FILIX MAS.
Aspidium Filix mas, Swartz. (Nephrodium Filix mas,
Rich.; Polypodium Filix mas, Linn.)
Natural order
, Filices. Common names, Male Fern; (Germ.), Farnwurzel;
(Fr.), Fougère mâle.
Preparation
, Tincture of the inner part of
the root.
Authority.
Dr. Berridge, provings, Med.
Invest., N. S., 3, p. 282: 1, Mr.
— took 1 drop of 102d dil.; 2,
Mrs. — took 10 drops of 101st dil.; 3,
Miss — took 101st dil. at 6.30 and 11 P.M.►
Painless hiccough, starts ten minutes
after meal, lasting from fifteen to thirty minutes (first day), [1]. ►
Tightness in left hypochondrium, extending forward to middle line,
causing difficulty of breathing, in a warm room, in the evening after
sunset; better when walking in the open air; it kept her awake in bed
till 1 A.M.; on awaking the next morning, the same; better after a
Turkish bath (second and third days), [3].
► Numbness of back of right wrist,
extending up radial side of arm to just above elbow; felt as if the use
of the limb would go (after half an hour); then the same feeling in left
wrist, but transient and slighter; afterwards the same (transient) in a
small spot on right vertex, rather anteriorly; afterward the same
(transient) in anterior portion of right shoulder; the numbness seemed
to be in the bone in every case; that in the right arm lasted till she
took coffee, which removed it, [2].
SUPPLEMENT: FILIX MAS.
Authority.
4,
Dr. E. P. Scales, Pub. Mass. Hom. Med. Soc., vol. iv, p. 601. ► A woman about thirty-five years of age
complained of bloated abdomen, with more or less pain; she insisted upon
it that she had a tapeworm. I gave the tincture of Filix mas, 15 to 20
drops at a time, at first two or three times a day, on an empty stomach,
and then early every morning. ► The
bloating of the abdomen diminished, but there was developed, as I think,
on consequence of the Filix mas, a
severe prolapsus of the vagina, and pain and tenesmus of the bladder,
with copious and frequent emission of urine, with intense pain, which
continued until after I abandoned the use of the Filix and gave Chimaphila,
and those painful symptoms of vagina and bladder did not return, except
in consequence of great fatigue, as long walks, much standing, etc. [4].® 2000
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