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Leptandra

Condensed Materia Medica · C. Hering

Open remedy: Lept.

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

Culver's root

HALE.

Scrophulariceae.

Mind

Desponding; drowsy; with hepatic derangement.

Inner Head

Constant dull frontal headache; worse in temples, with aching in umbilicus.

Eyes

Smarting and aching in the eyes.

Tongue etc

Tongue yellow or black down the centre.

Eating and Drinking

Eating of meat or vegetables aggravates distress in liver, and purging : ; drinking water aggravates burning and aching in stomach and liver :

Nausea and Vomiting

Nausea, with deathly faintness on rising.

Vomiting of bile, yellow tongue, shooting pains about the liver, black stools.

Stomach

Weak sensation at the pit of stomach.

Great distress in the stomach and small intestines, with immediate desire for stool.

Burning, aching; in stomach and liver, worse from drinking water.

Hypochondria

Dull aching in liver, worse near gall-bladder.

Burning distress in back part of liver and in spine.

Jaundice, with clay-colored stools.

Abdomen

Rumbling and distress in whole bowels, especially in hypogastrium, with black stools.

Constant dull aching in the umbilical region.

Sharp, distressing pains between navel and epigastrium.

Stool etc

Stools : black, tarry, bilious, undigested, followed by great distress in the liver; mushy, with weak feeling in the bowels; greenish, muddy, spouting out like water; worse morning as soon as he moves; form meat or vegetables.

After stool, griping, but no straining.

Urine

Red, with dull aching in the limber region.

Female and Sexual Organs

Menses suppressed or retarded; liver affected.

Heart Pulse

Soreness in the cardiac region.

Pulse slow and full.

Neck & Back

Sore, lame feeling in the small of the back.

Upper Limbs

Pain in the right shoulder and arm.

Position etc

Moving : On rising : .

Time

Morning :.

Chill Fever Sweat

Chilly along the spine and down the arm.

Shivering, or dry, hot skin; limbs cold and numb; tongue black down the centre. Bilious fever.

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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