BRACHYGLOTTIS REPENS


Homeopathy medicine Brachyglottis Repens from William Boericke’s Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica, comprising the characteristic and guiding symptoms of all remedies, published in 1906…


Puka-Puka
(BRACHYGLOTTIS)

Fluttering sensation (Caladium). Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate. Produces symptoms of albuminuria. Itching in ears and nostrils. Bright’s disease. Oppression of chest. Writer’s cramp.

Abdomen.–Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in region of ovary.

Urinary.–Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate. Sense of swashing in bladder. Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained. Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium, albumen and casts.

Extremities.–Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.

Relationship.–Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc cor; Plumbum.

Dose.–Third potency.

William Boericke
William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.