Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers

A lesser-known remedy not found in old homeopathic literature; it found its way in homeopathy from its use in other traditional medicine (sweet flag). It is prepared from the rhizome of the plant. To understand the background of this remedy the reader is given a snapshot of its traditional use and its pharmacological effects found in various research papers.

In traditional medicine it has been used in material doses as:

• Memory enhancer

The recent research into its properties has revealed many other effects in material doses such as:

• Anti inflammatory
• Antioxidant
• Hypolipidemic
• Cytoprotective
• Antimicrobial
• Strong anticonvulsant
• Anti-arrhythmic
• Anti cancer
• Radioprotective and DNA repair activity
• Licicidal activity

Homeopathic proving symptoms are:

• Extreme forgetfulness, dementia
• Convulsions
• Affects membranes
  • Mucous cystitis
  • Bronchitis with copious mucus production
  • Mucous colitis
• Aphasia
• Unconsciousness
• Aggravation- < cold damp weather
  • Sinusitis
  • Rhinitis
  • Bronchitis
  • Cardiac disorders etc
• Lymphadenitis
• Chronic abscess
• Osteonecrosis and other bone diseases
• Alters liver function
• Amenorrhoea
• Dry mouth with drinking water at short intervals

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• Facial flushing is a grand concomitant of this remedy and accompanies almost all the symptoms.
• Congestion as generality
  • Acute or chronic
  • Rush and Congestion of blood to head and face
  • Flushing and then hot sweat, all over the body or in parts
  • Localized flushings
  • Other parts may be icy cold
  • Least emotions cause flushing of face (FERRUM, COCA)
• Throbbing and pulsations
• Craves fresh air, opens the window in the coldest of the weather (SULPH, LACHESIS, ARGENTUM NITRICUM)
  • Can’t bear anything around neck, loosens collar
• Constant stretching and yawning (KALI CARB)
• Convulsions
  • Immediately after delivery
  • Paroxysms run close to each other
  • Grasping at imaginary things during convulsions
• Chorea, all muscles are in motion
• Angina
  • With facial flushings
  • With pain in rt shoulder and arm
  • Sensation of band around chest
  • Choking in throat, pain extending into chest
  • Fluttering and tumultuous action of heart at slightest excitement
• Menses
  • Left sided headache during menses, starts in morning, peaks and decreases by evening
• Headache
  • Dreamy confounding with headache
  • Flushing of face with headache
  • Migraine with pallor (ARS)
• Aggravations
  • Emotions
  • Slight causes
  • Climacteric
  • Heat and closed room

(Compare GLONINE, BELL, LACHESIS)

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• Can’t be left alone lest something will happen to them
• Oscillatory motion, must have
• Angry about self < least contradiction, blood boils, body shudders
• Imagine beaten he is
• Desire to out in country and play in grass
• Irresistible desire to scream on top the voice
• Rt sided
  • Rt side feels paralyzed, weak or numb
• Aggravation- < approach of storm
• Discharge
  • Black
  • Haemorrhage, black
  • Stool of black frothy blood.
• Fear
  • Rain, horror of
  • Causes chattering of teeth
  • Of fatal disease
  • Fear of apoplexy
• Adynamic sepsis
• Spasm of oesophageal muscle
• Deafness at night
• Illusion of hearing something at night
• Red spots on face
• Nose
  • Chr catarrhl congestion
  • Stuffed feeling
  • Yellowish green d/c and crusts
  • Ozena
  • Nose bleed
  • Pain from  nose to ear on swallowing
• Peeling of skin of palm and finger tips
• Icy cold feet
• Extremely chilly
  • Internal coldness
• Chest
  • Collapsed left lung
  • Air hunger
  • Rt apex painful
  • Haemorrhage of inky blood
  • Painful cough
• Weak arm
• Red spots on face
• Dreams
  • Biting arms
  • Dead bodies
• Bites hand in sleep
• Can speak but cannot understand speech

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• Reckless about present and future
• Streptococcal infections
• Annual return of complaints
• Thinness
• acridity
• Low fever
  • With livid skin
  • Adynamic fevers with weak heart
• Scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid
• Suppressed eruptions, malignant scarlatina
• Ulcerated and haemorrhagic mucous membranes
• Prostration from the very onset of the disease
• Fetor, debility and lividity
• Stuporous, drowsy, low muttering delirium, can’t understand what is said to him
• Headache
  • Congestive
  • With sighing and drowsiness
  • Suffused eyes
• Skin
  • Large blisters on skin
  • Livid skin which blanches on pressure, the color is very slow to return
• Face mahogany red
• Throat
  • Itching in throat
  • Swollen, red, sore
  • Aml hot drink

(Clarke Materia Medica in ARUM TRIPHYLLUM

AILANTH- (scarlatina; depressing, stupid, drowsy sleep

ARUM TRI- raw bleeding surfaces, picks them till they bleed.  An indication of its curative action in scarlatina is the urine becoming more abundant and watery

CINA- boring nose in complaints

AMM CARB- acrid discharge from nose in scarlatina, but right parotid more decidedly affected in Am. c., and drowsiness is marked

AMM MUR- scarlatina

Arg Nit- scarlatina, painful red blotches left side of tongue)

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• Morbid conscientiousness
• Skin
  • Leprosy
  • Splinter like sensation under thumb nail.
  • Eruptions
    • Vesicular
    • Eruptions over malar bones or skin covering bones directly
    • Miliary eruptions
  • Skin feels hide bound
• Fears death of someone, very weepy.
• Weepy
  • Morbid tendency to
  • Alternate laughing and weeping
  • Gets irritated by trifles and then cries
• Memory
  • Uses wrong words
  • Takes wrong streets
• Dreams
  • Pleasant dreams, of prisoners being freed
  • Of parties
  • Of houses being built
  • Of corpses
  • Revolution

(Part used- milky juice of the plant. It is an evergreen tree.)

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• Congestion
  • Of blood to head
  • Causing headache
• Intense red face with all complaints as concomitants
• Unusual mental activity, could go without food or sleep
• Headache
  • In hot weather
  • With redness of face
  • Amelioration by epistaxis (BUFO, FERR PHOS, MAG SULPH)
• Convulsions
  • From blow to head
  • Dentition during
  • Eclampsia
• Constipation
  • No desire for days together (ALUMEN)
• Complaints from blow, injury
• Religious mania
• Thinks people are looking at him, wants to hide, runaway, escape
• Dreams of bickering
• Delusion every one looking at him, wants to escape and hide.
• Raw feeling
• Aggravation
  • Walking, hot weather, approach of storm, rainy weather
• Amelioration
  • Applying vinegar (compare BELL which has agg from vinegar application), nosebleed, haemorrhages > congestion
  • Profuse urination >

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• Effects of grief
• Depressed, suicidal insanity, brooding over imaginary troubles (AURUM)
• Nervous excited tumultuous with cardiac effects
• Doesn’t want company
• Very chilly, sensitive to cold
• Sense of responsibility, knows what he needs to do but can’t bring self to do it
• Fear of rain
• Shooting pain in head as if a blow in occiput
• Heart
  • Complaints after viral infections (? Myocarditis) or damaged by prolonged inflammation
  • Hypertrophy of heart, palpitations etc.
  • Pains in heart with choking of throat and inability to speak, the pain extends from shoulder to back of neck
  • Cough from chronic organic lesion of heart
  • Pulse irregular in force but regular in rhythm
  • Pains shooting from ovaries to heart
  • Palpitations after public speaking
• Skin
  • Sweating of hands and feet
  • Sweating at ankles
  • Itching cicatrices
• Grasps throat, chokes
• Some modalities which are like Lachesis
  • Aggravation lying on left side
  • Aggravation after sleep
  • Can’t bear pressure of clothes
• Aggravation after menses is opposite of Lachesis in NAJA
• Profound log like sleep

(NAJA is to be thought of when you are thinking of LACHESIS. Dr Sarkar says that Naja is a chilly LACHESIS. However, NAJA has more of nervous troubles as compared to LACHESIS which is more haemorrhagic in nature. While burning characterise LACHESIS it is choking and constrictions that characterize NAJA. Much more aloof than LACHESIS (who is talkative) NAJA has a tussle with his conscience regarding his duties. He gets up at night, choking and grasping throat. An incomparable homoeopathic medicine in post viral myocarditis.)

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• Complaints from homesickness
• Skin
  • Itching with profuse desquamation
  • Chronic herpes with agg after washing
  • Moist eruptions, spreading from corrosive ichor
  • Tetters
• Urine
  • Burning and pain while urinating
  • Stricture of urethra
  • Urine passed intermittently initially until a flow is established
• Glands
  • Swollen, indurated, painful
  • Testes, inguinal, mammae
  • Cancer mammae
• Eyes
  • Affections of
  • Iritis, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, meibomitis
  • Photophobia
• Aversion to and aggravation from washing
• Amelioration from sweating      
• Body painful to touch and sensitive to external impressions
• Muscles
  • Relaxed, flabby
  • Vibrations in body on lying down

(Think of this remedy in Reiter’s triad/ reactive arthritis involving urethritis, conjunctivitis and arthritis)

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• Urinary symptoms with respiratory affections.
• Bilious temperament with tendency to constipation
• Leucorrhea in little girls
• Urinary symptoms
  • Pus like discharge from urethra (compare MERC which is agg at night and PULS which has thick yellow but bland discharge)
  • Urethritis with mucus
  • Pains after urination
  • Haematuria
• Respiratory
  • Foul expectoration
  • Sore throat
  • Post nasal drip
• Distended veins on forehead
• Urticaria

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• Voluptuous disposition with strong sexual desire
• Periodicity
  • Complaints occur at the same hour
• Complaints in warm marshy places
• Lectrophobia (aversion to bed or lying down sp when sick)
• Insect and snake bites
• Neuralgias
• Headaches
  • One sided
  • Pains around the eyes, shooting to root of nose
  • Severe lachrymation
  • Pains < at 9am
• Limb pains
  • Severe from thumb to shoulder, and toes to knees
  • Causes her to drop to floor
• Eyes burn like fire
• Complaints after coition
  • Chorea in females, neuralgia in males
  • Stammering speech
• Menses/ menstruation/ periods
  • Offensive breath during
  • Stammering and difficult speech
  • Tongue feels paralysed
  • Great thirst during
  • Convulsions during

(A remedy with marked periodicity with symptoms occurring same hour every day. Severe one-sided headaches with pain in eyes and congestion of nose very similar to cluster headaches sp in females with voluptuous disposition. Complaints are aggravated coition and there’s bad breath during menses.)

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