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Hippuric Acid

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · William Boericke

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

Proved by Dr. Wm. B. Griggs

General

Its chief action is on the external tissues of the eyes and naso-pharynx, joint surfaces, liver and mucous membranes. Right side especially affected, general muscular soreness.

Head

Pain over right eye, dull, constant, worse in warm room. Eyelids inflamed and swollen.

Throat

Sore, raw, dry, swallowing difficult, foul odor, gummy exudate; thickness and infiltration of all tissues around throat.

Stomach

Acid rising. Lump in pit of stomach. Soreness and pressure over liver.

Female

Menstrual flow for three weeks with complete relief of muscular and joint pains.

Extremities

Backache extending down hips. Pain in shoulders and extremities and sore swollen joints. Pain in middle of thigh posteriorly shooting down right leg. Tired, grating sensation in the joints.

Skin

Itching, burning. Papules looking like goose flesh on chest.

Relationship

Benzoic acid seems to be an analogue.

Dose

Lower potencies.

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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.

Chapter text is on this shelf for study: open a title, then a heading. When a medicine appears in more than one materia medica, switch authors on the chapter to compare how each describes it. For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice.

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