Juglans cinerea
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
A faulty elimination that produces jaundice and various skin eruptions, is pictured by this drug. The sharp, occipital headache, usually associated with liver disturbances, is very characteristic. Pain in chest, axilla and scapula, with suffocative sensation. Feeling as if all internal organs were too large, especially those of left side. Cholelithiasis.
Modalities
Better, getting heated, exercise, scratching, on rising in morning. Worse, walking.
Head
Dull, full head. Eruption on scalp. Sharp, occipital headache. Head feels enlarged. Pustules on lids and around eyes.
Nose
Tingling in nose; sneezing. Coryza, preceded by pain under sternum, with threatening suffocation. Later, copious, bland, thick mucous discharge.
Mouth
Acrid feeling in mouth and throat. Soreness in region of tonsils externally. Dryness of root of tongue and fauces.
Stomach
Atonic dyspepsia with much eructation and flatulent distention. Soreness in region of liver.
Stool
Yellowish-green, with tenesmus and burning at anus. Camp diarrhœa.
Back
Muscles of neck rigid, lame. Pain between scapula and under right. Pain in lumbar vertebræ.
Skin
Red, like flush of scarlatina. Jaundice, with pain about liver and right scapula. Itching and pricking when heated. Pustules. Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum and hands. Erythema and erysipelatous redness.
Relationships
Compare: Juglandin (duodenal catarrh; bilious diarrhœa); Chelidon; Bryon; Iris.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.
What the other books say about Juglans cinerea
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Juglans cinerea in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Juglans cinerea — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/juglans-cinerea. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.