Category: Materia Medica Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from fresh adrenal glands of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

Debility. Bronchial asthma. States of exhaustion. Addison’s disease and other symptoms of adrenal exhaustion. Primary chronic polyarthritis. Hypotensive states. Vagotonia. Neurodermitis. Fissures. Mucous colitis. Tics. After burns. Geriatrics.

The drug picture of Glandula suprarenalis suis was composed in June 1995 by David Riley, M.D., Santa Fe (New Mexico), USA.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

This remedy has a noted effect on the GI tract with nausea, abdominal cramping, anf frequent stool.

Irritability and fear. Headaches worse in the forehead. Nausea. Cramping abdom- inal pain. Rectal pain. Frequent stools. Heart palpitations. Extreme sleepiness.

Mind

Irritability with difficult concentration or intolerance. FEAR worse at night and on waking, of falling, of something bad happening. Anxiety, worse on waking. Delusion she is floating in air during dream. Absent minded in the morning or forgetful. Anger that is violent and with cursing and the desire to hit. Indignation. Cheerfulness. Aversion to company and aversion to being touched. Improved confidence. Con- fused as if in a dream. Sad and discouraged in the evening. DREAMS: of rescuing children, fog, vivid, swimming, and remembered or unremembered. Dullness espe- cially in the morning on waking. Deep meditation. Changeable mood. Persistent thoughts at night making it difficult to fall asleep.

Generalities

Increased energy. Faintness, weakness, and trembling at night at 3 a.m. Weariness. Desires warm milk, ice cream, coffee, carbonated beverages, fish, sausage and hot dogs, and salt. Aversion to cheese and spices. Heat, flushes of or sensation of. Rapid pulse. Aggravation from smoke.

Vertigo

Dizzy or lightheaded.

Head

Sense of constriction of the head as if it were in a rubber band. FOREHEAD PAIN in the eyes or behind the eyes or on the right side of forehead. Dull pain in the fore- head. Occiput put that extends to the neck. Right sided temple pain. Pressing pain like a cap or in the morning on waking. Headache worse on motion in the car. Shoot- ing sensation to the side of the head or extending from temple to temple. Squeezing sensation in the forehead. Stabbing or throbbing pain in the temples.

Eye

Heaviness of the eyes and lids. Burning eye pain. Aching pain in the sockets.

Vision

Acute in the daytime.

Ear

Itching of the ears. Pressing pain in the ears.

Nose

Clear discharge. Thick, viscid discharge. Sneezing. Pinching pain. External sore- ness.

Smell

Sensitive to strong odors.

Face

Eruptions of boils on the chin or pimples on the forehead. Relaxation of the jaw muscles. Dryness of the lips with thirst. Relaxed.

Mouth

Tingling sensation in the mouth and lips. Ulcers on the inner lip.

Taste

Bitter taste at the root of the tongue.

Teeth

Toothache, worse in the teeth of the lower jaw and worse with pressure.

Throat

Mucus in throat necessitates clearing the throat.

Stomach

NAUSEA worse with motion of the car, or with fear something bad will happen. AP-

PETITE is diminished, capricious, or has easy satiety after a few bites.

Abdomen

CRAMPING ABDOMINAL PAIN, worse in the morning on waking or before and with di- arrhea. Flatulence especially after eating. Pressing abdominal pain in the hypochondria after dinner. Pain is if diarrhea would come on. Rumbling of the ab- domen. Distension in the lower abdomen.

Rectum

Pain, worse after stool. Constipation with straining. Flatus that is offensive or during stool. Diarrhea. Full sensation with constipation. Burning pain during stool. URGING that is ineffectual, before, or after stool.

Stool

FREQUENT STOOLS. Green to greenish-black stools. “Glittering” stools. SOFT, loose, or watery, or hard stool. Small or tenacious stool. Offensive like rotten eggs.

Bladder

Frequent urging to urinate at night or after drinking. Sensation of weakness of bladder muscles.

Urine

Urine has a strong odor. Copious amount.

Genitalia, Female

Painful menses improves. Decreased menstrual flow. Yellow vaginal discharge. Strong odor of the menstrual blood. Pain in the left ovary.

Respiration

Difficult respiration with tight chest during exercise.

Cough

Dry cough in conjunction with sneezing. Cough with chest congestion.

Chest

HEART PALPITATIONS with burning or pinching heart pain or with anxiety and fear. Congestion with tightness. Constriction. Heaviness and oppression as from a weight. Stitching chest pain on the left side. Tickling sensation.

Back

Back pain shooting up the back from the coccyx to the upper back. Painful back stiffness, worse in the lumbar region improves. Aching back pain in the cervical neck and extends to the head and right shoulder. Back pain during menses.

Extremities

Tingling in the upper limbs or right foot. Stiffness of the hip improves or aching pain in the hips. Chilliness of the feet at bedtime. Heaviness in the upper limbs.

Sleep

VERY SLEEPY in the afternoon at 3 p.m. or that is overwhelming. Difficulty in falling asleep from thoughts, or falling asleep early.

Perspiration

Sweating during sleep that wakes her from her sleep. Perspiration smelling like peaches.

Skin

Painful cracks in the skin of the knuckles. Painful boils on the skin. Sensation of heat. Softness and smoothness of skin.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh submandibular sali- vary gland of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The main indications are:

Disturbances in salivary secretion. May be tried in Parkinson’s disease.

see Corpus Pineale Suis.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from fresh parathyroid epithelial corpuscles of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The most essential indications are:

Tetany. Disturbances in the calcium metabolism. Chronic arthritis and arthrosis. Coxalgia. Shock following strumectomy. Bronchial asthma. Hypertensive states. Rickets. Myositis ossificans. Ankylosing spondylitis. Osteomalacia. Osteochondrosis. Tics. Pylorospasm. Sudeck’s atrophy. Umbilical colics.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Glandula parathyreoidea, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for glandula parathyreoidea suis: calcium-metabolism disorders.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh lymph nodes of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The esential indications are:

Lymphadenopathy. Exudative diathesis. Hodgkin’s disease (malignant lym- phoma). As a supporting remedy in lymphosarcoma and reticuloses (with Galium and Psorinum). Vague swellings of the lymph nodes from other causes. Umbilical colics. Agranulocytosis. Chronic tonsillitis. Hypertrophy of the tonsils.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried root of the plant, Panax ginseng

C.A. Meyer, which grows wild in Manchuria and Korea. N.O. Araliaceae.

The principal indications are:

States of nervous exhaustion. Raises libido (and in many cases potency too).

The symptom-picture of Ginseng exhibits a predominance of right-sided com- plaints. There are pressing and stabbing pains in various parts, a spasmodic contrac- tion of the stomach, in the fingers and lower extremities, with stiffness of the joints, a sensation of heaviness and a painful feeling of exhaustion in the extremities. There is a battered pain in the sacrum and thighs, likewise with the right side predominat- ing.

There is also a predominant weakness of intellect, and forgetfulness with confu- sion and heaviness of the head; the senses are dulled.

Vertigo, hemicrania with ptosis of the eyelids, heat in the head and a tendency to sleep, are also indications for Ginseng.

There is characteristic paralytic ptosis, with difficulty in opening the upper lids. This is accompanied by a certain weakness of vision with hypersensitivity to light, visual distortion, and double vision.

Apart from weakness in the neck muscles there is stiffness and a battered pain in the spine, the sacrum and the hands and arms, with trembling and coldness. There are also contractures in the right hand, pains in the hips and knee joints, and neural- gic conditions of the sciatic nerve, extending to the toes.

The digestive organs are affected, with the tongue red and burning painfully, dry, cracked lips, especially the lower one, eructations, nausea with retching and stomach

pains with a sensation of contraction, stabbing pains in the liver region and constric- tion of breathing. There are also irritative states in the genito-urinary organs, with frequent urging for urination, burning, itching and discharge of dilute urine with de- posits of urates. There are erections at night without emissions.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Panax pseudoginseng, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for ginseng: rheumatism; general weakness and debilitation.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh gum of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

The essential indications are:

Periodontitis. Apical foci. Gingivitis. Chronic aphthous ulcers.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts in flower, Geranium robertianum, a native of Europe and North America. N.O. Geraniaceae.

Geranium robertianum contains a bitter substance, Geraniin, also tannins and a volatile oil.

It has an astringent action and is used in chronic enteritis, also with bloody stools and diarrhoea. It is also used in gastroenteritis, and as an external astringent in wounds, ulcers, fistulas, eczemas, and in gout, rheumatism, calculi and jaundice. Beneficial results are also seen in glandular illness, enlargement of the tonsils, swelling of the cervical glands and umbilical colic in children.

A proving of this substance was conducted in the summer and fall of 1994 by  Dr. David Riley.

Congruent symptoms with Dr. Reckeweg:

• stomach pain, enteritis
• rheumatism

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

Anxiety associated with dreams is a strong component to this remedy as is rapid heart rate.

Great anxiety. Irritability. Vivid dreams. Rapid pulse rate. Head pains that are sharp and pressing. Nausea. Increased flatulence. Aching in the back or the extrem- ities.

Mind

GREAT ANXIETY. ANXIETY worse on waking in the morning, worse after midnight and in association with bad dreams. Busy. Irritability, and restlessness. Self-re- proachful. Aversion to company especially of friends. Difficult concentration. Dull- ness when exerting the mind. VIVID DREAMS THAT ARE REMEMBERED. DREAMS of amorous, death of relatives, kangaroos, urinating, business and work. Hurried and impatient. IRRITABILITY in company or at work. Restlessness on waking or when busy. Sadness especially before menses. Sensitive to noise. Repetitive thoughts. Sexual thoughts. Time passes too slowly. Weeping before menses.

Generalities

Increased energy in the morning or improvement of fatigue at noon. Food desires of chocolate, and juicy fruit and melons. Aversion to sour or tobacco. Heat, flushes of heat or lack of internal heat. Feeling heavy in the body or relaxed sensation. Excessive physical agitation as if speeded up. RAPID HEART BEAT with palpitations. Weariness.

Vertigo

Lightheaded with a feeling that she was about to faint.

Head

Rushes of blood to the head. Eruptions of whiteheads on the forehead. Flushes of heat to the head. Heaviness of the head. Pulsations in the forehead and temples. Tin- gling in the forehead. PAIN IN THE FOREHEAD, OCCIPUT, and temple. Cutting pain in the forehead. Dull forehead pain. Head pain after eating ice cream, after washing hair, or on moving the eyes to the left. Head pain better from sleeping. SHARP HEAD PAIN in the forehead or temples. Forehead pain between the eyes. Occiput pain on the left side or in the morning on waking. PRESSING PAIN in the occiput or in small spots. Swollen sensation.

Eye

Lachrymation. Improvement of allergy symptoms like lachrymation, burning pain, redness, and scratching sensation. Eyes feel as if wide open.

Ear

Full, pressing sensation in both ears.

Nose

Clear nasal discharge or improvement of clear post nasal drip. Discharge from the posterior nares. Improvement of sinus congestion and snuffling. Burning pain inside the nostrils.

Face

Dark circles and swelling around the eyes. Eruptions of acne or pimples on the forehead and nose, or of eczema on the cheeks. Greasy skin on the face. Pressing pain on the cheek bones as from sinus pain.

Mouth

White coating on the tongue. Painful, swollen gums. Prickling under the tongue. Dryness.

Throat

Improvement of constricting sensation. Dryness. Clearing of the throat from mucus.

Stomach

Anxiety in the stomach. APPETITE that is decreased or increased. NAUSEA, worse in the afternoon and evening, or particularly after eating or after the stool. Indigestion. Distension or sensation of fullness. Belching that is burning or continuous. Low grade pain in the stomach and abdomen also worse after eating. Rumbling. Thirst that is unquenchable.

Abdomen

Distension. Gurgling after stool. Pain that is cramping before or after stool or sore pain. Rumbling. Stiffness or tension especially on the left side.

Rectum

INCREASED FLATULENCE especially while at stool. Constipation. Diarrhea in the morning or that is painful. Pain during stool that is burning or stinging.

Stool

Dark. Frequent. Hard. Large. Offensive in odor. Soft and watery. Yellow.

Bladder

Sore and burning bladder pain worse during urination.

Genitalia, Female

Dryness and itching of the vagina. Vaginal discharge that is yeasty or brown. Scanty menses or copious menses. Menses occurs only during urination. Tenderness in the vagina. Sexual desire is increased or decreased.

Respiration

Difficult inspiration, or painful inspiration with anxiety.

Chest

Pain on inspiration that is burning under the sternum, or stitching in the breast. Perspiration in the axilla that smells of musk. Weak sensation. Fluttering.

Back

Aching back pain that extends from the neck to the shoulders or aching pain in the lumbosacral region improves. Pinching under the right scapula. Pain worse on turn- ing the head.

Extremities

Dry eczemic eruptions all over the body that are itching. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Stiffness of the left hip. Tension in the hand joints or stiffness of foot. Weak- ness of the shoulder. ACHING of the extremities and joints: shoulder, elbow, hand, fin- gers and finger joints, wrist, knee, back of foot, toes and joints of toes. Cutting pain in the big toe. Pain worse on motion of walking. Sore pain especially of the palm of the hand or foot and toe joints. Stitching hip pain.

Sleep

Deep sleep. Difficult sleep or difficulty in falling asleep. Sleepless in the evening. Sleepiness that is overpowering in the morning, or in the afternoon. Waking with the desire to urinate.

Perspiration Musk-like odor. Skin

Eruptions all over the body. Eczema. Eruptions that peel. Acne and pimples during the menses. Itching.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh root of the plant, Gentiana lutea L., which is found in the European alps. N.O. Gentianaceae.

Essential indications are:

Chronic gastritis. Flatulence. Diarrhoea.

The main action of the remedy is aimed at the digestive organs, with dryness of the mouth, sticky saliva, an earthy taste, eructations, nausea, retching and vomiting. Another indication is a feeling of pressure and heaviness in the stomach, with dis- tension in the stomach region and a constricted sensation, as if bound up, distension with abdominal pains and discharge of foetid flatus, also colicky pains with urging for stool and continual discharge of wind with eructations. The stools are usually preceded by intestinal colic, loose, soft and light yellow.

There is also increased excretion of urine.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Gentiana lutea, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for gentiana lutea: digestive disorders.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh rootstock of the plant, Gelsemium sempervirens [L.] Jaume St.-Hil., which grows on river banks in the West of North and Central America. N.O. Loganiaceae.

The tincture obtained from wild jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is also used in general medicine as a nerve remedy. In addition the symptoms obtained from the homoeopathic proving on healthy people give us a typical remedy picture, with ref- erence to numerous diseases, particularly diseases of the nervous system, or in which it is involved, so that Gelsemium occupies a position of the first rank in ho- moeopathic prescribing.

Nash picks out as the most prominent symptom the complete relaxation and ex- haustion of the entire muscular system, with partial or complete paralysis of the motor nerves, as though the muscles would no longer obey the will. The first symp- tom to occur in this is a feeling of relaxation and general fatigue, with the desire to lie down. The pulse is quickened by the slightest movement. The legs tremble when walking. The hands and tongue also tremble with weakness, so that Gelsemium has also been called the “trembling remedy”. The weakness is further characterised by ptosis of the eyelids, disturbances in speech and difficulty in swallowing, as may occur in bulbar palsy. Violent congestions of the head frequently occur, associated with headaches and neuralgias, possibly of the migraine variety, in which the pains may be dull or sudden or shooting, possibly linked with convulsions. The face may be dark red. In many cases the pains rise from the nape of the neck up over the head, with the sensation of a band around the head.

Gelsemium patients are generally sluggish, sleepy and avoid movement. There is also an inability to concentrate. The patients can neither think clearly nor focus their attention on a particular point. The sleep is restless and full of dreams, as if in a stu- por. However, there may also be sleeplessness on account of the lively flow of thoughts, with a compensating sleepiness by day and long, deep sleep in the morn- ing. (cf. Nux Vomica).

Nervous, feverish illnesses are brought about by sudden excitement, bad news, fright and forebodings, and in such cases sudden diarrhoea may occur as a natural regressive vicariation. Stage-fright is also an indication for Gelsemium. Vertigo is in- fluenced by Gelsemium if it is accompanied by dimness of sight, double vision and a sensation of intoxication. Headaches are often relieved by copious urination. Nau- sea may also be linked with the headache.

Gelsemium is often indicated as a fever remedy, a certain exhaustion being pres- ent, with drowsiness and congestion of the brain as in typhoid fevers, but without the intensity of Belladonna. A shivering sensation, with the shivers running up and down the spine, is also an indication for Gelsemium, (otherwise principally for Natrum Muriaticum).

Gelsemium is quite particularly indicated in states of paralysis, e.g. after apoplexy or also in weakness of the bladder and urinary incontinence; also in post-diphtherit- ic paralysis. The stools are copious and yellow, often associated with cramp in the anal sphincter and with haemorrhoidal pains. Gelsemium is also indicated in dys- menorrhoea and in violent migraines which set in one day before the menses begin, accompanied by vomiting.

Dahlke recommends Gelsemium in any kind of paralysis, also in influenzal ca- tarrhs and when complaints are aggravated in warm, humid weather and in the heat of summer. Gelsemium is also recommended in typhoid or bilious fevers preceded by disturbances of vision, in migraines preceded by blindness, in convulsions of children and during the puerperium and when there is a hysterical tendency to swings of mood, in functional heart problems (fear, as if something were about to happen), in diarrhoea (resulting from stage-fright, exam-failure etc.), in nervous sleeplessness and in glaucoma.

Gelsemium is indicated in colds when there is thin, fluent nasal discharge and bloody mucus is blown out.

The following is a summary of the symptoms occuring frequently in practice, which Gelsemium has proved effective in helping:

1. Swimming in the head and vertigo with a drunken feeling.
2. Typhoid fever with shivering, relaxation and exhaustion.
3. Migraines and headaches, as if there were a band around the forehead, relieved by copious urination. Inability to concentrate. Numbed state.
4. Nervous paralysis after diphtheria, apoplexy, etc. Speech impaired, with trem- bling, heavy tongue. Swallowing difficult, may be tried in bulbar palsy.
5. Trembling and states of anxiety in the heart, as if it would stop beating.
6. Incontinence of urine. Dysmenorrhoea. Diarrhoea after excitement. Stage-fright.
7. Colds with bloodstained mucus blown from the nose.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Gelsemium sempervirens, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for gelsemium: headaches; nervous disorders; infectious diseases; paraly- sis; spasmodic conditions.