Aralia racemosa
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
American Spikenard This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down. Drenching sweat during sleep. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhœa, prolapse of rectum. Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side lain upon.
Modalities
Worse about 11 pm (cough).
Female
Menses suppressed; leucorrhœa foul-smelling, acrid, with pressing- down air. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites.
Respiratory
Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about middle of night. Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat. Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat. Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; frequent sneezing. Rawness and burning behind sternum. The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste.
Relationships
Compare: Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and chest. Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night). Ars iod; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad; Sinapis.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.
What the other books say about Aralia racemosa
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Aralia racemosa in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Aralia racemosa — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/aralia-racemosa. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.