Homeopathic Materia Medica

Belladonna

Abbreviation: acts upon every part of

Compare: Sanguisorba officinals 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceæ family, ( Profuse, long-lasting menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head and limbs. Passive hæmorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hæmorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora --(Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos (less fever, more agitation); Stram (more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia -A Mexican drug, similar in action to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is often required after Bell; Atropia . Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action ( Great dryness of throat , almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large. Platina opposite ). Hypochlorhydria ; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, words run together ; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated . Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.

Benzoicum Acidum

Useful after Colchic fails in gout; after Copavia in gonorrhœa. Compare: Nitric acid; Ammon benz; Sabina; Tropoeolum. Garden Nasturtium--(fetid urine). Antidote: Copaiva. Incompatible: Wine.

Berberis Vulgaris

Compare: Ipomea-Convolvulus Duratinus -Morning Glory. --(Pain in left lumbar muscles on stooping. Kidney disorders with pain in back. Much abdominal flatulence. Aching in top of right shoulder renal colic; aching in small of back and extremities), Aloe; Lycopod; Nux; Sarsap. Xanthorrhea arborea (severe pain in kidneys, cystitis and gravel. Pain from ureter to bladder and testicles; pain in small of back returns from least chill or damp). Xanthoriza apifolia -Shrub Yellow Root--contains Berberine. Dilatation of stomach and intestines, atony, enlarged spleen. Antidotes: Camphor; Bell.

Bismuthum Subnitricum

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidotes: Nux; Capsic; Calc . Compare: Antimon; Ars; Bellad; Kreosot.

Borax Veneta

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible. Antidote: Cham; Coffea. Compare: Calc; Bryon; Sanicula; Sulph ac.

Bovista Lycoperdon

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Bovista antidotes tar applications. Suffocation from gas. After Rhus in chronic urticaria. Compare: Calc; Rhus; Sepia; Cicuta.

Bryonia Alba

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Complementary: Upas when Bryonia fails. Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum .--A Mexican drug.--(Fever with catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms). Antidotes: Acon; Cham; Nux. Compare: Asclep tub; Kali mur; Ptelia.

Bufo Rana

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Compare: Baryt carb; Asterias; Salamand (Epilepsy and softening of brain). Antidotes: Laches; Seneg. Complementary: Salamandra.

CANTHARIDES

Cantharides. Spanish Flies (Cantharideae) Oversensitiveness of all parts. Haemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital and urinary organs. Pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of the body, internally and externally; with extreme weakness. Disgust for everything; drink, food, tabacco. Drin...

CREOSOTUM

Creosotum. Mind and Disposition. Low-spirited, inclined to weep, longing for death ; music and other subduing emotions cause him to weep. Ill-humor (in the morning), with disposition to weep. Head. Weakness of memory. Painful dulness of the head, as ; after intoxication. [5] Heaviness in the fore...

CUPRUM

Cuprum. Mind and Disposition. Craziness ; attacks with savage malice, with proud bearing, and at times interrupted by clonic spasms. Great anguish, like fear of death ; restlessness, groaning, and desire to escape. Attacks of rage (wants to bite the bystanders). Convulsive laughter. [5] Incoheren...

Cactus Grandiflorus

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidotes: Acon; Camph; China . Compare: Digital; Spigel; Convallar; Kalmia; Naja; Magnol.

Cadmium Sulphuratum

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat .

Caladium Seguinum

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Incompatible: Arum triph . Complementary: Nitr ac. Compare: Capsic; Phosph; Caust; Selen; Lyc. Ikshugandha (sexual weakness, emissions, prostatic enlargement).

Calcarea Carbonica

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidotes: Camph; Ipec; Nit ac; Nux . Complementary: Bell; Rhus; Lycop; Silica. Calcar is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls. Incompatible: Bry; Sulphur should not be given after Calc. Compare: Aqua calcar.--Lime-water--(1/2 teaspoonful in milk); (as injection for oxyuris vermicularis), and Calc caust--slaked lime--(pain in back and heels, jaws and malar bones; also symptoms of influenza). Calc brom (removes inflammatory products from uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. Tendency to brain disease. Insomnia and cerebral congestion. Give 1x trituration). Sulph (differs in being worse by heat, hot feet, etc). Calcar calcinata -Calcined oyster-shell-a remedy for warts. Use 3d trituration. Calcarea ovorum. Ova tosta -Toasted egg-shells--( backache and leucorrhœa . Feeling as if back were broken in two; tired feeling. Also effective in controlling suffering from cancer). Calcar lactic (anæmias, hæmophilia, urticaria, where the coagulability of the blood is diminished; nervous headache with œdema of eyelids, lips or hands; 15 grains three times a day, but low potencies often equally effective). Calcar lacto-phosph (5 grains 3 times a day in cyclic vomiting and migraine). Calc mur.--Calcium chloratum -Rademacher's Liquor--(1 part to 2 of distilled water, of which take 15 drops in half a cup of water, five times daily. Boils. Porrigo capitis. Vomiting of all food and drink , with gastric pain. Impetigo, glandular swellings, angioneurotic œdema. Pleurisy with effusion. Eczema in infants). Calcar picrata , (peri-follicular inflammation; a remedy of prime importance in recurring or chronic boils , particularly when located on parts thinly covered with muscle tissue, as on shinbones, coccyx, auditory canal , dry, scurfy accumulation and exfoliation of epithelial scales, etc, styes, phlyctenules. Use 3x trit). Compare also with Calcarea: Lycop; Silica; Pulsat; Chamom.

Calendula Officinalis

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Compare: Hamamel; Hyperic; Symph; Arn . Compare in deafness: Ferr pic; Kal iod; Calc; Mag c; Graph. Antidote: Chelidon; Rheum. Complementary: Hepar.

Cannabis Sativa

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidotes: Camph; Lemon juice . Compare: Hedysarum-Brazilian Burdock--(Gonorrhœa and inflammation of penis); Canth; Apis; Copaiva; Thuj; Kal nit.

Capsicum Annuum

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidote: Cina; Calad . Compare: Pulsat; Lycop; Bell; Centaurea (surging of blood; homesickness; intermittent fever).

Carbo Animalis

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing interrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation. Carbon Tetrachlorid is said to cause fatty liver ( Phosph; Ars; Chlorof ). Paralysis of interosseus muscles of feet and hands. Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm disease. See Thymol (Relationship). Complementary: Calc phos. Antidotes: Ars; Nux. Compare: Badiaga; Sepia; Sulph; Plumb iod.

Carbo Vegetabilis

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph; Ambra; Arsenic . Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack (Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation). Lycop; Ars; China. Complementary: Kali carb; Dros.

Cascarilla

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Acts on the digestive tract; constipation. Aversion to smell of tobacco. Inclination to vomit very marked.

Castor Equi

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Compare: Graphites; Hippomanes; Calc. Oxal .

Causticum

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

According to the careful investigations of Dr. Wagner of Basel, Causticum corresponds to Ammon causticum 4x. Causticum does not agree with Phosphorus ; the remedies should not be used after each other. Diphtherotoxin follows , causticum in chronic bronchitis. Antidote: Paralysis from lead-poisoning. Complementary: Carbo; Petrosel. Compare: Rhus; Arsenic; Amm phos (facial paralysis).

Chamomilla

Abbreviation: HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE, M.D. Presented by Médi-T

Compare: Cypriped; Anthemis; Aconite; Puls; Coffea; Bellad; Staphis; Ignat . Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of opium. Rubus villosus -Blackberry--(diarrhœa of infancy; stools watery and clay colored). Antidotes: Camph; Nux; Puls. Complementary: Bell; Mag c.