European Elder. Tincture from equal parts of fresh leaves and flowers. Imported.
What is our chief use for Sambucus?
Snuffles in children and spasms of the glottis.
What is Viburnum opulus?
The High Cranberry. Tincture from the fresh bark of the root.
What are the indications for Viburnum opulus?
Threatened miscarriage, with pains from lower abdomen into thighs. Spasmodic dysmenorrhoea.
What is Sarsaparilla?
A species of Smilax. Tincture from the dried root of the Honduras variety.
Tell the uses of Sarsaparilla.
Sycotic eruptions looking like the roseola of syphilis and itching intolerably; eruptions exuding an irritating pus; moist eruption about genitals. Is an antisycotic remedy.
What is Senega?
Seneca Snake Root. Tincture from the dried root gathered when the leaves are dead.
Give some indications for Senega.
Hoarseness, and a throat so dry that it hurts to talk; sudden aphonias, great accumulation of albuminous mucus on the chest, which is difficult to expectoration. Great soreness of the chest.
What is Viola tricolor?
The wild Pansy. Tincture from the fresh plants in flower, having yellow and blue flowers. Imported.
What are the indications for Viola tricolor in eczema?
Crusta lactea, with copious exudation which mats the hair, and urine smelling like that of a cat.
What is Lathyrus sativus?
A wild Indian Vetch. Tincture from the dried seeds.
What are its uses?
It produces paralysis of the lower extremities with excessively exaggerated reflexes and is homoeopathic to spastic paraplegia, with these symptoms, with aggravation in damp and wet weather. Excessive rigidity, multiple sclerosis, spastic gait.
How does Oxytropis lamberti or the Loco weed compare?
This remedy produces paralysis, relaxed sphincters, staggering gait and lack of co-ordination, but the reflexes are lost and there are pains that come and go quickly.
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.