Anacardium orientale
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Anacardium orientale
Marking Nut. Anacardiaceae.
Sudden loss of memory ; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is greatly troubled about his forgetfulness ; confused, unfit for business.
Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness.
Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac c.. Lib, Nit. ac. — wants to pray continually. Strain.).
Lack of confidence in himself and others.
Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the other forbids.
When walking, is anxious, as if some one were pursuing him; suspects everything around him.
Weakness of all the senses.
Hypochondriac, with haemorrhoids and constipation.
Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things. Thinks herself a demon; curses and swears.
Sensation : as of a hoop or band around a part (Cac., Garb, ac., Sulph.) ; or as of a dull, blunt instrument pressing; as of a plug in inner parts.
Headache: relieved entirely when eating (Psor.). when lying down in bed at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work.
Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary persons (Arg. n., Bry., Nux).
Apt to choke when eating and drinking (Can. s., Kava kava, Nit. ac.).
Swallows food and drink hastily; symptoms disappear while eating (Kali p., Psor.).
Stomach : sensation of fasting “all gone,” comes on only when stomach is empty and is > hy eating ; (Chel., Iod.) ; > during process of digestion (rev. of Bry., Nux).
Warts on palms of hands (Nat. m.).
Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation; rectum seems powerless, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (irregular peristaltic or over action, Nux).
Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.).
Anacardium follows well : after, Lyc. and Puls.
Anacardium follows, and is followed by Platina.
What the other books say about Anacardium orientale
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Anacardium orientale in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Anacardium orientale in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Anacardium orientale in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Anacardium orientale in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Anacardium orientale — Keynotes, p. 30. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/anacardium-orientale. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.