Raphanus sativus

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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General

Black Garden Radish Produces pain and stitches in liver and spleen. Increases of bile and salivary secretion. Symptoms will not appear if salt is used with the Radish. Great accumulation and incarceration of flatulence. "Globus" symptoms. Seborrhœa, with greasy skin. Pemphigus. Hysteria; chilliness in back and arms. Sexual insomnia (Kali brom). Nymphomania. Post-operative gas pains.

Head

Sadness, aversion to children, especially girls. Headache, brain feels tender and sore. Œdema of lower eyelids. Mucus in posterior nares.

Throat

Hot-ball feeling from uterus to throat, stopping there. Heat and burning in throat.

Stomach

Putrid eructations. Burning in epigastrium, followed by hot eructation.

Abdomen

Retching and vomiting, loss of appetite. Distended, tympanitic, hard. No flatus emitted upward or downward. Griping about navel. Stool liquid, frothy, profuse, brown, with colic, and pad-like swelling of intestines. Vomiting of fecal matter.

Urinary

Turbid, with yeast-like sediment. Urine more copious, thick like milk.

Female

Nervous irritation of genitals. Menses very profuse and long-lasting. Nymphomania, with aversion to her own sex and to children, and sexual insomnia.

Chest

Pain in chest extends to back and to throat. Heavy lump and coldness in center of chest.

Relationships

Compare: Momordica (worse, near splenic flexure); Carbo; Anarc; Arg nit; Brassica.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Raphanus sativus — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/raphanus-sativus. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.