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Cahinca

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · William Boericke

Open remedy: Cahin.

For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.

Brazilian Plant; Chiococca

General

This remedy has been found of use in dropsical affections. Its urinary symptoms are well marked. Albuminuria, with dyspnoea on lying down at night. Ascites and anasarca, with dry skin.

Urinary

Constant desire to urinate. Polyuria while traveling. Urine fiery. Burning pain in urethra, especially glandular portion.

Male

Drawing in of testicles and spermatic cord. Pain worse during passage of pungent smelling urine.

Back

Pain in region of kidneys; better lying bent backward. General fatigue.

Relationship

Compare: Apocyn.; Ars.; Coffea (similar botanically and in relieving effects of fatigue).

Dose

Third potency or lower.

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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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