Bellis Perennis bell-p.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

BLOOD-VESSELS. Nerves. Spleen. Joints. Left side.

Worse

INJURY. Sprains. TOUCH. Cold baths or drinks. Wet. Becoming chilled when hot.

Better

Continued motion. Cold (local).

General

BRUISED SORENESS. Hard, aching, squeezing or throbbing pain. Tired, fagged. Deep trauma or septic wounds; especially abdominal, pelvic, etc. Acrid pus; destroys the hair. Bleeding.

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Particulars

Impulse to move. Headache, ending in shooting. Fulness about spleen. Falls on coccyx (Hypr.). Boils. Wakeful; too early. Sensitive to cold. Senile blood stasis. Unbearable pains that drive to distraction, < heat and > cold. Senile vertigo.

Related

Related: Arn.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Daisy

General

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).

Head

Vertigo in elderly people. Headache from occiput to top of head. Forehead feels contracted. Bruised soreness. Itching around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.

Female

Breasts and uterus engorged. Varicose veins in pregnancy. During pregnancy inability to walk. Abdominal muscles lame. Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.

Sleep

Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.

Abdomen

Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus. Stitches in spleen, sore, enlarged. Yellow, painless diarrhœa, foul odor, worse at night. Bloated; rumbling in bowels.

Skin

Boils. Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch. Venous congestion due to mechanical causes. Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling. Exudations and swellings. Acne.

Extremities

Joints sore, muscular soreness. Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs. Pain down anterior of thighs. Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains with great soreness. Railway spine.

Relationship

Compare: Arnica; Arsenic; Staphis; Hamamelis; Bryonia; Vanadium (degenerative states).

Modalities

Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed; before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.

Dose

Tincture to third potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

The Daisy. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.

Clinical

Acne. Arteries, diseases of. Boils. Brain, softening of. Change of Life. Exudations. Fatigue. Giddiness. Gout. Headache. Indigestion. Masturbation. Mydriasis. Overwork. Pregnancy, complaints of. Psoriasis. Railway spine. Rheumatism. Sleeplessness. Spleen affections. Stasis. Traumatism. Tumours. Uterus, fatigued. Varicosis.

Characteristics

The old name of "Wound-wort," or "Bruise-wort," shows one of the main spheres of the action of Bellis , and allies it in action with its fellow Compositæ, Arnica and Calendula . The daisy is a flower which is repeatedly trodden upon and always comes up smiling afterwards; and being the "day's eye" may be the sign of its too early waking propensities. Dr. Burnett is the chief authority for its homœopathic uses. "It acts very much like Arnica , even to the production of erysipelas." He has cured with its aid several cases of tumours originating in a blow. "Stasis" and "fag" are the principal notes of its action. Exudations and swellings of many kinds. Fagged womb. Varicose veins. The giddinesses of elderly people (cerebral stasis). It has marked action on female sexual organs, especially on engorged uterus and breasts. It relieves troubles of pregnancy: inability to walk; varicose veins. Fag from masturbation. Overworked old labourers and workmen; head sufferings of elderly working gardeners; commercial travellers; railway spine. Burnett has generally given it in the Ø tincture. It is a pre-eminently left-side medicine; causes stitches in spleen. It has produced acne; boils; rheumatic pains; giddiness. Headache from occiput to sinciput; contracted feeling in front brain. A pain in inner side of right arm as if a boil were developing. A leading indication is found in its causation: Ill-effects of sudden wet chill to heated stomach or body surface. This may be taken as a keynote: "effects of cold or iced drinks when heated"; dyspepsia, amenorrhœa, skin affections (including a striking case of psoriasis), rheumatism from this cause. Near and remote effects of blows, falls, accidents (trauma). It causes a tired feeling with desire to lie down. As a remedy for debility following acute attacks of gout Burnett gives it a very high place, classing it with Vanadium , of which it is a complement in degenerative states, as brain softening and atheroma of arteries. It has been observed to cause dilatation of the pupil when used locally. It is well not to give it near bed time, as it is apt to cause sleeplessness, waking at 3 a.m. and conversely "waking up too early in the morning and cannot get to sleep again" is a leading indication for its use.

Relations

Compare: Arn., Calend., Hyperic., Con., Ars., Hamam., Vanad. In effects of fag, Pic. ac.

Causation

Injuries. Effects of cold drinks when overheated. Wetting when overheated.

Head

A little giddiness in the head at times (after two weeks). ─ Headache from occiput to sinciput; of a cold, aching character. ─ Brain feels as though contracted in frontal region (after two weeks).

Stomach

Want of appetite. ─ Slight nausea. ─ Effect of cold or iced drinks when heated.

Abdomen

Stitches in spleen.

Upper Limbs

Pain inner side r. (also l.) forearm, as if a boil developing. ─ Pain in middle finger of l. hand, as of a gathering; for a short time only.

Skin

Small boil (after five hours, from application of tincture). ─ Small boil at angle of l. lower jaw (after chewing flowers). ─ Painful pimple a little behind angle of l. lower jaw (after two weeks, from tincture). ─ Large boil on back of neck, commencing with a dull, aching pain; some difficulty and bruised pain in keeping head erect; began as a slight pimple with burning pain in skin, increasing until in six days it was very large, of a dark fiery purple colour, and very sore, burning and aching pain in it; accompanied with headache, extending from occiput to sinciput, of a cold, aching character; brain as though contracted in frontal region; dizziness, &c.

Sleep

Wakes at 3 a.m. and cannot get to sleep again.