Sticta. Better in the morning, worse in afternoon, sensitiveness to inspired air.
Arum triph. Nose is dry and stuffed, or constant discharge excoriating nostrils.
What other drugs have sensitiveness to inspired air?
Rumex, Kali bichromicum, Phosphorus and Dulcamara.
What is the cough?
Hard, dry, barking, almost croupy cough; worse at night with little or no expectoration. An irritable cough, caused by dryness high up in the pharynx; not aggravated by lying down, but worse at night.
What plants of the Euphorbiaceae family do we make use of?
Carbon tiglium, Euphorbium officinalis, Jatropha curcas, Euphorbia corollata, Hippomanc mancinella, Stillingea, Acalypha Indica, Yucca filamentosa, Mercurialis perennis, Ricinus communis.
CROTON TIGLIUM.
Where are studies of this remedy found?
In Allen’s Encyclopoedia.
How is the tincture prepared?
One part, by weight, of pure croton oil is dissolved in 99 parts, by weight, of alcohol. Drug power. 1/100.
Give the diarrhoea of Croton tiglium.
Yellow, watery diarrhoea, pouring out like water from a hydrant, and associated with nausea and vomiting.
The features being.
1. The yellow watery stool.
2. The sudden expulsion.
3. The aggravation from food and drink.
4. The slight abdominal gripe preceding the attack.
What symptoms has this drug with reference to the mammary gland?
Pain goes through to the back every time the child nurses, as if the gland were pulled by a string.
What is Jatropha?
It is the Physic nut, a West Indian and South American plant.
Give the diarrhoea of Jatropha.
Profuse, gushing, watery diarrhoea, with great prostration, vomiting and purging; cholera, with cramps and coldness and accompanied by much wind and flatulence.
What is Euphorbia corollata?
The flowering Spruce or wild Ipecac. Tincture from fresh root gathered in the fall.
Give diarrhoea of Euphorbia corollata.
Diarrhoea. with vomiting, purging, painful cramps in the abdomen, and cold sweat over the body. Cholera infantum.
What is Euphorbium?
The gum resin of the Euphorbium officinarum.
Give indications for Euphorbium officinarum in erysipelas.
In the vesicular form, where there are large, yellow vesicles and violent fever; pains extend from gums into ear.
What is Stillingea?
It is the Yaw Root or Queen’s Delight. Tincture from fresh root, gathered after fruiting season.
What are the chief uses of Stillingea?
Syphilis of the long bones, periostitis and ostitis; pain worse at night and in damp weather.
What is Acalypha Indica?
It is an Indian member of the Euphorbiaceae family resembling somewhat the nettle. Tincture from the fresh plant.
Give the unique symptom of Acalypha Indica.
Dry cough followed by spitting of blood, which is pure in the morning, but dark, lumpy and clotted in the evening, with a constricted feeling around the chest.
Early stages of Phthisis.
What is Yucca filamentosa?
Bear Grass or Adam’s Needle. Tincture from fresh roots and leaves.
Give symptoms indicating Yucca in biliousness.
Frontal headache; flushed, yellow, sallow face; tongue yellow or yellowish-white, taking imprint of the teeth; aching liver; poor appetite; sensitive abdomen; yellow, watery stool, with much flatus; pain from liver to back.
What property has Ricinus communis or castor oil?
It increases the milk in nursing women.
What are antidotes to the abuse of castor oil?
Bryonia and Nux vomica.
What is Hippomane mancinella?
A member of the Euphorbiaceae family, introduced by Dr. Mure, of Brazil.
What symptoms has Hippomane mancinella?
It produces vesicles on the skin, with an intense erythema; so irritating is it that water dropping from its leaves on the skin will produce vesicles. It has been utilized in scarlet fever when this intense irritation of the skin exists.
What member of the Butternut or Juglandaceae family is the most important and what are its principal symptoms?
Juglans cathartica, which has an occipital headache, jaundice, sticking in the liver and bilious stools.
What are the drugs obtained from the Urticaceae family?
Cannabis Indica, Cannabis sativa and Urtica urens.
CANNABIS INDICA.
Where are the pathogeneses of this drug to be found?
In Allen’s Encyclopoedia.
What is this drug?
It is the Hashish or Indian Hemp; a tincture is made from the dried herb tops.
What is its general action?
Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations; exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space being most characteristic. It lessens the sensibility of the pulmonary and urinary tracts.
What are its mental characteristics?
Illusions as to time and space; a minute seems thousands of years, and things a short distance off seem yards away.
What is the peculiar head symptom of Cannabis Indica?
There is a sensation as if the head were opening and shutting along the vertex.
CANNABIS SATIVA.
Where do we find studies of this drug?
In Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura, British Journal of Homoeopathy. Vol. IX.
How do we make the tincture?
The fresh blooming herb tops of the hemp, of both male and female herb, are treated in the same manner as Gelsemium.
What are the principal characteristics of this variety of hemp?
Urethritis, with purulent discharge, great burning and tenderness on urinating; glans penis dark red and swollen; there may be chordee; there is also a spasmodic contraction of the sphincter vesicae on urinating.
How do these symptoms differ from those of Cantharis?
Cantharis has more tenesmus. Cannabis sat. has more burning and smarting.
Give symptoms indicating Copaiva in urethritis.
Burning in the neck of bladder and urethra; catarrh of bladder with great dysuria following gonorrhoea; there is swelling of the orifice of the urethra and constant desire to urinate; urine smells of violets, especially in gonorrhoea; discharge yellow, purulent and corrosive; haematuria.
How does Cubeba compare here?
Cubeba has cutting and conditions after micturition; urinates every ten or fifteen minutes, with smarting tenesmus and ropy mucus; useful in inflamed prostate.
What is Urtica urens?
It is the common nettle, tincture of whole plant.
What are the indications for Urtica urens?
Nettle rash, with intolerable itching and burning; hives from eating shell fish. Also indicated in absence of milk after confinement without apparent cause.
What are the members of the Ericaceae family used in our Materia Medica?
Chimaphila, Ledum, Kalmia and Rhododendron.
What is Chimaphila?
It is the Pipsissewa, and the fresh plant in flower is used.
What are the indications for Chimaphila?
Catarrh of the bladder, with offensive turbid urine and great difficulty in commencing to urinate. Voiding of pus and blood. Chronic cystitis. Prostatic troubles with much ropy mucus in the urine which is quite offensive.
LEDUM PALUSTRE.
When was Ledum introduced into our literature?
By Hahnemann in his Materia Medica Pura, British Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. IX.
How is the tincture prepared?
The freshly dried plant is used for making the tincture.
What are the general characteristics of Ledum?
Rheumatic inflammations of joints without fever; the pains travel upward; stiffness in the back, as after sitting a long time. Aggravation by the warmth of the bed and by motion.
What of its use in gout?
Pain worse from the warmth of the bed; drawing pains in joints; scanty effusion, which tends to harden into nodosities.
What are the effects of Ledum in wounds and ecchymoses?
Wounds made by pointed instruments; bruised feeling in various parts of the body. Felons from pricks, bites of small animals, insects, etc.
KALMIA LATIFOLIA.
By whom was Kalmia introduced?
By Hering in the Materia Medica of American Provings, Trans. Am. Inst. Hom., 1845.
What is Kalmia and how is the tincture prepared?
The Mountain Laurel. The fresh leaves collected when flowering are treated as described under Gelsemium.
What are the rheumatic symptoms of Kalmia latifolia?
Tearing pains down the legs; rheumatism of the chest; or, when it shifts from joint to joint, from external applications.
What are the heart symptoms of Kalmia?
Sharp pains about the heart, shooting in the abdomen, which take away the breath, and a very slow pulse, with numbness and tingling in the left arm. Pressure from epigastrium towards the heart. Heart intermits every third or fourth beat. Pains shoot to scapula. Especially useful when caused by suppression of rheumatism by external applications. Acute pericarditis.
RHODODENDRON.
Where is the pathogenesis of this remedy found?
In Stapf’s Additions to the Materia Medica.
How is the tincture made?
The carefully dried leaves are powdered and treated as described under Sticta.
What is the rheumatism of Rhododendron?
Rheumatism worse from rest and change of weather; rheumatism of the small joints or or rheumatic gout; the general aggravation is before a storm. Barometer pains.
What are the symptoms in orchitis?
Hard, indurated testicle, with tendency to atrophy and a sensation as if it were crushed; drawing in spermatic cord, extending to abdomen and thigh.
COCCULUS INDICUS.
By whom was Cocculus proved?
By Hahnemann. See Materia Medica Pura and Lesser Writings.
How is the tincture prepared?
The dried seed is coarsely powdered and treated like Sticta.
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.