YUCCA FILAMENTOSA


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


Bear-grass

So-called bilious symptoms, with headache. Despondent and irritable.

Head.–Aches as if top of head would fly off. Arteries of forehead throb. Nose red.

Face.–Yellow; tongue yellow, coated, taking imprint of teeth (Merc; Pod; Rhus).

Mouth.–Taste as of rotten eggs (Arnica).

Throat.–Sensation as if something hung down from posterior nares; cannot get it up or down.

Abdomen.–Deep pain in right side over liver, going through back. Stool yellowish brown, with bile.

Male.–Burning and swelling of the prepuce, with redness of meatus. Gonorrhœa (Cann; Tussil).

Skin.–Erythematous redness.

Dose.–Tincture, 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.