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.

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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AGARICUS MUSCARIS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Tubercular diathesis
  • Chronic catarrh. Lump of mucus hawked out.
  • Complaints of drunkards
  • Delayed milestones in children
  • Loquacious, but keeps talking without waiting for an answer.
  • Fearless
  • Very sensitive to cold.
  • Headaches of
    • Those who become delirious in fever
    • Those with chorea
    • Those with spinal affections
  • Twitches sp of mouth and eyelids, awkward.
  • Jerky speech
  • Yawning before
    • Complaints
    • Convulsion
    • Involuntary laugh
  • Coition <
    • Palpitation during
    • Exhaustion after
    • Depression after
    • Convulsion after
  • Itching and burning- skin/ chilblain
  • Stiffness, < initial motion > continued motion
  • Very sensitive spine. Single vertebrae sensitive to touch; every motion causes pain.
  • Increased strength during delirium
  • Very offensive flatus with diarrhoea
  • Splenic stitches in runners
  • Cough ending in sneeze

Aude Sapere

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

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CYCLAMEN

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Desire solitude
  • Silent weeping
  • Inward grief, not expressed
  • Terrors of conscience, of duty not done
  • Sad, morose
  • Desire to lie down
  • Apathy, indifference to such a degree that she stops answering questions and stools and urine are passed unconsciously
  • Very chilly, not even > by covers
  • < cold, > warmth and indoors
  • walking, as long as she walks, she feels better (except tiredness), complaints come on resting
  • Menses
    • Profuse and early
    • More when sitting > walking
  • Headache with visual disturbances, dim vision or with flickering before eyes.
  • Anaemic
  • Everything tastes salty
  • Prostatic troubles with urging for stools.
  • Anosmia

(Compare with PULS, who is also weepy except cyclamen is very chilly, is > indoors and warmth and has profuse menses as opposed to scanty periods of PULS)

(You will also think of FERR or CHINA when it is actually cyclamen)

Aude Sapere

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

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AGNUS CASTUS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Suited to those who have abused sexual powers
  • Apathy, sadness
  • H/o repeated gonorrhoea
  • Alternate self contempt with over exaltation
  • Impotence, complete loss of sexual desire
  • Tachycardia from tobacco chewing
  • Milk deficient in nursing mother with great sadness
  • Thinks he is going to die soon and repeats the same
  • Sensation of bowels pressing down, wants to support them with hands
  • Pupils dilated
  • Deep anal fissures, soft stools are passed with difficultly
  • Hysterical palpitations with nosebleed
  • Imaginary odours like musk or hering in front of nose

Aude Sapere

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

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VIPERA BERUS

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Arrested development in children (Allen’s Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica)
  • Affects the veins, causes venous engorgement
  • Bursting sensation
  • < letting the part hang down > raising the part up
  • Nerves affected- polio
    • Multiple neuritis
  • Ascending paralysis
  • Peeling of skin in large patches
  • Epistaxis on nursing
  • Jaundice with enlarged liver and fever
  • Swollen and blue face and lips
  • Great thirst for cold water
  • Haematuria
  • Boils, gangrene, ulcer etc

Aude Sapere

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

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