Remedy
Fucus vesiculosus fuc-ves.
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Homœopathic Materia Medica
William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition
Common name
Sea Kelp
General
A remedy for obesity and non-toxic goitre; also exophthalmic. Digestion is furthered and flatulence diminished. Obstinate constipation; forehead feels as if compressed by an iron ring. Thyroid enlargement in obese subjects.
Relationship
Compare: Phytol; Thyroidine; Badiaga; Iodum.
Dose
Tincture, five to sixty drops three times a day before meals.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902
General
Sea Kelp. N. O. Algæ. Tincture and trituration of the dried plant.
Clinical
Corpulence. Dyspepsia. Goître.
Characteristics
Fucus is a tissue-remedy of great power and must be compared with Iodine, of which it contains a large proportion. The symptoms have been obtained from patients taking the medicine for the reduction of obesity. The rapidity of digestion is increased and flatulency diminished. Goître has been cured with it in teaspoonful doses of the tincture given two or three times a day.
Head
Intolerable headache; forehead felt as if compressed by an iron ring.
Stomach
Stomach acts with more rapidity, and the hour of repast is more impatiently looked for. ─ The act of digestion is no longer accompanied by flushings of the face, fulness, weight in epigastric region and fits of heat towards head.
Abdomen
Flatulency diminished and then disappears.
Stool
Obstinate constipation.
Respiratory Organs
Sense of suffocation, esp. during menses.