Onosmodium
False Gromwell
Abdomen
William Boericke 1922
Craving for ice-water and cold drinks; wants to drink often. Abdomen feels bloated.
Back
William Boericke 1922
Tired and numb feeling in legs, popliteal spaces, and below knees. Staggering gait. Sidewalk seems too high. Pain in left scapular region. Great muscular weakness and weariness.
William Boericke 1922
Pain in dorsal and lumbar regions. Numbness and tingling in feet and legs.
Chest
William Boericke 1922
Sore, aching in breasts; feels swollen and sore. Pain in
Compare
William Boericke 1922
Nat. mur.; Lilium; Gels.; Ruta.
Dose
William Boericke 1922
Thirtieth and higher have been used most frequently, but it acts equalb^ well in the 2x or 3x attenuation. OOPHORINUM — OPERCUUNA TURPETHUM — OP. 557
Eyes
William Boericke 1922
Eyes heavy and dull, muscular asthenopia; ocular muscles tense. Internal eye muscles paretic. Pain in eyeballs between orbit and ball, extending to left temple. Thrpat. — Severe dryness. Discharge from posterior nares. Raw, scraping. Stuffed feeling in posterior nares. Symptoms worse by cold drinks.
William Boericke 1922
Vision blurred; optic disc hyperaemic, and retinal vessels enlarged. Strained feeling in
Female
William Boericke 1922
Severe uterine pains; bearing-down pains; old pains return. Sexual desire completely de^ stroyed. Feels as if menses would appear. Aching in breasts. Nipples itch.’ Menses too early and too prolonged. Soreness in uterine region. Leucorrhoea, yellow, acrid, profuse.
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
Want of power of concentration and co-ordination. Vertigo, numbness and muscular prostration. Marked association of head and eye symptoms, with muscular tiredness and weariness. A remedy for migraine. Headaches from eyestrain and sexual weakness. It produces diminution of sexual desire in both sexes; hence its homoeopath icity, in sexual neurasthenia. Depressed or lost sexual life in women. Neuralgic pains. General prostration. Acts as if born tired.
Head
William Boericke 1922
Loss of memory. Nose feels dry. Confused. Dull, heavy, dizzy, pressing upward in occiput. Occipitofrontal pain in morning on walking, chiefly left side. Pain in temples and mastoid. [Capsic.]
Heart
William Boericke 1922
pulse, rapid, irregular, weak.
Male
William Boericke 1922
Constant sexual excitement. Psychical im^ potence. Loss of desire. Speedy emissions. Deficient erections.
Modalities
William Boericke 1922
fVorse, from motion, jar, and tight clothing. Better, when undressed, when lying down on hack, from cold drinks, and 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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Reminder: this information is published for qualified practitioners. Patients must not self-medicate — homeopathic prescribing depends on the complete individual symptom picture, which only a doctor can evaluate. Please visit a homeopathy doctor.