Symphytum


Symphytum symptoms of the homeopathy remedy from Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms by Adolph von Lippe. What are the symptoms of Symphytum? Keynote indications and uses of Symphytum…


COMMON NAME:

      COMFREY.

Symptoms

      Is an excellent remedy for broken bones where the bones refuse to knit (Calcarea phos.). (N.).

It facilitates union of fractured bones, lessens peculiar pricking pain, and favours production of callus (Calcarea, Calcarea phos.). (A.).

Irritability at the point of fracture (Hypericum). (A.).

In injuries of the eye if there is great pain in the eye-ball itself from the blow, it may have to be used (Arnica, Ledum, (N.).

Irritable stumps after operations (Hypericum). (Bl.).

Periosteal pains after wounds have healed (Calcarea phos., Silicea). (A.).

Psoas abscess (Arnica, Asafoetida, China, Cuprum, Acid phosphoricum., Silicea, Staphysagria, Sulphur, Syphilinum) (Br.).

Inflammation of inferior maxillary bone with hard, red swelling (Br.).

Neuralgia of knee (Belladonna). (Br.).

Pain in the occiput (Cocc., Petroleum, Silicea). (Br.).

Injuries to sinews and tendons (Br.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From touch; from motion; and from pressure; after mechanical injury.

AMELIORATION:

      From warmth.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare: Arnica, Calendula, Calcarea phos., Fluor-Ac., Hepar, Mercurius, Acid nitricum, and Silicea

Follows well after Arnica, for soreness of the periosteum after an injury.

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)