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Sabal Serrulata

Saw Palmetto
32 sectionsBoericke · 9Clarke · 23

At a glance

Cardinal features · auto-extracted from Boericke · Clarke
  • epididymitis
  • Valuable for undeveloped mammary glands. Fear of going to sleep

Essence

Prologue
Boericke

Saw Palmetto

  • Sabal is homeopathic to irritability of the genito-urinary organs.
  • General and sexual debility.
  • Promotes nutrition and tissue building.
  • Head, stomach, and ovarian symptoms marked.
  • Of unquestioned value in prostatic enlargement, epididymitis, and urinary difficulties.
  • Acts on membrano-prostatic portion of urethra.
  • Iritis, with prostatic trouble.
  • Valuable for undeveloped mammary glands. Fear of going to sleep.
  • Languor, apathy and indifference.
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Keynotes

Characteristics (part 1)
Clarke

In his little book entitled Saw Palmetto, Hale has put together most of our

available knowledge respecting this plant. It is a dwarf palm with creeping (or leaning),

branching stem, the edges of leaf and petioles serrate, roots fibrous, large, half exposed. The fruit

(so-called" berry") is a one-seeded drupe about the size of an olive, dark purple when ripe, and

ripening in October and November. The branching spadices form large pendulous particles.

When eaten the taste is at first exceedingly sweet, but in a few seconds this is followed by an

acrid, pungent sensation that spreads to fauces, nasal mucous membrane, and larynx. This is in

turn succeeded by a feeling of smoothness as if the parts had been coated with oil. The seeds are

enveloped in a tough, fibrous membrane, are very hard, and when cut show a white, oily

substance, which burns with a blue flame, giving off an odour of roasted coffee. The fruit is

richer in sugar than sugar-cane, and contains two oils, one volatile and one fixed. The volatile oil

is considered to possess the most characteristic properties of the medicine. Hale describes it as

"yellow," but he quotes John Uri Lloyd, of Cincinnati, as writing to him, "The principal

constituent is a volatile oil. This oil possesses a deep green colour." And he goes on to say that

the colour is not due to chlorophyll nor to the copper of the worm used in condensing it. This

agrees with Estep's contention that the preparation of Sabal should be dark-green or grass-green.

The preparation Estep used was a Fluid Extract prepared by Burrough Brothers, of Baltimore,

from the fresh green berries." (Hale directs that the fresh ripe berries should be used.) The

preparation used by Dr. Mullin's prove was made by Boericke and Tafel. All are agreed that

preparations of the dried fruit and of the root-bark do not possess the curative powers of the

remedy. While on a hunting trip through the wilds of Florida Hale observed the great fattening

properties of the berries on animals. During summer food is scanty, and the wild animals become

Characteristics (part 2)
Clarke

very thin, but as soon as the Palmetto fruit ripens they improve rapidly, and in a few weeks have

put on so much fat that they become an easy prey to the hunter. This fat, says Hale, "consists

principally of olein, and will not make lard." Sabal serrulata was introduced into medicine by J.

  • B.
  • Read and A.
  • A.
  • Solomons, both of Savannah, Georgia.
  • Read gave a "Saccharated oil," of

which he says: "By its peculiar soothing power over the mucous membranes it produces sleep

and relieves the most troublesome coughs, promotes expectoration, improves digestion, and

increases fat, flesh, and strength. It has been used with benefit in cardiac asthma, phthisis,

especially laryngeal, chronic bronchitis, and dilatation of the bronchial tubes. Its action in

catarrhal affections is rapid and permanent. A cold in the head may be checked with two or three

doses (of the saccharated oil) mixed with boiling water, and used by inhalation it has been found

beneficial in chronic ozeena." Dr. Will Scott Mullins, of Louisville, Kentucky, published the first

proving made for him by a former student of his, Miss Annie Roask. This prover is described as

a very intelligent lady of twenty-three, mediumly developed, small breasts, red hair, blue eyes, 5

feet 7 inches in height, weight, 109 pounds, bust measure 32 inches. These details are important,

as this prover developed some of the most characteristic effects of the drug, especially those of

the mammary glands, and at the end of the proving (from December 8th to March Ist) her breasts

had increased fully one-third in size, and her bust measure was 33 1/2 inches, and her weight 119

1/2 pounds. This prover had also many symptoms in the head and ovaries. Her symptoms are for

the most part not distinguished from the others in the Schema, but when I have wished to

distinguish them I have appended the letter (R). Another remarkable proving by a woman is that

  • of Dr.
  • Freda M.
  • Langton, of Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Her symptoms, when distinguished, have the

letter (L) appended. Mind, bladder, ovaries, and uterus were all strongly affected in her case. One

symptom she developed was an irritability and depression; and sympathy did not merely < as

  • with Nat.
  • m.
  • , it made her angry.
  • (This condition of mind was present in one of the prostatic cases

cured by Sb/.) Dr. Langton relates that she was unable to find in antidote, and suffered for three

months after the proving before she found one. In searching for a remedy for a case of

dysmenorrhcea she found the leading symptoms under Si/ic., and it struck her that the symptoms

of Silic. corresponded to her own symptoms. She took it twice daily, and was better in two hours.

In three days all the bladder and ovarian trouble was gone. Si/. was also given to the

dysmenorrheea patient, but only partially relieved. Sb/. was then given, and quickly and

  • permanently cured.
  • Sb/.
  • was proved by two men, Dr.
  • R.
  • Boocock, and an unmarried prover
  • whose symptoms are given by Hale (#7.
  • R.
  • , xiii.
  • 103).
  • Both experienced well-marked symptoms

in the genito-urinary sphere, including increased sexual power. I have marked some of Boocock's

symptoms (B). Hale's prover had this urinary symptom, which be justly says may prove a

valuable indication: "Fears to fall asleep lest something should happen; starts up with this fear as

he is dozing." In all the provings the @ tincture, or Fluid Extract, were used in from 5- to 10-drop

doses, repeated two or three times a day; and in the clinical use of the remedy a similar dosage

has been adopted. Sb/. is an organ remedy of great power, selecting the uterus and prostatic gland

(which is the male analogue of the uterus), ovaries and testes and bladder. But the provings are

sufficiently detailed to warrant closer homeeopathising, and Dr. Langton says that though she

gives 5-drop doses four times daily in cases of over-worked brain and school-headache for the

"tonic, nutritive, and stimulating" effect of the remedy she gives the 1x as soon as relief has been

obtained, and she finds that the dilution often gives greater relief in the headaches than the larger

  • closes.
  • Mullins also says (H.
  • R.
  • , xii.
  • 68): "I now found the use of the drug in the 3rd and 6th

attenuation curative in nearly all of the diseases of the uterus and appendages. Also in headache

from reflexed uterine, troubles, in mammary abscess, mental irritations, and nervous debility. It

Characteristics (part 3)
Clarke

is indeed an anti-lean, and well deserves the name of "The Homceopathic Catheter." But, he adds,

  • it must be given on its individual indications.
  • W.
  • E.
  • Reily published (Hahn.
  • Adv.
  • , December,
  • 1898) these cases illustrating the prostatic action of Sb/.
  • : (7) Mr.
  • J.
  • , 56, very despondent;

irritable. Sympathy seemed to anger him. Great tenesmus in neck of bladder, with heavy, aching

pains, with sense of coldness extending into external genitals. Occasional sharp pains extending

  • up into abdomen and down into thighs.
  • Appetite capricious.
  • Constipation chronic.
  • Urination too
  • frequent, disturbing sleep.
  • Sb/.
  • O was given, five drops night and morning.
  • Steady improvement

followed, and in eight weeks all the symptoms had gone, and with them an annoying eczema of

  • the hands.
  • (2) Mr.
  • M.
  • , 45, for a year had gradually increasing frequency of micturition.
  • Despondent; distressed.
  • Appetite capricious.
  • Vertex headache and gastric catarrh.
  • Little sexual

desire; coitus followed by digging pain in back and tenesmus of bladder with difficulty in

commencing to urinate. Genitals cold, dull aching in region of prostate, extending to abdomen

  • and thighs.
  • Sb/.
  • @ gradually relieved and cured in three weeks.
  • (3) Mr.
  • E.
  • , 35.
  • Frequent urination

for 1 1/2 years. Heavy, dragging pains, extending into back and thighs; back pains much < after

coitus Considerable loss of prostatic fluid at times. Sexual desire much impeded. Severe

  • headache on vertex and gastric catarrh.
  • All symptoms removed by Sb/.
  • @.
  • Hale says E.
  • S.
  • Evans,

of Columbus, Ohio, considers Sb/. "almost specific in iritis when the prostate gland is involved. I

have cured cases with the 3x which could not be relieved in any other way." (This is a

noteworthy observation. The connection between gonorrhoea and syphilis and the eye is well

known, and I have known several cases of ophthalmia develop in patients who were taking

  • another prostatic remedy, Solidago virgaurea, for their trouble.
  • ) A.
  • L.
  • Davidson (H.
  • R.
  • , x.
  • 525)

relates a case of impotence in a man, 51, who had difficult micturition, tenderness of prostatic

  • portion of urethra, loss of power, testicles shrunk, penis shrunk and cold.
  • Sb/.
  • Q, gtt.
  • xv.
  • , four

times a day, was prescribed. At the end of the first week he complained of drawing pains in

spermatic cords, there was freer flow of urine; he slept better and felt better. At the end of the

second week the testes were gradually increasing in size, tenderness of urethra had nearly

disappeared, and erections were established. In two weeks more the cure was complete, the testes

  • were even larger and firmer than normal.
  • J.
  • Martin Kershaw, of St.
  • Louis, treated a young lady of

twenty-three who had had great difficulty in controlling her urine all her life. Undue exertion,

lifting, straining, laughing, caused it to dribble away. Unless she rose several times in the night

  • she was sure to wet the bed.
  • Sb/.
  • O, gtt.
  • 1.
  • , four times a day, was given.
  • In one month she was

much improved, and under the same remedy she gradually got quite well. Elias C. Price reports

these cases. (/) Very nervous lady with chronic inflammation of bladder, frequent painful

urination, ten to twelve times in the night and every fifteen to thirty minutes during the day.

Spells of pressing pain on rectum, > by warm water enemas, which generally brought away

  • hardened feces.
  • Lil.
  • t.
  • 3x removed this temporarily.
  • Rectal examination disclosed a hard fleshy

tumour the size of half a hen's egg on the posterior aspect of the uterus. Sb/. (Fluid Extract) gtt.

v., thrice daily, diminished the tumour by half in two months, and removed it entirely in three

  • more.
  • (2) Mrs.
  • X.
  • , primapara, had, five days after confinement, irritation of kidneys, and a week

later symptoms of pelvic peritonitis. Uterus much enlarged, very tender. Did not urinate very

often, but when she did the pain was so excruciating that she fainted away, and sometimes did

not come to for an hour. For three days no remedy did any good. Then she had violent pain right

side of head above and behind the ear, and paralysis of left arm and leg; became unconscious and

could not be aroused; at times would talk of things which had occurred before her illness;

  • insensible to external impressions.
  • She remained thus ten days.
  • Sb/.
  • (Fluid Extract), gtt.
  • xx.
  • ,

every two hours, relieved the pain on being raised to urinate after the second dose. Recovery

Characteristics (part 4)
Clarke

from the other condition was very gradual. (3) Miss X., 22, had had irregular menses for years,

having once gone nine months without a period. When she came to Price she was three months

  • past her time; one breast was much smaller than the other.
  • Sbl.
  • (Fluid Extract), gtt.
  • v.
  • , thrice

daily. In about a month the menses came on freely, lasted four days instead of the usual two.

Breasts began to increase in size. In three months one was as large as the other. The following

year she again missed her time, and Sb/. brought it right in a week. Price has cured with Sb/.

cases of pelvic cellulitis, peritonitis, puerperal fever, inflammation of uterus, tubes, ovaries, and

even appendicitis; and proctitis, especially if the prostatic gland is involved. Showerman gave

Hale a summary of his experience with Sb/.: (J) A lady who had been for two years unable to

rise in the morning without a cup of coffee and something to eat was cured with Sb/. in a week.

(2) An impotent man was cured in thirty days. (3) Man, 76, enlarged prostate, had to use catheter

for three years. Cured in four months. (4) Man passing blood with urine for six months: cured in

  • two weeks.
  • (5) Cases of incontinence.
  • (6) A lady to whom he gave Sb/.
  • for nervous debility had

to discontinue it because "her sexual passions made her almost furious" from its use. (7) In

catarrhal affections he found it very efficacious, and he cured himself with it in four months of a

bronchial trouble of seven years' duration which no medicine had relieved before.—Mullins

confirms the value of Sb/. in catarrhal states, which is one of the uses the remedy was put to by

Read, who introduced it. Mullins says: "In chronic bronchitis, with a wheezing, hard cough, < on

lying down till 6 am. < in damp, cool air and cloudy weather, it is promptly curative." The

fattening properties of Sb/. have been utilised in medicine. For this purpose it has been given in

  • the form of Saccharated oil (gr.
  • x.
  • to gr.
  • Ix.
  • ) or Sabal Maltine.
  • The Aqua Sabal Hale found
  • useful as a spray.
  • The symptoms are < in early morning; from rising to bedtime.
  • < By motion.
  • >
  • After sleep.
  • Backache < after coitus.
  • Catarrhal symptoms are < in cold, damp weather.
  • Cough <

on lying down at night. < Before menses (depression). Stinging pains appear to be characteristic.

Wandering, radiating, and cramping pains were also prominent. Sbl. has several groups of

associated regions of pain: pains affecting head and ovary; ovaries and breasts; lower back and

right temple; prostate and eye.

Mentals

Symptoms — Mind
Clarke

Unusual, full, confused sensation; thinking difficult; cannot grasp or remember what

is read.—Irritability; impatience; fretfulness——Immutability with indifference to wants of others;

mind self-concentrated on her own sufferings, wants to be left alone-—Broods on her

  • symptoms.
  • —Sympathy makes her angry.
  • —Wants to go away and die alone.
  • —Fearfully blue and

low down before menses.

Head

Head
Boericke
  • Confused, full; dislikes sympathy; makes her angry.
  • Vertigo, with headache.
  • Neuralgia in feeble patients.
  • Pain runs up from nose and centers in forehead.
Symptoms — Head
Clarke

Vertigo with headache (from fumes of oil).—Severe headache with giddiness and dim

vision.—Sharp, darting pain coming and going suddenly (like Bel/.), now here now there in sides,

top, and back of head, through eyes and in temples.—Shooting pains in temples and across

forehead.—Soon after rising a very sharp pain in |. temple; pain across forehead to both temples,

  • <r.
  • ; vague aching on vertex; pain r.
  • temple running across vertex to 1—Sharp pain in either r.
  • or
  • 1.
  • temple, running up across forehead, with pain in |.
  • ovary and uterus; severe pain in |.
  • temple

and a sharp pain on vertex.—Dull, aching pain in r. temple and on vertex, almost unbearable by 3

  • p.
  • m.
  • —Pain running up from nose and centring in forehead.
  • —Pain and irritation at base of brain

and upper third of cervical spine (like that of Ge/s.).—Sensation as if something tightening in

brain.—(Neuralgic pains before and after catarrhal attacks.)

Ears

Symptoms — Ears
Clarke

(Chronic inflammation of middle ear.).—Fulness in nose and ears, only bits of dry

crumbling wax got away on picking.—Frequent sharp, stitch-like pains inward from

ears.—Hearing diminished; voices seem far off (B.—proving discontinued in consequence).

Nose

Symptoms — Nose
Clarke

Pain running up from nose and centring in forehead.—Sneezing and lachrymation,

coughing and gagging. —Fulness in nostrils compelling him to pick them, only dry crumbs came

away.

Face

Symptoms — Face
Clarke
  • Papular eruption on |.
  • temple and about mouth.
  • —Slight neuralgia in r.
  • temple and r.

jaw.—Pallor.

Mouth

Symptoms — Mouth
Clarke

Pungent burning sensation in mouth and fauces, extending up and down and causing

sneezing, coughing, and gagging; afterwards smooth, numb feeling, as if mouth coated with

fat.—Burning on tongue as if scalded.

Throat

Symptoms — Throat
Clarke

Sharp pain in 1. side of throat.—Pungent, burning sensation in fauces; followed by

smooth sensation, as if coated with oil.

Stomach

Stomach
Boericke

Belching and acidity. Desire for milk (Rhus; Apis)

Symptoms — Stomach
Clarke

Appetite good throughout proving.—Appetite poor and capricious.—Constant

desire for milk (usually disliked).—Belching and acidity —Sharp pain running through stomach;

  • severe pain in |.
  • side of stomach.
  • —Irritation of stomach.
  • —Acute gastritis; fearful burning as from

Sulphuric acid; could not take meat, vegetable, or pudding, only bread and milk, > by Robin. 3

(B).

Abdomen

Symptoms — Abdomen
Clarke

Suddenly most intense, cramp-like pain through abdomen; soon radiated in

different directions, to legs, stomach, then to ovaries, where it settled —Stinging pains running up

  • 1.
  • side of abdomen.
  • —Sharp pains running up and down front of abdomen, and also r.
  • side.

Stool

Symptoms — Stool and Anus
Clarke

Stools unusually easy; free from hemorrhoidal troubles (to which the

prover—Boocock—was subject).—(Some return of hemorrhoids with dryness of stool and

pressure from within out.—Stools dark, almost black—B.)

Urinary

Symptoms — Urinary Organs
Clarke

Painful urination; connected with ovarian pain (L).—Tenesmus as in

cystitis, a few drops of blood voided on one or two occasions (L).—Feeling as if bladder too full;

starting the flow was painful as if forced through very narrow meatus (B).—Feeling as of a

stricture about two inches down urethra (B).—Pain extending from bladder up above pubes, with

a radiating pain across epigastrium, stitching in region of |. kidney, severe headache with

giddiness and dim vision (B).—Scalding on passing water, burning smarting after; slight gluing

of meatus and twisted stream (all removed in the proving, stream larger and stronger, no longer

required to rise at night—B).—Pain or irritation in region of kidneys; later a trace of albumen and

a few renal cells.—Excruciating pain and fainting on being raised up to urinate (cured in a

puerperal case).

Urinary
Boericke
  • Constant desire to pass water at night.
  • Enuresis; paresis of sphincter vesicae.
  • Chronic gonorrhoea.
  • Difficult urination.
  • Cystitis with prostatic hypertrophy.

Female

Female
Boericke

Ovaries tender and enlarged; breasts shrivel (Iod; Kali iod). Young female neurotics; suppressed or perverted sexual inclination.

Symptoms — Female Sexual Organs
Clarke

Furious sexual passion.—Awakened by stinging pain running up

  • from |.
  • ovary into abdomen, and also a sharp pain in r.
  • ovary.
  • —Slight stinging pain in |.
  • ovary at
  • 2 p.
  • m.
  • —Sharp pain in r.
  • ovary, running down r.
  • thigh.
  • —Stinging pain in uterus.
  • —Stinging pain in
  • r.
  • ovary.
  • —A tense, slightly heavy feeling over womb.
  • —Pain in |.
  • ovary, running down the
  • thigh —Menses delay four days; nine days.
  • —Sore feeling in |.
  • ovary.
  • —Pain in |.
  • ovary after going

to bed.—Slight pain low down over womb.—Awakened by a most distressing itching of labia

  • majora.
  • —Pain in |.
  • ovary and uterus, coming and going between 2 and 7 p.
  • m.
  • —Sore, heavy

feeling in uterus until bedtime.—Intense pain through abdomen radiated down into legs, up

towards stomach, then to ovaries, where it settled; never knew the exact location of the ovaries

before; painful urination was added on awaking next day; mental indifference with irritability

  • (L).
  • —(Uterine tumour.
  • ).
  • —Breasts increase in size; pains in.
  • —(Defective lactation.
  • ).
  • —In nursing

woman, for four months after confinement, stinging pain in both breasts, < r., commencing at

nipple and extending into and pervading entire gland about fifteen minutes after child had been

at breast; caused excessively nervous state and affected whole body; Helon. relieved somewhat,

Sabal ® cured in two days.

Male

Male
Boericke
  • Prostatic troubles; enlargement; discharge of prostatic fluid.
  • Wasting of testes and loss of sexual power.
  • Coitus painful at the time of emission.
  • Sexual neurotics.
  • Organs feel cold.
Symptoms — Male Sexual Organs
Clarke

Slight irritation of prostate—Some increase of sexual power.—Great

excitement first two days and throughout proving; discharge of prostatic fluid Amorous

feelings, firm erections but fully under control; testes very warm; slight itching deep in

perinzeum (sperm ducts?), > by deep pressure.—Increased power and enjoyment in

coitus.—Semen feels thick and flows slowly, but causes a hot feeling along the cord.—Testicles

tightly drawn up, almost painfully (one of the most prominent and constant

symptoms—B).—Sense of coldness extending into external genitals; sharp pain extending up into

abdomen; tenesmus, frequent micturition; despondent, irritable, sympathy = anger; constipation,

enlarged prostate (Saba/ © cured and removed at same time a distressing eczema of

  • hands).
  • —(Coldness of external genitals, dull aching in prostate extending into abdomen.
  • ).
  • —(Pain

in back much < after coitus.)—Drawing pains in spermatic cords; shrunk testes increase in

size.—Hard erection, slight twisting chordee as if stretched from the root.

Respiratory

Respiratory
Boericke

Copious expectoration, with catarrh of nose. Chronic bronchitis (Stann; Hep).

Chest

Symptoms — Chest
Clarke
  • Sharp pain in 1.
  • side of chest, running through |.
  • mamma.
  • —Breasts quite tender from

pressure, stinging soreness after cold bath—Breasts feel swollen and sore for many days.—Very

  • sharp pains in mammary glands.
  • —Itching of breasts (1.
  • ).
  • —Breasts increased fully one-third in size

(in less than three months—R.)

Neck & Back

Symptoms — Back
Clarke

Aching across lower part of back.—Deep pains in back, low down.—Fearful

backache, low down, before and at commencement of menses.—Pain in back much < after coitus

(prostatic case).

Lower Limbs

Symptoms — Lower Limbs
Clarke

Sharp pain running down right thigh; third day.—Sharp pain in r. thigh;

  • fourth day.
  • —Pain running down I.
  • thigh; second day.
  • —Sharp pain in r.
  • thigh; second
  • day.
  • —Aching in calf of r.
  • leg; seventh day.
  • —Aching in I.
  • knee and calf of leg; first day, which

continued until bedtime.—Pains frequently in |. thigh; fourth day.

24. Generalities—A feeling of buoyancy all the time notwithstanding the pains.—Increased

feeling of vitality and strength all the time the medicine was taken, and for a week after felt as if

a stimulant had been taken from her (R).—Much nervous erethism, cannot keep

  • quiet.
  • —Weakness.
  • —(Poorly nourished women.
  • —Neuralgia of all kinds Feeble patients.
  • —"Anti-
  • lean.
  • ").
  • —All pains were < in early morning; or from noon until bedtime.
  • —Pains in ovaries or
  • uterus, < on motion.
  • —Character of pains mostly sharp and stinging.
  • —Most pains > by sleep.
  • —An

uncomfortable feeling all over the body; third day.

Sleep

Symptoms — Sleep
Clarke

Fears to fall asleep lest something (undefined danger) should happen; starts up with

this fear as he is dozing —Awakened by stinging pains in both ovaries; second day.—Awakened

  • at 5 a.
  • m.
  • by a severe stinging in r.
  • ovary; fifth day.
  • —Awakened at | a.
  • m.
  • by a most distressing

itching of labia majora; eighth day.

Clinical

Clinical
Clarke
  • Appendicitis.
  • Asthma, catarrhal.
  • Atrophic pharyngitis.
  • Atrophic rhinitis.
  • Atrophy,
  • Backache.
  • Breasts, inflamed; painful; atrophy of.
  • Bronchitis.
  • Catarrh.
  • Cystitis.
  • Dysmenorrhcea.
  • Dysuria.
  • Enuresis.
  • Glands, affections of.
  • Gleet.
  • Gonorrhoea.
  • Headache.
  • Hoarseness.
  • Impotence.
  • Innutrition.
  • Iritis.
  • Lactation, defects of.
  • Laryngitis, catarrhal.
  • Lumbago.
  • Menses, delayed.
  • Neuralgia.
  • Neurasthenia.
  • Obesity.
  • Ovaries, affections of.
  • Peritonitis.
  • Phthisis.
  • Proctitis.
  • Prostate,
  • enlarged; affections of.
  • Puerperal fever.
  • School-headache.
  • Sterility.
  • Strangury.
  • Testes, atrophy
  • of.
  • Throat, sore; catarrhal.
  • Urine, incontinence of.
  • Uterus, affections of; misplacements of;

tumours of. Whooping-cough.

Relations

Relations
Clarke
  • Antidoted by: Sil.
  • (Sbl.
  • grows on the sandy shore); Puls.
  • (delayed menses; Puls.
  • also

grows on sandy soils). Compare: Stinging pains in ovaries, Apis, Merc. Pain in right ovary and

  • thigh, Apis.
  • Breasts painful, Con.
  • , Calc.
  • School-headaches; < by sympathy, Nat.
  • m.
  • (Sbl.
  • is most
  • fruitful nearest the sea; compare Sil.
  • marina).
  • Prostatic affections, Fe.
  • pic.
  • , Cham.
  • , Arg.
  • n.
  • , Dig.
  • ,
  • Solid.
  • Prostate and eye, Solid.
  • < From coition, K.
  • ca.
  • Wandering pains, K.
  • bi.
  • (the roots of Sbl.
  • are very rich in potash salts).
  • Over-worked women, Mg.
  • c.
  • Hale classes Sb/.
  • with remedies
  • "primarily aphrodisiac"—Pho.
  • , Turn.
  • aph.
  • , Nux, Orig.
  • , Coca, Aur.
  • , Can.
  • i.
  • , Plat.
  • , Lil.
  • , Santal.
  • ;
  • "primarily anaphrodisiacs" according to him being—Con.
  • , Sal.
  • n.
  • , Salicin.
  • , Agn.
  • , Nuph.
  • , Ars.
  • ,
  • Pic.
  • ac.
  • , Calad.
  • , Camph.
  • , Iod.
  • , Lupulin.
Relationship
Boericke

Compare: Phosph ac; Stigmata maydis; Santal; Apis. In prostatic symptoms: fer pic; Thuja; Picric acid (more sexual erethism). Populus tremul; (prostatic enlargement with cystitis).

Posology

Dose
Boericke

Mother tincture, ten to thirty drops. Third potency often better. The tincture must be prepared from the fresh berries to be effective.

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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