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Nuphar Luteum

Yellow Pond-lily
16 sectionsBoericke · 5Clarke · 11

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Yellow Pond-lily

Produces nervous weakness, with marked symptoms in the sexual sphere.

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Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Impatient of slightest contradiction —Excessive moral sensibility, acute pain on

witnessing sufferings of animals.

Head

Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Heaviness of head.—Bruised shaking in brain.—Dull pains in front part of base of brain

  • on level of orbits.
  • —Bruised, painful shocks, r.
  • anterior side of brain on walking.
  • —Lancination in

r. and |. anterior lobes of brain —Headaches attending depressed states of generative

organs.—(Pityriasis capitis very much aggravated, with much itching and falling out of the hair).

Eyes

Symptoms — Eyes
Clarke

When standing in sun brilliant sparks filled field of vision, converging from

circumference to centre (an old symptom revived, and subsequently reproduced frequently, esp.

after hard coughing).

Stomach

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Painful sensation of weariness in stomach; digestion slow; wind colic, < early

morning, with liquid, sour-smelling stools; with sexual weakness and pollutions; < after

coitus.—Exhaustion in epigastrium.

Stool

Stool
Boericke

Entero-colitis. Yellow diarrhoea; worse in the morning. Diarrhoea during typhoid.

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Smarting and burning at anus after every stool.—Stitches as from needles

in rectum, above anus.—Soft stools preceded by some colic for several days; or painless

  • diarrhoea.
  • —Y ellow diarrhoea, esp.
  • very early in morning (4 to 6 a.
  • m.
  • ).
  • —Stools: liquid, yellow,

fetid—Much exhaustion with stools; sense of exhaustion in epigastric region.

Male

Male
Boericke
  • Complete absence of sexual desire; parts relaxed; penis retracted.
  • Impotency, with involuntary emissions during stool, when urinating.
  • Spermatorrhoea.
  • Pain in testicles and penis.
Symptoms — Male Sexual Organs
Clarke

Entire absence of erections and desire; voluptuous ideas which fill

imagination do not cause erections.—Penis retracted, scrotum relaxed.—Diminution of lascivious

thoughts and desires for some days; opposite effect during succeeding days.—Weakening

nocturnal emissions while convalescing from typhoid.—Involuntary losses during sleep, at stool,

and when urinating, with complete absence of erections; inability to effect coitus; weakness;

impaired digestion; pale, languid —Lancinations in r. testicle; in |. testicle; with pains at

extremity of penis.

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Back
Clarke

Dull pain in |. lower lumbar region.—When walking painful stitch to flank, > by

pressure.—Sensitive on renal region.

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Prickings back of 1. thigh —Constant restlessness and fatigue of

legs. —Lancinations in plantar surface of r. great toe.

Skin

Symptoms — Skin
Clarke

Violent itching.—On different parts of body red blotches, tolerably regular in outline,

ovoid or circular, prominent and covered with little silvery white scales; violent itching, <

evening; as eruption disappeared, scales ceased to be reproduced, and skin at place of each

blotch became pale red or yellowish.—(Rhus tox poisoning; relieved pain and swelling and

  • hastened recovery.
  • .
  • ).
  • —Psoriasis; pityriasis capitis.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Cholerine.
  • Diarrhoea.
  • Dyspepsia.
  • Headache.
  • Impotence.
  • Psoriasis.
  • Rhus poisoning.

Seminal emissions. Typhoid-fever.

Characteristics——Nuphar I|., the Yellow Pond Lily, was proved by Pitet, and many of his

symptoms have been clinically confirmed. Most marked was a yellow diarrhoea coming on in the

  • early hours of the morning.
  • With the diarrhoea is great exhaustion.
  • Nuph.
  • has cured many cases

of diarrhoea so characterised, and even cases of typhoid fever. Another marked feature of the

proving was the excessive depression of the male generative system; and Nuph. has done good

work in analogous conditions, and headaches associated therewith. The diarrhoea was < 4 to 6

  • a.
  • m.
  • ; < after the least excess of any kind.
  • Weakness and itching were < evening.
  • Walking =

painful shocks in hams; and pain in flank, which was > by pressure. < Day after coitus.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Compare: Early morning diarrhoea, Sul.
  • , Nat.
  • sul.
  • , Rumex, Pod.
  • Sexual debility,
  • Gels.
  • , Con.
  • , Dig.
  • , Nat.
  • m.
  • , Chi.
Relationship
Boericke

Compare: in sexual weakness; Agnus; Kali brom; Lycop; Selen; Yohimbin. In diarrhoea: Chelid; Gambog; Sulph, Nymphea odorata-Sweet Water Lily--(early morning diarrhoea, backache); acrid leucorrhoea, offensive ulcers; bronchorrhoea; ulcerative sore throat.

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Tincture to sixth 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
Citations: Organon §246 (interval / repetition) · §161 (plussed water) · §282 (LM ascension) · Kent on selection · Vithoulkas on second prescription. Open Repertify for the case-specific dose with the rule cited inline.
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