PETROSELINUM SATIVUM


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


Parsley
(PETROSELINUM)

The urinary symptoms give the keynotes for this remedy. Piles with much itching.

Urinary.–Burning, tingling, from perineum throughout whole urethra; sudden urging, to urinate; frequent, voluptuous tickling in fossa navicularis. Gonorrhœa; sudden, irresistible desire to urinate; intense biting, itching, deep in urethra; milky discharge.

Stomach.–Thirsty and hungry, but desire fails on beginning to eat or drink.

Relationship.–Compare: Apiol-the active principle of Parsley–(in dysmenorrhœa); Canth; Sarsaparilla: Cannab; Merc.

Dose.–First to 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.