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.

BUTYRIC ACID- snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Fretful about trifles
    • More when having headache
  • Impulsive
  • Suicidal- wants to throw self in front of train
  • Stomach
    • Cramps, bloating
    • Flatulence, belching
    • Much distress in stomach
  • Skin
    • Brittle nails
    • Malodorous foot sweat
    • Sweaty palms
  • Severe backache
  • Sleeplessness
  • Agg ascending, walking, night
  • Lumpy stools, passed after much straining

(Think of this remedy when thinking of NUX VOM, SILICEA, ANTIUM CRUD)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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SULPHURIC ACID

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Suited to
    • Topers
    • Females at climacteric
      • Flushes of heat, with sweating, profuse,
    • Children
      • Apthae in protracted diseases in children with marasmus
  • Variableness (like PULS)
    • Seriousness alternating with buffoonery
  • Hurried
    • Everything must be done quickly
  • Unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, but inaptness
  • Affections of blood and blood vessels
  • Injuries
    • BAD EFFECTS OF MECHANICAL INJURIES, blunt instruments, blows, pressure
      • Cold livid skin
      • Bruises, purpura, petechia
      • Injuries that tend to go gangrenous
      • Prostration after injury (ACETIC ACID)
    • Brain concussion
      • Head injury with cold clammy sweat
      • Sits and weeps from pain in head after a fall
  • Pains
    • Come gradually, disappear suddenly (PULS)
    • As if a blunt instrument is pressed against
    • Comes during sleep, disappear on waking up
    • Burning darting
  • Sourness
    • The child smells sour despite washing
    • Diarrhoea smells sour
    • Excessively sour eructation setting teeth on edge (making teeth sour)
  • Haemorrhages
    • From all outlets, thin dark
  • Debility
    • Out of proportion to illness
    • From some deep seated dyscrasia without any apparent cause or symptoms
  • Desire
    • For fresh fruits, plum, brandy
  • Water causes coldness in stomach unless taken mixed with liquor.
  • Sense of internal trembling, wants to be held.
  • Painfulness
  • Cicatrices turn blue red and become painful
  • Bronchitis of children with short teasing cough
  • Agg too much heat or cold, smell of coffee, surgical injuries
  • Aml warmth
  • Rectum
    • Feels as if a ball in rectum from piles
    • Oozing piles
    • Hard stools
    • Ineffectual urging
    • Chronic looseness of bowels
  • Coryza with loss of smell and taste

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

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ACETIC ACID- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Anaemic, pale and waxy
  • Debility and weakness
    • With all complaints
    • After injuries
    • After surgical shocks
    • After anaesthesia
  • Marasmus or wasting diseases
    • In children, with diarrhoea
    • Infants wither away
  • The patient jumps out of bed and crawls in floor
    • From pain
    • In convulsion
  • Diabetes
    • With great debility
    • Profuse pale urine
    • Intense thirst
  • Diarrhoea
    • With intense thirst and debility
    • With dropsy
  • Swelling of body sp legs, anasarca
  • Haemorrhages
    • From all outlets of body
    • After labour
    • After injuries, sp nosebleed
    • vicarious
  • Injuries
    • Great prostration after injury
    • Haemorrhages after injuries
  • Fever
    • Hectic fevers with nightly sweats
    • Red spot on cheek with
  • Skin burning hot dry or profuse sweating
  • Cough
    • Profuse expectoration
    • On inhalation
  • Thirst
    • Intense burning thirst but absent during fever
    • Cold drink distresses
  • Stomach
    • All sort of stomach complaints
    • Sour belching, vomiting
    • Vomiting all kind of food
    • Burning pain in stomach
    • CA stomach
    • Scirrhous of pylorus
  • Myelitis
    • With severe backache, only > by lying on abdomen
    • With profuse urination
  • Useful after stings of insects

(Anaemic prostrated subjects with haemorrhagic diathesis, you might think of FERRUM or CHINA when it could be ACETIC ACID. Dropsical with intense thirst. Complaints better by lying on abdomen)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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HYDROCYANIC ACID- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A remedy for collapse
  • Suddenness of all complaints
    • Evacuations cease suddenly
    • Convulsion, catalepsy etc.
  • Bluish exanthema
  • Heart
    • Failure
    • Severe pains in heart
  • Chest
    • Lung paralysis
    • Cyanosis
  • Icy coldness of hands (circulatory failure)
  • Great sinking at stomach
  • Cramps
  • Dry teasing cough at night
  • Distended blood vessels that writhe
  • Convulsions before
    • Loud involuntary cries
    • Vomiting, waterbrash before
  • Convulsion every 3 month, lasting for 2-3 weeks

Think of this remedy when you are thinking of CARBO VEG or AMMONIUM CARB in stage of collapse

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

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MILLEFOILUM

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Complaints from bad effects of injuries, falls and overexertion
  • Haemorrhages
    • From wounds- they bleed profusely
    • Of mechanical origin
    • Bright red
    • Without anxiety, without fever
    • painless
    • From nose, uterus, lungs
  • Injuries of penis
  • Vertigo on walking slowly but not on walking fast
  • Used after surgery for stones
  • Haemoptysis
    • After injury
    • In pthisis
    • In haemorrhoidal patient- a concomitant
  • Cough after injury
    • Cough with palpitation
  • cough with blood every day at 4pm
  • Leucorrhoea in children
  • Incarcerated hernia

(MILLEFOLIUM is a haemorrhagic medicine, either form injury or from any pathology where the blood is bright red. It also an injury remedy. One peculiar characteristic of this remedy is absence of anxiety with haemorrhages.)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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BENZOIC ACID

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A gouty remedy
    • Nodosities in joints
  • Very offensive urine as a concomitant to any complaint
  • Alternation
    • rheumatism with asthma
    • rheumatism with heart complaints
    • with urinary complaints.
  • Perverted sense of smell
  • Child wants to be nursed all the time
  • Headache
    • from taking cold in head
    • from scanty urine
    • throbbing headache in temporal region
  • Eneuresis
    • old men
    • children
    • with very offensive dark urine (freshly voided urine)
  • Diarrhoea
    • white, very offensive
    • during dentition with offensive urine
  • Cough with green expectoration          
  • Pains
    • shift locality suddenly
  • Gets up at 2am can’t sleep after that
  • Involuntary biting of lower lip while eating
  • Wrist ganglion
  • Lumpy feeling in throat
  • Hygroma
  • Pain in tendo achillis with pain in heart

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

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OXALIC ACID- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • All complaints are aggravated and comes on while thinking of them
    • Desire to urinate when thinking of urination
    • Pain comes on thinking, when it was not there etc
  • Pains
    • Pains lightening like
    • Pains in small spots.
  • Cannot eat strawberries or sour fruits
  • Periodicity
    • Affections of
    • remissions
  • Headache
    • Before and during stool, with nausea and faintness
    • Stool >
  • Spine
    • Paralysis
    • Pains from spine to extremities, lancinating pains
    • Limbs heavy, numb
    • Multiple sclerosis
    • Myelitis
  • Heart
    • Constriction
    • Aphonia alternates with heart complaints
    • Angina, pain goes to shoulder and then to the arm
    • Agg come on/ brought on by thinking of them
    • Palpitations < lying down
  • Chest
    • Constriction
    • Left lung painful, pain goes to shoulder and epigastrium
  • Larynx
    • Aphonia
    • Low voice, hoarseness
    • Constriction
  • Throat
    • Burning in throat that goes down
  • Stomach
    • Ulcer, nausea, retching
    • Pain > passing flatus
    • Sour taste
    • Pain in stomach at 2am, gets up from sleep from pain
  • Eye
    • Hyperesthesia
  • Abdomen
    • Flatulent colic
    • Diarrhoea after coffee
  • Male genitilia
    • Terrible pain in spermatic cord
    • Testicles feel crushed and contused
    • Burning in urethra
  • Skin
    • Very sensitive
    • < shaving
    • Mottles appearance

(OXALIC ACID is a lesser used but extremely rich drug in symptomatology. It is characterised by few generalities which when applied to any pathology can act as curative. The complaints are brought on by thinking of them. The patient thinks of urinating and gets the urge and even though there was no urge until now. Patient thinks of pain and starts experiencing pain. The other characteristic is that pains are severe and felt in spots. Sour fruits, strawberries etc agg the conditions in general. The symptomatology is seen as is seen in conditions such as multiple sclerosis. There is a general constriction feeling in various parts of body, viz, throat, chest, heart etc. the pains from left lower chest radiate to epigastrium, this symptom can be an indication of OXALIC AXCID in angina, cardiac complaints pneumonia etc.)

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

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Brain fag
  • Overworked physically and mentally
  • Headaches
    • Of business men/ teachers/ students
    • From least mental exertion/ grief
      • With backache and languor and weakness of limbs
    • With burning in spine
    • In occiput
    • Aml tight bandaging
  • Diarrhoea from mental exertion
  • Spine
    • Paralysis
    • Degeneration
    • Myelitis
  • Pernicious anaemia
  • Tiredness, weakness, heaviness
  • Nephritis
    • With exhaustion
    • Complete anuria
  • Sexual desire increased
    • Priapism/ satyriasis
    • Lascivious thoughts in presence of women
    • Exhaustion after emission
    • Priapism from spinal disease
  • Cold feet, cannot get warm enough
  • Sleep <, physical and mental exertion <, hot weather <
  • Aml cold, pressure
  • Keeps knees apart while standing
  • Upper right and lower left leg
  • burns

Some comparisons from Clarke’s Materia Medica

Oxalic acid– has more numbness, blueness, pains in small spots; symptoms < thinking of them. Pic. ac. more heaviness; extreme spinal softening

Phos. has more irritability and excessive sensitiveness, sexual excitement very strong; Pic. ac. has more intense erections but less marked lasciviousness

Silicea– Pic. ac. washed out, must give in; Sil. won’t give in

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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THIOSINAMINUM

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Main action of THIOSINAMINUM is on scar tissue and fibrous tissue
  • Dissolves
    • Scars
    • Tumours/ enlarged glands
    • Adhesions
    • Strictures
  • Affects eyes
    • Ectropion
    • Cataract
    • Corneal opacity
  • Ears
    • Nerve atrophies causing deafness
    • Adhesions in middle ear (subacute suppurative otitis media), reduces free movements of ossicles
    • Drum thickened
  • Rectum
    • Strictures
  • Tabes dorsalis- lightening pains
  • Ankylosis
  • Fibroids
  • Skin
    • Scleroderma
    • Keloids

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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OSMIUM- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Respiratory tract affected
    • Nose, larynx, trachea
    • Very sensitive to cold
  • Nose
    • Fluent coryza, yet stopped up feeling
    • Small balls of phlegm from post nares
  • Larynx
    • Acute laryngitis
    • Hoarseness < talking
    • Tenacious mucus, stringy
    • Cough feels as if will tear the larynx apart
  • Trachea
    • Sore, painful
    • Dry, painful, violent, cough, in short burst, shakes the whole body
    • Weeping and screaming with cough
  • Eyes affected
    • Glaucoma, with iridescent vision
    • Increased intraocular pressure
    • Green halo around lights
    • Conjunctivitis
  • Foul secretions
    • Axillary sweat smells like garlic- bromhidrosis
    • Eructation smell like radish
  • Stomach feels as if full of stones
  • Eczema with itching, making him very impatient
  • Nails
    • Adhesions of nail folds to nails
  • Hair fall
  • Headache like a band around head
  • Nephritis, albuminuria

Aude Sapere

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

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