Category: Materia Medica

Materia medica is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing. The term derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD. The term materia medica was used from the period of the Roman Empire until the 20th century but has now been generally replaced in medical education contexts by the term pharmacology. The term survives in the title of the British Medical Journal’s Materia Non Medica column.

  • Acetic Acid

    Glacial Acetic Acid. (CH3COOH.)

    Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.). Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Great prostration; after injuries (Sulph. ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics. Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever. Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac. ac., salivation < at night, Mer. s.). Diarrhoea; copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. True croup, hissing respiration, cough with inhalation (Spong.); last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnoea; rests better lying on belly (Am. c.). Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats.

    Relationship. It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well; after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy. It aggravates; the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Mer., especially the headache from Belladonna.

  • Abrotanum

    Southernwood. (Compositae.)

    Alternate constipation and diarrhoea; lineteria. Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic.). In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up. (Aeth.). Marasmus of lower extremities only. Ravenous hunger; loosing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat. m., Sanic., Tub.). Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic. Rheumatism; for the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea or other secretions; alternates with haemorrhoids, with dysentery. Gout; joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed. Very lame and sore all over. Itching chilblains (Agar.). Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand. Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.).

    Relationship: After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.

  • Proteus

    see Bacterium Proteus

  • Manganum Aceticum – Manganese Acetate

    The attenuations are prepared from Manganese(II)-acetate C4H6MnO4 · 4 H2O, MW: 245.1.

    The main indications are:

    Pains in the bones at night. Forgetfulness, absent-mindedness. Chronic recurring pharyngeal, laryngeal and bronchial catarrhs. Rhinitis with green, purulent, bloody and lumpy discharge. Primary chronic polyarthritis. Multiple sclerosis with muscu- lar weakness and tremors. Protracted hoarseness.

    The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Manganum aceticum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for manganum aceticum: inflammation of the upper respiratory passages; chronic skin diseases; ostealgia; articular pain; anaemia and general weakness; paralysis.

  • Citrullus colocynthis (Colocynthis, Colocynth, Bitter Cucumber)

    Spasmodic conditions in the smooth gastrointestinal musculature, causing periodic and sudden colics with stabbing pain independent of rest or movement. The animal assumes an extremely hunched position, arching the pack and avoiding any stretching of the body. The clinical symptomatology is that of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis with acute and recurrent pain and a copious diarrhea, occasionally with blood. The animals are extremely nervous (nervous irritability) and startle easily. Tendency to develop a post- prandial meteorism. Aggravation of symptoms when moving and when frightened. Amelioration after defecation, when warm, at rest and with pressure on the affected region.
    Atropinum compositum ad us. vet.
    Berberis-Homaccord® ad us. vet.
    Berberis-Homaccord®
    Carduus compositum QP ad us. vet.
    Diarrheel® SN
    Discus compositum ad us. vet.
    Hepeel® N
    Nux vomica-Homaccord® ad us. vet.
    Nux vomica-Homaccord
    Spascupreel®

  • Zincum metallicum (Zinc)

    This agent is for treatment of nervous exhaustion and restlessness. Chief symptom is unrest of the legs, which are continually in movement. Weakness and pain in the back with hypersensitivity in the region of the first lumbar vertebra. Horses tend to stumble easily as a result of paralytic symptoms in the limbs. Amelioration through exercise in fresh air.
    Discus compositum ad us. vet.
    Echinacea compositum forte S

  • Viscum album (Mistletoe)

    Geriatric medicament acting through the parasympathetic system, arteriosclerosis, dis- solves atheromatotic foci, anti-dedifferentiation factor.
    Arteria-Heel®

  • Vincetoxicum (Vincetoxicum hirundinaria, Swallow Wort)

    Stimulation of the body’s defense system with activation of the vessels and sympa- thetic influence. Appropriate, e.g., for febrile virus affections. Discovered empirically, the effect is ascribable to the constituents vincetoxin and asclepia acid, the former act- ing in a manner similar to aconite (monkshood), while the latter affects the vessels and sympathicus. The toxic symptoms displayed in proving are hypersalivation, regurgita- tion, diarrhea, and brief central excitation ensued by ascending paralysis of the central nervous system. This is a classic agent, employed, for example, in Mongolian medicine as an anti-febrile agent. As the name suggests, Vincetoxicum is utilized to combat toxins.
    Engystol® ad us. vet.
    Engystol® N

  • Viburnum opulus (European Cranberry)

    Cramps within the musculature of the uterus with great nervous unrest in older ani- mals. Threat of miscarriage ensuing traumata.
    Lilium Compositum (Gynäcoheel® N)
    Hormeel® QP ad us. vet.
    Hormeel® SN
    Hormeel® S

  • Vesica urinaria suis (Urinary Bladder)

    Cystitis, vesical tenesmus.
    Solidago compositum ad us. vet.