Franciscea Uniflora

      Brazilian Manaca-root. *N. O. Scrophulariacae. Closely allied to Brunfelsia. Tincture of fresh root. An alkaloid, Franciscein, is also used.

Clinical

Headache. Pericarditis. Rheumatism. Syphilis.

Characteristics

*Franciscea u. is a Brazilian remedy of great local repute as an anti-syphilitic and anti-rheumatic. It is called “vegetable mercury.” In large doses it is a poison, causing violent purgation and emesis. Many cases of acute, sub-acute, and chronic cases of rheumatism have been reported cured with the tincture by homoeopaths, also pericarditis complicating rheumatism. Hansen gives there symptoms as characteristic, though I do not know of any proving: ” Intense headache like a band around the head, pain in occiput, neck and spine, lancinating, sticking, terrible aching all over, with great heat, followed by profuse sweat, which better all symptoms.”.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica