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AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM – by William Boericke

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM Horse Chestnut The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged haemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation. Much pain…

AETHIOPS MINERALIS -by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaAETHIOPS MINERALIS|Black Sulphide Mercury|MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE|Sulph and Quicksilver|William Boericke

AETHIOPS MINERALIS Sulph and Quicksilver, or Black Sulphide Mercury (AETHIOPS MERCURIALIS-MINERALIS) This preparation is of use in scrofulous affections, ophthalmia, otorrhoea, painful, irritating, scabby eruptions, hereditary syphilis. Skin.--Eruptions.…

AETHUSA CYNAPIUM – by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaAETHUSA CYNAPIUM|AETHUSA CYNAPIUM - by William Boericke|MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE|William Boericke

AETHUSA CYNAPIUM Fool's Parsley The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this…

ALFALFA -by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaALFALFA|ALFALFA -by William Boericke|MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE|William Boericke

ALFALFA Medicago Sativa, California Clover or Lucerne >From its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in "toning up" the appetite and digestion resulting in greatly improved mental…

ALNUS RUBRA -by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaALNUS|ALNUS RUBRA|ALNUS RUBRA -by William Boericke|MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE|William Boericke

ALNUS RUBRA Red Alder (ALNUS) Has some reputation as a remedy for skin affections, glandular enlargements, and indigestion from imperfect secretion of gastric juice. It stimulates nutrition, and thus acts…

ALOE SOCOTRINA -by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia Medica

ALOE SOCOTRINA Socotrine Aloes (ALOE) An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer…

ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS – by William Boericke

ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS Dita Bark Malarial diseases, with diarrhoea, dysentery, anaemia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen,…

ALUMEN – by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaALUMEN|ALUMEN - by William Boericke|MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE|William Boericke

ALUMEN Common Potash Alum The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in haemorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid-one phase…

ALUMINA – by William Boericke

ALUMINA Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of…

VALERIAN

June 30, 2024Materia Medica

VALERIAN This remedy cures many nervous and hysterical phenomena in excitable women and children, and the complaints of the hypochondriac. Great nervous excitability, exaltation, hysterical contractures, trembling, palpitation, sense of…

MELASTOMA ACKERMANI – by Benoît Mure

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaBenoît Mure|MELASTOMA ACKERMANI|MELASTOMA ACKERMANI - by Benoît Mure

MELASTOMA ACKERMANI MELAST. TAPIXIRICA This species has never yet been described by authors. It is a bush with round branches, triangular at their extremities, and covered with a brownish bark.…

ABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS – by William Boericke

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS|ABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS - by William Boericke|MATERIA MEDICA by William BOERICKE|William Boericke

ABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS Hemlock Spruce Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar…

AMPHISBOENA VERMICULARIS – by Benoît Mure

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaAMPHISBOENA VERMICULARIS|Benoît Mure|Materia Medica by Benoît Mure

AMPHISBOENA VERMICULARIS AMPH. Tate species moves either backwards or forwards, as occasion may require, and is quite frequent in the woods of Brazil. Its body is cylindrical, from two feet…

MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.) – by Benoît Mure

June 30, 2024Materia MedicaBenoît Mure|MIMOSA HUMILIS|MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.)|MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.) - by Benoît Mure

MIMOSA HUMILIS. (WILD.) MIM. This species which is one of the smallest of the genus Mimosa, is found in the prairies around Rio-Janeiro. Its stem is feeble, rather woody, ramose,…

ABRUS PRECATORIUS — JEQUIRITY – by William Boericke

ABRUS PRECATORIUS -- JEQUIRITY Crab's Eye Vine (JEQUIRITY - ARBRUS PRECATORIUS) Epithelioma, lupus, ulcers, granular lids. Eyes.--Purulent conjunctivitis; inflammation spreads to face and neck. Granular ophthalmia. Keratitis. Relationship.--Compare: Jequiritol (in…