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Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Erythraea venusta-Centaury

General

Used extensively as a fever remedy and bitter tonic (Gentiana), antimalarial and antiseptic. Of use in severe type of intermittent fever in hot countries; also, in influenza. Sore, as if bruised all over. Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.

Head

Congested. Scalp feels tight; head feels as if bound; burning in eyes; buzzing in ears.

Fever

Chill all over; worse in bed at night. Sensitive to cold trade-winds on Pacific Coast. General sore and bruised feeling; nausea and retching.

Skin

Wrinkled like a washer-woman's. Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together by India-rubber.

Dose

Tincture, in drop doses. Must be made from the fresh plant. Its medicinal properties are lost in the dry.

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

Erythræa chironioides. N. O. Gentianaceæ. Tincture of whole plant when in flower.

Clinical

Influenza. Intermittents.

Characteristics

This is a popular Californian remedy. It is indicated in intermittents of most severe type of hot countries; general sore, bruised feeling, nausea and retching, the skin becomes wrinkled like a washerwoman's. It was proved by Dr. Richter, who experienced the following among other symptoms: Head feels congested. Scalp tight; feels as if drawn together by indiarubber. Stitches, pain, buzzing and roaring in ears. Constipation, hard, knotty stools. Chills repeatedly down back < in bed, at night. Sleeplessness. After the proving, a cold wind could be borne better than before.

Relations

Compare: The Gentians, Chi., Ipec.

Head

Head feels congested. ─ Pressive pains in forehead. ─ Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together with indiarubber.

Eyes

Burning in eyes, first l. then r.

Ears

Piercing or stitches in ears. ─ Increased buzzing and roaring.

Mouth

Spitting of white mucus, with trembling and nervousness.

Stomach

Increased appetite. ─ Eructations. ─ Regurgitations. ─ Water-brash.

Abdomen

Flatus. ─ Slight pain > by pressure.

Stool and Anus

Several loose stools a day. ─ Constipation. ─ Hard, knotty, morning stool.

Chest

It alleviated a catarrh produced by influenza.

Generalities

That kind of pain in head and fingers which is concomitant with the attacks of intermittent fever.

Sleep

Sleeplessness (from 1st trit.).

Fever

Chills repeatedly, down the spine and all over, esp. in bed at night. ─ Heat in whole body; I could bear, after the proving, the cool trade wind, usually setting in, in San Francisco, in the afternoon, better than before.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Pain and fulness in head and scalp; feels tight as if drawn together by a rubber band (Carb. ac.). Skin of fingers shriveled like a washer-woman's.

Type

Especially for vernal intermittents (Gels., Lach., Sul.).

Chill

Severe, especially down the spine (Ver.); violent, with chattering of the teeth; with extreme paleness of the face, hands and lips; all over body, especially in bed at night; with nausea, vomiting of mucus colored with bile. Fingers shriveled.

Heat

In whole body, better in open air.

Sweat

Not profuse, but causes a shriveling of the fingers and toes, like a washer-woman's (Ant. c., Mer., Ver.). Face, lips and hands cold.

Apyrexia

Excellent appetite as soon as paroxysm is over. Constipation, stool hard, dry, knotty.