Library · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Laurocerasus

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

Open remedy: Laur.

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

Region:

MIND

BRAIN

Nerves

Gullet

Chest

Respiration

Heart

Worse:

Sitting up

Exertion

Cold

Better:

Lying with head low

Eating

Sleep

Open air

Symptoms accompanied by SUDDEN DEBILITY, lack of reaction, blunted senses, coldness or cyanosis. Weak sphincters. Sinkings. Long faints. Falling down; sensation; in brain; in abdomen, heart, etc. Nervous collapse. Apoplexy. Internal burning. Haemorrhage; of thin blood. Twitchings; facial. SUDDEN LOSS OF MEMORY, from pain, fright, etc. Head, < 11 AM - 1 PM. Speechlessness. Nightly tearing in vertex. Eyes open, protrude, staring. Objects look large. Livid face. Blue babies. NOISY SWALLOWING, then gurgling flatulence. Spasm of gullet Persistent hiccough. Low voice. Raw larynx and trachea. Suffocation, gasps for breath; on sitting up. Shallow breathing. Can't raise the chest walls. Cough, tickling; spasmodic night cough of phthisis; short or dry; of cardiac origin. Blood flecked or gelatinous sputum. Holds hand over heart. Chest pains in cardiac region. Fearful anxiety and restlessness; can't fall to sleep. Coma vigil. Weak, variable, slow or irregular pulse. Cool, livid skin.

Relations

Related: Am-c, Gel, Hyd-ac, Pru-sp.

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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