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.

MYGALE LASIODORA

  • Sad and delirious, talks about business
  • Chorea
    • Twitching of facial muscles and head
    • More of upper part of body than lower
    • Mouth and eye open in rapid succession While body in constant motion
  • Restlessness, sp of hands
  • Unsteady gait
  • General tremulousness
  • Limbs drag while walking
  • Head jerked to one side
  • Hot and flushed face
  • Grating of teeth at night
  • Excessive thirst
  • Violent erections and chordee
  • Lymphangitis
  • Burning urine

(Source of medicine- spider)

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Shivangi Jain
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VINCA MINOR- a snapshot

  • Skin affections
    • Eczema, weeping, oozing moisture
      • Scalp, face
    • Spots on scalps, sore
    • Plica polonica, matted hair, cannot be combed (VIOLA Tri)
    • Seborrhoea, upper lip and nose
    • Very sensitive skin, becomes red and sore on least contact
  • Haemorrhages
    • Nose bleed
    • Heavy menses, sp during climacteric
    • Fibroids
    • Passive uterine haemorrhages (USTILAGO, TRILLIUM, SECALE)
  • Hair
    • Fall easily
    • Matted
    • Bald spots replaced by Gray or woolly hair

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LECITHINUM

  • Rich in phosphorous
  • A less proven remedy with general symptoms, given in lower strengths to improve nutrition
  • For debilitated states
  • Weakness, anaemia, neurasthenia
  • Tired, weak, short breathed
  • Loss of flesh
  • Helps in convalescence
  • Lack of sleep
  • An excellent galactagogue, increases milk in lactating women
  • Mentally exhausted
  • Impotence
  • Thirsty
  • Craving wine and coffee
  • Ovarian insufficiency
  • Urine scanty with albumin and phosphates

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TARENTULA HISPANICA- a snapshot

  • Prostatic ailments after masturbation
  • Complaints after falls
  • Restless
    • chorea/ cannot keep still
    • constant fidgety legs
    • constant motion of rt arm left leg
  • Music
    • moved by music which >
  • Foxy
  • Clever
  • Fretful
  • Cunny adroit
  • Destructive
  • Depraved
  • Kleptomania
  • Malingering
    • starts twitching as soon someone observers her
  • Burning
  • Headache
    • deep
    • as if pins and needles
    • Aml rubbing combing
    • Agg- < noise and touch, light
  • Feeling of something in abdo
  • Craves raw food
  • Stools excited by washing head
  • Periodicity
  • Extreme sexual excitement
  • Synalgias
  • Extreme sensitiveness
    • all senses, least excitement irritates
    • touch on spine causes pain in chest
    • of finger tips
  • Skin purplish
    • boils carbuncles
    • gangrenes
    • with severe burning
  • Pruritis vulva
  • Dry mouth sp during sleep, sp when menses are about to come
  • Agg seeing others in trouble
  • Can run better than walk
  • Urinary incontinence
    • On coughing
    • With constipation
  • Tumors
    • Indolent tumors of testicles
    • Tumors around vertebral bodies
  • Diseases of heart < wetting hand
  • Physometra (Lycopodium, Bromium, Platina)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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LAC CANINUM- a snapshot

  • Thinks she means nothing at all
  • Feels she is looked down upon by everyone
  • Chronic blue conditions
  • Forgetful
    • Makes purchases and walks away without them
    • Makes mistakes in writing
  • Hopeless
    • Not worth living, has no friends
  • Screams, curses, is very cross, hateful and filled with rage
  • Fears
    • Falling down (BORAX)
    • Staying alone (ARS)
    • Snakes (LACH)
    • Thinks disease in incurable
    • Becoming insane (LIL TIG)
  • Delusion of snakes
  • Dreams
    • Of snakes
    • Of journey
  • Complaints alternating side
    • Staring left and going to right and then shifting back to left
  • Physometra (LYCO, BROMIUM)
  • Menses/ menstruation/ periods
    • Too early and profuse
    • Sore throat and cough before and during menses
    • Bright red or green ammoniacal blood
    • Great painful and swollen before and during menses
  • Urination more at night, may pass only once in 24 hour, when a copious urine is passed.
  • Throat
    • Glistening membrane in throat
    • Severe pain in throat on swallowing, shooting to ears
    • Sensitive to touch
  • Aggravation < of complaints after sleep.
  • Nose
    • Alternately opened and closed
    • Raw discharge
    • Ozaena
  • Feels walking or floating in air
  • Breathless on lying down, must get up
  • Palpitation < lying left side > turning
  • Very sensitive spine to touch
  • Sore heels
  • Creeping on back
  • Stiff tongue and neck
  • Sexual organs
    • Very sensitive to touch, friction, causes excitation
    • Hysteria at the height of sexual orgasm
  • Mamme
    • Painful, must hold them with hands
    • Dries up milk in those who cannot nurse
  • Very hungry, cannot eat enough
  • Sore throat from exertion
  • Walking causes leucorrhoea which excoriates
  • Causation
    • Result of fall
  • Headache
    • Cross and irritable during
    • Blurred vision at peak of headache
  • Fever with profuse perspiration in the morning

(Think of this remedy when a person has very low confidence, feels that he/she has no friends, has depression and yet becomes enraged and is prone to swear and curse. The sexual desire is high. Symptoms alternate side and are aggravated sleep. It has cured headaches and diphtheria. The symptom of floating could be a symptom in a dissociative state occurring during a trauma {this interpretation is my own, and I have yet to find a case where this symptom leads to remedy, but given the remedy picture it could be used in post traumatic disorders}.)

Compare with the following remedies

(Similar to MUREX

Sadness, melancholy, increased sexual desire, profuse menses, pain mammae during menses, insatiable appetite, sinking in abdo. But MUREX has bearing down while LAC CAN has alternating sided as keynotes,)

Similar to LACHESIS

Ovarian affections, complaints starting left side, lying down causes breathlessness, < after sleep, fainting on raising arms, dreams and fear of snakes)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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ARANEA DIDEMA- a snapshot

  • Marked periodicity
    • Complaints occur at same hour, same days or at regular precise intervals
  • Enlargement
    • Sensation of parts enlarged, sp the hands and legs after getting up in the morning
    • Enlarged spleen
  • Cold damp
    • Hydrogenoid constitution
    • Affected by damp cold weather (THUJA, NAT SULPH)
  • Neuralgias
    • Face, rt, sense of swelling of face
    • Intercoastal, pain shoots from spine to intercoastal spaces
    • Lumbo-abdominal neuralgias, sp during menses
  • Chilliness
    • Very chilly, chilled to bones
  • Numbness
    • Arms and legs are numb
    • Numbness along ulnar nerve distribution
  • Early profuse menses
  • Flickering in eyes < damp weather
  • Fever
    • periodic
    • With pain in stomach
    • Pain in limbs
    • Feels very chilly sp during rains
  • Pain in teeth on lying down

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ARUM TRIPHYLLUM- a snapshot

  • Unconscious of what he is doing or what is said to him
  • Boring and picking
    • Of nose, ear, lips, nails until they bleed
  • Itching in palate
  • Children
    • Who loose flesh
    • Who don’t want to play  
    • Have headache, puts hand on the back and cry
    • Children who pick lips and bore nose
    • Sore mouth of children, refuses food
    • Sleepless children with scanty urine
  • Nose
    • Acrid, fluent blood-streaked discharge
    • Mouth breathing
    • Hay fever with pain at root of nose
  • Cracked mouth corners with increased salivation
  • Hoarseness of voice from overuse in singers, speakers, clergymen
  • Skin
    • Scarlet rash
    • Raw bloody surfaces, picks and bores them
    • Impetigo
    • Desquamation in large flakes
  • Very restless, tossing and screaming in bed.
  • Sore mouth in typhoid with apathy.

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Shivangi Jain
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MUREX PURPURAE- a snapshot

  • Bad effects of abortion
  • Complaints during climacteric (LACH, SEP, SULPH)
  • Very affectionate lively person who becomes melancholic from ailments
  • Uterus
    • Bearing down pains
    • Conscious of the womb (HELONIAS, LYSSINUM)
    • Have to cross legs to prevent the sensation
    • Pains shoot from uterus to mammae (opp- LIL TIG)
    • Profuse menses with clots
    • Pain in thighs with uterine complaints
    • Uterine prolapse or displacement with tenesmus and chronic endometritis
  • Least touch on genitals causes violent sexual excitement
  • Nymphomania
  • Leucorrhoea
    • Thick, greenish yellowish and bloody
    • She is happier when the it flows freely
    • Leucorrhoea alternating with mental symptoms
  • Sinking sensation in abdo
    • Violent hunger even after eating
  • Pains that are < while sitting > on moving

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Shivangi Jain
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OLEANDER

  • Hemiplegia
  • Difficult articulation
  • Slowness of perception
    • Can’t understand what he reads, gets more confused if he thinks about it, understands more easily, he comprehends everything more easily if he does not think at all that he wishes to understand 
  • Skin
    • Easily chapped from friction
  • Diplopia
    • Can see objects when looking at them sideways
  • Debility, weakness
  • Eruptions on scalp esp on occiput and behind ears
  • Sunken face with blue rings around eyes
  • Sensation of eyes drawn in
  • Numbness
    • Of tongue
    • Skin
    • Extremities
  • Coldness of legs
  • Spasmodic cramps in upper limbs, weakness in lower limbs
  • Diarrhoea
    • Of undigested food, passed after a day
    • Morning diarrhoea
  • Trembling
    • Of hands when writing
    • Of legs while standing
  • Slow pulse
  • Paresis after infantile paralysis

Preparation- (Toxic plant, specially cardiotoxic – tincture is prepared from the leaves)

(Suited to person who suffered from hemiplegia and have consequent stiffness in body. The perception is slow, there is weakness and trembling on activity. Extremities are cold and numb and food is not digested properly. The skin chaps easily and there are eruptions behind the ear. The skin symptoms with nervous system affections as concomitant are valuable indicator of this remedy.)

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Shivangi Jain
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LYCOPERSICUM ESCULENTUM (The common tomato)

  • Very sensitive to dust
  • Irritable from trifles
  • Weak memory
  • Influenza
    • Pain remaining after influenza
  • Hay fever
    • Fluent coryza
    • Husky voice, hoarseness
    • Itchy palate
  • Severe body ache, pain in limbs, back etc
  • Anterior crural neuralgia
  • Very similar to ALLIUM CEPA, but it is aml indoors as against ALLIUM CEPA
  • Decreased pulse with anxiety and apprehensiveness

(A very good remedy for common colds, influenza with body aches. Compare ALLIUM CEPA, ARSENIC ALB)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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