Library · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Dioscorea Villosa

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · C. M. Boger

Open remedy: Dios.

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

Region:

NERVES: Cord, Abdominal, Sciatic

Navel

Gall-bladder

Right side

Worse:

Doubling up

Lying

Tea; eating

Better:

Stretching out or bending back

Motion; in open air (Mag-c, Pul)

Hard pressure

A remedy of pains, of all kinds. UNBEARABLY SHARP, CUTTING, TWISTING, GRIPING OR GRINDING PAINS; that dart about or radiate; to distant parts, arms, etc; in paroxysms; cease suddenly, then start in a different place; periodical. Shudderings, from pain, etc. Nervous and easily troubled Confused, full head Sensation as if head were crushed down (Dio). Eructations; with hiccough. Cardialgia. Pains shoot from liver to right nipple. Violent abdominal colic, > motion; pains go into back, chest or arms. Flatulence. Darting, from anus to liver. Piles like a bunch of cherries. Weakening morning diarrhoea, without relief. Erections lasting all night. Cold relaxed sexual organs. Atonic emissions, then weakness; < knees. Violent dysmenorrhoea. Chest or cardiac pains radiate into both arms. Felon. Burning, numb, sciatic (r) pain, < motion. Hamstrings seem too short. Cold, clammy sweat; of strong odor on genitals.

Relations:

Related: Colo, Mag-c.

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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