Actea Spicata
Bancberry
Abdomen
William Boericke 1922
Spasmodic retraction. Sticking pain and distension of hypogastnum.
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Cimicif.; Cauloph.; Led,
Dose
William Boericke 1922
Third potency.
Extremities
William Boericke 1922
Tearing pains in loins. Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, fingers, anblcs, toes. Szoeiling of joints from sliyht fatitjuc. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion. Paralytic w'eakness in the hands. Sudden lassitude after talking or eating.
Face
William Boericke 1922
Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it. Wrist-rheumatism. Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm.
Head
William Boericke 1922
Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza.
William Boericke 1922
14 ACTEA SrrCATA — ADONIS VERNALIS
Respiratory
William Boericke 1922
Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying. Great oppression. Slioi lucss of breath on exposure lo cold air.
Stomach
William Boericke 1922
Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with diihcult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating.
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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