PHASEOLUS NANUS


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


Dwarf-bean
(PHASEOLUS)

Heart symptoms quite pronounce. Diabetes.

Head.–Aches chiefly in forehead or orbits from fullness of brain; worse any movement or mental exertion.

Eyes.–Pupils dilated, insensible to light. Eyeballs painful to touch.

Chest.–Breathing slow and sighing. Pulse rapid. Palpitation. Sick feeling about heart, with weak pulse. Right ribs sore. Dropsical effusion into pleura or pericardium.

Urinary.–Diabetic urine.

Heart.–Fearful palpitation and feeling that death is approaching.

Relationship.–Compare: Cratæg; Lach.

Dose.–Sixth and higher. A decoction of the shells as a drink for diabetes, but look out for severe headache.

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.