Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Animal · Coelenterata (Cnidaria (phylum Coelenterata, historically including sponges)) · Simple
Habitat 20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol
ClarkePreparation Tincture (20 grains in 400 drops of alcohol).
Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
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Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.
Reason for useBoericke
A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult breathing.
▲ Worse ascending, wind, before midnight
▼ Better descending, lying with head low
By regionBoericke
Mind Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.
Head Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.
Eyes Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.
Stomach Excessive thirst, great hunger. Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.
Female Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation. During menses, wakes with suffocative spells (Cupr; Iod; Lach). Amenorrhoea, with asthma (Puls).
Respiratory Great dryness of all air-passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to touch. …
Skin Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; Goitre. …
Sleep Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into and aggravation (Lach).
Fever Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and perspiration.
Books*
Antidoted by Aconitum Napellus 2, Camphora 2, Kali Bromatum
Complementary Pulsatilla Pratensis, Stannum
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Hepar Sulphur, Bromium +7
Compare Iodium, Lachesis, Bromium +29
* 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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