Anacardium orientale
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Mental and physical LACK OF POWER. Tremulous; on slight exertion, < knees (Stap.) or arms. Repeated, DULL PRESSURE, as of a plug, or band. Dulled emotions, sense of hearing, sight, touch, etc. Paralysis. .................... BAD MEMORY; suddenly forgets names, etc. Brain- fag. As in a dream. Illusions, or fixed ideas; of duality, imagines others present, behind her, etc. Cowardly and neurotic. Vascillating; at odds with himself (Bar-c. Cann-i.); contradictory impulses. Ill-natured. Profane. Pressure in temples. Illusory smells. Bad breath and taste. Stiff, swelled tongue. Gastric pain > eating, but < again in 3 hours. Rectum feels plugged; can't evacuate even a soft stool. Breath stops on coughing or drinking. Cough with occipital pain; then yawns and sleeps. Double stitch at heart; passing into lumbar region. As of a heavy load on shoulders (Rhus-t.). Dry hands. Skin, insensible; itching, < scratching; yellow vesicles. Dermatitis. Eczema. Easily chilled, > sunshine (Stro.). Clammy sweat on palms.
Worse
MENTAL EXERTION. Emotions: Anger, fright, care, etc. Stepping hard. Motion. Drafts. Open air. Cold. Long after eating.
Better
Eating. Hot bath.
Region
MIND. Nerves: Stomach. Skin. Palms. Muscles. Joints.
Relationships
Related: Ign. Rhus-t.
What the other books say about Anacardium orientale
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Anacardium orientale in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Anacardium orientale in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Anacardium orientale in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Anacardium orientale in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Anacardium orientale — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/anacardium-orientale. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.