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.

AMMONIUM CARB- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Weak lethargic stout females who are very chilly and have a tendency to take cold.
  • Desire to lie down all the time.
  • Aversion to bathing. Unclean body habits.
  • Haemorrhagic diathesis- fluid blood
  • Breathlessness
    • Agg ascending
    • Agg 3-4 am
    • Warm room, feels better in open air (like CARBO VEG)
  • Rattling in chest but nothing comes up. (compare ANT TART)
  • Weak heart
  • Nose always blocked. Snuffles of children. Sleeps with mouth open.
  • Loses breath on sleeping, wakes up gasping for breath. (compare GRINDELIA, LACHESIS)
  • Day sleepiness
  • Sore throat, swollen tonsils, with tendency to gangrenous ulceration
  • Cannot eat without drinking.
  • Very acrid discharges
    • Menses
    • leucorrhoea
    • Coryza etc.
  • Menses
    • Early profuse black clotted menses
    • Agg night
    • Diarrhoea before menses
    • Sadness during menses
    • Yawning and chilliness during menses
    • More when sitting
  • Scarlet fever
    • Body very red .
    • Faint eruptions.     
  • Becomes irritable in wet stormy weather.
  • Bones ache at every change of weather.
  • Bursting headache like BELL and GLONINE sp forehead
  • Nosebleed
    • In morning on waking
    • On washing face
    • After eating
    • On washing hands
  • Emphysema
  • Panaritium/ felon, deep seated pains as if in bones
  • Joint pains agg night, from heat of bed.

Aude Sapere

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

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ASAFOETIDA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A syphilitic hysterical medicine
  • Left sided
  • Suited to obese individuals.
  • Bones- painful caries- nose/shin etc
  • Ulcers
    • Hard ulcers with thin pus
  • Foulness/ offensiveness-stool/ urine
  • Purulence- green foetid pus
    • Ears, nose etc.
  • Indifferent yet excited
  • Changing mood
  • Globus, everything seems to press upwards towards the throat
  • Sudden severe paroxysmal pain.
    • Change place > touch
    • Boring pains/ clavus
    • Within outwards
    • With numbness
    • Headache > by stool
  • Fainting
    • Without cause
    • Closed room
    • Excitement from
    • Emission after
  • Explosive eructation
  • Turgid mammae with milk without pregnancy

Aude Sapere

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

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RICCINUS COMMUNIS

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers

(The symptoms given below are from poisoning and proving in cruder potencies)

  • Increases quantity of milk in nursing females.
  • Burning as a generality.
  • Anorexia with great thirst.
  • Great prostration
  • Severe diarrhoea and vomiting with chilliness and pain in extremities.
  • Fever. Somnolence.
  • Gangrene foot.

Aude Sapere

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

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VALERIANA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Like PULS but intelligent

(Similarities with PULS

  • changeable disposition and symptoms
    • < evening
    • Sleepless sp in earlier part of night
    • Pains > motion sp sciatica
    • Late and scanty menses)
  • Full of ideas, very mobile and extreme ideas.
  • Illusions of smell/ hearing/ taste.
  • Tendency to faint.
  • Cramps/ jerks in stomach/ legs/ hands/ during sleep.
  • Diarrhoea and vomiting of curdles milk in infant after nursed by angry mother.
  • Heel pains.
  • Over sensitiveness. Want of reaction to well-chosen remedy.
  • Polyuria.
  • < evening or afternoon, every 2-3 months.

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Aude Sapere

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

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MOSCHUS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Girls who are self-willed, obstinate, selfish and crafty. Who Never learned obedience and always had their whims gratified.
  • Hysterical with imaginary symptoms.
  • Awkward, dropping things easily.
  • Fainting;
    • on eating,
    • during menses,
    • with heart complaints,
    • from pains etc.
  • Very chilly and sensitive to cold air. Cold air causes spasm of chest.
  • Palpitation > belching.
  • Complaints constantly, but do not know what ails them.
  • Vertigo with loss of speech but sees and understands everything.
  • Impotence from diabetes.
  • Diseases do not take normal course.

(One might think of VALERIANA as both (MOSCHUS and VALERIANA are hysterical remedies.

Comes very close to VALERIANA, however, VALERIANA has scanty menses, and MOSCH does not have the changeability of VALERIANA.)

Aude Sapere

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

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Myrica cerifera – a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A liver and a heart remedy with symptoms occurring together.
  • Liver complaints with urticaria.
  • Very red eyelids.
  • Jaundice.
  • Mucus- tenacious- anywhere- mouth, throat, stool. (Boger Synoptic key)
  • Sleeplessness
  • Gloomy
  • Constant discharge of flatus while walking.
  • Slow pulse
  • Creeping sensation on skin.

Aude Sapere

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

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