Cyclamen europaeum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Sow-bread Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting; disturbed digestion with very salty saliva. Anæmic and chlorotic conditions. Affections of uterus. Gastro- intestinal and genito-urinary tracts affected, inducing secondary anæmia and various reflexes. Sleepiness, moroseness, and lassitude. Cough at night while asleep without waking, especially in children (Cham; Nitr ac).
Modalities
Worse, open air, evenings, sitting, standing, and cold water. Better, during menstrual flow, by moving about, rubbing parts; in warm room, lemonade.
Head
Terrors of conscience. Grieves over duty neglected. Depression, with weeping desire to be alone. Aching in morning, with flickering before eyes; sneezing with itching in ear. Vertigo; things turn in a circle; better in the room; worse, open air. One-sided headache. Frequent sneezing with itching in ears.
Eyes
Dim vision, worse on waking, with spots before eyes. Flickering of
various colors. Convergent strabismus. Sees countless stars. Diplopia. Disturbance of vision, associated with gastric disturbances.
Stomach
Salty taste; hiccough-like eructation worse, fat food. Diarrhœa after every cup of coffee; hiccough. Satiety after a few mouthfuls. Disgust for meat, especially pork. Desire for lemonade. No thirst all day.
Rectum
Pain about anus and perineum, as if a spot were suppurating, when walking or sitting.
Female
Menses profuse, black, membranous, clotted, too early, with labor-like pains from back to pubes. Flow less when moving about. Menstrual irregularities with megrim and blindness, or fiery spots before eyes. Hiccough during pregnancy. Post-partum hæmorrhage, with colicky bearing-down pains, with relief after gush of blood. After menses, swelling of breasts, with milky secretion.
Extremities
Pains in parts where bones lie near surface. Burning, sore pain in heels. Cramp-like contraction of right thumb and index finger. Pains in periosteum. Chilblains.
Skin
Acne in young women, pruritus better scratching and appearance of menses.
Relationships
Compare: Ambra; Pulsat; Cinchona; Fer cit et Chin.
Dose
Third attenuation.
What the other books say about Cyclamen europaeum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cyclamen europaeum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Cyclamen europaeum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cyclamen europaeum 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). Cyclamen europaeum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cyclamen-europaeum. 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.