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Caltha Palustris

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (3 vols) · J. H. Clarke

Open remedy: Calth.

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

Marsh Marigold. N. O. Ranunculaceae. Tincture of fresh shoots and flowers.

Clinical

Cancer. Pemphigus.

Characteristics

This is an unproved remedy, but it has irritant properties like the other Ranunculaceae. Hansen gives as indications: "Pemphigus, bullae are surrounded by a ring, much itching. On the third day they are transformed into crusts. "Cooper has used it with excellent effect in a case of uterine cancer, giving single doses of the tincture at long intervals.

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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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