Homeopathic Materia Medica
Explore clinical indications, key symptoms, modalities, and applications of classic remedies across 14 historical reference textbooks.
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A Synoptic Key Of The Materia Medica (By Cyrus Maxwell BOGER (SK))
ACTEA RACEMOSA
Actæa Racemosa. Cimicifuga racemosa. Actæa monogynia. C. serpentaria. Macrotys racemosa. Botroflus serpentaria. Black snake root. Black Cohosh. (Canada, Georgia, Western States of America.) N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of the root. Trituration of the resinoid, Macrotyn. Clinical Abortion, tendenc...
ACTEA SPICATA
ACTAEA SPICATA Baneberry (ACTEA SPICATA) Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it. Wrist-rheumatism. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion. Head Fearf...
Aconitum Napellus
Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action. Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyæmic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness. Agrostis acts like Acon in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes . Complementary: Coffea; Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite. Compare; Bellad; Cham; Coffea; Ferr, phos. Aconitine.-- (Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x). Tingling sensation. Aconitum Lycotonum.-- Great yellow wolfsbane.--(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrha after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes, anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood). Aconitum Cammarum.-- (Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Cataleptic symptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and face). Aconitum ferox.-- Indian Aconite.--Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus . It is more diuretic and less antipyretic. It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspna , neuralgia, and acute gout. Dyspna. Must sit up. Rapid respiration . Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. Cheynes-Stokes breathing. Quebracho (cardiac dyspna) ( Achyranthes .--A Mexican drug--very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x). Eranthis hymnalis --(Winter Aconite--acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing dyspna. Pain in occiput and neck).
Adonis Vernalis
Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. Quarter grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit increases arterial pressure and prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins. Is an excellent substitute for Digitalis and is not cumulative in action. Compare: Digit; Cratoeg; Conval; Strophanthus.
Aesculus Hippocastanum
Aesculus glabra -Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis. Very painful, dark purple, external hæmorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis. Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases). Negundium Americanum --Box-elder--(Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours). Compare also: Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur .
Agaricus Muscarius
Compare: Muscarine , the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc, but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibers of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine . Resembles Pilocarpin in action). Amanita vernus -spring mushroom-a variety of Agar Phalloides -Death cup-active principle is Phallin , active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly Agaric). The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained. The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hæmorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier). Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain . Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps. Agaric emet (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water ; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string). Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif; Cann ind; Hyos; Tarantula . Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.
Ailanthus Glandulosa
Antidotes: Rhus; Nux . Compare: Ammon carb; Bapt; Arn; Mur ac; Lach; Rhus.
Allium Cepa
Compare: Gels; Euph; Kali hyd; Aconite; Ipecac . Complementary: Phosphor; Thuja; Puls. Antidotes: Arn; Cham; Verat.
Aloe Socotrina
Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich; Lycop; Allium sat. Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Alumina
Compare: Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trits in water). Slag Silico-Sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale; Lathyr; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution. Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections. Arrests hæmorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous hæmorrhage from various organs-23 % solution. Hæmorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10 % sol. Complementary: Bryonia. Antidotes: Ipecac; Chamom.
Ambra Grisea
Do not confound with Amber -Succinum q v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor; Asaf; Crocus; Lilium.
Ammonium Carbonicum
Inimical to Lachesis . Similar in action. Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor. Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet. Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.
Ammonium Muriaticum
Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust . Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Amylenum Nitrosum
Compare: Glonoine; Lachesis . Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn; Ergot.
Anacardium Orientale
Antidote: Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus . Compare: Anacard occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), (anæsthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus; Cypriped; Chelidon; Xerophyl. Platina follows well. Cereus serpentina (swearing).
Anthracinum
Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows. Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozoen; Echinac; Silica follows well. In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncle-i.e the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.
Antimonium Crudum
Compare: Antimonium Chloridum . Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose-third trituration). Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed. Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph. Complementary: Sulph. Antidote: Hepar.
Antimonium Tartaricum
Antidotes: Puls; Sepia . Compare: Kali sulph; Ipecac.
Apis Mellifica
Complementary.: Nat mur . The "chronic", Apis ; also Baryta carb , if lymphatics are involved. Inimical. Rhus. Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxæmia, with pus products); Zinc; Canth; Vespa; Lachesis.