Author: Urenus

The mother tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant of Taraxacum officinale Wiggers, gathered when coming into flower. It occurs in meadows and pastures of Europe, Asia, North Africa and America. N.O. Compositae.

The main indications are:

Liver remedy. Bitter taste. Mapped tongue (cf. Arsenicum Album).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Taraxacum officinale, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for taraxacum: inflammations and diseases of the hepatotobiliary system.

The attenuations are prepared from the following mediterranean Tarentula spiders: Lycosa fasciiventris Duf., Lycosa hispanica Walck. or Lycosa tarentula L./Lycosidae.

The main indications are:

Motor restlessness. Trembling and jerking of the extremities. Hysteria, hysterical epilepsy. Hyperaesthesia. Melancholia. Parkinson’s disease. Carbuncles with bluish appearance. Painful tumours. Dysmenorrhoea. Restlessness of the legs.

In many cases of Parkinson’s disease (paralysis agitans) it can act outstandingly, even when the cause is encephalitic.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Tarantula hispanica, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for tarantula: acute skin inflammations; general blood poisoning; headaches, angina pectoris; hyperexcitability; hypersensitivity.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in flower without stalks of the plant Chrysanthemum vulgare (L.) Bernh., a native of Europe, Northern Asia and North America. N.O. Compositae.

The main indications are:

Physical problems and nervous irritation arising from worm-infestation (twitch- ing, tics, nervous irritation in children, etc.).

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Chrysanthemum vulgare, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for tanacetum vulgare: nervous exhaustion, spasmodic conditions of the musculature and hollow organs.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried unfermented leaves of the plant Nicotiana tabacum L., a native of Central America and cultivated in many other places. N.O. Solanaceae.

The main indications are:

Collapse with pallor and cold sweat, trembling, coldness of the limbs. Angina pectoris, pain in the left arm, fear of death. Migraine. Renal colic. Hernias with ten- dency to symptoms of strangulation. Cholera with icy coldness of body. Neuralgia. Vertigo and Menière’s syndrome.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Nicotiana tabacum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for tabacum: complaints associated with acute hypotension; diarrhoea with vomiting; angina pectoris.

The mother tincture is prepared from the ripe, dried fruits of the plant Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels, a native of the East Indies and Malaysia, and grown in Mauritius and the West Indies. N.O. Myrtaceae.

The main indications are:

Diabetes mellitus.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Szygium cumini, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for syzygium jambolanum: application as adjuvant in case of diabetes mellitus.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh root, gathered before flowering, of the plant Symphytum officinale L., which is found in damp meadows and in ditches in Europe and Siberia. N.O. Boraginaceae.

The tincture prepared from Symphytum contains essential oil and alkaloids, allan- toin, choline, the glycoside consolidin, tannins and resins.

Symphytum is very much a folk-remedy; there has not been a proving, and it has been used for many years in injuries and fractures of the bones, and also when there is involvement of the periosteum, whether from pressure, blows, falls, or bruising; it is also used in injury to the tendons and ligaments, and in irritability of the stump following amputation (Fellenberg-Ziegler).

Symphytum promotes callus-formation, as does Calcium Phosphoricum. Symphytum is used with success not only in irritable stumps after amputation,

(causalgia), but also in sensitivity of the bones at the site of a fracture.

Occipital headaches, which move about, possibly extending over the vertex to the forehead (cf. Cimicifuga), and also extend down the nasal bone, react to Symphytum. Inflammation of the mandible with hard infiltration and redness is likewise an in- dication for Symphytum (Boericke). It is especially recommended in pains of the eyes which occur after a blow with a blunt object, and generally in eye injuries, for

which Symphytum may be regarded as specific.

There may be ulceration of the eyeball, or at least the sensation of an ulcer, with spasmodic closing of the eyelids.

Heinigke mentions as an indication psoas abscess, following tubercular disease of the spine. In addition to inflammations of the lower jaw, inflammations of the pe- riosteum generally, following injury, are an indication for Symphytum. (Otherwise Ruta.) Symphytum is also said to act in backache following sexual excesses, and in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers it is likewise useful.

Symphytum is generally used internally in low potencies, and externally in the tincture, or in compresses of diluted tincture. (1 part of tincture, made from the fresh plant in flower, to 5 parts of lukewarm water).

The essential symptoms and areas of indication for Symphytum are as follows:

1. Fractures of all kinds, especially of the long bones (legs), particularly indicated when the sites of the fractures are very painful (including pain which persists after the fracture has healed). Irritable stumps after amputation (causalgia).
2. Psoas abscess following tubercular disease of the spine. Inflammation of the mandible. Periosteal inflammations after injury.
3. Eye injury after contusion or blow.
4. Occipital headaches, changing position and extending forward, along and down the nasal bone.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Symphytum officinale e radice,

published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Fed- eral Gazette) for symphytum: injuries suffered to the bones and the periosteum.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the sympathetic nerve-tissue of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

General autonomic weakness. Sudeck’s atrophy. Hypotension. Raynaud’s gan- grene. Buerger’s disease. Hypernephroma (experimentally). Migraine. Bronchial asthma. Duodenal ulcer. Angina pectoris. Diabetes mellitus.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from putrefied pork and strongly heat- ed pork fat.

The main indications are:

Severe homotoxic overloading in phases of all kinds. Generally to be interpolated or to start the treatment, for cleansing of the homotoxic “soil”. Lymphatic enlarge- ment. Tendency towards suppurations, boils, carbuncles. Grumbling appendicitis, leucorrhoea, cholangitis, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis.

For breaking down severe homotoxic deposits, this is one of the most important nosodes, along with Influenzinum, Insecticide, Adeps Suillus, Diphtherinum and Psorinum.

The attenuations are prepared from concentrated Sulphuric acid, H₂SO₄ , MW: 98.1.

The main indications and symptoms are as follows:

Chronic dyspepsia (catarrh of drinkers), burning haemorrhoids. Hot flushes, copi- ous sweat, mostly odourless. Diarrhoea in the morning. Haemorrhagic tendency. Thrombocytopaenic purpura. Run-down constitution. Chronic asthma.

It should also be noted, in respect of this remedy, that, on account of the radical bi- ological properties and therapeutics possibilities of the acids, potentised Sulphuric Acid is indicated for numerous symptoms anywhere from the reaction phase to the degeneration phase.

Rheumatic pains in the sacrum and the legs may be so bad that the patient cannot stand without support. This is combined with an unusual weakness, so that the arms can hardly be raised, together with a trembling sensation in the body which, howev- er, cannot be objectivised. There is a tendency to develop muscle-cramps.

There is a general aggravation in fresh air.

The patient is in a bad mood, as if hung-over, evil-tempered and sleeping badly after waking too early, therefore feeling drowsy at rising time (cf. Nux Vomica.) Sulphuric Acid is well-suited to alcoholics, and is otherwise indicated in impregna- tion phases such as pruritus, in chronic eczemas, neurodermitis, especially eruptions on the head, face, and on the neck with greying and falling out of the hair. There is a typical taut feeling in the facial skin, as of dried egg-white on it, and also ptosis of the upper eyelids, which may be accompanied by conjunctivitis with photophobia and dimness of vision.

There are catarrhs of the mucosa, such as dry or fluent coryza, laryngitis, cough- ing attacks with regurgitations, dyspnoea and shortness of breath, with motion of the alae nasae (cf. Lycopodium).

There are gingivitis, stomatitis, gastritis (catarrh of drinkers), nausea and stomach cramps, abdominal distension with borborygmi, tenesmus at stool, sheep-dung stool, tenesmus of the bladder, itching of the genitalia and acrid leucorrhoea.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Acidum sulphuricum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for acidum sulphuricum: gastric disorders; haemorrhagic diathesis; ener- vation/exhaustion; dermal and venous disorders.

The attenuations are prepared from a cooled melt of sulphur and iodine containing not less than 70.0 and not more than 80.0 per cent of iodine.

The main indications are:

Acne vullgaris. Boils. Breast lumps. Resorption remedy.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Sulfur iodatum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for sulfur iodatum: inflammations of the respiratory passages, the parietal pleura, and the intestinal tract (especially the large intestine); enlargement and hardening of glandular organs such as the lymph glands and the mammary glands.