Badiaga

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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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.

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Cite 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.