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.

IRIS VERSICOLOR- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Affections accompanied by rapid elimination
  • Burning
    • GIT- tongue, throat, stomach, anus. May or may not be > cold
    • Urethra
  • Discharges
    • Acridity
    • Burning
    • Ropy and stringy- saliva, vomitus.
  • Sour
    • Discharges- urine, stools, vomiting
    • Sweat
    • Body smells sour
    • Very sour eructation
  • Eating agg
    • Facial neuralgia after breakfast
  • Facial neuralgia after relaxing from mental exertion.
  • Sick headaches/ migraines
    • < after breakfast
    • < after mental exertion

Aude Sapere

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

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MAGNESIUM CARB

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Suited to worn out females and children
  • Children who crave meat and have a tubercular parentage
  • Complaints from
    • mental worries,
    • shock, blows
    • cares
  • Mental exhaustion causes constipation
  • Climacteric disorders
  • Sensitiveness to touch, to cold, to noise. Easy startling
  • Crave cold air yet very susceptible to catch cold
  • < change of weather < night
  • Motion, walking
  • Cannot bear covers yet putting hand inside covers aggravate
  • Children who cannot digest milk
  • Acidity of infants
  • Sourness
    • Of stool
    • Of sweat
    • Taste
    • Smelling children
    • Flatus
    • Vomitus
    • eructation
  • Great prostration esp legs and ankles.
  • More tired on getting up in the morning than when going to sleep
  • All pains make him/her restless, must walk about from pains
  • Affections of malar bones.
  • A case narrated by Clarke where the tumour of malar bone was cured by mag carb after SILICEA failed. The tumour was exceedingly susceptible to cold air and pain increased on such incidence.
  • Desire meat and vegetables.
  • Menses
    • More at night, cease on walking
    • Scanty and pitch tar like
    • Sore throat, coryza before menses
    • Toothache before
    • Falls down from fainting during menses
  • Diarrhoea
    • Milk passed undigested
    • lientric
    • Green frog pond like stools
  • Sudden deafness
  • teeth
    • toothache, During pregnancy
    • Very sensitive teeth, difficult to be manipulated by dentist
    • Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth
    • Toothaches of bothersome nature
    • Toothache when quiet
  • Falls down unconscious after eating, or any other time- epilepsy
  • Cough
    • From tickle in throat
    • Sore chest < motion
    • Pea sized ball of phlegm expectorated
  • Sudden faltering in speech
  • Chronic affections of nose, nose blocked, breathing through mouth

(A child of tubercular parentage who likes meat and vegetables, who smells sour which is noticeable as he enters the clinic, and has a tendency to  boils over body. The child feels hot but easily catches cold and breathes through mouth. He becomes very restless at night and wants to move about. The child has lactose intolerance and the mother is worried about the growth. He emaciates. He always complaints of pain in legs and is tired in the morning. There’s tendency to acidity to most of things he eats, with sourness as generality of all discharges. The female is worn down by cares and worries, has menstrual troubles and suffers from toothaches. You might think of SILICEA, CAL PHOS or RHEUM in children, when MAG CARB should be thought of.)

Aude Sapere

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

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PTELEA TRIFOLIATA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A liver remedy very similar to Bryonia alba.
  • Pain, sore in liver > lying on rt side, < lying left side.
  • Severe gastric symptoms, burning, pain, emptiness
  • Cannot tolerate fat
  • Liver symptoms with (concomitants)
    • urticarial rashes over body (compare MYRICA CERIFERA)
    • pain in limbs, along with stomach complaints.
    • swelling of hand and feet with liver troubles.
  • Eructation tasting like rotten eggs
  • Noises cause startling
  • Irritable
  • Burning everywhere- skin/ mouth/ stomach/ face etc.
  • Breath so hot that it burns the nostrils. (Tyler)
  • Asthma < lying on back
  • Headache with acidity
  • Excessive salivation. Prominent papillae on tongue.
  • Desire and general > from eating sour things.
  • Dreams of fighting.

(Clarke Dictionary of Materia Medica very beautifully explains the subtle differences between BRYONIA and PTELEA. Both are liver remedies with coated tongue, biliousness, irritable nature, > lying on rt side but BRYONIA has < least motion while PTELEA has < only on deep breathing.)

(With NUX VOMICA it can be differentiated by its bitter taste while NUX has sour taste. NUX has < 2-3 hrs after eating food while PTELEA is agg after food. PTELEA’s tenesmus in stools persists after stool while that of NUX VOM is aml after stools.)

Aude Sapere

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

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MURIATIC ACID- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Considered a sarcode
  • Irritable, angry, restless
  • Loud moaning and groaning
  • muttering
  • All complaints better by motion/ walking.
  • But so debilitated that as soon as the patient sits down, he slips into the bed. Can’t hold himself up and the jaw hangs down
  • Haemorrhages
  • Mouth and anus affected
  • Mouth
    • Offensive odour
    • Bleeding gums
    • Paralyzed tongue
    • Deep perforating ulcers
  • Haemorrhoids
    • Protruding
    • Very sensitive, cannot bear touch of anything
    • Can occur in children suddenly
  • Anus sore during menses
  • Urination
    • Cannot urinate without moving bowels at the same time
    • Flatus passed while urinating
    • Prolapse ani while urinating
    • Weak bladder, urine passes slowly, must press hard to pass urine
  • Sphincters affected
  • Fevers- diphtheria, typhoid, scarlatina, cancer etc
  • Bluish
    • Ulcers
    • Haemorrhoids
    • tongue
  • Bed sores
  • Aversion to meat
  • Muscular weakness in tobacco or opium users
  • Dark red glowing face, cold hands and thirstlessness during fever
  • Tottering gait
  • Pain in Tendo Achilles

(Think of a person who is not well, who’s very irritable and weak, who wants to move but feels very tired and slumps in chair as soon as he sits. His mouth and anus are affected. Problems associated with urination, problems in anus, they are just too much for him. He groans in pain and mutters to himself.)

Aude Sapere

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

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JATROPHA CURCAS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Loud rumbling and gurgling in the stomach and the diarrhoea as if water coming out of bung hole of a barrel.
  • Copious thirst but water is soon vomited out
  • Cramps
    • Severe in calves
  • Coldness of body but desire to uncover
  • Anxiety with burning pain in stomach
  • Evacuations of JATROPHA are thick albuminous instead of watery generally
  • Prostration severe
    • On the slightest exertion, painful weakness of the muscles used, even when writing or standing
  • Amelioration putting hand in cold water

(Very similar to ARS in diarrhoea, weakness, coldness but JATROPHA desire uncovering)

Aude Sapere

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

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