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Symphytum

Keynotes and Characteristics · H. C. Allen

Open remedy: Symph.

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Comfrey-Boraginaceae

General

Facilitates union of fractured bones [Cal. p.]; lessens peculiar pricking pain; favors production of callous; when trouble is of nervous origin. Irritability at point of fracture; periosteal pains after wounds have healed. Mechanical injuries; blows, bruises, thrusts on the globe of the eye. pain in eye after a blow of an obtuse body; snow ball strikes the eye; infant thrusts its fist into its mother's eye [to soft tissues around the eye, Arn.].

Relations

Compare: Arn., Calend., Cal. p. Fluor. ac., Hep., Sil.] Follows well: after Arnica, for pricking pain, and soreness of periosteum remaining after an injury.

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These titles sit beside the repertory: Allen’s Keynotes, Anshutz on the twelve tissue remedies, Boericke’s materia medica, Clarke’s Dictionary, Hering, Jones, Kent’s lectures, Nash, and Boger’s Synoptic Key. Philosophy includes Hahnemann’s Organon (5th and 6th), Kent, Close, Burnett, Haehl, Gibson Miller, Royal, J. H. Allen, and Anshutz. Clinical, therapeutics, regional works, and short remedy pictures follow the same shelf.

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