Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers

I aim to write about the medicines here as given in Materia Medica s, but would confine myself to only bite-size indications. Occasionally do I plan to provide a full meal😊. Most of what I would be posting here would be practical points that can be used in day-to-day practice.
How to perceive a patient’s symptoms and understand them in light of the language of Materia medica is what I plan to present. It will not be something out of the extraordinary but would be of importance, which is sometimes missed in the sea of symptoms in each medicine. I personally am very fond of a few authors and have been trying to follow them. They are Boenninghausen, Boger, Lippe, Pulford, Guernsey, Hering, Allen, Phatak, and the fountainhead Dr. Hahnemann, and most of what I plan to write would be from these. I would also try to give a reference for what I write. I still find myself learning every day and discovering new things; once a student always a student. I however wish to reduce this struggle for others.
Occasionally I will be sharing the drug picture for better understanding.

Hope you find it helpful.

THALASPI BURSA PASTORIS- a snapshot

  • Haemorrgahes
    • Dark passive profuse
    • From bowels, uterus, kidneys, nose, lungs etc
  • Uric acid
    • Hyperuricemia
    • Uric acid renal stones
  • Chronic neuralgias
  • Chronic vesicular and renal irritation
  • Uterus
    • Haemorrhage (viburnum, trillium, ustilago, senec)
      • Climaxis at
      • In CA uterus (PHOS, USTILAGO)
      • Fibroids, general bruised feeling
    • Cramps with expulsion of clots, violent uterine colic
    • Uterine haemorrhage with backache
    • Too frequent copious menses: metrorrhagia, scarcely one period ends when another begins
    • Alternate period heavy
  • Leucorrhoea
    • Before and after menses
    • Bloody dark offensive, stains indelibly
    • Leucorrhoea causes itching
  • Spermatic cord sensitive to concussion of walking or riding
  • Urine
    • Haematuria
    • Chronic cystitis
    • Frequent desire
    • Heavy phosphatic urine
    • Brick dust sediment
    • Dysuria and spasmodic retention of urine
    • Renal colic with uric acid loaded urine
    • Urine runs away in small jets
  • Thalaspi replaces the use of catheter
  • Excites sexual excitement
  • Needles or electric shock like pain between naval and sternum
  • Toes affected with cramping pain in stomach
  • Carves butter milk
  • Taste like bad eggs
  • Pain from eye upto nape of neck
  • Milky discharge from rt nipple
  • White coated tongue
  • Mouth and lips cracked
  • Amel/ >
    • Bathing
    • Dampness
    • Rapid motion

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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PLANTAGO- a snapshot

  • Cause- bruises/ cuts/ punctured wounds/ bites
  • Depression and insomnia after chronic nicotinism
  • Irritable, vexed
  • Impatient
  • Desire to do many things at once (AURUM, LILIUM TIG) but perseveres in nothing (ACONITE, LAC CAN, LACHESIS)
  • Cannot bear to be spoken to
  • Homesick
  • Restless, impossible to keep in one place. Extremities numb and restless > changing position. Paces back and forth
  • Urine
    • Nocturnal enuresis (CAUST, RHUS BROM, BELL) in children from laxity of sphincter, profuse flow of urine
    • Urine loaded with uric acid
      • (in enuresis compare
      • Bell- enuresis towards morning and after midnight
      • Caust- enuresis in 1st part of  sleep (sep) from weakened sphincter
      • Chloralum hyd- enuresis every night. Towards the last part of the night
      • Kreos, lac can, senega, sepia- bed wetting while dreaming)
  • Grinding of teeth during sleep
  • Skin
    • Erysipelas
      • Sp of breast, local application of Q will help
    • Urticaria
    • Chillbalins (AGARICUS, TAMUS)
    • Sensitive
    • Itching burning papulae
    • Vesicles on hands and face
    • Inflammatory conditions
    • Papules exude yellowish discharge and form crust
  • Injury and wounds with painful swellings
  • Pains
    • Neuralgic
    • Unbearable pains
    • Salivation with pains
    • Sharp shifting pains
      • Shifting erratic pains with chilliness
    • Pains appear in spots
    • Needle like burning pains
  • Tooth
    • Earpain with toothache (PULS) or alternate between teeth and ear
    • Reflex from decayed tooth
    • Toothache with eyepain
    • Pain > eating
    • Pyorrhoea alveolaris
    • Swollen cheek from sensitive sore teeth, which feel long
  • Ear
    • Acute hearing
    • Neuralgic pains in ear
    • Inflamed middle ear
    • Pains shoot from one ear to the other through the head
  • Foul
    • Breath
    • Flatus
  • Agg
    • Left side
    • Contact
    • Cold air
  • Thirst increased (along with polyuria it may be indicated in DM)
  • Causes aversion to tobacco
  • Periodical prosopalgia (trigeminal neuralgia)
    • Periodic
    • < 7am- 2pm
    • With flow of tears, photophobias
    • As if brain turned over
  • Gloomy dreams exciting tears
  • Weakness after stools

(Think of this remedy in neuralgias of various origins, when the patient is CHAM or NUX VOM type. Used in a variety of skin conditions.)

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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SCROPHULARIA NODOSA

  • Despondency, much troubled about past, apprehensive about future
  • Miserable and sluggish feeling in mind while moving
  • Complaints from vexation
  • Tingling in extremities from blow on a nerve
  • Enlarged glands
    • Mammae nodosities (SCHIRRHINUM)
    • Scrofulous swellings (CISTUS CAN)
  • Hodgkins’s disease
  • Ear
    • Eczema of ear
    • Inflammation about auricles
    • Deep ulcerated auricles
  • Pruritic vaginae
  • Crusta lactae
  • Threatened abscess showing no sign of healing
  • Haemorrhoids
    • Painful and bleeding
  • Tubercular testis
  • Epithelioma
  • Pain in flexor muscles
  • Deafness in a bull necked person
  • Pain in joint < rest > warmth (compare rhus tox- scrop Has more intense pains)
  • Pain in head from forehead to back
  • Vertigo felt in vertex
  • Eyes
    • Distressing photophobia (conium)
    • Spots before eyes
    • Sore eyeballs
    • Stitches in eyebrows
  • Weakness
    • Too weak to speak
    • Wants to lie down
  • Pain in liver
  • Colic below naval
  • Pain in sigmoid flexure and rectum. Severe painful condition with purulent discharge
  • Violent dyspnoea, oppression of chest
  • Asthma in scrofulous person
  • Pain in bifurcation of trachea
  • Skin pricking at back of hand
    • Between fingers
    • Inside wrist
  • Great drowsiness
    • In morning
    • Before and after meals
  • < lying on rt side
  • Sensation of soft body in throat
  • Stiff neck contraction of sternocleidomastoid muscle
  • Pemphigus gangrenosum
  • Local application
    • For hair fall
    • Spindle cell epithelioma of inside of lip

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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OLEUM SANTALLI (Oil from Pterocarpus Santalinus)

  • Urinary symptoms
  • Pain in kidney region
    • Meatus swollen
    • Slow urinary stream
    • Sensation as if a ball is pressing against urethra
  • Gonorrhoea
    • Chronic
    • Gleet
    • Thick yellow mucopurulent discharge

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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YERBA SANTA/ ERIODYSTION CALIFORNICUM- a snapshot

  • Daily duties are performed mechanically
  • Groaning in sleep
  • Phthisis
  • Cough
  • Weight loss
  • Catarrh
    • Sneezing
    • Coryza
    • Yellow discharge
  • Respiratory
    • Rt lung
    • Cough after influenza
    • Wheezing
    • Chronic bronchitis
  • Testicular pains > gentle support
  • Foul mouth in morning on getting up (? Bronchiectasis)
  • Chronic permanent coryza with dizziness
  • Sharp pains in places on sudden movement or change of position (rt ear, rt lung etc)
  • Quivering of little finger of left hand
  • (Compare- SAMBUCUS, TUB)

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM- a snapshot

A very important remedy with action on female organs.

  • Emmenagogue in physiological doses
  • Tall blood less patients with nervous chills (compare PHOS)
  • Pains extend above downwards
  • Uneasy, anxious with sighing
  • Sterility
  • Uterus
    • Fibroids, sub-involution
    • Retained placenta
    • Disturbed uterine function, feels the menses will start but doesn’t
    • Tardy menses
    • Watery menses
    • Bearing down pains
    • Intermittent pains in ovaries
    • Sympathetic pains in heart stomach bowel arising in uterus
  • Tumors of breast with swelling of axillary glands
  • Anorexia with uneasy feeling at stomach at the time of menses
  • Nausea and vomiting
    • Severe morning sickness
      • With sensitive uterine region
    • < on rising
    • Agg motion
  • Pain in cervical region, draws head back with nervousness
  • Taste like rotten eggs
  • Great sleepiness

(Think of this remedy when thinking of PHOS like constitution and SENECIO like complaints)

(Plant description- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossypium_herbaceum

Material used- Tincture of fresh inner root bark, chopped and pounded to a pulp)

Compare- LILIUM TIG; CIMICIFUGA; SABINA

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA a snapshot

  • Heals ulcers and remove blotches

  • Pain in foot so severe so as to cause pain in the eye > coffee
  • Swelling of knees
  • Soreness redness and pain in thigh
  • Stiffness and inability to work
  • Pain in hands and feet first left then right

External Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotropis_gigantea

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GLONINE- a snapshot

  • Bad effects of
    • Heat or cold
    • Mental excitement
    • Fear or fright
    • Hair cut (BELL, ACO)
  • Feels lost in familiar streets, does not recognize familiar surroundings, they feel strange
  • Sudden, violent effects
  • Confusion of mind > will
  • Sees everything half-light, half dark
  • Pains that come long after trauma
  • Eyelids stick to eyeball (GUAICUM)
  • Easily excited by slightest opposition
  • Fear she has been poisoned
  • Congestion
    • Sudden
    • To head
    • Irregular, go various parts of body
    • Pulsation all over the body even in finger tips
    • Enlarged sensation everywhere in body: tongue, eyes, head etc
  • Headache
    • From exposure to heat/ sun/ gas light/cold on a rainy day/ mental excitement and emotions
    • Bursting, feels enlarged
    • Congestive as if standing on head
    • With red face (MELILOTUS)
    • Headache before during and after menses
    • Alternating between temples
    • Crawling in nape of neck, rising upward towards head
    • Headache during pregnancy
    • Agg < wine, weight of hat, jar, motion, stooping, ascending
    • Amel > long sleep, cool air, passing stool
  • Menses
    • Suppression of menses causes head congestion and headache
    • Diarrhoea from sudden cessation of menses
  • Heart
    • Headache synchronous with the pulse
    • Purring in the region of the heart
    • Severe palpitation at the heart after fear/ fright
  • Sunstroke
    • Body feels numb
  • Sciatica > flexing leg on abdomen
  • Convulsion of children during dentition
  • Flushes of heat
    • Menses during (FERR MET, SANG CAN)
  • Old scars break out again
  • Vertigo on getting up from chair or trying to sit in upright posture
  • Pains
    • Pulsating pains
    • Toothache and headache
  • Wants to loosen up collar
  • Acne
  • Gastralgia in anaemic subjects
  • Fruits < esp peaches

(Compare- congestive remedies- AMYL NIT, BELL, VERAT VIR, ACONITE)

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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SQUILLA MARITIMA- a snapshot

  • Complaints are slow to develop
  • Anger over trifles
  • Symptoms in lower belly and lower part of chest
  • Cardio urinary effects
  • Gurgling in various parts of body as generality
  • Catarrhal condition
    • Rubbing eyes, irritated. Child bores them with fist
    • Acrid coryza
    • Sneezing and watering of eyes
      • Gushing of tears with cough
    • Chronic catarrh, profuse secretion of tenacious mucous expectoration only after severe cough, sp in children
  • Sneezing during cough
  • Chilly yet wants to uncover
  • Deficiency of blood
  • Urine
    • Copious and frequent discharge of urine
    • Dropsy with profuse urination
    • Excessive flow of urine with most complaints, sudden urging
  • Cough
    • With enlarged spleen
    • Drinking cold water causes cough
  • Diarrhoea
    • Involuntary (on coughing or sneezing with urination) frothy offensive and painless
    • Diarrhoea alternating with nausea
  • Black spots on teeth
  • Sweet
    • Taste in mouth
    • Taste of expectoration
  • Persistent dull rheumatic pains in the body
  • Weakness
  • Sore feet of shop girls
  • Small red spots all over body
  • Aggravation
    • Inspiration
    • Undressing
  • Amelioration
    • Wrapping up warmly

(This remedy comes close to ARSENIC in anxiety, coryza amel from warmth and thirst for small quantity frequently, with SOLIDAGO like features like involvement of respiratory and urinary system.)

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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