Senecio aureus
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Despondent. Nervous and irritable.
General
Golden Ragwort Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified. Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backaches of congested kidneys. Early cirrhosis of liver.
Head
Dull, stupefying headache. Wavelike dizziness from occiput to sinciput. Sharp pains over left eye, and through left temple. Fullness of nasal passages; burning; sneezing; profuse flow.
Face
Teeth very sensitive. Sharp, cutting pain left side. Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth.
Throat
Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx, raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.
Stomach
Sour eructations; nausea.
Abdomen
Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen; better, stool. Thin, watery stool, intermingled with hard lumps of feces (Ant crud). Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with tenesmus.
Urinary
Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much mucus and tenesmus. Great heat and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic (Pareira; Ocim; Berb).
Male
Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions. Prostate enlarged. Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, extending to testicles.
Female
Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhœa of young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these improve. Anæmic dysmenorrhœa with urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc; Erig).
Respiratory
Acute inflammatory conditions of upper respiratory tract. Hoarseness. Cough loose, with labored inspiration. Chest sore and raw. Dyspnœa on ascending (Calc). Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.
Sleep
Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness and sleeplessness.
Relationships
Compare: Senecio Jacobæa (cerebro-spinal irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in cancer); Aletris; Caulop; Sep.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.
What the other books say about Senecio aureus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Senecio aureus in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Senecio aureus 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). Senecio aureus — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/senecio-aureus. 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.