Symphytum



Urinary Organs

Structure of urethra (curative in some forms. R.T.C.).

Male Sexual Organs

Testicles become painful and tender and prevent walking (produced. R.T.C.). (Backache from excessive sexual indulgence, with spermatorrhoea. Gerarde.).

Female Sexual Organs

Menses stopped, headache, weight in forehead when she stoops, has it almost all time, a good deal of fever every other hour, cold all day, cramp and diarrhoea, nose sore inside alae, wants to pick it, wants to rub her eyes, inflamed ears, feels as if something were in them, stopped up, cannot hear well. (Leucorrhoea. Sore breasts.).

Back and neck

Pain in back from a fall, from sexual excess. Pott’s disease from fall. Psoas abscess. Much used among herbalists in caries of spinal and other bones (R.T.C.).

Extremities

Seems to act specially on the joints, a woman, 50, after single dose of complained of loss of power in the large joints, they seemed to get fixed, being particularly painful on turning in bed, and then followed great working in all the joints, especially in feet, with prickings and shootings in toes of both feet (R.T.C.).

Lower Limbs

More than a year ago struck knee upon a stone, wound healed and left scarcely any trace, but there remained an acute stitching pain in the place, felt when clothing touched part, or when knee was bent. Man suffering from a spontaneous luxation of thigh since childhood, fell and received a fracture of affected thigh, after two months fragments were quite movable, and as union was despaired of, an apparatus was made which allowed him to sit on a chair during day, *Symp. 4, four globules every six hours, brought about complete union in twenty days.

Generalities

Bruises, sprains, sore breasts. Inflammation of bones, diseased spinous processes. Psoas abscess. Facilitates union of fractured bones and lessens peculiar pricking pain, favors production of callous. Pricking, sticking, jagging pains. “A conserve of the roots cures the whites, and a decoction of them is excellent in coughs and soreness of the breast. Dried and powdered they are good against fluxes of the belly attended with griping pains and bloody stools. (*Symphytum) Is also serviceable in defluxions of the lungs, spitting of blood, and other disorders of the chest. Bruised and applied to foul ulcers it cleanses and disposes them to heal. It removes the inflammation and stops the bleeding of piles, and is of considerable efficacy in ulcerations of the kidneys and urinary passages, particularly if occasioned by the use of *Cantharides” (Thos. Green’s *Herbal).

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