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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

Skin. Scalp. Urinary organs.

Worse

Pressing on opposite side. Suppressed eczema.

General

Cracked, gummy crusts on scalp, exuding profuse, tenacious, yellow fluid, matting hair together; with swelled cervical glands. Milk crust. Eczema. Urine smells like cat's urine; involuntary in bed. Emissions, with vivid dreams.

Related

Related: Rhus-t.

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

Henry N. Guernsey · Key-Notes to the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Guernsey d. 1885; public domain)

General

The principal use for this remedy is for nocturnal emissions accompanied by very vivid dreams. They are not very exhausting, but cause an uneasy and "played out" state of the mind; also loss of seminal fluid at stool and in the urine; trembling, poor appetite, feels dull, sleepless, etc. Very vivid amorous dreams. Pricking in the skin; pricking itching.

Worse

When sitting.

Better

After rising from a seat.

Remedies following

Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia, Staphis.

Antidotes

Camphor., Rhus tox.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Pansy

General

The principal uses of this remedy are for eczema in childhood and nocturnal emission accompanied by very vivid dreams.

Head

Heavy, pressing-outward pain. Eczema of scalp, with swollen glands. Face hot and sweating after eating.

Throat

Much phlegm, causing hawking; worse in the air. Swallowing difficult.

Urinary

Copious; disagreeable, cat-like odor.

Male

Swelling of prepuce, burning in glans. Itching. Involuntary, seminal emissions at stool.

Skin

Impetigo. Intolerable itching. Eruptions, particularly over face and head, with burning, itching; worse at night. Thick scabs, which crack and exude a tenacious yellow pus. Eczema impetigonoides of the face. Sycosis.

Modalities

Worse, winter; 11 am. Compare: Lycop.

Relationship

Compare: Rhus; Calc; Sepia.

Dose

Lower potencies.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

Mind and Disposition

Great dulness of the intellect. Low spirited about domestic affairs. Bad, morose humor, with disinclination to talk. Very sensitive and inclined to scold. Vertigo when walking. Heaviness of the head when raising it, which disappears by stooping. Burning stitches in the scalp, especially in the forehead and temples.

Eyes

Biting in the eyes. The eyelids sink down as from sleepiness.

Face

Induration of the skin of the face. Milk-crust, burning and itching especially at night, with discharge of tough yellow pus. Heat and perspiration of the face after eating. Heat of the side of the face on which he does not lie, in the evening in bed.

Mouth and Throat

Tongue coated with white mucus and bitter taste. Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with much saliva.

Stomach and Abdomen

Stitches and cutting pain in the abdomen, with urging to stool and crying and lamentations, followed by discharge of lumps of mucus and flatulence. Pressing-stinging in the diaphragm.

Stool and Anus

Chopped soft stools. Stool with mucus and much flatulence.

Urinary Organs

Urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine. Fetid urine ; it smells like the urine of cats. Very turbid urine. Stitches in the urethra.

Sexual Organs

Swelling of the prepuce with itching. Stitches in the penis or pressing in the glans ; burning of the glans. Itching stitches in the scrotum. Involuntary seminal discharges, with lewd dreams.

Respiratory Organs

Stitches in the chest, on the ribs, sternum and intercostal muscles. Oppression and stitches in the heart, on bending the chest forward when sitting. Anxiety about the heart while lying, with beating like waves.

Back

Tension between the shoulder-blades, with cutting and tingling in the skin.

Extremities

Upper. Stitches in the shoulder-joints, elbows, forearms and fingers. Lower. Stitches in the patella, tibia and feet.

Sleep

Goes to sleep late on account of ideas crowding his mind. Awakens frequently from vigilance. The child twitches with his hands in his sleep, with clenched thumbs, general dry heat and red face.

Fever

General heat, especially in the face, with anxiety ; dyspnœa immediately after eating.

Skin

Stinging-biting rash. Dry scabs over the whole body ; when they arc scratched, they exude yellow water.

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

Viola tricolor. Jacea. Pansy. Heartsease. N. O. Violaceæ. Tincture of fresh plant in flower.

Clinical

Crusta lactea. Eczema . Enuresis. Gonorrhœa, suppressed. Gout. Impetigo . Leucorrhœa. Ophthalmia, scrofulous. Orchitis. Plica polonica. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Seminal emissions. Syphilis. Throat, ulceration of.

Characteristics

The Pansy was proved by Hahnemann and his provers. It had an ancient reputation in asthma and epilepsy, and especially in obstinate skin diseases. Teste quotes from old observers (Starck, Haase, Murray, &c.) the following as cured by V. tri .: ( 1 ) Milk-crust in children at the breast, [or] recently weaned. ( 2 ) Milk-crust with violent cough and excessive oppression. ( 3 ) Impetigo of hairy scalp and face in children and adult females. ( 4 ) Favus and serpiginous crusts in children and adults, with swelling and induration of cervical glands. ( 5 ) Large boils all over body in a scrofulous child. ( 6 ) Pustules and ichorous exanthema of feet. ( 7 ) Squamous spots on skin. ( 8 ) Rheumatism and gout; articular rheumatism with itch-like eruption round the joints. ( 9 ) Impetigenous exanthema on forehead. ( 10 ) Ichorous ulcers with violent itching. In Russia a decoction of Pansy is a popular remedy for scrofula; and Schlegel, of Moscow, used it with good effect in syphilitic affections, especially venereal ulcers. Teste (from whom I take all the above) puts V. tri . in two groups, whose types are Lyc . and Cham . Homœopathy has brought out some characteristics of V. tri . which single out its cases. One of these is concomitance of urinary symptoms with skin affections: Tinea capitis with frequent involuntary urination. Eczema with urinary disturbances; too copious urination; or sudden arrest of secretion. " Urine smelling like cat's urine " is a keynote. The male sexual organs were much excited. Emissions with vivid dreams occurred; swelling, itching, and pains in prepuce and glans, with erections. Peculiar Symptoms are: Face hot and sweating after eating. Dyspnœa after eating. Hands twitch and are clenched in sleep. Nervous paroxysms followed suppressed milk-crust. The axillæ and clavicular regions were noticeably affected; and stitches and burning stitches were prevailing pains. The symptoms are: < By pressure on side opposite to painful side. < Lying on unpainful side. Lying = anxiety about heart. Raising head = , and stooping > , heaviness in head. Walking = vertigo; stitches through chest and abdomen. Sitting = stitches in abdomen and groin (standing > them). < At 11 a.m.; at night. Open air > headache; = chilliness. Aversion to open air. < In winter when walking in cold air.

Relations

Antidoted by: Camph., Merc., Puls., Rhus. Compatible: Puls., Rhus, Sep., Staph. Compare: Tension of integuments of face and forehead, V. od. Crusta lactea, Vinca m. (V. tri. has urinary concomitants). Eruptions, ulcers, &c., Cham., Graph., Hep., Merc., Olean., Petrol., Staph. Stitches, K. ca. Botan., see Viol. od.

Causation

Suppressed milk-crust (nervous paroxysms).

Mind

Sadness respecting domestic affairs. ─ Precipitation as from internal anguish, with sensation of great weakness. ─ Tendency to shed tears. ─ Ill-humour, moroseness, with dislike to conversation. ─ Great sensitiveness, inclination to scold, and combativeness. ─ Disobedience. ─ Aversion to labour. ─ Great dulness of the intellect.

Head

Head bewildered and perplexed. ─ Vertigo and dizziness when walking. ─ Headache from root of nose to brain, disappearing in open air. ─ Heaviness of head, which draws it backwards, principally when getting up, > by stooping. ─ Pressive headache, esp. in forehead and temples (extending outward). ─ Shootings in occiput day and night. ─ The brain shakes when walking. ─ Burning stitches in scalp, esp. in forehead and temples (tearing stitch externally in l. temple). ─ Scurfs on head, unbearable burning, most at night. ─ Impetigo of the hairy scalp and face. ─ Crusta lactea in children recently weaned. ─ Thick incrustations, pouring out a large quantity of thick, yellow fluid, which mats the hair.

Eyes

Pain in eyes, as if a hard body were between upper eyelid and eyeball. ─ Smarting and incisive and itching shootings in eye. ─ Contraction and closing of eyelids, with inclination to sleep. ─ (Myopia.)

Face

Heat in face at night in bed, sometimes semilateral, and in cheek on which patient is not lying. ─ Heat and perspiration of face after eating. ─ Thickness and hardness of skin of face. ─ Scabs on face with burning itching, esp. at night, and running of a yellow and viscid pus; also behind ears. ─ Tension in integuments of face and forehead.

Mouth

Tongue loaded with whitish mucus of a bitter taste. ─ Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, with sensation of dryness.

Throat

Sore throat in evening. ─ Swelling of cervical glands. ─ Much phlegm in throat = hawking, 11 a.m. ─ Swallowing difficult and very painful (syphilis). ─ Chancroid ulcer on posterior surface of fauces and soft palate (syphilis).

Abdomen

Stitches and cutting pain in abdomen, with urging to stool and crying and lamentations, followed by discharge of lumps of mucus and flatulence. ─ Pressing-stinging in diaphragm.

Stool

Chopped soft stools. ─ Stool with mucus and much flatus.

Urinary Organs

Urging (frequent) to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine. ─ Fetid urine; it smells like cat's urine. ─ Very turbid urine. ─ Stitches in the urethra.

Male Sexual Organs

Swelling of the prepuce with itching. ─ Stitching in penis or pressing in glans; burning of glans. ─ While standing voluptuous itching of prepuce, accompanied by an erection which prevented scratching. ─ Itching stitches in scrotum. ─ Involuntary seminal discharges, with vivid dreams. ─ Loss of seminal fluid at stool. ─ Suppressed gonorrhœa; indurated testicle.

Female Sexual Organs

Stitch in region of mons veneris, r. side. ─ Painful pustules on labia. ─ Leucorrhœa: with stitching pain; in children; in syphilis. ─ Chancroid ulcers about breasts.

Respiratory Organs

Stitches in l. side of chest; < during inspiration and expiration.

Chest

Syphilitic ulcers on clavicles. ─ Shooting in chest. ─ Stitches in the chest, on the ribs, sternum, and intercostal muscles.

Heart

Oppression and lancinations in region of heart on bending forwards while sitting. ─ Anxietas præcordium, with palpitation of heart when lying down (with beating like waves).

Neck and Back

Swelling of glands of neck. ─ Spasmodic pain and contraction, with pinching between shoulder-blades (with cutting, tingling, and crawling in the skin).

Upper Limbs

Lancinations in joints of shoulder, elbows, forearms, and fingers; > on motion. ─ Painful pustules in axillæ (syphilis). ─ Cutting stitches with itching in axillæ.

Lower Limbs

Pain, as of broken thighs, on waking in morning. ─ Flexion of knees when walking; with drawings in thighs and calves. ─ Jerking of muscles in calves. ─ Fine stitches in r. tibia when walking. ─ Shootings in patellæ, tibiæ, and feet. ─ Pustulous and ichorous exanthema on feet.

Generalities

[The principal use for this remedy is for nocturnal emissions accompanied by very vivid dreams; they are not very exhausting, but cause an uneasy and "played-out" state of the mind. ─ Loss of seminal fluid at stool and in the urine, trembling, poor appetite, feels dull, sleepless. ─ Very vivid, amorous dreams. ─ Pricking in skin; pricking Itching. ─ < When sitting. ─ > After rising from a seat. ─ H. N. G.]. ─ Dejection, sometimes as from insufficient sleep. ─ Lancinating pains in the limbs. ─ Miliary eruption over whole body, with lancinating, gnawing sensation.

Skin

Stinging-biting rash. ─ Dry scabs over the whole body; when they are scratched they exude yellow water. ─ Eruption over face (except eyelids) and behind ears, with burning, itching, < at night, a thick, hard scab formed, cracked here and there, from which a tenacious yellow pus exuded, and hardened into a substance like guru.

Sleep

Inclination to sleep in afternoon. ─ Disturbed sleep, with frequent waking. ─ Awakens frequently without cause. ─ Sleep retarded by a concourse of ideas, with difficulty in waking in morning. ─ Vivid and amorous dreams. ─ Jerking of the (child's) hands and retraction of thumbs when sleeping, with redness of face and general dry heat.

Fever

Chill, or chilliness in forenoon and in open air. ─ Dry, anxious heat at night in bed, with red face. ─ General heat, esp. in face, with anxiety; dyspnœa immediately after eating. ─ Night-sweats.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Pansy ; Heart's ease. Violaceæ.
The tincture is prepared from the fresh plants gathered when in flower.
Proved by Hahnemann and his provers. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 10, p. 132 .
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Eczema , Bigler, Hahn. Mo., vol. 15, p. 36 ; Crusta lactea , Toothaker, Org., vol. 3, p. 372.

Mind

Great dulness of intellect.
Low spirited about domestic affairs.
Great indifference.
Bad, morose humor, with disinclination to talk.
Very sensitive and inclined to scold.

Sensorium

Vertigo when walking.
Heaviness of head when raising it, disappears by stooping.

Inner head

Pressing headache, chiefly in forehead and temples.

Outer head

Scurfs on head, unbearable burning, < at night.
Tinea capitis, with frequent involuntary urination.
Burning stitches in scalp, especially in forehead and temples.
Impetigo of hairy scalp and face.
Crusta lactea : with violent cough and excessive oppression ; with children recently weaned ; syphilitic.
Thick incrustations, pouring out a large quantity of thick, yellow fluid, which agglutinates hair.
Crusta lactea ; hair falls off, scabs dry, of a light cream color, and without discharge.
Plica polonica.

Sight and eyes

Smarting in eyes.
Eyelids sink down as from sleepiness.
Contraction and closing of lids.
Scrofulous ophthalmia with crusta lactea ; lids much swollen, and soft parts around so much inflamed that lids cannot be opened ; face covered with a raw looking, excoriating eruption.

Upper face

Heat of side of face not lain on, evening in bed.
Induration of skin of face.
Milk crust, burning, itching, especially at night, with discharge of viscid yellow pus.
Impetiginous exanthema on forehead.
Tension in integuments of face and forehead.

Lower face

Pustular eruption on whole upper lip and chin, a thick, yellow, friable, semi-transparent incrustation ; acne rosacea on chin.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste bitter, tongue coated with white mucus.

Inner mouth

Sensation of dryness, yet with much saliva in mouth.

Palate and throat

Much phlegm in throat, causes hawking, at 11 A. M.
Swallowing difficult and very painful. θ Syphilis.
Very prominent yellow greenish ulcer with adherent pus, in left side of throat, extending from velum palati over entire left tonsil. θ Syphilis.
Chancroid ulcer on posterior surface of fauces and soft palate. θ Syphilis.

Eating and drinking

While eating, hot sweat.
Immediately after eating : dyspnœa ; anxious heat.

Hypochondria

Pressing stinging in diaphragm.
Pain in right side of diaphragm.

Abdomen and loins

Cutting pains in abdomen, with urging to stool, crying and lamentations, followed by profuse discharge of flatus, with large lumps of mucus.

Stools and rectum

Diarrhœa with flatulency.
Stool : soft, as if minced ; of mucus, with much flatus.

Urinary organs

Urging to urinate, with profuse discharge of urine.
Urine : offensive, smelling like cat's urine ; very turbid.
Stitches in urethra.
Frequent and profuse emission of urine.

Male sexual organs

Involuntary seminal discharges, with lewd dreams.
Nocturnal emissions, accompanied by vivid dreams, not very exhausting, but causing weariness of mind ; loss of seminal fluid at stool and in urine ; trembling ; feels dull, sleepless, poor appetite.
Suppression of gonorrhœa ; induration of testicle.
Venereal ulcers.
Swelling of prepuce, with itching.
Stitches in penis or pressing in glans ; burning of glans.
Itching stitches in scrotum.

Female sexual organs

Leucorrhœa : with stitching pain in mons veneris ; in children ; in syphilis.
Painful pustules on labia. θ Syphilis.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Chancroid ulcers about breasts. θ Syphilis.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness. θ Syphilis.

Inner chest and lungs

Stitches in left side of chest, < during inspiration and expiration.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Oppression and stitches in heart, on bending forward when sitting.
Anxiety about heart while lying, with beating like waves.
Pulse accelerated.

Outer chest

Stitches in chest and ribs, sternum and intercostal muscles.
Syphilitic ulcers on clavicles.

Neck and back

Tension between shoulder blades, with cutting and tingling in skin.
Swelling and induration of cervical glands.

Upper limbs

Stitches in shoulder joints, elbows, forearms and fingers.
Painful pustules in axillæ. θ Syphilis.

Lower limbs

Stitches in patella, tibia and feet.
Pustulous and ichorous exanthema on feet.

Rest. position. motion

Lying : anxiety about heart.
Raising head : heaviness.
Stooping : > heaviness of head.
Bending forward when sitting : oppression and stitches in heart.
Walking : vertigo.

Nerves

Nervous paroxysms from suppression of milk crust.

Sleep

Yawning.
Sleepless ; frequent waking.
Goes to sleep late on account of ideas crowding his mind.
The child twitches with his hand in his sleep, with clenched thumbs, general dry heat and red face.
Dreams pleasant, or amorous.

Time

At 11 A. M. : much phlegm in throat, causing hawking.
Forenoon : chilliness.
Evening in bed : heat of side of face not lain on.
Night : burning and itching of milk crust ; dry heat ; itching of eruption <.

Temperature and weather

Aversion to the open air.
Open air : chilliness.
Worse in winter, when walking out in cold air.

Fever

Chill or chilliness in forenoon, and in open air.
Dry, anxious heat at night in bed, with red face.
Night sweats.

Locality and direction

Right : pain in side of diaphragm.
Left : yellow greenish ulcer in side of throat, extending over entire tonsil ; stitches in side of chest.

Sensations

Pain : in right side of diaphragm.
Cutting pain : in abdomen ; between shoulder blades.
Burning stitches : in scalp, forehead and temples.
Stitches : in urethra ; in penis ; in left side of chest ; in heart ; in ribs ; sternum ; intercostal muscles ; in shoulder joints, elbows, forearms and fingers ; in patella ; tibia ; in feet.
Stitching pain : in mons veneris.
Pressing stinging : in diaphragm.
Pressing pain : in forehead and temples.
Anxiety : about head.
Unbearable burning : in scurfs on head.
Burning : of glans.
Smarting : in eyes.
Beating, like waves : about heart.
Painful pustules : on labia ; in axillæ.
Heaviness : of head.
Dryness : of mouth.
Tingling : in skin.
Itching stitches : in scrotum.
Violent itching : of eruptions.
Itching : of milk crusts.

Tissues

Swelling of glands ; eruptions ; syphilis.
Rheumatic affections of muscles.
Rheumatism or gout.
Articular rheumatism, with itch-like eruption around joints.
Impetiginous and eczematous diseases, especially crusta lactea.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Worse from pressure on side opposite to painful side.
Worse lying on unpainful side.

Skin

Cutting, or stinging in skin.
Stinging, biting rash.
Miliary eruption all over body.
Eruption : burning, dry, stinging ; violent itching, < at night ; crusty ; scurfy.
Squamous spots on skin.
Dry scabs over body, exude yellow water when scratched.
Acute eruption, confined principally to face, though it may extend to scalp, tends rapidly to pustular form ; yellowish brown crusts ; much itching in all stages, temporarily > by rubbing ; sometimes there is a rather thin white nasal discharge, or a loose catarrhal cough. θ Eczema of children (tea of dried herb).
Milk crust.
Impetigo, recent cases in adults.
Large boils all over body.
Painful pustules secreting yellowish green fetid pus.
Ichorous ulcers with violent itching.
Burrowing ulcers.
Skin eruptions of scrofulous children.
Consequences of suppressed eruptions.
Skin difficult to heal.

Stage of life, constitution

Scrofulous children.
A nursing infant, æt. 1 (mother, æt. 42), covered with chancroid ulcers.
Young girl, after suppression of milk crust ; nervous paroxysms.

Relations

Antidoted by : Camphor., Mercur., Pulsat., Rhus tox .
Compatible : Pulsat., Rhus tox., Sepia., Staphis .
Compare : Clemat., Graphit., Hepar, Mez., Olnd., Petrol., Staphis., Vinca minor .