A remedy for worm symptoms, especially with constipation. Tapeworm. Soporific conditions. Torpid inflammations of lymphatic glands (Maceration of fresh root). Pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients, no fever, with limited, ulcerated lesions, formerly classified as scrofula.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Commentaries
Commentary and literature analysis from various clinical authorities:
- ABDOMEN PAIN AGGRAVATION EATING SWEET THINGS
- ABDOMEN PAIN WITH DIARRHOEA CONSTANT VOMIT
- AFTER VIOLENT VOMIT AND DIARRHOEA LOST VISION
- AGG EATING SWEET THINGS
- ANXIETY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- ATROPHY OF THE OPTIC Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVE BLINDNESS
- BLINDNESS FIRST MYDRIASIS AND AMAUROSIS
- BLINDNESS MONOCULAR AMBLYOPIA
- BLOATING ABDOMINAL PAIN
- BLOOD PURIFIER ANTI BILIOUS
- CARDIAC OR RESPIRATORY FAILURE
- COLIC AGGRAVATION SWEETS
- COLIC PASSED SEGMENT OF TAPE WORM
- COLIC WORM WITH CONSTIPATION
- CYANOSIS STUPOR AND CONVULSION
- DIARRHOEA AND CONSTANT VOMIT
- DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING IN A WARM ROOM
- FEVER ABDOMEN PAIN WITH DIARRHOEA VOMIT
- GNAWING IN BOWELS AGGRAVATED BY EAT SWEET
- HEMORRHAGE OF THE INTESTINE LUNGS UTERUS URINE
- HICCOUGH PAINLESS
- IMMOBILITY OF PUPIL
- INDICATIVE OF WORMS WHEN CONSTIPATION
- INDUCE STERILITY AND ABORTION
- INJURIOUS TO THE EYESIGHT EVEN CAUSING BLINDNESS
- ITCHING OF NOSE IRRITABLE CROSS
- MENSES FOR THREE WEEK RETURN AFTER ONE WEEK
- MENSTRUAL FUNCTION STIMULATED
- MONOCULAR AMBLYOPIA
- MUSCULAR WEAKNESS AND COMA
- NAUSEA VOMIT AND DIARRHOEA
- NUMBNESS OF BACK RIGHT WRIST
- NUMBNESS SEEMED TO BE IN THE BONE
- PAIN IN ABDOMEN WITH DIARRHOEA VOMIT
- PALE FACE BLUE RINGS AROUND EYES
- PILES AND BLOOD DYSENTERY
- PROLAPSE OF VAGINA WITH PAIN TENESMUS BLADDER
- PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN YOUNG NO FEVER
- TANNIN AND OXYGEN IN ITS CORTEX OF PHLOEM
- TAPEWORM IS SUMMER SEASON
- TIGHTNESS IN LEFT HYPOCHONDRIUM DIFFICULT BREATH
- TORPID INFLAMMATION OF LYMPHATIC GLANDS
- TORPID INFLAMMATIONS OF LYMPHATIC GLANDS
- VAGINAL ULCER
- WEAK LYMPHATICO Dr. Calvin Brobst KnerrVOUS TEMPERAMENT
- WORK LOSS OF APPETITE FURRED TONGUE
- WORM BOWELS AGGRAVATION EATING SWEET THINGS
- WORM COLIC ITCHING NOSE PALE FACE BLUE RINGS AROUND EYES
- WORM COLIC WITH ITCHING OF NOSE
- WORM FEVER
- WORM IRRITABLE AND CROSS NOSE ITCH ANOREXIA
- WORM LOSS OF APPETITE
- WORM WITH CONSTIPATION
Clinical Applications
Compare: Aspidium Alhamanticum .--Panna -3 doses, 2 grammes each, all in half hour, fasting in a glass of milk. Tasteless and will remove tape worm. Cina; Granat; Kousso .
Key Symptoms & Indications
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A remedy for worm symptoms, especially with constipation. Tapeworm. Soporific conditions. Torpid inflammations of lymphatic glands (Maceration of fresh root). Pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients, no fever, with limited, ulcerated lesions, formerly classified as scrofula.
Physical Symptoms
Eyes
Blindness, monocular amblyopia.
Abdomen
Bloated.--Gnawing-pain; worse eating sweets. Diarrha and vomiting. Worm colic, with itching of nose, pale face, blue rings around eyes. Painless hiccough.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
Explore detailed descriptions for this remedy across famous historical textbooks:
FILIX MAS
Eyes
Blindness, monocular amblyopia.
Abdomen
Bloated.--Gnawing-pain; worse eating sweets. Diarrhœa and vomiting. Worm colic, with itching of nose, pale face, blue rings around eyes. Painless hiccough.
Relationship
Compare: Aspidium Alhamanticum.--Panna -3 doses, 2 grammes each, all in half hour, fasting in a glass of milk. Tasteless and will remove tape worm. Cina; Granat; Kousso.
Dose
First to third potency. For the expulsion of tapeworm, a full dose of 1/2 to 1 dram of the Oleoresin, fasting.
Filix Mas.
Clinical
Abdomen, bloated. Abortion. Blindness. Sterility. Tapeworm.
Characteristics
Male fern has been recognised as a vermifuge from the time of Galen, and Dioscorides credits it with the power of causing sterility and abortion. A fragmentary proving in Allen's Appendix records a case in which 15 to 20 drops of the tincture given three times a day to a woman suffering from bloated abdomen with more or less pain caused diminution of the bloating, but also: Severe prolapse of vagina, pain and tenesmus of bladder with copious and frequent emission of urine with intense pain. Filix was discontinued and then Chimaphila relieved. The symptoms did not return afterwards, except after much walking and standing. Hering says the best time to give the drug for expulsion of tapeworm is in the summer when the fresh root can be obtained. If an ounce of the grated root is given in the forenoon, usually the tapeworm comes away in the afternoon. Among the leading symptoms are: Pale face with blue rings round eyes; gnawing, boring pains in abdomen, < after sweet things. Blindness has been caused in a number of cases from atrophy of the optic nerve. C. S. Spencer records this effect from taking capsules each containing ten minims of the oil of male fern for tapeworm: "A feeling of nausea; abdomen became painfully distended with colicky pains. Menses returned after only one week's absence, and continued profusely for three weeks. Very sick after taking her food. The worm was got rid of and the capsules stopped when these symptoms passed away.
Teste has used it successfully in a case of violent dyspnœa without cough, with stitches in region of heart and obscure symptoms of pericarditis. The patient was a young lady of lymphatico-nervous temperament, and was much weakened by long sickness.
Relations
Compare: Areca, Granat., Kousso and Cuc. pep. sem. (tape-worm); Gels., Carb. s., Ben. din. (vision). Teste places Filix mas in his Ipecac. group along with Nux vom., Ant. crud., Ant. tart., &c.
1. Mind
Irritable and cross.─Confusion, stupor, coma.
2. Head
Vertigo.
3. Eyes
Blindness; first mydriasis and amaurosis with normal fundus; eight days later, atrophy of optic nerve.─Immobility of pupil.─After violent vomiting and diarrhœa, soporific condition lasting thirty hours; awakening, her l. eye was blind, and r. eye had lost some of its acuteness of vision. Being kept in the dark, perception of light by l. eye returned after forty-eight hours and recovery took place.
5. Nose
Itching of nose.
6. Face
Pale face; blue rings round eyes.
11. Stomach
Nausea.─Sick after taking food.
12. Abdomen
Bloating of abdomen.─Gnawing and boring in bowels, < eating sweet things.─Great pain in abdomen, with diarrhœa and constant vomiting.
13. Stool and Rectum
Ineffectual urging to stool.─Pappy stools.─Violent vomiting and diarrhœa.─Worm symptoms, esp. with constipation.─Worm colic.
16. Female Sexual Organs
Menstruation stimulated.─Menses returned after nearly one week's absence, continued profusely for three weeks.─Prolapse of vagina; with pains and tenesmus of bladder and copious frequent emission of urine with internal pains (relieved by Chimaph.).─Abortion.─Sterility.
24. Generalities
Great feeling of weakness, trembling, cramp-like feelings in hands and feet.─Somnolent, with spasmodic symptoms, ending in death.
26. Sleep
Soporific condition.
27. Fever
Violent rigor, fever, great pain in abdomen with diarrhœa and constant vomiting.
Filix Mas.
Taenia.
Worm fever.
Sterility.
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name HOMOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
First to third potency. For the expulsion of tapeworm, a full dose of 1/2 to 1 dram of the Oleoresin, fasting.
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