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Juglans Cinerea

Butternut
30 sectionsBoericke · 11Clarke · 19

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • occipital headache

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Butternut

  • A faulty elimination that produces jaundice and various skin eruptions, is pictured by this drug.
  • The sharp, occipital headache, usually associated with liver disturbances, is very characteristic.
  • Pain in chest, axilla and scapula, with suffocative sensation.
  • Feeling as if all internal organs were too large, especially those of left side.
  • Cholelithiasis.
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Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Want to be alone, want to do nothing but eat and sleep, cannot think of concentrating

my mind upon any one subject.—Confusion so that I could not study.—Dull feeling, cannot

remember anything that I read—Absent-minded, forget what I am about.

Modalities

Modalities
Boericke
Worse
walking
Better
getting heated, exercise, scratching, on rising in morning

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Dull, full head.
  • Eruption on scalp.
  • Sharp, occipital headache.
  • Head feels enlarged.
  • Pustules on lids and around eyes.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Vertigo, with slight nausea 11 a.m.—Slight vertigo with sinking faint feeling in

stomach extending to abdomen.—Headache in morning on waking, with yellow coat on

  • tongue.
  • —Dull headache in forenoon, < r.
  • side.
  • —Head feels as large as a barrel.
  • —Severe headache;

can hardly see.—Headache with frequent micturition and burning.—Fulness in frontal

  • region.
  • —Pain in forehead.
  • —Pain in r.
  • temple in forenoon.
  • —Pain in occiput in morning; > on

rising.—Sharp, shooting pains in occiput, often associated with liver disturbance.—Itching of

scalp, intense, must scratch constantly.

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

Eyes red and swollen.—Inflammation with pustules on lids and around eyes.—Eyes

burning in afternoon.—Feeling in eyes as if drawn together.—Loss of vision on sudden motion,

with faint-like giddiness.

Nose

Nose
Boericke

Tingling in nose; sneezing. Coryza, preceded by pain under sternum, with threatening suffocation. Later, copious, bland, thick mucous discharge.

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Numbness at root of nose; in bridge, > rubbing.—Dryness.—Watery discharge

  • (1.
  • ).
  • —Bleeding.
  • —"Noli me tangere" (rodent ulcer) on nose.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke

Pallor.—Erythematous redness, with dry, burning sensation.

  • 8, 9.
  • Mouth and Throat.
  • —Tongue: coated white; yellow in the morning.
  • —Burning and pricking

in mouth and throat—Taste coppery.—Swelling of submaxillary glands, < r.—Sore throat: in

forenoon, with roughness; on swallowing; with swollen feeling.—Fauces dry.—Burning in

pharynx.—Pain in r. side of fauces.

Mouth

Mouth
Boericke

Acrid feeling in mouth and throat. Soreness in region of tonsils externally. Dryness of root of tongue and fauces.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke

Atonic dyspepsia with much eructation and flatulent distention. Soreness in region of liver.

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Ferocious appetite. —Thirsty, want to drink all the time.—Nausea in

  • morning.
  • —Nausea < at night.
  • —Burning in stomach.
  • —Sinking in stomach extends to abdomen;

with headache.

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Stitches in hepatic region, and under r. scapula —Pain in each hypochondrium;

in umbilical region; in abdomen after dinner, then diarrhoea, with burning in anus; in region of

inguinal rings, with soreness on rising from a recumbent position.—Flatulent pain in different

parts of abdomen.—Heavy pain in umbilical region —Burning in abdomen after stool.

Stool

Stool
Boericke

Yellowish-green, with tenesmus and burning at anus. Camp diarrhoea.

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Stools bilious, copious, frequent, painless—Loose stool smelling like

onions.—Diarrheea: with cutting in abdomen; with burning in anus before and after stool; painless

in forenoon; yellow, frothy, with tenesmus and burning in anus after stool.—A drastic purge,

  • producing irritation and inflammation of mucous membrane of bowels.
  • —(Camp diarrhcea.
  • ).
  • —Soft

stool with pain and flatulence in abdomen.—Stool soft and brown; dark, and

sticky.—Constipation, with griping in umbilical region.—Constipation preceded by

diarrhoea.—Stool: hard, and in balls; hard and dark brown; hard and brown, difficult; first part

hard and brown latter part diarrhceic and greenish-yellow; small and brown; dark brown.

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Micturition: frequent and copious; frequent with burning smarting (with

headache).

Chest

Symptoms — Chest
Clarke

Great oppression of chest with cutting pains in lungs.—Scrofulous consumption with

great emaciation.—Pain in |. chest; in centre at times, by day and night, with foreboding feeling at

night, not < by walking.—Dropsy of chest of rheumatic origin where there are bright red spots

like flea-bites—Retrosternal pain, <, or only felt when going uphill; when walking out of

doors.—Oppression at chest; hindering long breathing.

Symptoms — Heart and Pulse
Clarke
  • Sharp wrenching in 1.
  • side at 6 p.
  • m.
  • , when walking, with suffocating

sensation under sternum, compelling him to stand still, which did not > the pain, the attack being

similar to angina pectoris (Bry. © relieved immediately).—Pulse accelerated.

Neck & Back

Back
Boericke

Muscles of neck rigid, lame. Pain between scapula and under right. Pain in lumbar vertebrae.

Symptoms — Neck and Back
Clarke

Neck rigid—Lame feeling in nape.—Pricking up and down spine.—Sticking

  • under r.
  • scapula on stooping.
  • —Pain: between scapulz; under scapula; under r.
  • scapula, making

breathing difficult; under vertical border of r. scapula, < moving the part and drawing a long

breath; in region of lumbar vertebre and r. sacro-iliac symphysis; in region of lumbar vertebree in

afternoon, with restlessness; in lumbar and dorsal vertebre at night; in region of sacro-iliac

symphysis, < sitting, also in forenoon, and in region of lumbar vertebree; in lumbar vertebree,

extending through lumbar region and up spine —Occasional shooting in lumbar region.

Upper Limbs

Symptoms — Upper Limbs
Clarke

Pain in shoulder.—Sharp, rheumatic pain in shoulders and wrists.—Pain in r.

  • axilla in afternoon.
  • —Pain in r.
  • axilla, extending down arm.
  • —Pain in |.
  • arm.
  • —Arms and wrists, as
  • if sprained by hard work.
  • —Numb pain in r.
  • axilla, extending down arm along nerves.
  • —Numb

pain in arms and wrists in forenoon; in elbows and knees; in wrists extending up arms.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Cramp-like pain in hip at night—Pain in thighs and |. knee in

  • forenoon.
  • —Pain in r.
  • knee on ascending stairs; in ankles.
  • —Occasionally sharp pain in

calves.—Numbness of |. foot when sitting still.

  • 24.
  • Generalities—Loss of weight.
  • —Aching in various parts.
  • —Feeling as if all internal organs

were too large, < |. side.—Restlessness in afternoon, with pain in region of lumbar

  • vertebree.
  • —Weakness; with sick feeling.
  • —Faintness, > rising and moving about.
  • —Deathlike

feeling, with chills and shuddering.

Skin

Skin
Boericke
  • Red, like flush of scarlatina.
  • Jaundice, with pain about liver and right scapula.
  • Itching and pricking when heated.
  • Pustules.
  • Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum and hands.
  • Erythema and erysipelatous redness.
Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Exanthematous eruption resembling flush of scarlatina Eruption resembling eczema

simplex on upper chest, with itching pricking when heated by over-exertion.—Pustules on thighs,

hips, and nates, with itching and burning, a few pustules on body, face, and arms.—Itching in

  • spots, now here, now there.
  • —Itching on arms, > scratching.
  • —Itching with burning.
  • —Itching on

head, neck, and shoulders, with pricking.—Itching on arms with burning and redness.

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Constant yawning, without sleepiness.—Sleepiness.—Sleeplessness; after 3

  • a.
  • m.
  • —Sleep restless; and light—Sleep unrefreshing.
  • —Dreams: vivid; frightful; frightful at night,

and waking covered with sweat; troublesome; of being among Indians; ridiculous.

Fever

Symptoms — Fever
Clarke

Chilliness alternating with flashes of heat; chilliness along spine; beginning in back

when near the fire, without coldness of flesh.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Acne.
  • Angina pectoris.
  • Axilla, pain in.
  • Chest, pain in.
  • Coryza.
  • Ecthyma.
  • Eczema.
  • Erysipelas.
  • Erythema nodosum.
  • Headache.
  • Herpes.
  • Hydrothorax.
  • Impetigo figurata.
  • Lichen.
  • Migraine.
  • Pemphigus.
  • Ringworm.
  • Rodent ulcer.
  • Scapula, pain in.
  • Scarlatina.
  • Tetters.
  • Vision,

lost.

Characteristics——The Butternut and the Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) are the American

  • representatives of the Walnut family.
  • J.
  • ciner.
  • and Juglans regia, or Nux juglans, have both been

proved and studied. With both the digestion is first disordered, and with this other symptoms, as

headache, occur. These run an acute course and then skin affections manifest themselves, and

these run a chronic course (Clotar Willer, quoted by Hale). Before the homeceopathic provings

were made Jug. c. had a reputation as a mild cathartic and was successfully used in camp

diarrhoea and dysentery in the early American wars. Applied to the skin, the juice causes

reddening and blistering. "The green rind rubbed on tetters and ringworms dispels them." The

provings brought out the characteristics in much detail, and clinical use has still further

  • developed them.
  • Jug.
  • r.
  • has been used with much success in scrofulous and scorbutic conditions;
  • and both Jug.
  • r.
  • and Jug.
  • c.
  • cause dark, clotted hemorrhage.
  • Jug.
  • c.
  • from the lungs and Jug.
  • r.
  • from the uterus.
  • Both act on the axilla, Jug.
  • c.
  • causing acute pains and numbness, Jug.
  • r.
  • affecting skin and glands.
  • Jug.
  • c.
  • has some remarkable head symptoms.
  • Sharp shooting pain in

occiput is very characteristic. There is a headache with frequent micturition and burning. It has

morning headaches like Nux, Bry., Chelid., and Jris; and it much resembles the last in the

disturbance of the digestive organs. Pains in liver and right scapula; acute diarrhoea. It is one of

the medicines which produces epigastric sinking. This extends to the abdomen and is

  • accompanied by headache.
  • One patient who was taking Jug.
  • c.
  • for acne developed all the

symptoms of angina pectoris. But the skin is the organ most of all affected by the drug. All kinds

of eruptions have been caused or cured by it, including scarlatina and rodent ulcer. There are a

good many rheumatic pains in the remedy. The itching is < when overheated from exercise.

Walking < chest pains; > pain from rectum to bladder. Going up hill < or = retrosternal pain.

Stooping = pain in scapula and back. Dull headache is > when getting up.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Antidoted by: Bry.
  • (angina pectoris; Bry.
  • © gtt.
  • v.
  • relieved immediately).
  • Compare:
  • Jug.
  • r.
  • , Bry.
  • (rheumatic pains; dropsy of chest; stitching in liver; occipital headache); Chel.
  • (liver

pain; pain under right scapula bilious stools); Nux v. (jaundice; liver pains): Iris v. (diarrhoea

  • liver): Jalap.
  • (diarrhoea); Septiceem.
  • (camp, diarrhoea); A2thiops ant.
  • , Arsen.
  • , Prim.
  • obc.
  • , Mezer.
  • ,
  • Olean.
  • , Viol.
  • t.
  • , Rhus, &c.
  • (skin); Gels.
  • , Coccul.
  • , Carb.
  • v.
  • , Glon.
  • , Sul.
  • , Nat.
  • sul.
  • , &c.
  • (occipital

headache); Carya alba (botan.; purpura and scurvy).

Relationship
Boericke

Compare: Juglandin (duodenal catarrh; bilious diarrhoea); Chelidon; Bryon; Iris.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Tincture, to third potency.

Classical Posology

Acute
  • 30C or 200C · repeat every 1–4 h depending on intensity
  • Stop on improvement · reassess in 24–48 h
  • For sensitive / elderly / paediatric: prefer LM1 or 30C
Constitutional
  • 200C or 1M single dose · wait 4 weeks
  • Alternative: LM1 daily × 10 days · ascend on retest
  • Hering's-Law follow-up adapts the next script
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