Hamamelis virginiana
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Hamamelis virginica
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Keynotes
SORENESS, bruised; in blood-vessels; localized; abdominal, etc. Tense, bursting feeling; in piles, joints, or lower limbs. Congestive fulness. Veins, sore; cutting; swelled; inflamed. Painful varicoses. Hæmorrhage; capillary; dark, fluid; relieves or causes undue weakness. .................... Irritable and chilly. Hammering headache, < l. temple. Blood-shot eyes. Taste of blood. Pain and heaviness back of stomach. Piles. Pain up along spermatic cord. Neuralgia of testes. Orchitis; < touch. Varicocele. Breaking backache. Profuse, dark menses. Scapular pains. Dull ache about kidneys. Phlebitis. Ecchymoses. Varicose ulcers with bloody bases.
Worse
Injury. Bruises. Pressure. Air: Open. Humid. Cold. Jar. Motion. Touch.
Region
VEINS: Rectum. Genitals. Limbs. Throat. Liver. Abdominal and chest walls.
Relationships
Complementary: Fer. Flu-ac. Related: Arn. Pul. Vip.
What the other books say about Hamamelis virginiana
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Hamamelis virginiana in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Hamamelis virginiana in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Hamamelis virginiana — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/hamamelis-virginiana. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.