Murex purpurea
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
Murex purpurea
A Mollusk. Muricidee.
Persons of a melancholy temperament.
For the sufferings during climacteric (Lach., Sep., Sulph.). Great depression of spirits.
Sinking, all gone sensation, in stomach (Sep.). Least contact of parts, causes violent sexual excitement (excessive sexual irritation driving to self abuse, Orig., Zinc.).
Violent excitement in sexual organs, and excessive desire for an embrace (rev. of, Sep.).
Sore pain in uterus ; a distinct sensation of a womb (Helon., Lys.).
Bearing down sensation, as if internal organs would be pushed out, must sit down and cross limbs to > pressure (but no sexual desire, Sep.).
Menses : irregular, early, profuse, protracted, large clots.
Leucorrhoea : < mental depression, happier when leucorrhoea is worse.
Sep. in bearing down sensation, but has no sexual erethism.
What the other books say about Murex purpurea
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Murex purpurea in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Murex purpurea 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. Murex purpurea — Keynotes, pp. 193–194. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/murex-purpurea. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.