ZIZIA AUREA


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


Meadow Parsnip
(THASPIUM AUREUM – ZIZIA)

Hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, hypochondriasis, come within the sphere of this remedy.

Mind.–Suicidal; depressed; laughing and weeping moods alternate.

Head.–Pressure on top, in right temple, associated with backache.

Male.–Great lassitude following coitus. Sexual power increased.

Female.–Intermittent neuralgia of left ovary. Acrid, profuse leucorrhœa, with retarded menses.

Respiratory.–Dry cough, with stitches in chest. Dyspnœa.

Extremities.–Unusual tired feeling. Chorea, especially during sleep. Fidgety legs (Tarant). Lameness in arms and spasmodic twitching.

Modalities.–Worse, during sleep.

Relationship.–Compare: Agar; Stram; Tarant; Cicuta; Aethusa.

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.