Cubeba – Cubeb

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried unripe berries of the plant, Piper cubeba L.f., a native of Malaysia. N.O. Piperaceae.

The main indications are:

Urethritis. Leucorrhoea of little girls.

Apart from general weakness and emaciation, the special characteristics of Cube- ba are said to be loss of memory and sensory weakness, together with the added

symptom of reduced feeling in the fingers and toes, the symptom disappearing when the remedy is discontinued. (Symptom from provings.)

Further symptoms from the provings included trembling of the limbs with spastic movement and slight symptoms of paralysis, an unusually light-hearted mood, flushed face and enlargement of the pupils.

With inflammation of the mucosa and a coated tongue there is a peculiar odour of the secretion, with a sensation of heat and burning in both mouth and oesophagus. In intestinal colics the copious diarrhoea has a peculiar odour. So too does the dark- coloured, foaming urine with increased urination, and at the urethral orifice there is burning itching with discharge. There is also a sensation of pressure and heaviness in the pelvis and excitement of the sexual organs, with weakness and possible inflam- mation of the epididymis.

Above all, Cubeba seems to be indicated when the first inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea has died down, there is burning in the urethra and a thick, creamy dis- charge predominates.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Piper cubeba, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for cubeba: mucosal inflammations of the urinary and reproductive organs.