Myosotis myos.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Forget-me-not (MYOSOTIS)

General

Chronic bronchitis and phthisis. Night-sweats.

Respiratory

Cough with profuse muco-purulent expectoration, gagging and vomiting during cough; worse while or after eating. Bronchorrhœa. Pain in left lung (lower); painful while coughing and sensitive to percussion.

Dose

Tincture to second 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

Myosotis symphytifolia. "Black-root." (Marshy places in Indiana. N. O. Boraginaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant.

Clinical

Bronchitis, chronic. Cough. Lungs, affections of.

Characteristics

Hale has collected some clinical experiences with Myosotis (which differs from M. Palustris in having large Symphytum-like leaves), showing it to have a strong affinity for the respiratory organs. The left lower lung was most affected. Copious expectoration, emaciation, night-sweat. During the cough there was gagging or vomiting; cough < during or immediately after eating; pain in left side (lower lung) not < in any position, but < while coughing and sensitive to percussion. Profuse sweat day and night.

Relations

Compare: Symphytum (botan.). Stann. (lung disease).

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Forget-me-not. Boraginaceæ.
No provings.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Cough , Fisher, Times Retros., 1875, p. 25 ; Chronic bronchitis , Frank, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 116 ; Affection of lungs , Funk, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 116.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Chronic bronchitis ; patient nearly in a dying condition.
Bronchorrhœa.

Cough

Obstinate old coughs with profuse muco-purulent expectoration ; gagging or vomiting during cough, < while or immediately after eating ; expectoration most profuse in morning ; pain in left side (lower lung) not < by lying in any position, but painful while coughing and sensitive to percussion.
After typhus, progressive emaciation with severe cough, sometimes dry and again with scanty expectoration ; profuse sweats day and night ; eyes and cheeks sunken ; nose pointed and whitish.

Inner chest and lungs

Copious sputa, emaciation, night sweat.

Time

Morning : expectoration most profuse.
Day and night : profuse sweats.

Locality and direction

Left : pain in side (lower lung).

Sensations

Pain in left side (lower lung).

Stage of life, constitution

D., æt. 26 ; chronic bronchitis.
K., æt. 15, after typhus ; affection of lungs.

Relations

Compare : Stannum in lung disease.