Angustura Vera

COMMON NAME:

      GALIPOEA CUSPARIA.

Symptoms

      Very painful ulcers, which affect the bone and extend into the marrow of it (Asafoetida, Fluor-Ac., Hepar, Acid nitricum, Silicea)

Weakness of the whole body, as if the marrow of the bones was stiff.

CARIES OF LONG BONES, AS THE HUMERUS, TIBIA, FEMUR ETC. (Fluor-Ac) (N.).

Paralytic diseases and tetanus (Bt.)

LOCK-JAW, THE LIPS ARE DRAWN BACK SHOWING THE TEETH (Belladonna, Causticum, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, OEna., Plb., Secale, Stramonium, Strych., Veratrum)

Cracking in the joints (Ant-C., Calcarea, Caps., Ledum, Acid nitricum, Petroleum, Rhus toxicodendron).

SPASMODIC BREATHING, PALPITATION OF THE HEART, WITH ANGUISH (Arsenicum, Cact., Digitalis, Kali-P., Spigelia)

Spasmodic twitching (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Magnesia phos., Stramonium).

Stiffness and stretching of the limbs (Nux vomica, Rhus toxicodendron).

Bends himself backward (Belladonna, Cuprum, Nux vomica, Strych.)

Twitching and jerking along the back, like electric shocks.

CARIES (Calcarea-F., Fluor-Ac., Silicea).

INTERMITTENTS: CHILL EVERY DAY AT 3 P.M. (Ant-T., Apis., Arsenicum, Chin-S., Staphysagria, Thuja). (Bt.).

Thirst and vomiting of bile, with hot stage (Eup-P., Ipecac., Nat-S.). (G.).

TETANIC SPASMS, CAUSED BY CONTACT, NOISE AND THE DRINKING OF LUKE-WARM WATER.

In impeding tetanus it may be used as a preventive, if the wound is suppurating, or has suddenly ceased to discharge pus (Belladonna, Cicuta, Silicea) (F.).

CHEEKS AND LIPS BECOME BLUE (Digitalis, Lachesis, Veratrum).

Burning in anus (Aloe, Arsenicum, Mercurius, Natrum muriaticum, Sulphur). (Br.).

Chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh (Br.).

Tenesmus recti, with soft stool (Aloe, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (F.).

THE BREATHING IS HEAVY AND DURING THE SPASMS THERE IS GROANING AND CLOSING OF THE EYES.

Atonic dyspepsia (China, Hepar, Pulsatilla) (Br.).

ABNORMAL CRAVING FOR COFFEE (Alumina, Arsenicum, Aurum, Bryonia, Caps., China, Conium, Lachesis, Nux vomica, Selenium) (N.).

Necrosis of the lower jaw (Hepar, Mercurius, Phosphorus, Silicea,) (F.).

Urging to urinate with copious flow (Apis., Mercurius, Acid phosphoricum., Sulphur). (F.).

Drawing tension and stiffness of muscles and joints, with confused, sore feeling, as after a blow (Arnica, Phytolacca, Rhus toxicodendron) (F.).

Sharp cutting pains, from just beneath the right scapula to the breast, near the nipple (Chelidonium). (F.).

BELCHING WITH COUGH (Ambr., Sulph-Ac., Veratrum), (Br.).

Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much (Br.).

Very much fatigued, most in the thighs (G.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From touching the affected part: from noise: and drinking lukewarm water.

AMELIORATION:

      From rest.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Ignatia, Nux vomica, and Strych.

To be followed by: Belladonna, Ignatia, Lycopodium, and Sepia,

ANTIDOTE: Coffea.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)