Badiaga
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
This is one author on one remedy. The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full. Read Badiaga in every book at once →
General
Fresh-water Sponge Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold. Glands swollen. General paresis. Basedow's disease. Lues, bubo, roseola.
Modalities
Worse by cold. Better, by heat.
Head
Sensation of enlargement and fullness. Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon. Blueness under eyes. Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like. Dull, dizzy feeling in head. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough. Influenza. Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes
Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs. Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 pm.
Stomach
Mouth hot. Much thirst. Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female
Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head (Arg). Cancer of breast (Asterias; Con; Carbo an; Plumb iod).
Respiratory
Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room. The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils. Whooping-cough, with thick yellow expectoration; flies out. Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing. Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Heart
Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.
Back
Stitches in nape, scapulæ. Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs.
Very stiff neck. Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
Skin
Sore to touch. Freckles. Rhagades.
Relationships
Compare: Merc similar but opposite modalities. Spongia; Kali hyd; Phytol; Conium. Complementary: Sulph; Merc; Iod.
Dose
First to sixth attenuation.
Search every book at once, take rubrics from Kent and Bönninghausen, and practise on a patient who answers back — free account.
Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Badiaga — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/badiaga. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.