Sanicula aqua
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Water of Sanicula Springs, Ottawa, I11 Has been found a useful remedy in enuresis, seasickness, constipation, etc. Rickets.
Modalities
Worse, moving arms backward.
Head
Dread of downward motion (Borax). Profuse sweat on occiput and in nape of neck, during sleep (Calc; Sil). Photophobia. Lachrymation in cold air or from cold application. Profuse scaly dandruff. Soreness behind ears.
Mouth
Tongue large, flabby, burning; must protrude it to keep cool. Ringworm on tongue.
Throat
Thick, ropy, tenacious mucus.
Stomach
Nausea and vomiting from car-riding. Thirst; drink little and often (Ars; Chin). Is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach.
Rectum
Stools large, heavy and painful. Pain in whole perineum. No desire until a large accumulation. After great straining only partially expelled; recedes, crumbles at verge of anus (Mag mur). Very offensive odor. Excoriation of skin about anus, perineum, and genitals. Diarrhœa; changeable in character and color; after eating.
Female
Bearing-down, as if contents of pelvis would escape; better, rest. Desire to support parts. Soreness of uterus. Leucorrhœa with odor of fish-brine or cold cheese (Hepar). Vagina feels large.
Back
Dislocated feeling in sacrum and better lying on right side.
Extremities
Burning of soles of feet (Sulph; Lach). Offensive foot-sweat (Sil; Psor). Cold, clammy sweat of extremities.
Skin
Dirty, greasy, brownish, wrinkled. Eczema, fissured hands and fingers (Petrol; Graph).
Relationships
Compare: Abrot; Alum; Calc; Sil; Sulph. Sanicula Aqua must not be confounded with the Sanicle (pool-root or wood marsh), also called Sanicula. This is used in various nervous affections, resembling Valeriana. It is used as a vulnerary, resolvent for sanguineous extravasations, and as an astringent (Has not been proved).
Dose
Thirtieth potency.
What the other books say about Sanicula aqua
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Sanicula aqua in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Sanicula aqua 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). Sanicula aqua — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/sanicula-aqua. 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.