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.

GUN POWDER- a snapshot

  • Infections
    • Abscesses, suppurations, septic suppuration
    • Acne
    • Recurrent boils
    • Osteomyelitis
    • Septic tonsils (THUJA, SILICEA, BARYTA CARB)
    • Blood poisoning, septicaemia
  • Black discolouration of wound is very marked feature
  • Herpes right eyebrow and side of nose
  • Worms and lumbrici
  • Bad effects of
    • Vaccination
    • Mosquitoes, squirrels, animals etc
  • Eczema after carbuncles
  • Cancer of ear
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GALIUM APARINE

  • Affinity for fibrous tissue
  • Cancerous process
    • Said to have a power of suspending or modifying cancerous processes
    • Cancerous ulcers
    • Slow growing tumors of tongue and oral mucosa
  • Favors healthy granulation of ulcerated surface (very important remedy in ulcerations of any kind even cancerous)
  • Urinary organs
    • Diuretic, used in dropsies
    • Gravel/ calculi
    • Dysuria/ cystitis
    • Constant urging to urinate
  • Chilly like cistus can
  • Skin affections
    • Inveterate
    • Psoriasis (sp left hand)
  • Scurvy

(Galium is an invasive plant species, just like cancer is.)

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LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA a snapshot

  • Depression and sadness hopeless and weak
    • So weak that cannot even stand.
  • Affections of liver
    • Acute liver conditions
    • Burning and pain in liver region, transverse enlargement of liver jaundice
    • Pain from liver to Spine and to left scapula
    • Gall stones (CHIONANTHUS, CARDUUS MARIANUS)
  • Stools
    • Distress in abdomen with desire for stool
    • Bloody Tarry stools with pain around navel which is reduced after stools are passed.
    • Sometimes muddy watery morning diarrhoea
    • Stools can also be mucus, bloody, mixed with shred like substance or pure blood)
  • Dull headache with aching pain around naval.
  • Craves iced drinks which aggravate
  • Thin soft splitting nails
  • Amelioration by lying on abdomen
  • Left sciatica pain
    • Cannot even stand but worse on sitting
  • Anxiety and fear on waking
  • Watery leucorrhoea running down limbs in ulcerated os.
  • Prolapsing piles with haemorrhage.

(Compare- In black stools (NM Choudhry)

  • Arsenic– Effects of chilling of stomach with cold drink, black stool of small quantity with prostration out of proportion.
    • Merc– Pressing pain and tenesmus. Leptandra lacks the tenesmus of Mercury
    • Opium– Diarrhoea of chronic type or acute diarrhoea after fright or sudden joy. More serious. Comatose patient.
    • Plumbum – Diarrhoea with black stool, pulling at Naval. Cutting pain radiating to whole body with violence spasms exhorting cries.
    • Veratrum – Pinching colic. Violent thirst. Big evacuations. Great abundance of cold sweat)
  • Liver affection, craving icy drinks and haemorrhage will make you think of Phosphorous which is its complementary remedy.

(Clarke MM

  • Related to Mercury- the tenesmus in Mercury ceases after stool while in leptandra the colic around navel is reduced after stool but persists
  • In nitric acid the haemorrhage is bright red in typhoid while in leptandra it is Tarry)

Think of this remedy in typhoid, etc with great weakness, black stools and desire for icy cold drinks. You will think of PHOS and BAPTISIA)

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SAMBUCUS NIGRA- a snapshot

  • Bad effects of violent emotions, fear anxiety, grief, anger, excessive sexual indulgence (PHOS AC, KALI PHOS)
  • Fear
    • Anxiety and restlessness from
    • Suffocative attacks after getting fright
    • After OPIUM in fright.
  • Constantly fretful
  • Perspiration
    • With all complaints
    • Continuous or in paroxysms
    • Desire to be covered during perspiration
    • Profuse drenching
    • As soon as opens the eyes or on waking (opp CONIUM, CHINA)
  • Emaciation
    • Rapid (IOD, TUB)
  • Sleep
    • Lot of complaints are agg on falling asleep
    • Fever as soon as closes eyes, dry heat
    • Wakes up choking as if not able to breathe, turns blue
    • Asthma on falling asleep
  • Children
    • Snuffles of children
    • Let go off of nipple to breathe while nursing, can’t suck due to breathing difficulty
    • Child turns blue on coughing, can inhale but exhalation difficult (MEPHITIS, CHLORINE)
    • Catarrhal headache of children
  • Croup
    • Hollow deep whooping, agg night
  • Agg
    • Uncovering
    • Resting
    • Lying down
  • Amel
    • Walking
    • Wrapping up
    • Warmth
    • Sitting up in bed

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THEA

  • Bad effects of tea
    • Nervousness sleeplessness heart troubles palpitations of old tea drinkers, can’t lie down
    • Dyspepsia of old tea drinkers
    • Paralysis of tea tasters affecting lower Limbs with loss of sensation
  • Impulse to suicide or to kill children, commit homicide
  • Impulsive
  • Throw things away
  • Makes versus (ANT CRUD, AGAR, CANN IND, STRAM)
  • Pleasure on waking from a dream of Murder
  • Dreams of Murder in which he takes joy, horrible dreams cause no horror.
  • Sick headache radiating from one spot cold damp feeling at the back of head
  • Sinking all sensation in stomach (SEP, OLEANDER, HYDRAS)
  • Craves acids (SULPH, VERAT, SABINA, ANT CRUD)
  • Sudden flatulence borborygmi with hernia
  • Tender ovaries
  • Neuralgic pains
    • sciatica and Supra orbital Neuralgia

(Think of this remedy in people who are addicted to tea, have taken tea for long time. It causes dyspepsia, palpitations. The person is impulsive. Patient gets dreams of murdering someone in which he takes pleasure. Talk by making verses.

The person is quarrelsome, impulsive and throws things away.)

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RHODODENDRON- a snapshot

  • Forgets his subjects (baryta carb)
  • Rheumatism of hot weather
  • Leaves out whole words while writing
  • Aversion to all work
  • Cannot sleep without legs crossed
  • Increased warmth of hands even in cold weather
  • Painful fevers
  • Dreams of fire
  • Sweat has odor of Spice
  • Hair seems to stand up as if electrified
  • Awakes as if called
  • Day time sleepiness
  • Paralytic pains
  • Easily affected by wine
  • Sun >
  • Stormy wet weather brings on
    • Diarrhoea
    • Toothache
    • Headache
    • Pain in Limbs
  • Limbs
    • Wandering rheumatism
    • Descending rheumatism
    • Swelling and acute pain during rough Stormy weather
    • Rheumatic tearing
    • Numbness
    • Pain are most violent during rest aggravation wet cold weather Agg rest
  • Diarrhoea
    • From fruits
    • During wet cold weather aggravation thunderstorm
  • Severe neuralgic pains
    • Dental
  • Serous cysts in vagina
  • Genital
    • Testis feels Crush pains alternately
    • Hydrocele
    • Induration and swelling of testis after gonorrhoea (CLEMATIS) or rheumatic exposure with sensation as if gland was crushed
    • Tendency to atrophy of testis
  • Headache
    • Sensitive to touch during pain
    • Increased urine during headache
    • Headache aggravation wine
    • Pains in bones of Skull
  • Chest
    • Pleuritic pains in left chest violent
    • Breathless and speechless from pleuritic pains
    • Pleurisy from standing in cold wet ground
  • Fluent coryza with loss of smell and taste
  • Foul urine
  • Stiff neck

(Think of this remedy when thinking of BARYTA CARB or RHUS TOX)

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RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS

  • Vexation
    • Causes trembling of body
    • Oppresses the breath, can’t inhale sufficiently, dyspnoea from anger
  • Bad effects of alcohol
    • Delirium tremens
    • Day blindness
    • Hiccough in alcoholics
    • Epileptic attacks in
  • Eruptions
    • Vesicular, on hands, feet and body
    • Pustulous exanthema
  • Pain
    • Like a shock through body
    • Whole body feels beaten and pains as if ulcerated
    • Sore spots on body
    • Pains with shuddering
  • Agg < morning, evening
  • Agg < change of temperature (getting cold when heated or getting heated when cold), motion, stretch
  • Crawling
    • Sp about nose, chin
  • Very sensitive to open air
    • Chilliness in chest on walking in open air
  • Pleurisy pneumonia from sudden change of weather
  • Degeneration of spinal cord, symptoms agg change of weather
  • Tingling in fingers
  • Shooting neuralgic pains in chest, paroxysmal
    • Intercoastal rheumatism, < wet stormy weather
    • Shingles/ herpes neuralgia (MEZEREUM)
    • Pleurisy
  • Muscular pains, sp shoulder blade
    • After doing fine work (ACTEA RACEMOSA)
    • After playing piano
  • Corns very sensitive to touch
  • Dreams of drowning/ or swimming

(Think of a person who suffers from bad effects of alcohol. He is quarrelsome and has body aches as if body is beaten like ARNICA. Every change of temperature affects him badly. He gets pneumonia, headaches, neuralgias etc. You might think of SPIGELIA but keep RAN BUL in mind. He also has vesicular eruptions which might lead you to think of RHUS TOX. When you are thinking of RHUS TOX and SPIGELIA think of RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS as it covers both remedies.)

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COFFEA CRUDA

  • Complaints from
    • Joy/ excitement
      • Sleeplessness
      • Weepy from joy
      • Convulsions from excessive laughing and playing
    • Bad effects of wine debauch
    • Fright/ disappointed love
    • Fatigue/ long journey
  • Traumatic fevers
  • Alternate weeping and laughing
  • Throwing things
  • Gives short Answers but becomes talkative when talking about his ailments
  • Oversensitiveness
    • To pain, starts weeping from least pain, pains run into fingertips
    • To air and wind, open air.
    • Pleasure, oversensitive to
  • Tosses in anguish (aconite)
  • Excessive howling and crying over trifles
  • Sleeplessness
    • From joy, cannot sleep from exalted state of mind, ideas
    • From overactivity of mind
    • From itching in anus
  • Live fancies, active imagination, acute memory
  • Severe unsufferable labor pains
  • Eats hastily and greedily
  • Thirst more at night, hence urinates more at night
  • Acute senses
    • Taste
    • Smell, very sensitive to odors
    • Hearing
    • Touch
  • Headache
    • Like a nail pressing in the head, clavus
  • Overeating <
  • Toothache holding cold water in mouth

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COLCHICUM AUTUMANALE- a snapshot

  • Complaints from
    • Overstudy, night study, mental exertion
    • Getting wet/ cold damp weather (compare RHUS TOX/ NAT SULPH)
    • Misdeeds of others
    • Becoming cold when overheated
    • Grief
  • Irritable (think NUX VOM)
  • Dissatisfied
  • Pleuritis after getting wet (SPIGELIA)
  • Joints
    • Painful
    • Stubbing the toe hurts severely
    • Cannot hold anything
    • Patient screams with pain
    • Redness, heat and swelling of joints sp small joints
    • Superficial pains in body in warm weather, deep seated pains in cold
    • Cardio arthritic pains
    • Iritis scleritis
  • Small rapidly shifting area of pain but no swelling
  • Sensitiveness
    • To external impressions (NUX VOM)
    • To odor, elicit nausea
    • Can even cause fainting
    • Whole body sensitive to touch/ to motion(BRY)
    • Least hurt pains too much
  • Doesn’t want to eat anything, lies quietly
  • Tingling in various parts of body < change of weather
    • Tingling of finger tips and toes
  • Shocks as from electricity through one half of the body with sensation of paralysis
  • Frequent startlings
  • Debility/ weakness
    • From loss of sleep
    • Night study/ hard study
    • Cold weak sensitive and restless
  • Complaints from left to right (LACH)
  • Desires effervescent alcoholic beverages
  • Scanty urine with tenesmus and dark red urine (nephritis)
    • Dropsy
    • Dry skin with scanty urine
    • Albumin and sugar in urine
  • Dysentery
    • With gastric complaints
    • Bloody stools with scrapping of intestines
  • Shreddy gelatinous stools
  • Moist collapse
    • Rapid sinking
  • Creepings
  • Subacute states that finally affects heart
  • Bad effects of suppressed sweat
  • Agg < evening, night, moving, respiration, touch, emotions, cold damp
  • Aml > evacuation, rest, warmth
  • Myelitis
  • Hydrothorax
  • Ascites, abdominal fold hangs over pubic arch.

(Similar to collapse remedies VERAT, ARS, CARBO VEG in last stages. So weak that cannot even hold neck when lifted or made to sit down, the head falls back. They are very sensitive individuals, sensitive to others misdeeds, to external stimuli, odors noise etc. They feel nauseated even at the smell of the food. They have joint pains which are very sensitive that mere touch excites pain, least stubbing causes excruciating pain. They have tingling and weakness almost bordering to paralysis. Complaints come after studying hard at night.)

(A detailed d/d of medicines is given in NM Choudhry for nausea of pregnancy. It is as follows:

Nausea of pregnancy

  • In COLCH. the nausea is felt in the head and is worse while riding a carriage or sailing.
  • IPEC. is very much like Colch. The nausea is incessant and there is not a moment’s relief.
  • In KALI CARB we have nausea without vomiting, coming on only during a walk. She feels like lying down anywhere and prefers even dying to such nausea. Great sleepiness while eating is also a marked symptom of Kali carb.
  • In KREOSOTE the patient vomits sweetish water before breakfast. She retains her breakfast and dinner, but vomits out her supper.
  • LOBELIA- nausea and vomiting in Lobelia with profuse running of water from the mouth. She is invariably worse after sleeping, and is relieved by taking a little food; after vomiting she breaks out into profuse sweat.
  • NUX VOM. has ineffectual desire for vomiting. She feels she would be better if she could only vomit.
  • PULSAT. can be very easily distinguished from other remedies by the excessive bad taste in the mouth in the morning.
  • TABACUM should not be forgotten where we notice deathly faintness and pallor of the face relieved by going out into the open air.
  • VERATRUM is to be distinguished by the presence of cold sweat on forehead while vomiting and a great desire for fruits, juicy things, and for acid and salty food.)

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TEREBINTH- a snapshot

  • Muttering delirium
  • Fear of apoplexy
  • Suicidal disposition by hanging
  • Sedentary habits
  • Kidneys
    • Haematuria, more blood than albumin
    • Rheumatism and
    • Bronchitis and
    • Haemorrhage and kidney symptoms
    • Post scarlatinal dropsy (APIS, HELL, LACH) (post streptococcal glomerulonephritis)
    • Albumin in urine < damp cellars
  • Pain alternate between naval and bladder
  • Lungs
  • Burning
    • Everywhere, mouth, gums, throat, stomach, GIT, rectum, anus
    • Meninges
    • Uterus
    • Air passages, chest,
    • Kidney, bladder, urethra (CANTH, BEREB)
    • Tip of tongue
    • Epigastrium
    • Back
  • Cystitis, cutting in bladder tenesmus
  • Haemorrhage
    • Haematuria, cloudy bloody urine, painless
    • Purpura haemorrhagic, fresh ecchymosis (SULPH AC)
    • Bowels from, with ulceration and epithelial degeneration (as in ulcerative colitis, typhoid ulcers etc), passive oozing from bowels
  • Glazed glossy skin, with prominent papillae (ARG NIT, BELL, KALI BI, NUX MOS), peeled off in patches
  • Excessive distension of abdomen (COLCH)
  • Worms
    • Sp lumbricid
    • With foul breath (SPIG)
    • Itching of anus
    • Choking (CINA, SPIG)
  • Diarrhoea
    • Fetid, exhausting, watery greenish
  • Congestion and inflammation of viscera
    • With haemorrhage
    • With malignant tendency
  • Unconsciousness followed by inability to concentrate mind
  • Capillary bronchitis
  • Convulsions
    • Sp on pressing on bladder
  • Damp weather <<
  • Neuralgia, as if hot water running in tubes
  • Sudden gripping and aching
  • Sore muscles
  • Urination excited by pain
    • Pain in bowels cause frequent urination
  • Pain in knees
  • Advancing purpuric spots
  • Band like headache
  • Enterocolitis with ulceration and haemorrhage from bowels
  • Typhoid
    • With tympanitis
    • Haemorrhage
    • Prostration
  • Biliary colic

(Note- Terebinth is an oil prepared from distillation of resinous product from some species of Pines, highly flammable in nature its toxicity closely resembles the symptoms derived in potencies with much finer shades, as happens in provings.)

Link to the medical conditions that are covered by Terebinth

https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/terebinth-wegners-granulomatosis-vasculitis-and-dic-like-conditions/

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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