Physostigma venenosum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Weakness; muscles won't respond or draw into knots; < cold. Weakness in lower limbs; coming from a spot between hips. Cramp in left calf at night in bed. Shuddering, < every draft. Horror of cold water. Averse to bathing. .................... Active mind, even during sleep. Floating sensation. Nothing seems right. Brain falls to side lain on. Pains from forehead down nose. Sensation as of a tight cap on head. Vertigo; stumbles on ascending or descending steps. Sensation as of a band about head. Twitching of eye muscles or of nose. Can't bear to raise eyelids. Accommodation affected. Seems to have swallowed a lump. Torpid bowels. Numb womb. Flushes of heat, < in palms. Sore bloated, red navel; hypogastrium, < standing. Tremor; in head, eyes, vision, nose, teeth, muscles, etc. Dartings, here and there. Tense eye-lids, can't open or close them. Blood-shot eyes. Creeping numbness from occiput down spine. Licks lips. Teeth feel rough. Tongue feels oily; scalded. Loose skin feeling in roof of mouth. Thick, leathery saliva. Hic-cough with short breath. Gripe in right hypochondrium. Groins pain alternately. Abdomen, > extending legs. Numbness at womb. Offensive odor from hands. Sweat in excitement. Heart seems to flutter in throat or over body. Sensitive spine. Jerking limbs. Shudders from every draft of air. Attacks of overpowering sleepiness, with feeling as if to lose consciousness.
Worse
Change of temperature. Eyestrain. Injury. Bathing. Heat and cold. Descending. Motion.
Better
Lying with head low (Ver-v.). Exerting the will.
Region
Spinal motor nerves. Eyes. Muscles. Left side.
Relationships
Related: Agar. Gel. Nux-v.
What the other books say about Physostigma venenosum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Physostigma venenosum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Physostigma venenosum 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. Physostigma venenosum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/physostigma-venenosum. 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.