Drosera rotundifolia
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Sundew
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Keynotes
Spasmodic, catarrhal and hæmorrhagic effects. Tuberculosis; of bones. .................... Easily angered. Desire to drown himself. Sensitive to sour odors. Painful sneezing. Putrid taste. PROLONGED, PERIODICAL FITS OF RAPID, INCESSANT, DEEP BARKING OR CHOKING COUGH; as if from abdomen; taking away the breath; compel holding the sides and ending in retching, vomiting (first of ingesta, then of mucus), nosebleed or cold sweat; followed by loquacity. Typical whooping cough. Tickling like a feather or crumb in larynx. Bloody, purulent expectoration. Hoarse, toneless voice. Constriction of chest. Stitches below axillæ. Writers' cramp.
Worse
After midnight. On lying down. Warmth. Talking. Cold foods. Laughing. After measles.
Better
Pressure.
Region
RESPIRATORY ORGANS. Bones: Long (Stil.). Joints. Larynx. Chest. Lungs. Glands.
Relationships
Complementary: Sul. Related: Coc-c. Cor-r.
What the other books say about Drosera rotundifolia
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Drosera rotundifolia in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Drosera rotundifolia in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Drosera rotundifolia 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. Drosera rotundifolia — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/drosera-rotundifolia. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.