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Thea

Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica · William Boericke

Open remedy: Thea.

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

Tea

General

Nervous sleeplessness, heart troubles, palpitation, and dyspepsia of old tea-drinkers. Produces most of the sick headaches Tabacum antidotal (Allen).

Head

Temporary mental exaltation. Ill-humored. Sick headache radiating from one point. Sleepless and restless. Hallucinations of hearing. Cold damp feeling at back of head.

Stomach

Sinking sensation at epigastrium. FAINT, GONE FEELING. [SEP.; HYD.; OLEAND.] Craves acids. Sudden production of wind in large quantities.

Abdomen

Borborygmi. Liability to hernia.

Female

Soreness and tenderness in ovaries.

Heart

Anxious oppression. Praecordial distress. Palpitation; unable to lie on left side. Fluttering. Pulse rapid, irregular, intermittent.

Sleep

Sleepy in daytime; sleepiness at night, with vascular excitement and restlessness, and dry skin. Horrible dreams cause no horror.

Modalities

WORSE, night, on walking in open air, after meals. BETTER warmth; warm bath.

Relationship

Antidote: KALI HYPOPHOS.; THUJA.; FERR.; KALI HYD. (Material doses for tea-taster's cough.)

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Theine 1/4-1/2 grain hypodermically for sciatica and supraorbital neuralgia.

What is in this library

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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