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.

COCA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Suited to people who are weary and tired after physical and mental exertion.
  • Is sad and melancholic and does not want company.
  • Neglect of personal appearance.
  • Bashful.
  • He seeks solace in stimulants- alcohol, tobacco etc.
  • Breathlessness
    • in athletes,
    • in old,
    • at high altitudes(mountaineering) (also Ars Alb),
    • and those taking stimulants.
  • He has palpitations from overexertion or from incarcerated flatus.
  • Sleepy but cannot sleep.
  • Sleepless children during dentition

Aude Sapere

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

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ALETRIS FARINOSA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Weakness, tired all the time
  • Anaemia
  • Complaints after a long-protracted illness.
  • Uterus, heavy,
    • Dragging down
    • Prolapse- from overwork or repeated child bearing
    • Heavy bleeding with clots
  • Leucorrhoea
    • Profuse
    • With severe backache as if it would break
  • Sterility
  • Habitual abortion
  • Cough before menses

Aude Sapere

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

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DAPHNE INDICA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • An anti-syphilitic medicine
  • Sad
  • Anxious
  • Fearful
  • Feels that head and body are separated.
  • One sided coating of the tongue
  • Rheumatism, pain in great toe
  • Offensiveness as generality
    • Sweat
    • Urine
    • Mouth odour
    • Saliva
  • Sleeplessness from bone pains
  • Craving for tobacco
  • Pains
    • Lightening like pains
    • Shifting
  • Dreams
    • Nightmares
    • Black cats

Aude Sapere

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

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GUAIACUM

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Critical of everything around them. Fault finding.
  • Forgetful, sp for names
  • Tonsillitis followed by joint pains
  • Stomach affections returning every year
  • Limbs
    • Heavy, weak
    • Numb
    • Stiffness
    • Stretching limbs >
  • Pain with heat of affected part
  • Tendons and muscles feel shortened
  • Suppurations
    • Imminent
  • Cough with foetid expectoration
  • Pleurisy
  • Bones
    • Caries
    • Swelling and softening
  • Pain in left ear

(Think of a person who never remembers your name.  whenever you are around, he/she always critical of anything you do. He used to have bone pains while growing up because of rapid growth. He suffered from recurrent tonsillitis and now has joint pains. He finds it difficult to walk due to heaviness and numbness in limbs. He stretches his limbs often. Every year for few months he has stomach troubles. You will find him coughing, the attendants complain about offensive odours emanating.)

Aude Sapere

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

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CINNAMOMUM CEYLANICUM (Cinnamon)

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A haemorrhagic remedy
    • Haemorrhage from bowels
    • Nosebleed
    • Haemoptysis
    • Post partum haemorrhage
    • Haemorrhages precipitated by false step, straining
  • Anxiety
  • Feels that left side of the body is small
  • Haemorrhage during gestation, threatened abortion
  • Intense hunger
  • Cancer pains, fetor
  • Hysteria

(When you think of Aconite, also compare this remedy)

Aude Sapere

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

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ASARUM EUROPAEUM

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Suited to literary sedentary person
  • Uncontrollable desire for alcohol
  • Wakes up with stomach pain after a debauch
  • Sensation of gliding through air
  • Chilly
  • Oversensitive
    • To noise
    • Scalp- to combing
  • Eyes burning > washing them in cold water
  • Closed sensation in ear
  • Nausea with clean tongue (like ipecac)
  • Long shreds of mucous stools
  • General > by washing affected part in cold water
  • Clear fine weather <

(It has Causticum like modalities and is similar to Nux Vom)

Aude Sapere

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

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CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Constriction everywhere
    • Heart
    • Chest
    • Hand
    • Neck of bladder
    • Oesophagus
    • Vagina
    • As if bound in cage.
    • As if clasped and unclasped by an iron hand
    • Brought on or aggravated by slightest touch
  • Congestion
  • Haemorrhage
    • Haematuria
    • Haemoptysis
    • Haemorrhoids
  • Anxiety
  • Fears that he’ll die, that his disease is incurable
  • Irresistible desire to cry
  • Chilliness not > by covering
  • < 10-11am, 11pm
  • Periodicity
  • Headache or neuralgias
    • Rt sided
    • Pulsating, throbbing
    • Periodic
    • Severe pains that extort cries
    • Pains > pressure on vertex
  • Menses
    • Early, pitch black
    • Only during daytime
  • heart
    • Irregular intermittent heart beats
    • Valvular diseases/ murmurs
    • Angina
    • Failure
    • hypertrophy
  • Cyanotic infants

Aude Sapere

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

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