Myrica Cerifera myric.

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

Liver. Heart.

Better

Open air.

General

Discouraged. Dull headache, in the early morning. Yellow sclera. Very red eyelids. Combined liver and heart symptoms. Liver affections, with dull pain; with pain under either scapula; with urticaria; with jaundice. Jaundice of infants. Fulness and burning in gall-bladder. Foul, adhesive mucus in mouth, throat, or stool. Slow pulse.

Related

Complementary: Dig. Kali-bi. Related: Chel.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Bayberry (MYRICA)

General

Marked action on the liver, with jaundice and mucous membranes. Persistent sleeplessness. Jaundice.

Mind

Despondent, irritable, indifferent. Gloomy.

Head

Scalp feels tight. Headache, with drowsiness; yellow sclerotica; aching in eyeballs. Pressure in vertex and forehead. Dull, heavy aching in temples and forehead on waking in the morning. Pain and stiffness in nape of neck.

Face

Yellow, Itching and stinging. Creeping sensation.

Mouth

Tongue furred, with bad taste in mouth, and nausea. Tenacious, thick, nauseous secretion. Tender, spongy and bleeding gums (Merc).

Throat

Constricted and rough feeling, with a constant desire to swallow. Stringy mucus; detached with difficulty.

Stomach

Taste bitter and nauseous, with offensive breath. Complete loss appetite, but with a feeling of fullness in the stomach after a hearty meal. Strong desire for acids. Weak, sinking feeling in the epigastrium, approaching nausea; increased after eating; relieved by rapid walking.

Abdomen

Dull pain in the region of the liver. Complete jaundice, with bronze-yellow skin; loss of appetite. Fullness in the stomach and abdomen. Scanty, yellow, frothy urine.

Stool

Constant discharge of flatus when walking. Urging to stool, with no other results than the expulsion of a great amount of flatus. Loose, light-colored stool; ash-colored and destitute of bile.

Urinary

Dark, frothy, scanty, high-colored, biliary.

Sleep

Disturbed, bad dreams and frequent waking; insomnia.

Extremities

Staggering gait. Pain under shoulder-blades and back of neck, in all muscles, in hollow of right foot.

Skin

Yellow and itching. Jaundice. Creeping sensation, as of insects.

Relationship

Compare: Ptel; Cornus cir; Chelid; Lept; Fagop.

Antidote: Digit (jaundice).

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

Myrica cerifera. Wax Myrtle. Bayberry. Candleberry. N. O. Myricaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark of root.

Clinical

Catarrh. Conjunctivitis. Heart, affections of. Jaundice. Leucorrhœa. Liver, affections of. Pharynx, affections of. Tendo-Achillis, pain in. Throat, sore. Urticaria.

Characteristics

According to Hale, though Myrica was known to older botanic practitioners, it was Samuel Thomson, of Lobelia fame, who established its reputation. Thomson had a crude pathology of his own which served him to some extent. One of his ideas was that the digestive tract was liable to become fouled with a copious mucous lining. This he called "canker"; and he stated of Myrica that it "has the power of disengaging the thick, viscid secretions of the mucous membrane of the stomach." Myrica , says Hale, formed the chief ingredient in Thomson's famous "Composition powder." The provings confirm Thomson's observation, in that Myrica produced abundant secretion of tenacious mucus in the throat, difficult to detach. This may be considered one of the keynotes of the remedy. Profuse catarrhal discharges of old standing, of all kinds may require Myrica , especially if offensive, tenacious, and difficult to detach. Leucorrhœa, bronchorrhœa, intestinal catarrh, pharyngeal catarrh, stomatitis. Hale says as a local application in diphtheria it rivals Guaiacum . Perhaps allied to the catarrhal state of the intestinal tract is the liver disorder setup by the drug. These are the distinctive features: Aching pain in liver, fulness, drowsiness, despondency, dull, heavy headache, < in morning, dirty, dingy, yellowish white of eyes, lids abnormally red, weakness, ash-coloured stools, slow pulse, pains under scapulæ ( < left), dirty yellow tongue, muscular soreness, aching in limbs, jaundice of all degrees. There is also the nasal obstruction, post-nasal catarrh which often accompanies disordered liver. It is in cases attended with jaundice that Myrica has had the greatest success, cases of black jaundice having been cured with it, and it meets the itching of jaundice as well. Urticaria is not unfrequently found associated with liver affections, and Douglass cured with it this case ( Clinique , xxi. 108, quoting Hahn. Advocate ): Miss O., 18, complained of itching and stinging on face, neck, right forearm and leg. Sensation as if insects crawling on face, must brush them away. Skin yellowish. Tongue, thickly coated yellow. Felt sick all over and rather irritable. Myrica 6x every two hours improved at once and cured in ten days. Burnett has used Myrica with excellent effect in cancerous and other grave diseases of the liver, especially when attended with jaundice. He has given material doses. It has generally been given in the lower attenuations. Myrica has also an action on the heart, and is thus closely related to Digitalis in several points. There are sharp pains about the heart with increased, audible pulsations, but slow pulse. The heart pains are < lying on left side. Pains in left chest and under scapulæ (especially left), and pain in middle lobe of right lung. The symptoms are: < By warmth of bed; < after sleep; < in morning; by motion. > After breakfast; > in open air.

Relations

Compare: In tenacious secretions, K. bi., Hydrast. Jaundice, light-coloured stools, slow pulse, Dig. (Dig. has pulse irregular as well as slow; the tongue of Dig. has not the thick, tenacious coat of Myrica). Liver, Berb., Chel., Chim., Pod., Hep., Merc., Cholest., Hydrast. Urticaria and liver disorder, Ast. fl. Sore all over, Bapt. Leucorrhœa, Hydrast. Pain through left chest to scapula, Therid., Illic., Pix.

Mind

Great despondency; dejected; irritable. ─ Cannot concentrate mind on any subject. ─ Dull, drowsy state. ─ Exhilaration, then depression and pressure about head; exhilaration, then excitement preventing sleep, with restlessness.

Head

Vertigo, with dulness and drowsiness, (during lectures) with rush of blood to head and face, on stooping; with nausea. ─ Awakens with pain in forehead, temples, and small of back, > in open air. ─ Dull, heavy feeling over and in eyes. ─ Throbbing: of arteries in the head; and in face with fulness; in superficial veins on waking. ─ Empty feeling in head.

Eyes

Eyes congested and yellow. ─ Eyes feel dull and heavy; also on awaking. ─ Eyes burn and tire easily when reading; lids heavy. ─ Dirty, dingy, yellowish sclerotics; lids abnormally red. ─ Smarting in l. conjunctiva, then pain in r. ball. ─ Smarting in eyes, feeling of sand in them, difficulty in closing lids. ─ Quivering sensation in l. upper lid. ─ Pain in r. brow.

Ears

Pain in back of l. ear. ─ Ringing in ears; in l.

Nose

Pain in nose; in l. side of nose, shifting to l. axilla, where it was sharp and lancinating. ─ Coryza. ─ Post-nasal catarrh.

Face

Yellow colour of face and neck; jaundice. ─ Fulness, with heat and throbbing, esp. after being out in open air. ─ Pressure in malar bones. ─ Sharp, darting pain in r. articulation of jaw.

Mouth

Breath offensive. ─ Sweetish taste about palate. ─ Thick, yellowish, dark, dry, and crusty coating on tongue, rendering it almost immovable. ─ Tongue dirty yellow. ─ Foul, bad taste; cannot eat because of it; bitter, nauseous taste. ─ Adhesive coating over, buccal membrane; dry, scaly crusts on roof of mouth, that water scarcely moistens or dissolves. ─ Mouth dry; thirst; water relieves only partially for awhile.

Throat

Semi-lancinating pain near r. tonsil in afternoon. ─ Excruciating feeling in posterior nares, as from a fresh cold. ─ Constriction; causing constant need to swallow. ─ Swollen feeling inside in morning. ─ Stringy mucus in throat; detached with difficulty. ─ Throat and nasal organs filled with an offensive, tenacious mucus, detached with difficulty. ─ Pharynx dry; sore, as if it would crack, impeding and finally obstructing, deglutition. ─ Slimy, glutinous frothy mucus in pharynx; even gargling scarcely detaches it; causes disgusting taste, prevents eating.

Stomach

Hunger, yet full feeling, as after a hasty meal. ─ Unnatural hunger; then indigestion; then jaundice. ─ Loss of appetite; loathing of food, but desire for acids. ─ Fulness and pressure, or weak, sinking feeling in stomach. ─ Acidity at 8.30 a.m. ─ Burning with bitter, nauseous sensation in fauces, the burning changing into griping from l. epigastrium in a straight line to l. of navel. ─ Heartburn, with increase of saliva, which had to be expectorated frequently.

Abdomen

Dull pain in region of liver; fulness; drowsiness; debility; mushy, clay-coloured stools; jaundice. ─ Griping pains; rumbling; urging to stool; passing only flatus. ─ Weak, faint feeling, as if diarrhœa would ensue. ─ Offensive flatus when walking. ─ Pain in umbilical region: after breakfast; in a spot in umbilical region an hour after dinner, with accumulation of flatus; heavy. ─ Rumbling above umbilicus. ─ Rumbling in umbilical region, with griping.

Stool

Passing of much offensive flatus. ─ Loose stools, mushy, with tenesmus and cramp-like sensation in umbilical region. ─ Stools light yellow, mushy, clay-coloured; jaundice. ─ Constipation.

Urinary Organs

Urine beer-coloured, with yellowish froth; pinkish-brown sediment, scanty. ─ Micturition difficult, bladder seemed to lack contractive, expelling power. ─ Urine increased; and limpid.

Male Sexual Organs

Desire lost. ─ Chronic gonorrhœa.

Female Sexual Organs

Leucorrhœa excoriating, fetid, thick, yellowish.

Respiratory Organs

Smarting in larynx and trachea. ─ Tickling cough which had troubled him on lying down at night was > in morning.

Chest

Pain: in l. chest; in middle lobe of r. lung; in l. lung at 8 p.m. ─ Constriction of chest at night when lying on l. side, with audible beating of heart.

Heart and Pulse

Sharp pain in region of heart. ─ Stinging, cramp-like sensation to l. of præcordia and under ribs. ─ Heart's impulse increased, but pulse sixty. ─ Impulse increased, pulsation audible, with constriction in chest on lying on l. side. ─ Pulse feeble, irregular.

Neck and Back

Dull aching in back and head, dragging; lassitude. ─ Pain in nape at 2 p.m.; in neck at 7 a.m., < nape, with stiffness. ─ Pain under scapulæ; under l. scapula at 11 p.m.; in l. scapula and arm, extending to end of little finger. ─ Sharp, plunging pain in region of l. kidney. ─ Pain in lumbar region with general chilliness on going outdoors; heavy; dragging. in morning on waking, also till afternoon.

Upper Limbs

Sharp lancinations in l. axilla. ─ Tearing in l. arm, < upper arm, sometimes extending to forearm, with darting pain in middle and ring fingers. ─ Lame feeling in r. arm, < about wrist, with heaviness. ─ Pain in l. upper arm at 8.45 a.m.; in r. third and little fingers at 9 a.m.

Lower Limbs

Pain at 7 a.m.; centring in muscular parts above knees, also soreness and occasional darting pains. ─ Sharp shooting in r. thigh, then in l. thigh, then pain in l. shoulder. ─ Drawing pain in muscles above knee at night. ─ Piercing pain in inner side of l. knee. ─ Pain from knee down at 12.50 p.m., with coldness of lower limbs; contractive, in middle of leg, a little outside of outer edge of tibia, < motion, occasionally changing to burning pain, with soreness to touch. ─ Pain in calves, with trembling, so that walking is unpleasant, pain < l. ─ Pain in l. tendo-Achillis, < touch and motion, with soreness; in hollow of r. foot. ─ Bruised pain in l. heel.

Generalities

Pain in whole body as before ague, at 10 p.m.; shifting pain. ─ Languor: in morning on waking, with pain in back; with soreness of muscles of thighs, as if he had taken cold. < From warmth of bed at night, disturbing sleep; > after breakfast; > in open air. ─ Slight nervous excitement and restlessness; soon followed by a sick, debilitated sensation. ─ General muscular lameness and soreness; lassitude; depression of spirits.

Skin

Yellow jaundiced appearance; itching as from flea-bites. ─ Pimples in different parts, a painful one on nose. ─ Itching: near insertion of deltoid in both arms; of face, then creeping sensation; and stinging-like flea-bites, on r. side of face, then on neck, shoulder, forearm, midway between r. knee and ankle.

Sleep

Drowsiness; vertigo; semi-stupor. ─ Restless, or sleeps soundly until toward morning; awakens generally feeling worse. ─ Unrefreshing sleep, with frequent wakings and bad dreams. ─ Amorous dreams, with emission. ─ Ugly dreams, at one time that his head was attacked by enormous, bugs, which he felt obliged to kill with difficulty.

Fever

Chilliness on going out of doors; slight aching in lumbar region. ─ Excited, feverish feeling, alternating with chilliness; warm sensation along spine, then chill and gentle sweat. ─ Face hot and flushed.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Wax Myrtle. Myricaceæ.
A shrub from three to ten feet high. It grows in sandy soil along the sea and shores of our northern lakes, and has a spicy odor. The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark of the root.
Provings by Chase, Collis, Wesselhœft C., Krebs, Linnel (Trans. Hom. Med. Soc. Mass., 1864, vol. 2, p. 397), Walker (Hale's New Rem, 2d ed., p. 728), Sharp (M. Hom. Rev., vol. 20, p. 749).
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Affection of pharynx , Preston, Hom. Phys., vol. 4, p. 158 ; Hepatic derangement , Bowie, Hah. Mo., vol. 12, p. 362 ; Jaundice , Simpson, Hah. Mo., 1886, p. 824.

Mind

Great despondency ; terribly depressed ; irritable.
Pleasant exhilaration, succeeded by depression and pressure about head.
Deficient concentrativeness ; dull, drowsy state.

Sensorium

Vertigo : with dulness and drowsiness ; with rush of blood to head and face on stooping ; with nausea.

Inner head

Awakes with pains in forehead, temples and small of back.
Dull, heavy feeling over and in eyes ; drowsiness ; jaundice.
Dull, heavy aching in forehead and temples on waking in morning.
Headache, with pain and stiffness in nape of neck.
Empty feeling in head.

Sight and eyes

Eyes congested and yellow.
Eyes and sclerotic have a dirty, dingy, yellowish hue, lids abnormally red.
Eyes feel dull and heavy ; also on waking.
Eyes burn and tire easily when he reads ; lids heavy.
Smarting in eyes, with feeling as of sand in them, difficulty of closing lids.

Hearing and ears

Ringing in ears, with slight vertigo ; also with pressure about head.
Ringing in left ear.

Smell and nose

Severe coryza in morning.
Fetid and bloody ozæna.

Upper face

Face yellow, jaundiced.
Fulness with heat and throbbing, especially after being out in open air.

Teeth and gums

Tender, spongy and bleeding gums.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : bad, foul, he cannot eat because of it ; bitter ; nauseous.
Tongue coated a dirty yellow.
Thick, yellowish, dark, dry and crusty coating on tongue, rendering it almost immovable.

Inner mouth

Mouth dry ; thirst, water > partially and temporarily.
Adhesive coating over buccal membrane ; dry, scaly crusts on roof of mouth, that water scarcely moistens or dissolves.
Aphthæ ; follicular stomatitis.

Palate and throat

Ulceration of fauces.
Catarrh of throat and posterior nares.
Aphthous tonsillitis.
Stringy mucus detached with difficulty ; offensive, tenacious in nose and throat.
Pharynx dry, sore as if it would crack, impeding, finally obstructing deglutition.
Slimy, glutinous, frothy mucus in pharynx, gargling scarcely detaches it ; causes disgusting taste, preventing eating.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Hunger, yet full feeling as after a hearty meal.
Loss of appetite, loathing of food.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Indescribable feeling of distress in epigastric region ; fulness and pressure ; weak, sinking feeling.

Hypochondria

Dull pain in right side, immediately below ribs ; thick yellowish white coating on tongue, no appetite, desire for acids, unrefreshing sleep. θ Hepatic derangement.
Dragging pain in back ; miserable feeling all over ; dull pain in hepatic region ; no appetite ; loathing of food ; sleeplessness. θ Hepatic derangement.
Very despondent ; dull, heavy headache, < in morning ; yellowness of sclerotica, with redness of eyelids ; tongue coated dirty yellowish, as if smeared with mud ; taste bitter ; offensive breath ; no appetite ; yellowness of skin ; dark colored urine, like ale ; feels very weak and drowsy ; with much soreness and aching, < in lower limbs.
Sallow complexion ; tongue thickly coated ; breath offensive ; tenacious, thick, nauseous secretion in mouth ; no appetite ; stools pale ; urine dark ; extreme lassitude ; great sleepiness during day ; abdominal pain and tenderness, < in hepatic region. θ Jaundice.
Jaundice : fulness of hepatic region and of upper abdomen ; drowsiness, debility ; stools mushy, clay colored.

Abdomen and loins

Weak, faint feeling as if diarrhœa would ensue.
Griping pains, rumbling, urging to stool, passing only flatus.

Stools and rectum

Passes very offensive flatus.
Stools : loose, mushy, with tenesmus and cramplike sensation in umbilical region ; light yellow ; mushy, clay colored (jaundice).
Loose, light colored stool, growing lighter daily, until it became ash colored and destitute of bile.
Chronic diarrhœa ; diarrhœa of consumptives.

Urinary organs

Urine : high colored, saturated with coloring matter of bile ; beer colored, with yellowish froth ; pinkish brown sediment ; dark and turbid.

Male sexual organs

Chronic gonorrhœa.

Female sexual organs

Leucorrhœa excoriating, fetid, thick and yellowish, of several years' duration.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Chronic bronchitis.

Cough

Cough : tickling at night on lying down ; profuse expectoration ; < by talking ; chronic, with profuse expectoration and much irritation of throat.

Inner chest and lungs

Pulse : impulse increased, but 60 ; feeble, irregular ; slow.

Neck and back

Pain in back of neck.
Dull, aching dragging on walking ; lassitude, headache.

Rest. position. motion

Lying down : cough.
Stooping : rush of blood to head and face.
Cannot move tongue : thick coating.

Nerves

Slight nervous excitement and restlessness followed by a sick, debilitated sensation that is most characteristic.
Weak and drowsy ; muscular soreness and aching in limbs.
Great debility. θ Jaundice.

Sleep

Drowsiness, vertigo, semi-stupor.
Restless, or sleeps soundly until towards morning ; generally awakes feeling <.
Waking with dull frontal headache.
Drowsiness with and after headache.

Time

Morning : dull aching in forehead and temples ; severe coryza.
During day : great sleepiness.
Night : tickling cough.

Temperature and weather

Open air : heat and throbbing in face ; causes chilliness.

Fever

Chilliness on going out of doors, slight aching in lumbar region.
Excited, feverish feeling, alternating with chilliness ; warm sensation along spine, then chill and gentle sweat.
Face hot and flushed.
Night sweats. θ Phthisis.

Attacks, periodicity

For several years : leucorrhœa.

Locality and direction

Right : dull pain in side.
Left : ringing in ear.

Sensations

As of sand in eyes ; pharynx as if it would crack ; full feeling, as if after a hearty meal ; tongue as if smeared with mud ; as if diarrhœa would ensue ; itching as from fleabites.
Pains : in forehead, temples and small of back ; in nape of neck ; in hepatic region.
Soreness : of pharynx ; of muscles.
Griping pains : in abdomen.
Cramplike sensation : in umbilical region.
Smarting : of eyes.
Burning : of eyes.
Aching : of muscles ; in limbs ; in lumbar region.
Dragging pains : in back.
Dull, heavy aching : in forehead and temples.
Dull pain : in right side ; in hepatic region.
Pressure : about head ; in stomach.
Dull, heavy feeling : over and in eyes.
Tenderness : of hepatic region.
Fulness : in stomach ; of hepatic region.
Warm sensation : along spine.
Indescribable feeling of distress : in epigastric region.
Empty feeling : in head.
Weak, sinking feeling : in stomach.
Stiffness : in nape of neck.
Dryness : of pharynx.
Itching : of skin.

Tissues

Catarrh of mucous membranes ; mouth, pharynx, bile ducts, etc.
Muscular lameness, lassitude, depressed spirits.
Low states, with or without jaundice ; debility ; viscous state of mucus, scanty, tenacious, crust forming secretions on tongue and in mouth and pharynx.
Granulated eyelids and throat.
Ulcerated mouth and throat.
Diphtheria : thick, vitiated mucous secretions, difficult to detach.
Chronic, offensive, irritating leucorrhœa ; profuse catarrhal discharges of long standing generally.

Skin

Yellow, jaundiced appearance ; itching as from fleabites.
Yellowness of skin of whole body.

Stage of life, constitution

Stout person, æt. 50 ; jaundice.
Man, æt. 70 ; tall, robustly developed ; affection of pharynx.

Relations

Compare : Asar. can., Acid. benz., Berb. vulg., Bromine, Chimaph., Corn. circ., Chelid., Cubeba, Digit., Eryng. aquat., Eupat. arom., Hydr. can., Hepar sulph., Kali bich., Laches., Merc. iod., Podoph., Spongia .