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Filix Mas-Aspidum

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · William Boericke

Open remedy: Fil.

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Male Fern

General

A remedy for worm symptoms, especially with constipation. Tapeworm. Soporific conditions. TORPID INFLAMMATIONS OF LYMPHATIC GLANDS. (Maceration of fresh root.) Pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients, no fever, with limited, ulcerated lesions, formerly classified as scrofula.

Eyes

Blindness, monocular amblyopia.

Abdomen

Bloated. Gnawing-pain; worse eating sweets. Diarrhoea and vomiting. Worm colic, with itching of nose, pale face, blue rings around eyes. Painless hiccough.

Relationship

Compare: ASPIDIUM ALHAMANTICUM. Panna 3 doses, 2 grammes each, all in half hour, fasting in a glass of milk. Tasteless and will remove tape worm. CINA; GRANAT.; KOUSSO.

Dose

First to third potency. For the expulsion of tapeworm, a full dose of 1/2 to 1 dram of the Oleoresin, fasting.

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