Sabina

as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927

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Mind

Music is intolerable, produces nervousness.

General

Has a special action on the uterus; also upon serous and fibrous membranes; hence its use in gout. Pain from sacrum to the pubis. Hæmorrhages, where blood is fluid and clots together. Tendency to miscarriage, especially at third month. Violent pulsations; wants windows open.

Modalities

Worse, from least motion, heat, warm air. Better, in cool fresh air.

Head

Vertigo with suppressed menses. Bursting headache, suddenly coming and going slowly. Rush of blood to head and face. Drawing pains in masseter muscles. Teeth ache when chewing.

Stomach

Heartburn. Desire for lemonade. Bitter taste (Rhus). Lancinating pain from pit of stomach across back.

Abdomen

Bearing-down, constrictive pain. Colic, mostly in hypogastric region. Tympanitic distention.

Rectum

Sense of fullness. Constipation. Pain from back to pubis. Hæmorrhoids, with bright red blood; bleed copiously.

Urinary

Burning and throbbing in region of kidneys. Bloody urine; much

urging. Bladder inflamed with throbbing all over. Inflammation of urethra.

Male

Inflammatory gonorrhœa, with pus-like discharge. Sycotic excrescences. Burning, sore pain in glans. Prepuce painful with difficulty in retracting it. Increased desire.

Female

Menses profuse, bright. Uterine pains extend into thighs. Threatened miscarriage. Sexual desire increased. Leucorrhœa after menses, corrosive, offensive. Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excitement (Ambr). Retained placenta; intense after-pains. Menorrhagia in women who aborted readily. Inflammation of ovaries and uterus after abortion. Promotes expulsion of moles from uterus (Canth). Pain from sacrum to pubis, and from below upwards shooting up the vagina. Hæmorrhage; partly clotted; worse from least motion. Atony of uterus.

Back

Pain between sacrum and pubis from one bone to another. Paralytic pain in small back.

Extremities

Bruised pains in anterior portion of thighs. Shooting in heels and metatarsal bones. Arthritic pain in joints. Gout; worse, in heated room. Red, shining swelling. Gouty nodosities (Ammon phos).

Skin

Fig-warts, with intolerable itching and burning. Exuberant granulations (Thuj; Nit ac). Warts. Black pores in skin.

Relationships

Complementary: Thuja. Compare: Sanguisorba (Venous congestion and passive hæmorrhages; varices of lower extremities; dysentery. Long lasting profuse menses with congestion to head and limbs in sensitive, irritable patients. Climacteric hæmorrhages. Use 2x attenuation). Sanguisuga.––The leech––(Hæmorrhages, especially bleeding from anus. Use 6x). Rosmarinus (menses too early; violent pains followed by uterine hæmorrhage. Head heavy, drowsy. Chilly with icy coldness of lower extremities without thirst, followed by heat. Memory deficient). Croc; Calc; Trill; Ipec; Millef; Erig. Antidote: Puls.

Dose

Locally, for warts, tincture. Internally, third to thirtieth potency.

What the other books say about Sabina

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

Sabina in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Sabina in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Sabina in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Sabina 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). Sabina — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/sabina. 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.