SARRACENIA PURPUREA


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


Pitcher-plant

A remedy for variola. Visual disorders. Congestion to head, with irregular heart action. Chlorosis. Contains a very active proteolytic enzyme. Sick headache; throbbing in various parts, especially in neck, shoulders and head, which feels full to bursting.

Eyes.–Photophobia. Eyes feel swollen and sore. Pain in orbits. Black objects move with the eye.

Stomach.–Hungry all the time, even after a meal. Sleepy during meals. Copious, painful vomiting.

Back.–Pains shooting in zig-zag course from lumbar region to middle of scapula.

Extremities.–Limbs weak; bruised pain in knees and hip-joints. Bones in arm pain. Weak between shoulders.

Skin.–Variola, aborts the disease, arrests pustulation.

Relationship.–Compare: Tartar em; Variol; Maland.

Dose.–Third to sixth 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.