Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Plant · Coniferae (Pinaceae (sensu lato; conifers are now split into Pinaceae, Cupressaceae, Taxaceae, etc.)) · Simple
Habitat Tribe, Cupressineae
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the fresh green twigs.
Sources 21 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
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Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate. Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency
By regionHering
Mind ► Cannot think, talks slowly, as if hunting for words ; uses wrong words. ► Fixed ideas : as if a strange person was at his side ; as if soul and body were separated ; as if made of glass ; as if a living animal were in abdomen. ► Insane women will not be touched or approached. ► Hurried, with ill humor ; talks hastily. ► Disinclined to talk, worse on awaking mornings. ► Feels as if she cannot exist any longer ; quiet ; shunning everybody. ► Extremely scrupulous about least thing. ► Dissatisfied, quarrelsome ; overexcited, angry at trifles. ► Music causes weeping, and trembling of feet.
Inner Head ► Tearing in forehead, temples and occiput ; worse at night. ► Pain in left frontal eminence as from a nail. ► Pressing in vertex, as from a nail ; worse afternoon and from 3 to 4 A.M. ; better in motion and after sweat. ► Boring through temples. ► Headache worse from sexual excesses ; overheating ; better from exercise in open air, looking upward and turning the head backward. ► Headache worse from tea.
Eyes ► Flames of light, mostly yellow ; looking into light of day, sees spots like bubbles of water moving. ► Amblyopia ; blurred sight better from rubbing ; aching back into the head. ► Acts prominently on the sclerotica ; useful in episcleritis, sclero-choroiditis anterior, and commencing scleral staphyloma. ► Iritis, with condylomata on the iris ; sharp sticking in the eye with much heat above and around the eye. ► Better when eyes are warmly covered ; if uncovered, feels as if a cold stream of air was blowing out through them ; but sometimes a dull aching in the eye is relieved in the open air. ► Granular lids, when granules are large, wart-like. ► Chronic conjunctivitis, worse whenever his night's rest is disturbed. ► Dry, bran-like tinea ciliaris ; lashes imperfect and irregular. ► Inflammatory softening of inner surface of lids. ► Excellent for tarsal tumors.
Stomach ► The fluid he drinks falls audibly into stomach. ► Pit of stomach swollen ; sensitive. ► Indurations in the stomach.
Female Sexual Organs ► Embrace prevented by extreme sensitiveness of vagina. ► Menses too short and too early ; preceded by profuse sweat. ► Erosions at the os uteri, like aphthae. ► Mucous leucorrhoea. ► Cauliflower excrescences, bleeding easily and offensive. ► Left ovary inflamed, worse at each menstrual nisus ; distressing pain, burning when walking or riding ; must lie down. ► Pains in vulva and perineum ; cramp when rising from a seat ; erysipelas vulvae. ► Condylomata, moist, suppurating, stinging and bleeding. ► Erectile tumors, with burning.
Lungs ► Spasm of lungs from drinking cold water. ► Stitches in chest from drinking anything cold.
Neck And Back ► Cervical glands swollen. ► Skin on neck brown, greasy. ► Burning from small of back to between scapulae. ► Pulsating in the back. ► Spine curved, stands bent forward ; pot-bellied. ► Cramp-like pain in lumbar region after long standing ; when attempting to walk, feels as if he would fall.
Limbs In General ► Stitches in limbs and joints. ► Joints crack when limb is stretched. ► Nails crippled, or brittle, or soft. ► Rheumatism, with numb feeling ; worse in warmth, from moving at night, after 12 P.M. ; better from cold and after sweating.
Sleep ► Heavy, cannot get awake mornings. ► Sleeplessness ; sees apparitions on closing the eyes ; parts lain on painful ; from heat and restlessness ; from mental depression. ► Dreams anxious when sleeping on left side.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill : it attacks mostly evenings ; on left side, which feels cold to the touch ; after 12 P.M. and in the morning, without thirst ; internal, with external heat and violent thirst ; then sweat. ► Heat : mornings, chills afternoons ; evenings, mostly in face ; dry of covered parts ; burning, in the face, without redness. ► Sweat : only on covered parts ; general, except the head ; when walking in the morning, mostly on the head ; during sleep, stops when he awakens ; oily, fetid, smelling sweat.
Skin ► Looks dirty ; brown here and there ; brown-white spots. ► Pemphigus, painful. ► Hair thin, grows slowly, splits. ► Zona. ► Epithelioma. ► Eruptions, only on covered parts, burn violently after scratching. ► Bleeding fungous growths. ► White, scaly, dry, mealy herpes. ► Naevus. ► Condylomata ; warts, seedy, pediculated ; moist, mucous tubercles. ► Ulcers flat, with bluish-white bottom. ► Blood boils on the back. ► Small pox, stage of maturation. ► Bad effects of vaccination : emaciation ; sleeplessness ; diarrhoea ; restlessness ; trembling ; neuralgia ; paresis, etc.
Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 4, Mercurius Solubilis 3, Chamomilla 2 +10
Complementary Sabina, Silicea Terra, Medorrhinum +4
Follows well Mercurius Solubilis, Nitricum Acidum, Medorrhinum +8
Compare Antimonium Tartaricum, Apis Mellifica, Cantharis Vesicatoria +46
* 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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