Homeopathic Materia Medica

Iodium

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

Yatren. Iod pathogenesis is similar to that of Carbol acid . Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph; Gratiola . Complementary: Lycopod; Badiaga. Compare: Brom; Hepar; Mercur; Phosph; Abrot; Nat mur; Sanic; Tuber.

Ipecacuanha

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

Compare: Emetine -principal alkaloid of Ipecac (A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for amæbiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amæbic dysentery; also as a remedy in pyorrhea, 1/2 gr daily for three days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhœa with colicky, abdominal pains and nausea. Emetin for endamoebic dysentery. In physiological doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward and lobar pneumonia. In hæmatemesis and other hæmorrhages, compare: Gelatin which has a marked effect on the coagulability of the blood. Hypodermically; or if by mouth, a 10 per cent jelly, about 4 oz, three times a day) Arsenic; Cham; Puls; Tart em; Squill. Convolvulus (colic and diarrhœa). Typha latifolia -Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhœa) and summer complaint. Euphorbia hypericifolia --Garden Spurge--(Very similar to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and female organs). Lippia mexicana --(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial cough--asthma and chronic bronchitis). In Asthma, compare: Blatta orientalis. Antidotes: Arsenic; China; Tabac. Complementary: Cuprum; Arn.

Kalium Bichromicum

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

Compare: Tart emet; Brom; Hepar; Ind; Calc; Ant cr . In the production of false membranes compare: Brom ; Ammon caust; Sulph ac; Ipecac . Antidotes: Ars; Lach.

Kalium Carbonicum

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

Complementary: Carbo ; (Lowness of vitality may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up recuperation to the point that Kali carb would come in helpfully). Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles. Compare: Kali salicylicum (vomiting, especially of pregnancy; arteriosclerosis, with chronic rheumatism); kali silicum (gouty nodosities); Kali aceticum (diabetes, diarrhœa, dropsy, alkaline urine, very much increased in quantity); Kali citricum (Bright's disease-1 gr to wine-glass of water); Kali ferrocyanatum-Prussian blue--(physical and mental prostration following infection. Inability to sustained routine work. Neuralgic affections depending on impoverished blood and exhausted nerve centers, especially spinal. Fatty and functional heart troubles. Pulse weak, small, irregular. Uterine symptoms, like Sepia, bearing-down sensation and gastric sinking; profuse, pus-like leucorrhœa and passive hæmorrhage; use 6x); Kali oxalicum (lumbago, convulsions); Kali picro-nitricum and kali pricricum (jaundice, violent eructations); kali tartaricum (paraplegia); Kali telluricum (garlicky odor of breath, salivation, swollen tongue). Also compare: Calc; Ammon phos; Phos; Lycop; Bry; Natrum; Stann; Sepia. Antidotes: Camph; Coffea.

Kalium Iodatum

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

Antidote: Hepar . Compare: Iod; Mercur; Sulph; Mezer. Chopheenee, a Hindoo remedy for syphilitic eruptions, ulcerations and bone-pains. Used in tincture.

Kalium Phosphoricum

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

Compare: Kali hypophosph ( Debility with wasting of muscular tissue . Phosphaturia with general anæmia or leucocythemia. Effects of excessive tea drinking. Chronic bronchitis where the expectoration is thick and fetid , sometimes scanty and tough . Dose.--5 grains of crude to 3x). Genista .--Dyer's Weed--(contains scopolamin; frontal headache and vertigo, worse motion, better open air and eating. Dry throat, awakes with waterbrash. Itching eruption on elbows, knees and ankles. Promotes diuresis in dropsical conditions). Macrozamia Spiralis (Extreme debility after severe illness; collapse. Weariness from no assignable cause, no pains. Boring pain at vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to open eyes, giddiness and cold). Zinc; Gels; Cimicif; Laches; Mur ac .

Kalium Sulphuricum

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

Compare: Kali sulph chromico.--Alum of chrome -3x (Produces in the nasal passages very fine threads from the septum to external wall; affections of nasal fossæ and hay-fever. Chronic colds. Sneezing, red, watery eyes, irritation of mucous membrane). Pulsat; Kali bich; Nat m .

Kalmia Latifolia

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

Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin). Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat. Complementary: Benz acid.

Kreosotum

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

Antidote: Nux . Inimical: Carbo . Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars; Phos; Sulph. Guaiacol (is the principal constituent of Kreosote, and similar in action. Used in pulmonary tuberculosis. Dose 1 to 5 m). Matico -Artanthe or Piper augustifolia, (Gonorrhœa, hæmorrhage from lungs; catarrhal conditions of genito-urinary organs and gastro-intestinal tract. Topically a hæmostatic. Difficult, dry, deep, winter cough. Use tincture). Compare also: Fuligo ligni; Carbol ac; Iod; Laches.

Lac Caninum

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

Compare: Lach; Con; Lac felinum -Cat's Milk--(ciliary neuralgia; eye symptoms, photophobia; asthenopia ; dysmenorrhœa); Lac vaccinum -Cows' Milk--(headache, rheumatic pains, constipation); Lac vaccinum coagulatum -Curds--(nausea of pregnancy); Lactis vaccini floc --Cream--(diphtheria, leucorrhœa, menorrhagia, dysphagia); Lactic ac .

Lac Vaccinum Defloratum

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

Compare: Colostrum (Diarrhœa in infants. Whole body smells sour. Colic). Nat mur .

Lachesis Mutus

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

Antidotes: Ars; Merc; Heat; Alcohol; Salt . Complementary: Crotalus cascavella often completes curative work of Lachesis (Mure; Lycop; Hep; Salamandra). Incompatible: Acet ac; Carb ac. Compare: Cotyledon (climacteric troubles); Nat m; Nit ac; Crotal; Amphisbœna -snake lizard--(right jaw swollen and painful, lancinating pains; headaches, lancinating pains. Eruption of vesicles and pimples); Naja; Lepidium.

Laurocerasus

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

Compare: Hydrocy ac; Camphor; Secale; Ammon carb; Ambra .

Ledum Palustre

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

Compare: Ledum antidotes spider poisons. Ruta; Ham; Bellis; Arnica .

Lilium Tigrinum

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

Compare: Cact; Helon; Murex; Sep; Plat; Pallad . Antidote: Helon.

Lycopodium Clavatum

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

Complementary: Lycop acts with special benefit after Calcar and Sulphur. Iod; Graphites, Lach; Chelidon . Antidotes: Camph; Puls; Caust. Compare: Carbo-Nitrogenoid Constitution: Sulphur; Rhus; Urtica; Mercur; Hepar. Alumina (Lycop is the only vegetable that takes up aluminum. T. F. Allen) Ant c; Nat m; Ery; Nux; Bothrops (day-blindness; can scarcely see after sunrise; pain in right great toe). Plumbago littoralis-A Brazilian plant--(Costive with red urine, pain in kidneys and joints and body generally; milky saliva, ulcerated mouth). Hydrast follows Lycop in indigestion.

MANGANUM

Manganum. MANGANUM ACETICUM. Acetate of Manganese. Manganous Acetate. Mn(C2H3O2)2 4H2O. Solution. Clinical Anæmia. Ankles, weak. Asthenopia. Asthma. Bones, pains in. Brain, concussion of. Climacteric flushings. Cough. Deafness, catarrhal. Dysmenorrhœa. Ears, affection of. Gall-stones. Gout. Heada...

MERCURIUS

Mercurius. (1) MERCURIUS OXYDULATUS NIGER. Clinical [The letters s and v indicate the preparation─Solubilis or Vivus─mentioned in the Prescriber in connection with the malady the name of which they follow; they are not intended to indicate a preference of one over the other.] Abscess (s). Anæmia....

MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS

MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS   Turpethum Minerale--Yellow Sulphate of Mercury (MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS - HYDRARG. OXYD. SUB-SULPH.) Watery stools, burning in anus. Sore tip of tongue. Œdema of legs. Sneezing from direct rays of sun. Diarrhœa early in the morning; stool bursts out in a hot stream...

Magnesium Carbonicum

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

Antidotes: Ars; Merc . Complementary: Cham. Compare: Rheum; Kreos; Aloes; Cheiranthus-Wall flower --(deafness, otorrhœa, nose stopped up at night from irritation of cutting wisdom-teeth).

Magnesium Muriaticum

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

Antidotes: Camph; Cham . Compare: Nat m; Puls; Sep; Amm m; Nasturtium equaticum -Water-cress--(useful in scorbutic affections and constipation, related to strictures of urinary apparatus; supposed to be aphrodisiacal in its action. Is also antidotal to tobacco narcosis and sedative in neurotic affections, neurasthenia, hysteria. Cirrhosis of liver and dropsy).

Magnesium Phosphoricum

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

Compare: Kali phos; Colocy; Silica; Zinc; Diosc . Antidotes: Bell; Gels; Lach.

Medorrhinum

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

Compare: (Lactation: Galega; Lactuca ). Sulph; Syphil; Zinc .

Mercurius Corrosivus

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

Compare: Ars; Lach; Leonurus-Mother-wort (Influences pelvic organs, allays spasm and nervous irritability, promotes secretion and reduces febrile excitement. Valuable in suppressed menses and lochia ; dysentery; vomiting, frightful pains in abdomen, violent thirst. Tongue dry and cracked). Monsonia --An African plant belonging to the Geraniaceæ--(Used for dysentery in material doses). Antidote: Calcium sulphide is antidotal to Bichloride poisoning. Use intravenous injection of 7 1/2 grains in 7 1/2 ozs boiled water.