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Cimex Lectularius
Acanthia lectularia · CIMX
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Origin Animal · Hemiptera · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture or trituration.
Sources 7 entries across 6 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Nash, Lippe …

Dose Boericke
6X–200X
Sixth to two hundredth attenuation

Reason for useHering

Known to Dioscorides, wlio mentions it in the treatment of fevers, and to Ebn Sina, who prescribed it in hysterical affections. It preserved its reputation through the Middle Ages, and is still in use among the people, especially the Italians, as a remedy for fever and ague. Proved by W. Wahle, of Kome, in the 2d and 3d trituration, on Dr. Bertoldi, a woman past the change of life, and a girl £et. seventeen ; also by Dr. Berridge, in the 200th dilution, on a man. Wahle made use of the 6th and 12th dilutions in the successful treatment of " most malignant and most obstinate tertian and quartan fevers, from three to four doses being sufficient." Clinical Authokities. — Headache with hiccough and dryness of throat, E. W. Berridge, N. Y. J. H., v. 2, p. 462, 1874; Nocturnal emissions, Jeanes; Intermittent, T. D. Stowe, Allen's Therapeutics of Intermittent; H. M., v. 7, p. 162. ^ Mind. I Anxiousness. Anxious with the oppression of chest, pains in shoulder, and during the sweat has no rest anywhere. I At the setting in of the chilly stage her hands become clinched; she becomes vehement; would like to tear everything to pieces, and is scarcely able to restrain her rage. ^Intermittent. ■Sensation as if he would creep into himself, and on that account could not sufficiently crouch together. ■ His own sweat is disgusting to him. ^ Sensorium. iDulness of head. ^ Inner Head. Confusion of head, as if headache would ensue. ■ Pressing outwards in forehead, first 1. then r. side. ■ Drawing headache, particularly under r. frontal bone. ■ Pain like stitches with needles in middle of vertex, and pressing pain in vertex with the cough. t/Intermittent. ■ Headache, almost depriving him of power of thinking. ■ ■Headache of the most violent kind. ^Intermittent. ■Violent headache, caused by drinking. ^ After chill. ^ Outer Head. Sweating on head and nose or on head and


By regionHering
Chest '' Smell and Nose. ■Annoying dryness of nostrils. ■ Fluent coryza, with pressure in frontal sinuses. ■ Constant sneezing in forenoon; sneezing for an hour, at noon. …

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Compare Natrum Muriaticum, Arsenicum Album, Belladonna +1

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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