Library · Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica
For educational use by students and qualified practitioners. Not medical advice. Consult a registered homeopath.
Colic Root
A vascular stimulant. Increases functional activity of the skin, mucous membranes.
Of use in dropsy due to liver and spleen diseases, also renal dropsy. Here the suppressed urination is most favorably influenced. GENERAL ANASARCA due to heart and kidney disease. DIARRHOEA, with violent urging and pain in lower part of back.
Colic. Locally, applied to ulcers and unhealthy wounds.
A prompt diuretic.
1 to 4 drams of tincture or infusion.
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.
