Cimex lectularius
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Of use in intermittent fever, with weariness and inclination to stretch. Hamstrings feel too short (Ammon mur). Flexors mostly affected. Sensation of retraction of arm tendons. Stretching.
Head
Violent headache, caused by drinking. Great rage; vehement at beginning of chilly stage. Would like to tear everything to pieces. Pain under right frontal bone.
Female
Shooting pain from vagina up towards left ovary.
Fever
Chilliness of whole body. Sensation as of wind blowing on knees. Pains in all joints, as if tendons were too short, especially knee-joints. Chill; worse lying down. Thirst during apyrexia, but little during chilly stage; still less during hot stage, and none during sweating. Musty, offensive sweat. Bowels.––Constipation, feces dry and in small balls (Op; Plumb; Thuj) and hard. Ulcer of rectum.
Dose
Sixth to two hundredth attenuation.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cimex lectularius — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cimex-lectularius. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.