Phellandrium aquaticum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Water Dropwort The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. Everything tastes sweet. Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhœa.
Head
Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and above eyes. Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.
Female
Pain in milk ducts; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.
Chest
Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders. Dyspnœa, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.
Extremities
Tired feeling when walking.
Fever
Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.
Relationships
Compare: Con; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis arvensis.
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.
What the other books say about Phellandrium aquaticum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Phellandrium aquaticum 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). Phellandrium aquaticum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/phellandrium-aquaticum. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.