Helonias dioica
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Profound melancholy. Patient is better when kept busy, with mind engaged, when doing something. Irritable; cannot endure the least contradiction.
General
Unicorn-root Chamaelirium Sensation of weakness, dragging and weight in the sacrum and pelvis, with great languor and prostration, are excellent indications for this remedy. There is a
sensitiveness expressed as a consciousness of a womb. Tired, backachy females. The weakness shows itself also in a tendency to prolapse and other malposition of the womb. The menses are often suppressed and the kidneys congested. It seems as if the monthly congestion, instead of venting itself as it should through the uterine vessels, had extended to the kidneys. With it all, there is a profound melancholia. Patient must be doing something to engage the mind. Remember it, for women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury (better when attention is engaged-hence when the doctor comes), or for those worn out with hard work; tired, strained muscles burn and ache; sleepless. Diabetes mellitus, and insipidus. Constant aching and tenderness over kidneys.
Modalities
Better, when doing something (mental diversion). Worse, motion, touch.
Head
Burning sensation on top. Headache, better mental exertion.
Urinary
Albuminous, phosphatic; profuse and clear, saccharine. Diabetes.
Female
Dragging in sacral region, with prolapse, especially after a miscarriage. Pruritus vulvæ. Backache after miscarriage (Kali c). Weight and soreness in womb; conscious of womb. Menses too frequent, too profuse. Leucorrhœa. Breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender. Parts hot, red, swollen; burn and itch terribly. Albuminuria during pregnancy. Debility attending the menopause.
Back
Pain and weight in back; tired and weak. Aching and burning across the lumbar region; can trace outlines of kidneys by constant burning. Boring pain in lumbar region, extending down legs. Great languor, better exercising.
Extremities
Sensation as if a cool wind streamed up calves of legs. Feet feel numb when sitting.
Relationships
Compare: Agrimonia-Cockleburr––(painful kidneys, impaired digestion and menstrual difficulties; Bronchorrhœa and catarrh of bladder. Cough with profuse expectoration attended with expulsion of urine. Tincture 1- 10 gtt). Aletris; Lilium; Puls; Senecio; Stannum.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth attenuation.
What the other books say about Helonias dioica
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Helonias dioica in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Helonias dioica 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). Helonias dioica — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/helonias-dioica. 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.