Paris quadrifolia
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Imaginary foul smells. Feels too large. Garrulous, prattling, vivacious.
General
One-berry Head symptoms marked and verified. Sensation of expansion and consequent tension. Coldness of right side of body, left hot. Catarrhal complaints, stuffed feeling at root of nose. Disorder of sense of touch.
Head
Sensation as if scalp were contracted and bones scraped. Soreness of top
of head; cannot brush hair. Aches, as from pulling a string from eyes to occiput. Occipital headache, with a feeling of weight. Head feels very large, expanded. Scalp sensitive. Numb feeling on left side of head.
Face
Neuralgia; hot stitches in left malar bone, which is very sore. Has relieved in inflammation of the antrum, where eye symptoms co-existed.
Eyes
Affections of the eyebrows. Eyes feel heavy, as if they were projected; sensation of a string through eyeballs. Expanded, as though lids did not cover.
Mouth
Tongue dry when awaking-Coated white, without thirst, with bitter or diminished taste.
Respiratory
Stuffed condition and fullness at root of nose. Periodical, painless hoarseness. Cough as from vapor of sulphur in trachea. Constant hawking, on account of viscid, green mucus in larynx and trachea.
Extremities
Sense of weight and weariness in nape of neck and across shoulders. Neuralgia, beginning in left intercostal region, and extending into left arm. Arm becomes stiff, fingers clenched. Neuralgia of coccyx; pulsating, sticking, when sitting. Fingers often feel numb. Numbness of upper limbs. Everything feels rough.
Relationships
Compare: Pastinaca-Parsnip––(Loquacity; delirium tremens; illusions of vision; intolerance on milk; Roots used dietetically, cooked in water or as broth or as salad for consumptives and "kidney stones"). Sil; Calc; Nux; Rhus. Incompatible; Ferr phos. Antidote: Coff.
Dose
Third potency.
What the other books say about Paris quadrifolia
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Paris quadrifolia 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). Paris quadrifolia — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/paris-quadrifolia. 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.