Xerophyllum
Tamalpais Lily. Basket Grass Flower
Abdomen
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Intestinal flatulence. In morning rumbling in boweks, with desire tor stool.
Back
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Feels hot from sacrum to scapulae. Backache, extending down legs. Pain over
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Sudden cricks in neck, pains more severe behind
Compare
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Rhus; Anaeard.; Grin^ delia.
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Elcctricitas. — Sugar of milk saturated with the current, (Anxiety, nervous tremors, restlessness, palpitation, headaches. Dreads approach of thunder-.storms ; heaviness of
Dose
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Sixth potency or higher. X-RAY (Vial containing alcohol exposed to X-Ray) Repeated exposure to Roentgen (X-ray) has produced skin lesions often followed by cancer. Distressing pain. Sexual glands are particularly affected. Atrophy of ovaries and testicles. Sterility. Changes take place in the blood lymphatics and bone marrow. 784 X-RAY Anjemia and leiik.-cniia. • Corresponds to stubbornness as in burns, they refuse to heal. Psoriasis. Has the property of stimulating cellular metabolism. Arouses the reactive vitality, mentally and physically. Bring.s to the surface suppressed symptoms, especially sycotic and those due to mixed infections. Its homcEopathic action is thus centrifugal, towards the periphery.
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Twelfth potency and higher.
Ears
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Pain in muscles of neck when lifting head from pillow. Fullness in ears, ringing in
Extremities
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Muscular lameness, trembling. Pain in knees. Limbs feel stiff.
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Rheumatic pains. General tired and sick feeling. Palms rough and scaly.
Eyes
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Painful, as of sand, smarting ; diflicult to focus for close work.
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Great pressure at root of
Face
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Dull pain in right upper jaw. Stiff
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Bloated in morning. Puffy under
Female
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Bearing-down sensation. Vulva inflamed, with furious itching. Increased sexual desire, with ovarian and uterine pains and leucorrhcea.
Guiding symptoms
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Should prove curative in eczematous conditions, poison-oak, early typhoid states, etc.
Head
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Feels full, stuffed up, pain across forehead and above
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Sticking pains in different parts of head and
Kidneys
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Heat deep in
Limbs
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.) M^gnetis Poll Ambo. — The Magnet. — Sugar of milk Of!!5^tilled water exposed to influence of entire magnet, fit^ming lancinations throughout the body; pains as X-RAY — YOlllMBINUM 785 if broken in joints, when cartilages of two bones touch; shooting and jerkings; headache as if a nail were driven in; tendency of old wounds to bleed afresh.) Magiictis Polus Arcticus. — North pole of the magnet. — (Disturbed sleep, somnambulism, cracking in cervical vertebrae, sensation of coldness ; toothache.) Magneiis Polus Australis. — South pole of the magnet. — (Severe pain in inner side of nail of the big toe, ingrowing toe-nail, easy dislocation of joint of foot; feet are painful when letting them bang down.)
Male
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Lewd dreams. Sexual desire lost. Reestablishes suppressed gonorrhoea.
Mind
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Dull, cannot concentrate mind for study; forgets names; writes last letters of ivords first; misspells common words.
Modalities
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Worse, application of cold water, in afternoon and evening. Better, application of hot water, in morning, moving affected part.
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JJ’orse, in bed. afternoon, evening and night; open air.
Mouth
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Tongue dry, rough, sore. Throat painful on swallowing. Nausea.
Nose
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Stuffed; tightness at bridge of nose, ’.acute nasal catarrh.
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Bewildered. l^ss of consciousness.
Rectum
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Constipation, stools bard, small lumps. Difficult, soft stools, with much .straining. Much flatus. Bearing-down pain in
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XEROPIIYLLUM — X-RAY 783 Urine. — Difficulty of retaining ; dribbling when walking. Frequent urination at night.
Respiratory
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Posterior nares raw ; discharge thick, yellow mucus. Sneezing. Trachea sore; lumps feel constricted.
Skin
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Dry, itching eczema. Erythema around roots of nails. Skin dry, wrinkled. Painful cracks. Warty growths. Nails thicken. Psoriasis.
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Erythema, with vesication and intense itching, stinging, and burning. Blisters, little lumps. Skin rough and cracked ; feds like leather. Dermatitis, especially around knees. Inflammation resembling poison oak. Inguinal glands and behind knee swollen.
Stomach
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Feels full and heavy. Eructations sour; offensive, an hour after luncheon and dinner. Vomiting at 2 p. M.
Throat
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Stitching pain upon swallowing.
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
Published by Gentle Pills under CC0 1.0 — original wording, dedicated to the public domain. Not a substitute for the primary texts.
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.