GLYCERINUM


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


Glycerine

Used homeopathically, dynamized Glycerine seems to act

deeply and long, building up tissue, hence of great use in marasmus, debility, mental and physical, diabetes, etc. It disturbs nutrition in its primary action, and, secondarily, seems to improve the general state of nutrition (Dr. Wm. B. Griggs).

Head.–Feels full, throbs; mentally confused. Severe headache two days be before menstruation. Occiput feels full.

Nose.–Stopped up, sneezing, irritating coryza. Sensation of crawling on mucous membrane. Post-nasal dripping.

Chest.–Hacking cough with sense of weakness. Chest seems full. Influenzal pneumonia.

Stomach.–Fermentation, burning in stomach and œsophagus.

Urinary.–Profuse and frequent urination. Increased specific gravity and sugar. Diabetes.

Female.–Profuse, long-lasting flow with bearing down heaviness in uterus. General sense of exhaustion.

Extremities.–Rheumatic pains of a remittent type. Feet painful and hot, feel enlarged.

Relationship.–Compare: Lactic acid; Gelsemium; Calc.

Dose.–Thirtieth and higher potencies. Pure Glycerine in teaspoonful doses, t.i.d, with lemon juice for pernicious anæmia.

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.