PRIMULA VERIS


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


Cowslip

Cerebral congestion, with neuralgia; migraine; rheumatic and gouty pains.

Head.–Sensation of a band around head; cannot keen hat on (Carbol ac). Skin of forehead tense. Fear of falling when standing up. Violent vertigo, as if everything turned around. Buzzing in ears; better in open air.

Respiratory.–Cough, with burning and pricking in respiratory tracts. Weak voice.

Urinary.–Urine smells strongly of violets (Terebinth).

Extremities.–Right axillary muscles painful. Weight and lassitude in limbs, especially the shoulders. Burning in hollow of right hand. Drawing pain in thumb and big toe.

Relationship.–Compare: Cyclamen; Ranunc; Œnothera–Evening Primrose–(exhausting, watery diarrhœa; cholera infantum; hydrocephaloid); Primula farinosa-the wild Primrose–(dermatitis, especially on index fingers and thumbs).

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.