Sanguisuga Or Hirudo Medicinalis


Sanguisuga Or Hirudo Medicinalis signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Sanguisuga Or Hirudo Medicinalis is used…


      Hirudo or Sanguisuga officinalis. The Leech. N. O. Hirudineae. Tincture of the living animal.

Clinical

*Anus, bleeding from. Haemorrhages.

Characteristics

Burnett was the first to use *Sanguisuga as a homoeopathic medicine. Dangerous haemorrhage have not infrequently followed the application of leeches, and it has been ascertained that the leech does not merely bite, it poisons the bitten part in such a way as to render the blood in it watery. Having a case of persistent bleeding from the rectum, the blood being watery, and all the usual haemorrhagic remedies having failed to arrest it, Burnett thought that *Sanguisuga might prove the simillimum. He had a tincture made and attenuated, gave the 5th attenuation, and made a brilliant cure. I have had frequent opportunity of confirming the value of *Sngs. in cases of the kind.

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