UPAS TIEUT


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


Upas-tree-Strychnos Tiente
(UPAS TIENTE)

Produces tonic spasms, tetanus, and asphyxia.

Head.–Disinclined for mental work. Irritable. Dull headache deep in brain.

Eyes.–Pain in eyes and orbits, with conjunctivitis. Dull sunken eyes. Styes.

Mouth.–Herpes on lips. Burning on the tongue. Pain in mouth, as from a splinter (Nit ac).

Male.–Desire increased, with loss of power. Dull backache, as after excessive coitus.

Chest.–Lancinating pain throughout right lung toward the liver, stopping breathing. Violent palpitation; sensation of heaviness in stomach.

Skin.–Numb hands and feet. Hangnails inflamed; itching and redness of roots of nails.

Relationship.–Compare: Upas antiaris-resinous exudation of Antiarus toxicaria, (a deadly poison to the muscular system. It suspends both voluntary muscular action and that of the heart without causing convulsions. Used in Java as an arrow poison (Merrell). Differs in producing clonic spasms, violent vomiting, diarrhœa, great prostration). Oxal ac. Upas when Bryonia fails (typhoid).

Antidote: Curare.

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.