Rhododendron chrysanthum

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

Rhododendron Chrysanthum

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Mind

Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder. Forgetful.

General

Snow-rose Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked. Rheumatism in the hot season. The modality (worse before a storm) is a true guiding symptom.

Modalities

Worse, before a storm. All symptoms reappear in rough weather, night, towards morning. Better, after the storm breaks, warmth, and eating.

Head

Aching in temples. Tearing pain in bones. Headache; worse, wine, wind, cold and wet weather. Pain in eyes before a storm. Ciliary neuralgia, involving eyeball, orbit, and head. Heat in eyes when using them.

Face

Prosopalgia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves, from temple to lower jaw and chin; better, warmth and eating. toothache in damp weather and before a storm. Swollen gums. Stumps of teeth are loosened.

Eyes

Muscular asthenopia; darting pains through eyes from head, worse before a storm.

Ears

Difficult hearing, with whizzing and ringing in ears. Hearing better in the morning; noises come on after patient has been up a few hours.

Male

Testicles, worse left, swollen, painful, drawn up. Orchitis; glands feel crushed. Induration and swelling of testes after gonorrhœa. Hydrocele (Sil).

Chest

Violent pleuritic pains running downward in left anterior chest. Breathless and speechless from violent pleuritic pains running down the anterior chest. Stitches in spleen from fast walking. Crampy pain under short ribs.

Extremities

Joints swollen. Gouty inflammation of great toe-joint. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially right side; worse, at rest and in stormy weather. Stiffness of neck. Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at rest. Pains in bones in spots, and reappear by change of weather. Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed.

Relationships

Compare: Ampelopsis (hydrocele and renal dropsy); Dulc; Rhus; Nat sulph.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

What the other books say about Rhododendron chrysanthum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Rhododendron chrysanthum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Rhododendron chrysanthum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Rhododendron chrysanthum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.

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Cite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Rhododendron chrysanthum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/rhododendron-chrysanthum. 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.