Cyclamen europaeum
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
Cyclamen Europæum
Sow Bread. Primulaceae.
Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anaemic or chlorotic conditions; easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labor; feeble or suspended functions of organs or special senses.
Pakj chlorotic; deranged menses (Fer., Puls.), accompanied by vertigo, headache, dim vision.
Pains; pressive, drawing or tearing of parts where bones lie near the surface.
Ailments : from suppressed grief and terrors of conscience ; from duty not done or bad act committed.
Great sadness and peevishness ; irritable, morose, illhumored; inclined to weep; desire for solitude; aversion to open air (rev. of Puls.).
Headache in anaemic patients, with flickering before eyes or dim vision, on rising in morning.
Flickering before eyes, fiery sparks, as of various colors, glittering needles, dim vision of fog or smoke.
Satiety after a few mouthfuls (Lyc.), food then becomes repugnant, causes nausea in throat and palate.
Saliva and all food has a salty taste ; pork disagrees.
Menses: too early; too profuse, black and clotted; membranous (too late, pale, scanty. Puls.) ; better during flow (worse. Act., Puls.).
Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting, standing or walking in open air (Agar., Caust., Val., Phyt.).
rosis, and anaemic affections; Croc., Thuja as if something alive in abdomen.
Aggravation. — Open air; cold water; cold bathing; menses < sitting and lying at night.
Amelioration. — In a warm room ; in-doors ; menses > walking (leucorrhoea, < sitting, > walking, Cac. Coc.).
What the other books say about Cyclamen europaeum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cyclamen europaeum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Cyclamen europaeum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cyclamen europaeum 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. Cyclamen europaeum — Keynotes, p. 112. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/cyclamen-europaeum. 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.