Lupulus, Humulus, Hops
Lupulus, Hops Lupulus salictarius, Lupulus reptitius, Volubilis, Humulus, Habiola
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914
Koehler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887
Botanical name:
Humulus lupulus
Parts used:
Flower
Temperature & Taste:
Cool (Warm in the west), dry. Bitter
Classifications:
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:
Substitutes:
Main Combinations:
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)
