CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA


CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA symptoms from Manual of the Homeopathic Practice by Charles Julius Hempel. What are the uses of the homeopathy remedy CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA……


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This evergreen ranks with Buchu, Pareira-brava, Uva-ursi,. as a remedy for urinary affections. It has been used in calculous and dropsical affections, more particularly in ascites. According to eclectic writers it is more particularly in atonic dropsy, accompanied with debility that this drug is particularly indicated.

According to Doctor P.H. Hale of Hudson, Michigan, the Chimaphila induces atrophy of the breasts. He applied it to tumors in the breasts which vanished under its influence together with the breast. In a case of scirrhous tumor he prescribed the drug in 40 drop-doses of the tincture three times a day for three months, at the end of which period the tumor had disappeared together with two -thirds of each breast.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.