendency to keep things under control it is extremely likely that our body will somatize by developing an excessive production of gastric juices, up to, in the most serious cases, chronic gastritis and ulcer. The Ficus carica is therefore indicated to those who often have a tense stomach; to those with gastric spasms, stomach acid, dyspepsias or digests with difficulties of nervous origin.
The bud-derived of the fig and the gastric drainage
Antoine Nebel was a homeopathic doctor from Lausanne (1870 - 1954) studied several gemmotherapeutic remedies, in order to preserve patients from toxins or metabolic residues and thus facilitate the action of the homeopathic drug that he would administer them later. He developed the drainage model .
Unlike the analogue biological one formulated by Henry, the father of gemmotherapy (which takes into account the interactions between the plants of the same environment, the alterations they cause in the soil where they live and the capacity they have to modify the quantities of plasma proteins, in our body), the model developed by Nebel aims to stimulate detoxification, channeling the metabolic waste of the organism and favoring their expulsion to the outside, acting on the excretory organs (liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, skin, lymph and blood). In this way the organism has opened the ways out which allow the toxins to be eliminated from the inside towards the outside.
The Ficus carica in gemmoderivato (this is how the fig is called when its buds are macerated in water and glycerin, with a lower alcohol content than hydroalcoholic extraction, also called mother tincture) is successfully used in all inflammatory pathologies and / or stomach and duodenum ulcers, because it reduces the activity of the nerve centers that control the acid secretion of the stomach.
This gemmotherapic remedy decreasing the production of gastrin, the hormone present in the gastric mucosa, responsible for the secretion of hydrochloric acid, is an effective anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic for the stomach, and is ideal for fighting gastritis and swelling. In fact, its gems possess an elective tropism for the digestive mucous membranes of the stomach and duodenum, probably acting as regulators of the cortico-diencephalic axis . They are therefore used ambivalently in motility and gastroduodenal secretion disorders: Ficus Carica buds reduce heartburn and dipsepsia in gastritis and duodenal ulcers, but are equally useful in patients with mucosa hypotrophy and gastric achilia by virtue of its enzymatic properties .
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The bud derivative: its assumption
The Ficus carica in gemmoderivato must be used in cycles of two months in the most critical periods for this disorder, which in general are spring and autumn; in this way we have rather long periods of well-being, which can be prolonged by periodically repeating the cycle. Treatment with Ficus can be started at any time and the intake should be repeated two or three times a year .
Like all gemmoderivates, it has no contraindication or side effects from overdose or in the long term. 40 drops should be taken twice a day, dissolved in half a glass of water before main meals.
