SYMPHYTUM

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      PAIN IN EYES AFTER A KNOCK OR CONTUSION OF AN OBTUSE BODY

Cured cases (Hering). More than a year ago, fell and struck knee on a stone, wound healed and left scarcely any trace, but there remained an acute stitching pain, felt when clothing touched part, or when knee was bent.

Man suffering a spontaneous laxation of thigh since childhood, fell and fractured affected thigh. After two months fragments were quite movable, an apparatus was made which allowed him to sit on a chair during the day. Symphytum 4, every six hours, brought about complete union in twenty days.

Inflammation of bones. Diseased spinous processes.

Psoas abscess.

Facilitates union of fractured bones, and lessens peculiar pricking pain.”

Favours production of callus.

Mechanical injuries, bad effects from blows, bruises, thrusts on eye.

Peculiar pain in periosteum after wounds have healed.

Irritability of bone at point of fracture.

Gunshot wounds.

Dr. Oscar Hanson, in his Therapeutics of Rare Homoeopathic Remedies, m gives those of Symphytum, thus :

Injuries to bones. Non-union of fractures (Calcarea phos.).Irritable stump after operation. Irritability of bone at the point of fracture. Psoas abscess from diseases of the vertebrae. Inflammation of the inferior maxillary bone. Traumatic periostitis. Wounds penetrating in periosteum and bones.

Margaret Lucy Tyler

Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.