Dictamnus


Dictamnus homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


      Common name: Fraxinella.

Introduction

Dictamnus Fraxinella, Linn. Natural order: Rutaceae. Preparation: Tincture of whole plant.

General symptoms

Frequent emission of copious, offensive flatus. Itching in the anus. Increased stools. Constipation. Greatly increased secretion of urine. Discharge of much tenacious mucus from the uterus, at first brown, afterwards white, at last streaked with blood. Increase of the leucorrhoea, with profuse discharge of urine, with distressing tenesmus and painful erosion of the genitals. Profuse metrorrhagia for nine days (recurring after ten days, upon the continued use of the drug, and lasting several days, with physical weakness). Aggravation of the epileptic attack.

Profuse perspiration. ( From Zorn, Botanologia Medica. Berlin, 1714, p. 265).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.