Caladium seguinum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Caladium seguinum in every book at once →
Keynotes
DRYNESS; food eaten seems too dry; must drink to swallow. Red, dry stripe down center of tongue, widening toward tip. Inclines to lie down. Dreads to move. .................... Nervous excitation. Fear of going to sleep. Vertigo, as if rocked. Crawling or as of a cobweb on face. Flaccid, sweaty genitals; glans like a rag. Atonic pollutions. Impotency; after gonorrhœa. PRURITUS VULVÆ; with burning; from pinworms. Violent, sexual erethism, or neurasthenia. Respiratory, alternating with skin symptoms. Hard cough, with asthma; > expectoration. Numb hands. Cold single parts; feet. Heat during sleep, ceases on waking. Sweet sweat, attracting flies. Low fevers.
Worse
Sexual excesses. Motion. Sudden noises. On falling to sleep. Tobacco.
Better
Cool air. Short sleep. Sweating.
Region
GENITALS. NERVES. Skin. Mucous membranes.
Relationships
Related: Caps.
What the other books say about Caladium seguinum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Caladium seguinum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Caladium seguinum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Caladium seguinum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Caladium seguinum 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. Caladium seguinum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/caladium-seguinum. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.