What is Scilla maritima?
It is the Squill or the Sea Onion. The tincture is made from the fresh bulb in the same manner as with the common onion.
Give the cough of Squilla.
Violent cough with a great deal of mucus in the chest and expectoration; during the cough there is involuntary spurting of urine; the patient coughs a long time before a little mucus is raised which gives relief; sharp, sticking pains in side.
What is Paris quadrifolia?
It is the Fox Grape, and the entire fresh plant gathered at the time of ripening of the berries is made into a tincture in the same manner as Millefolium. Imported.
What are the head and eye symptoms of Paris quadrifolia?
Sensation as if the eyes were drawn back into the head by strings; headache of spinal origin where the pains come up over the head from the occiput, and the head seems enormously large.
Mention some Cryptogamous plants that we make use of.
Lycopodium, Bovista and Sticta pulmonaria.
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM.
Where are our pathogeneses of Lycopodium?
Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases. British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vols. XVII and XVIII. North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Aug., 1877.
What is Lycopodium?
It is the Club Moss or ground pine.
How do we prepare Lycopodium to use as a medicine?
The spores must be severely triturated for hours, first dry, then with alcohol enough to make a thick paste, then sufficient alcohol is added to make five parts by weight to each part of Lycopodium. Stand in well stoppered bottle eight days in dark, cool place. Decant, strain and filter. Drug power, 1/10. The tincture is straw colored. Triturations are more reliable.
What is the general sphere of action of Lycopodium?
It is especially adapted to ailments gradually developing; functional power weakened with failure of the digestive power; and where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Urinary disturbances are marked.
Give four general characteristics of Lycopodium.
1. Aggravation from 4 to 8 P.M.
2. Great aggravation from cold.
3. Complaints go from right to left.
4. Offensiveness of discharges, and heavy, red sediment in urine.
What are the mental symptoms of Lycopodium?
Weakness and relaxation, a tired mind; patients are afraid to be left alone; imperious and domineering or sad and melancholic; weak memory, makes mistakes in speech.
What are the characteristic nasal symptoms?
Nose stuffed up; cannot breathe through it night or day; discharge of yellowish green matter from the nose; fan-like motions of the alae nasi.
What are the indications for Lycopodium in throat troubles?
Enlarged tonsils, which are studded with small ulcers. It holds the same relation to the right side of the throat that Lachesis does to the left; diphtheritic deposits on the right side of the throat; tonsils and tongue are both swollen.
What are the digestive symptoms of Lycopodium?
Goes to meals with a vigorous appetite; but a few mouthfuls fill him up full. Very sleepy after eating, great accumulation of flatulence in the intestines, which presses up and causes difficulty in breathing. Ravenous hunger, which, if not satisfied, causes a headache; there is sour taste, sour belching and sometimes sour vomiting; pit of stomach swollen, sensitive, and intolerant to tight clothing, belching of gas does not relieve; desire for sweets.
What are the stools of Lycopodium?
Constipation with ineffectual urging and a sensation as if something remained behind, due to constriction of rectum and anus. Bleeding piles.
What are the urinary symptoms of Lycopodium?
The urine is turbid, bad smelling and deposits a red sand; child cries before passing water on account of lithic acid in the urine, the diaper is stained yellow.
What affections about the sexual sphere corresponds to Lycopodium?
Impotence, with cold relaxed sexual organs, and diminished sexual power.
What are the respiratory symptoms of Lycopodium?
Rattling cough and dyspnoea; accumulation of mucus in the chest. Pneumonia, with fan-like motion of the alae nasi; one foot warm and the other cold; expectoration thick and yellow, and cough worse from 4 to 8 P.M.
What is a symptom of Lycopodium in the back?
Burning as of hot coals between the scapulae.
What are the symptoms of Lycopodium in impending paralysis of the brain?
The patient is in a stupor, has fishy eyes, the lower jaw is dropped, the breathing is snorting and rattling, pulse intermittent, tongue swollen, patient cannot protrude it or it rolls from side to side and is dry.
What is Bovista?
The Puff Bail. Tincture made from the entire fungus collected in August or September. Imported.
What are the indications for Bovista in haemorrhages?
Hemorrhages from relaxation of the capillary system; epistaxis or menstrual hemorrhages, where the blood flows with very little exertion; the flow occurs more at night or in the morning.
What is Ustilago?
It is Corn Smut. The fresh, ripe fungus is used.
What are the symptoms calling for Ustilago in hemorrhages?
Bright, partly clotted hemorrhages from passive congestion of the uterus; hemorrhages from slight causes, as from digital examinations. The uterus is enlarged, sensitive, cervix soft and flabby, inertia of uterus. With Secale the cervix is hard and tightly closed.
SECALE CORNUTUM.
Where do we find pathogeneses of Secale?
An account of its effects is to be found in the British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. Iv. See also Allen’s Encyclopaedia.
What is Secale cornutum?
Spurred Rye, a fungus growing on the rye; the tincture is from the fresh fungus and the alkaloid is called Ergotin, the common name of Secale is Ergot.
How is the tincture made?
The fresh Ergot gathered in a moist, warm summer, shortly before harvest, is chopped, pounded to a pulp and treated according to directions given under Gelsemium. Imported.
What is the general action of Secale?
Produces contraction of the unstriped muscular fibre, and hence a constringent feeling throughout the whole body. Anaemic conditions, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification and gangrene is a series in the action of this powerful drug.
When is Secale indicated homoeopathically in labor?
When the pains are prolonged, continued and in effectual or entirely wanting, and patient complaints of an empty feeling in the abdomen.
When is Secale useful in uterine hemorrhage?
Passive, painless flow of dark liquid blood, the patient is wrinkled and scrawny, is often unconscious and cold, hemorrhages preceded by formication and tingling.
Slightest motion aggravates flow.
What are the symptoms of Secale in cholera?
Retching and vomiting of undigested food, body wasted and cold, cramps, tingling in limbs, face sunken, mouth distorted, profuse, painless discharges from the bowels, ejected with violence; cold, clammy sweat.
What are its indications in gangrene?
Skin shriveled dry and brittle. Formication, black suppurating blisters, petechiae. Patient feels better from cold applications.
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS.
Where in our literature are data concerning Agaricus found?
In Hahnemann’s Chronic Diseases; Austrian Prover’s Society Reports; Monthly Homoeopathic Review, Vol. XX.
What is Agaricus?
The Bug Agaric. Alkaloid Muscarine.
How is the tincture made?
The younger specimens having a convex cap not yet hollow stem, stripped of the epidermis, are treated in the same manner as Gelsemium. Imported.
What is its general action?
Exerts its chief influence upon the nervous centres. Upon the brain it acts like alcohol, but shows more vertigo and delirium, and is accompanied by increased muscular force. Tremors and twitchings characterize it.
What are the indications for Agaricus in chorea?
Angular choreic movements, itching of the eyelids and of various parts of the body as if they had been frost bitten; diminished intellect, almost imbecility. Blepharospasmus, twitching of the eyelids and eyeballs.
What are the indications in spinal irritation?
Tingling and formication in the back; itching or biting of the skin as if frost bitten; twitching of muscles and sensation as if needles of ice were thrust into the skin.
STICTA PULMONARIA.
When was sticta introduced into Homoeopathic literature?
First proven by Dr. S. P. Burdick, North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. XIV.
What is Sticta? It is a Lichen, and the tincture is made from the fresh lichen growing on the sugar maple.
How is the tincture made?
The lichen is finely chopped, covered with 5 parts, by weight, of dilute alcohol and set aside according to rule, decanted, strained and filtered. Drug power, 1/10.
What is the chief sphere of its action?
Sticta offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrhs and influenza, with nervous and rheumatic disturbances. There is a general feeling of malaise accompanying.
What of its use in rheumatic affections?
Red circumscribed spots about joints. Bursa. Of no use in chronic cases, but rather in sub-acute cases.
What are the nasal symptoms?
Dryness of the mucous membrane of the nose; the secretion dries so rapidly that although there is an inclination to blow the nose nothing escapes.
Compare Nux vomica, Sticta and Arum triphyllum in coryzas.
Nux vomica. Fluent coryza by day, dryness at night and at 3 A.M. aggravation.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.