Hypericum perforatum
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
Hypericum perforatum
St. Johns Wort. Hypericaceae.
Mechanical injuries of spinal cord; bad effects of spinal concussion; pains, after a fall on coccyx.
Punctured, incised or lacerated wounds; sore, painif of long duration.
Injuries : from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters (Led.); from rat-bites; prevents lockjaw.
Preserves integrity of torn and lacerated members when almost entirely separated from body (Calend. ).
Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves — fingers, toes, matrices of nails, palms or soles — where the intolerable pain shows nerves are severely involved; of tissues of animal life, as hands and feet.
Nervous depression following wounds or surgical operations; removes bad effect of shock, of fright, of mesmerism.
Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing (Calend.). Crushed, mashed fingertips. Tetanus after traumatic injuries (compare, Phys.).
Vertigo: sensation as if head became suddenly elongated; at night, with urging to urinate.
Headache; after a fall upon occiput, with sensation as if being lifted up high into the air; great anxiety lest she fall from this height.
Spine: after a fall; slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries; spine very sensitive to touch.
Bunions and corns when pain is excruciating, showing nerve involvement.
Convulsions; after blows on head or concussion.
In wounds where formerly Acon, and Arn. were given alternately, Hypericum cures.
What the other books say about Hypericum perforatum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Hypericum perforatum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Hypericum perforatum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Hypericum perforatum 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. Hypericum perforatum — Keynotes, pp. 140–142. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/hypericum-perforatum. 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.