ESSENTIALS OF
Homśopathic Materia Medica
and Homśopathic Pharmacy
Willis Alonzo DEWEY, M. D.
Presented byCHAPTER III.
VEGETABLE KINGDOM.
3 – 13 – CONIFERĆ FAMILY.
What are members of the Coniferć family ?
Abies Canadensis, Abies nigra, Pinus
sylvestris, Pix liquida, Sabina, Terebinth and Thuja.
ABIES CANADENSIS.
What are the principal indications for the use of
Abies Canadensis or the Hemlock spruce ?There is a dry mouth, a gnawing or burning in the stomach, a hungry,
faint, weak feeling with craving for indigestible or unsuitable articles
of food, and tendency to over eat.
Uterine displacement with above symptoms.
ABIES NIGRA.
What is Abies nigra and how is the tincture
made ?It is the Black Spruce and the
tincture is made by dissolving two parts, by weight, of the gum in 9
parts, by weight, of 95 % alcohol.
What is its great characteristic ?
A sensation as if the patient had swallowed some indigestible substance
which had stuck in the cardiac extremity of the stomach ; a hard
boiled egg sensation ; dyspepsia from abuse of tobacco. Low
spirited and melancholic, persons who suffers from a dull headache.
SABINA.
What is Sabina ?
It is the Juniperus Sabina or Savine.
Introduced by Stapf.
What of the tincture ?
It is made from the fresh tops of the younger branches collected in
April.
Imported.
What are the main characteristic symptoms of
Sabina ?Metrorrhagia, with paroxysmal flow of bright color, accompanied with
pains in the joints.
Threatened abortion about the third month, with pains in the small of
the back, going down thighs ; bruised sensation along the anterior
surface of the thighs.
THEREBINTH.
What is Terebinth ?
The common oil of Turpentine, one
part, by weight, of the purified oil is dissolved in 99 parts, by
weight, of alcohol. This is called the mother tincture.
What are the chief symptoms of Terebinth ?
Dull, aching pain in the renal region ; drawing pains and
distressing strangury ; urine scanty, bloody, dark and smoky
looking and smelling like violets ; there may be also excessive
tympanites.
PIX LIQUIDA.
What is the main symptoms of Pix liquida or
Tar ?Suppurative processes, with a pain at the third left costal cartilage.
Eczema of dorsa of hands.
ANISUM STELLATUM.
What drug has a pain at the third right costal
cartilage ?Anisum stellatum.
MYRTUS COMMUNIS.
What drug has stitches in the left breast running
through to the shoulder blade ?Myrtus communis.
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS.
Where are pathogeneses of Thuja to be found ?
In Hahnemann’s Materia Medica Pura, Metcalf’s
Homśopathic Provings, North American Journal of Homśopathy,
Vol. XXV.
What is Thuja ?
The Arbor vitć or Tree
of Life, or White Cedar.
From what is the tincture prepared ?
Describe the process. The fresh young twigs, leaves and blossoms are
gathered when the tree is just flowering. Chop these finely and weigh.
To every three parts add gradually two parts of alcohol, bringing the
whole mass into a thick pulp by stirring. Strain through a piece of new
linen. Stand eight days in a well-stoppered bottle in a dark, cool place
and then filter. Drug power, ˝. The tincture is deep orange-brown in
color.
What place does Thuja hold in the homśopathic
Materia Medica ?It is our great antisycotic remedy.
Give the general action of Thuja.
Its main action is on the skin and genito-urinary system. It irritates
these and changes their secretions. It also produces wart-like
excrescences upon the body.
In what special field is Thuja useful ?
For the bad effects of vaccination, especially for the diarrhśa caused
thereby.
Mention two other drugs useful for the bad effects of
vaccination.Silicea and Kali
mur.
What is meant by a hydrogenoid constitution ?
First described by Dr. Grauvogl, a noted German Homśopathist, and
characterized by a preponderance of water within all the tissues. Such
patients are worse in rainy weather, at the seashore and from water in
any form.
Give three drugs especially applicable to that form
of constitution.Thuja, Natrum sulph. and Aranea
diadema.
What are the mental symptoms of Thuja ?
The patient is always in a hurry, talks hurriedly, moves hurriedly, is
excitable, imagines he is made of glass, and is brittle, and refuses to
move for fear of breaking, or imagines himself double or treble and
scattered about.
What are the neuralgias and peculiar symptoms about
the head ?Sensation as though a nail were being driven into the vertex of frontal
eminences, intense stabbing pains driving patient almost to
distraction ; patient must lie down.
What are the symptoms of Thuja in gonorrhśa ?
Thin, greenish discharge, scalding urination, warts and condylomata
about the genitals, gonorrhśa suppressed by injections, and complicated
with rheumatism or orchitis.
Mention another use of Thuja.
It is a remedy for warts and diseases of the epidermal tissues, such as
affections of the nails, etc.
How do the warts calling for Thuja differ from those
calling for Causticum ?The Causticum warts have a solid
body and are very horny. Thuja warts
are fissured, cut up having cauliflower appearance.
What is the diarrhśa of Thuja ?
Chronic diarrhśa traceable to vaccination forcibly expelled like water
from a bunghole ; thirst with same gurgling sound on drinking,
worse in the morning after breakfast, from coffee and onions, with rapid
emaciation and exhaustion.
PINUS SYLVESTRIS.
What is Pinus sylvestris ?
The Scotch fir, tincture from the
fresh shoots.
What is Pinus sylvestris used for ?
Emaciation of the lower extremities in children with tardiness in
learning to walk.
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