Causticum



Leucorrhoea: profuse, flows like the menses, and has the same odour (C.).

May be used in spasmodic diseases, even in convulsions. When walking in the open air, the patient falls but soon recovers. During the unconscious stage, he passes urine. These attacks especially recur at the new moon (F.).

May be called for in colic after failure of Colocynth. The pains are of a griping, cutting character and are relieved by bending double (F.).

AGGRAVATION:

      In the evening; in the open air; after drinking coffee; while perspiring; in clear, fine weather; during new moon; from getting wet or bathing; and from coming from the air into a warm room.

AMELIORATION:

      From warmth; in damp, wet weather.

RELATIONSHIP:

      complementary: Carbo vegetabilis, Petrosel.

INCOMPATIBLE: Phosphorus Must not be used before or after Phosphorus, always disagrees; the Acids; 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)