Urtica dioica

Urtica Dioica

• Common nettle

Urtica Urens

Urtica Urens

Common Names :

Burning nettle
Dog nettle
Dwarf nettle
Ortie brûlante
Small stinging nettle
Urtica minor

• A remedy for agalactia and lithiasis. 
• Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. 
• Enuresis and urticaria. 
• Spleen affections. 
• Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish. 
• Symptoms return at the same time every year. 
• Gout and uric acid diathesis. 
• Favors elimination.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Uva Ursi

Uva Ursi

Bearberry

Urinary symptoms most important. Cystitis, with bloody urine. Uterine hæmorrhage. Chronic vesical irritation, with pain, tenesmus, and catarrhal discharges. Burning after the discharge of slimy urine. Pyelitis. Calculous inflammation. Dyspnœa, nausea, vomiting, pulse small and irregular. Cyanosis. Urticaria without itching.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Vaccinium Myrtillus

Whortleberry. Bilberry. N. O. Vacciniaceæ. Tincture of fresh berries.

Clinical.─Diarrhœa. Dysentery.

Dr Clarke Mentions 

"My attention was first drawn to this remedy by Dr. A. H. Croucher in an article published in the Homœopathic Review many years ago, giving cases of inveterate diarrhœa cured by it. This experience I have repeatedly confirmed. I have always used it in the Ø tincture, generally giving 5-drop doses every four hours. It is especially applicable to vaccinal, malarial, and dysenteric cases. Whortleberry is a close relative of Cranberry, and the natural order is allied to the Ericaceæ. It is a native of heathy and swampy mountainous regions."

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica


Macular Degeneration

- Murphy, Lotus materia medica, B Jain Publishers
- Murphy, Natures materia medica

Valeriana Officinalis

Valeriana

Excessive nervous excitability; hysterical nervous temperament ; persons in whom the intellectual faculties predominate; changeable disposition. Red parts become white. Feels light as if floating in the air. Oversensitiveness of all the senses. Sensation of great coldness in head . Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat. Child vomits: curdled milk, in large lumps; same in stools; as soon as it has nursed, after mother has been angry. Sciatica: pain < when standing and letting foot rest on floor; when straightening out limb, during rest from previous exertion; > when walking.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Verbascum Thapsus

Verbascum Thapsus

Mullein
(VERBASCUM)

Has a pronounced action on the inferior maxillary branch of the fifth pair of the cranial nerves; on the ear; and respiratory tract and bladder. Catarrhs, and colds, with periodical prosopalgia. Quiets nervous, and bronchial, and urinary irritation, and cough.


- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Viburnum Opulus

Viburnum opulus

High Cranberry

A general remedy for cramps. Colicky pains in pelvic organs. Superconscious of internal sexual organs. Female symptoms most important. Often prevents miscarriage. False labor-pains. Spasmodic and congestive affections, dependent upon ovarian or uterine origin.

- Boericke W., Homeopathic Materia Medica

Vinca Minor

A remedy for skin affections, eczema, and especially plica polonica; also for hæmorrhages and diphtheria.

- Boericke W., Homeopathic Materia Medica

Viola Tricolor

                                                                             Pansy

The Pansy was proved by Hahnemann and his provers. It had an ancient reputation in asthma and epilepsy, and especially in obstinate skin diseases. Teste quotes from old observers (Starck, Haase, Murray, &c.) the following as cured by Viola tri.: 

(1) Milk-crust in children at the breast, [or] recently weaned. 
(2) Milk-crust with violent cough and excessive oppression. 
(3) Impetigo of hairy scalp and face in children and adult females. 
(4) Favus and serpiginous crusts in children and adults, with swelling and induration of cervical glands.
(5) Large boils all over body in a scrofulous child. 
(6) Pustules and ichorous exanthema of feet.
(7) Squamous spots on skin. 
(8) Rheumatism and gout; articular rheumatism with itch-like eruption round the joints. 
(9) Impetigenous exanthema on forehead. 
(10) Ichorous ulcers with violent itching. In Russia a decoction of Pansy is a popular remedy for scrofula; and Schlegel, of Moscow, used it with good effect in syphilitic affections, especially venereal ulcers. Teste (from whom I take all the above) puts Viola tri. in two groups, whose types are Lyc. and Cham. Homœopathy has brought out some characteristics of Viola tri. which single out its cases. One of these is concomitance of urinary symptoms with skin affections: Tinea capitis with frequent involuntary urination. Eczema with urinary disturbances; too copious urination; or sudden arrest of secretion. "Urine smelling like cat's urine" is a keynote. The male sexual organs were much excited. Emissions with vivid dreams occurred; swelling, itching, and pains in prepuce and glans, with erections. Peculiar Symptoms are: Face hot and sweating after eating. Dyspnœa after eating. Hands twitch and are clenched in sleep. Nervous paroxysms followed suppressed milk-crust. The axillæ and clavicular regions were noticeably affected; and stitches and burning stitches were prevailing pains. The symptoms are: < By pressure on side opposite to painful side. < Lying on unpainful side. Lying = anxiety about heart. Raising head =, and stooping >, heaviness in head. Walking = vertigo; stitches through chest and abdomen. Sitting = stitches in abdomen and groin (standing > them). < At 11 a.m.; at night. Open air > headache; = chilliness. Aversion to open air. < In winter when walking in cold air.

- Clarke J.H., A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Viscum Album

Mistletoe

Lowered blood pressure. Dilated blood vessels but does not act on the centers in the medulla. Pulse is slow due to central irritation of the vagus.

The symptoms point especially to rheumatic and gouty complaints; neuralgia, especially sciatica. Epilepsy, chorea, and metrorrhagia.Rheumatic deafness. Asthma. Spinal pains, due to uterine causes. Rheumatism with tearing pains. Hypertensive albuminuria. Valvular disease, with disturbances in sexual sphere. Symptoms like epileptic aura and petit mal.

- Boericke W., Homeopathic Materia Medica

Withania Somnifera

 It is used as a great mental tonic.  Beneficial in loss of memory. 

Yerba Santa

Yerba Santa
(ERIODICTYON)

A remedy for asthmatic and bronchial affections. Bronchial phthisis, with night-sweats and emaciation. Asthma relieved by expectoration. Cough after influenza. Furthers absorption of effusion in plural cavity. Appetite poor and impaired digestion. Whooping cough.

- Boericke W., Homeopathic Materia Medica

Yohimbinum

The natives of West Africa discovered a potent aphrodisiac in the bark of the Yohimbeha tree, and from this an active principle, Yohimbin, has been isolated and tested in Europe (Therapist, December 15, 1900). It is a powerful stimulant of the genital function in males. In animals it causes increased liveliness and cheerfulness, hyperæmia of the conjunctiva, heat and redness of the ears, and of the nose also in dogs. Lambreghts (J. Belge d'H., viii. 188) relates the case of a young man, 28, "thin, anæmic, nervous, and partially impotent," who took a 5-mgr. tablet one morning, another in the evening, and a third the following, morning. The symptoms of the Schema are his, and they were so severe that he discontinued the drug in spite of a certain amelioration of the sexual neurasthenia. Yohim. set up symptoms of fever, disordered the digestion, caused agitation and tremors, and increased the action of the heart. Eulenburg (Deut. Wed. Woch., April 25, 1901, quoted B. M. J.) used Yohim. in 10-drop doses of a 1 per cent. solution, and in 5-mgr. tablets, "in cases of neurasthenic impotence with excellent results." Yohim. should be a homœopathic remedy in priapism and congestive states of the sexual organs.

- Clarke J.H., A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Zingiber officinale

Zingiber was proved by Franz and others, and their symptoms make a full pathogenesis. The genito-urinary and respiratory systems were strongly affected. Farrington says ginger is not a safe food to give in kidney affections, as it has caused Bright's disease. Prolonged retention of urine; or complete cessation of the function of the kidneys is an indication for Zingiber In the provers it produced a cheerful, good-humoured state of mind; and when this occurs when the opposite might rather be expected, Zingiber will probably be the remedy. For instance, in asthma, Farrington gives this indication: Asthma, of gastric origin; attacks come in the night, towards morning. Patient must sit up to breathe; but despite the severity of the paroxysm, there is no anxiety. The nasal mucous membrane is affected as markedly as that of the lungs. Ozæna and postnasal catarrh are among the symptoms. Like most condiments, Zingiber has a specific action on the digestive organs, causing flatulence and other symptoms of indigestion; pressure in stomach as from a shot. Zingiber has < from eating bread; and especially from eating melons. It causes diarrhœa or constipation, and sets up some irritation of the rectum. Peculiar Sensations are: As if head too large. Confused and empty in head. As if contents of head pressed into forehead and root of nose on stooping. As if right eye were pressing out, with headache. As if a board pressing through head. As if head were pressed. As from a grain of sand in eye. As if there were an obstacle in throat to swallow over. As of a stone in stomach. Empty feeling in stomach. As if beaten in lower back. A shock-like moving downward as from a dropping fluid in left loin. Pain as from weakness in sacral region. Pain as from over-work in left deltoid. As from over-strung muscles in bend of knee. As if going to faint. The symptoms are: < By touch. < Lying. > Sitting; standing. Motion <. Rising <. Laughing and talking < headache. < Evening and night. > Uncovering. < In cold air; cold, damp air. <From bread: from melons.

- Clarke J.H., - A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

Digitalis Purpurea

Foxglove
(DIGITALIS)

Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts.Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration andhypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Bluish appearance of face. Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present. Stimulates the heart's muscles, increases force of systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion. Collapse.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Crocus sativus

Saffron
(CROCUS SATIVA)

Is a remedy often useful in hæmorrhages that are black and stringy. Tingling in various parts. Chorea and hysterical affections. Frequent and extreme changes in sensations and mental conditions. Anger with violence followed by repentance, Laughing mania. Drowsiness and lassitude; better by literary labor.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Bellis Perennis

Daisy

It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood-vessels. Much muscular soreness. Lameness, as if sprained. Venous congestion, due to mechanical causes. First remedy in injuries to the deeper tissues, after major surgical work. Results of injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing. After gout, debility of limbs.

Traumatism of the pelvic organs, auto-traumatism, expresses the condition calling for this remedy; ill effects from masturbation. Excellent remedy for sprains and bruises. Complaints due to cold food or drink when the body is heated, and in affections due to cold wind. Externally, in nævi. Acne. Boils all over. Sore, bruised feeling in the pelvic region. Exudations, stasis, swelling, come within the range of this remedy. Rheumatic symptoms. Does not vitiate the secretions. "It is a princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners" (Burnett).

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Coca

ERYTHROXYLON COCAThe Divine Plant of the Incas-but the Spanish priests denounced it as "un delusion del demonio"

The mountaineer's remedy. Useful in a variety of complaints incidental to mountain climbing, such as palpitation, dyspnœa, anxiety and insomnia. Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental strain. Caries of teeth. Loss of voice.--Give 5-6 drops, every half hour, two hours before expected demand on voice. Nocturnal enuresis. Emphysema (Quebracho).

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Alumina

  
Oxide et Aluminum-Argilla

A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states. Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina. Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica

Agnus Castus

The Chaste Tree

The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy. It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhœa. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes. Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.

- Boericke W., Homoeopathic Materia Medica