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Viola Tricolor

Jacea, Heartsease pansy

Our remedy is prepared from a tincture of the whole plant in flower.

Introduced to homeopathic practice by Hahnemann and colleagues; proving, in tincture dose, was published by Gross, in Archiv fur Hom., vol. vii, Part 2, p. 17. The pathogenesis included in TF Allen's Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica and Hughes and Dake's Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy include toxicologic observations in addition to these tincture-dose provings.

The Heartsease or Wild Pansy is widely distributed throughout Northern and Central Eurasia, and across northern North America, largely as a weed of cultivation.

Heartsease saw employment in historical herbal and domestic practice for a wide variety of ailments, most particularly in skin disorders. A domestic remedy for crusta lactea (cradle-cap) in children consisted of Heartsease taken internally, as a handfull of the fresh herb boiled in milk, and applied externally, as poultices of the leaves. This empirical cure in crude dose can be attributed to the action of similars; as evidenced in the toxicologic proving symptom:

Eruption with intolerable(burning)itching, especially at night, over the whole face, and also behind the ears(only excepting the eyelids); a hard thick scab formed, cracked here and there, from which a tenacious yellow pus exuded, and hardened into a substance like gum.

Which is further confirmed by the toxicologic report in King's American Dispensatory:

The immoderate use of Viola tricolor is said - to induce - a pustular skin eruption.

Viola tricolor is a rather "small" remedy, most often employed principally on the guiding symptoms of its skin pathology. Its known pathogenesis however hints at a much broader spectrum of usefulness, making this a strong candidate for more extensive proving.

Viola Tricolor Caselet