Sticta
Lungwort
Abdomen
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Diarrhoea; stools profuse, frothy; worse, morning. Urine increased, with soreness and aching in bladder.
Compare
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Eryng.; Dros.; Stilling.; Rumex; Sambus.
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Datura arborca — Bougmaneia Candida (cannot concentrate thoughts; brain floats in thousands of problems and grand ideas. Floating sensation as if ideas were floating outside of brain. Headache, heartburn. Burning sensation aiound cardiac end of stomach, extending to oesophagus with sense of constriction. Heat and fullness over liver region.) Cetraria — Iceland Moss (chronic diarrhoea, phthisi.s, bloody expectoration.) Also
Dose
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Tincture in tento fifty-drop
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Tincture, to sixth potency. STIGMATA MAYDIS — ZEA (Corn-silk) Has marked urinary symptoms, and has been used with success in organic heart disease, with much oedema of lower extremities and scanty urination Enlarged pro.state and retention of urine. Uric and phosphatic Gonorrhoea. Cystitis.
Extremities
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Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid, and biceps. S^^elling, heat, redness of joints. Spot of inflammation and redness over affected joint. Pain severe and drawing. Chorea-like spasms ; legs feel floating in air. Housemaid's knee. [Rhus; Kali hyd.: Slag.] Shooting pains in knees. Joints arid neighboring muscles red, swollen, painful. Rheumatic pains precede catarrhal .symptoms.
Female
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Scanty flow of milk.
Guiding symptoms
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Offers a set of symptoms like coryza, bronchial catarrh and influenza, together with nervous and rheumatic disturbances. There is a general feeling of dullness and malaise, as when a cold is coming on ; dull, heavy pressure in forehead, catarrhal conjunctivitis, etc. Rheumaiic stiffness of nerk.
Head
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Dull headache, with dull heavy pressure in forehead and root of
Mind
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Feels as if floating in air. [Datura arborca.] Confusion of ideas; patient must talk.
Modalities
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Worse, sudden changes of temperature.
Nose
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Catarrhal headache before discharge appears. Burning in eyes and soreness of balls. Sensation as if scalp were too small. Burning in eyelids.
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[.V/ijr.] Atrophic rhinitis. [Calc, fluor.] Dryness of na.^al membrane. Constant need to blow the nose, but no discharge. Dry scabs, especially in evening and night. 1 1 ayfever; incessant sneezing. [Sabad.]
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Feeling of fullness at the root of the
Respiratory
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Throat raw; dropping of mucus posteriorly. Dry, hacking cough during night; worse, in- 704 STK'TA — STIGMATA MAYDIS spiraiioH. Tracheitis, facilitates expectoration. Loose cough in morning. Pain through chest from sternum to spinal column. Cough after measles [5'an^.]; worse toitfards evening and when tired. Pulsation from right side of sternum dojvn to
Urinary
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Suppre.ssion and retention. Dysuria. Renal Ihhiasis : nephritic colic ; blood and red sand in STIGMATA MAYDIS — STILLINGIA — STRAMONIUM 705 urine. Tenesmus after urinating. Vesical catarrh. Gonorrhoea. Cystitis.
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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