Hedeoma pulegioides
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Pennyroyal
This is one author on one remedy. The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full. Read Hedeoma pulegioides in every book at once →
General
Female symptoms are most marked; usually associated with nervous disturbances. Red sand in urine. Pain along ureter. Flatulent colic. Antidotes effects of Poison-oak (Grindelia).
Head
Dull, heavy feeling in morning. Sore pain, as from a cut. Weak, faint;
better, lying down.
Stomach
Gastritis. Everything taken into stomach causes pain. Tongue coated thin white. Nausea.
Abdomen
Distended, sore, and sensitive.
Urinary
Frequent urging, cutting pains. Pain along left ureter. Dragging pain from kidney to bladder. Dull burning pain over left kidney. Burning irritation at neck of bladder causing frequent intense desire to urinate and inability to retain urine for more than few minutes, better urinating.
Female
Bearing-down pains, with much backache; worse, least movement. Leucorrhœa, with itching and burning Ovaries congested and painful; bearing- down spasmodic contractions.
Extremities
Pain in thumb-joint. Pain, coldness, and paretic condition. Twitchings, jerkings, soreness. Tendo-Achilles painful, as if sprained and swollen; walking painful.
Relationships
Compare: Mentha; Sepia; Lilium; Ocimum (uric acid diathesis, pain in ureters). Hedera Helix––Common Ivy––(Delirium and chronic convulsions. Chronic hydrocephalus Rhinorrhea, cerebro-spinalis. Cataract. Acts on blood vessels, menorrhagia). Glechoma Hederacea––Ground Ivy–– (Hæmorrhoids with rectal irritation and bleeding. Diarrhœa. Anus feels raw and sore. Cough with laryngeal and tracheal irritation. Glandula sub-mentalis inflamed).
Dose
First potency.
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). Hedeoma pulegioides — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/hedeoma-pulegioides. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.