Sumbul


Dr. S.R. Phatak describes the clinically confirmed symptoms of the homeopathic remedy Sambul in his Concise Materia Medica, published in 1977….


Generalities

      Musk root, as its name implies closely resembles in its odour to musk, therefore like Moschus it is the remedy for hysterical and nervous affections. It affects heart causing nervous palpitation. The patient is nervous, irritable and sleepless. Tendency to faint from slightest cause. Chorea; constant jerking of the head and limbs with protrusion of the tongue. As of a hot water flowing through part. Yellow tenacious discharges. Numbness; on becoming cold, on left side. Neuralgia. Early senility. Sclerosed arteries. Flushings, climacteric.

Worse

      Motion. Climacteric. Music. Cold. Thinking of symptoms. Inspiration.

Better

      Gentle motion. Warmth.

Mind

      Emotional and fidgety. Weeps and laughs by turns. Faintness from hearing music. Fear of becoming insane.

Nose

      Tenacious yellow mucous from nose.

Face

      As of a hair or cobweb on face. Neuralgia. Idiotic expression.

Mouth

      Tongue feels rough as if scraped.

Throat

      Choking constriction; constant swallowing; hysterical.

Stomach

      Burning waterbrash.

Abdomen

      Full, distended and painful.

Urinary

      Oily pellicle on urine.

Female

      Sexual excitability. Ovarian neuralgia. Pulling like a string in breast (right). Climacteric flushes. Screwing pain in region of uterus (left side).

Respiratory

      Short breath on any exertion. Asthma; cardiac; hysterical. Oppressed tightness in left chest, as if clogged.

Heart

      Nervous palpitation; in hysterical subjects or at climaxis; worse least exertion and thinking of it. As if heart beating in water. Neuralgia around left breast simulating angina pectoris. Cardiac asthma. High blood pressure due to arteriosclerosis.

Back

      Trickling along spine.

Extremities

      Left arm, ache, heavy, numb, weary.

Sleep

      Dreams of falling; of coitus; followed by profuse sudden emission.

Skin

      Pale; cold. Internal itching.

Related

      Asaf; Mosch.

Complementary

      Lact-v.

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.