Physalis alkekengi
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Alkekengi
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General
Solanum vesicarium Marked urinary symptoms confirming its ancient uses in gravel, etc. Lithiasis; marked diuretic action. Languor and muscular weakness.
Modalities
Worse, cold camp evening. After going heated.
Head
Vertigo, hazy feeling; memory weakness; desire to talk constantly. Throbbing pain, heavy over eyes in forehead. Facial paralysis. Dryness of mouth.
Urinary
Acrid, foul, retained, abundant. Polyuria. Sudden inability to hold it in women. Nocturnal incontinence. Enuresis.
Respiratory
Cough. Hoarse voice; throat irritated; chest oppressed, causing insomnia. Stabbing in chest.
Extremities
Stiff limbs; tonic cramps. Paralysis. When walking, every jar seems repeated in the head.
Skin
Excoriation between fingers and toes; pustules on thighs; nodes on forehead.
Fever
Chilly in open air. Feverish in evening. Sweat during stool, with creeping sensation, with abundant urine. Pain in liver during, fever.
Dose
Tincture to third attenuation. The juice of the berries is used in dropsical conditions and irritable bladder.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Physalis alkekengi — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/physalis-alkekengi. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.