Chimaphila umbellata

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

ROPY or muco-purulent, foul, scanty, thick, turbid, urine. Feels as if sitting on a ball, in the perineum; after gonorrhœa. Old nodes in or atrophy of glands. Fluttering in kidney region. Acute inflammation in urinary tract. Gravelly urine. (Abro. Calc-hyp. Pho-ac.). Weak, oversensitive and nervous; everything upsets him, light, noise, odors, pain, etc. Hard swelling. Bursting. Rheumatism. Neuralgia. Emaciation. Anæmia. Dropsy. .................... Stubborn. Disobedient. Vertigo; falls backward. Throbbing, bursting, swashing, or bruised feeling in brain, < temples. Sore scalp, < touching hair. Hot red ears. Tinnitus; then vertigo. Deafness. Pale, earthy, sickly look; bluish about eyes. Teeth throb; < sucking. Acute, sour or bitter taste, or eructations. Craves delicacies. Quick satiety. Anorexia. Loud belching, without relief (Arg-n.). Slow digestion. Sore stomach. Thirst for cold water that aggravates diarrhœa. Periodical liver symptoms (Quas.). Gall-stones. Swelled liver and spleen. Flatulent bloating. Tympanitis. Pain from rectum into genitals. STOOLS; LIENTERIC; dark; foul; watery; BLOODY; painless; < eating; < night. Dark, profuse, clotted menses. Blood spitting. Puffing, rattling, breathing. Every motion excites palpitation and takes his breath. Suppurative phthisis (Hep.). Painfully sore chest and interscapular spine. Heavy pressure (load) on shoulders, between scapulæ or on sacrum. Twitching in knees. As of a band about legs. Pain in marrow. Drowsy. Heavy, snoring sleep. Anxious dreams. Swelled veins (hands, face). Marked prodrome. Clearly staged chill, heat and sweat. Chill, then thirst, then heat, then thirst. Red, hot face, with cold hands. Hectic. Sleeplessness, as a prodrome. Thirst during apyrexia. DRENCHING SWEATS; AT NIGHT, < least motion; from weakness, etc. Tropical fevers. Sepsis.

Worse

Cold damp. Standing. Sitting. Beginning urination. VITAL LOSSES. TOUCH. Jar. Noise. PERIODICALLY: Alternate days (Ars. Nat-m.). Cold; drafts; wind. Open air. Eating; fruit; milk. Mental exertion.

Better

WALKING. Hard pressure (Lach.). Loose clothes. INTERMITTENCY. PROFUSE, EXHAUSTING DISCHARGES, HÆMORRHAGES, etc.

Region

Bladder. Kidneys. Glands: Liver. Prostate. Mammæ (R). BLOOD. CIRCULATION. SECRETIONS: Digestive. Organs. Liver. Spleen. Nerves.

Relationships

Complementary: Kali-m. Related: Berb. Coc-c. Sabal. CHINA OFFICINALIS (RUBRA) Complementary: Carb-v. Fer. Kali-c. Related: Carb-v. CHININUM ARSENICICUM Nightsweats; profuse, exhaustive. Oscillating temperature.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Chimaphila umbellata — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/chimaphila-umbellata. 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.