Podophyllum peltatum

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

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Keynotes

Biliousness. .................... Whining. Rolls head. Eyes half open. Bad breath. Burning rough or flabby, indented tongue. Bites gums together; grinds teeth. Bitter taste. As of a lump in œsophagus. Craves acids which <. Vomits hot froth. Constant gagging. Sore, painful liver. Weak, empty sinking or sick feeling in abdomen. Rubs abdomen for >. GURGLING THROUGH BOWELS, THEN PROFUSE, PUTRID STOOLS GUSH OUT PAINLESSLY. Summer diarrhœa. White stools; like dirty water; foaming; with meal-like sediment; runs right through diaper; then weakness. Cholera morbus. Diarrhœa, alternating with other symptoms, head, etc. Pale, hard, chalky stools. Rectum; raw, sore; weak; prolapsed, before stool. Moist, foul piles. Numb ache in ovaries; radiating to r. crural nerve, etc.; < stretching legs. Ischias antica. Generative organs threaten to prolapse, during stool. Rectum, prolapsed after confinement. Burning in small of back. Jaundice, < face and eyes. Moaning and whining during sleep. Loquacity during the fever (Pyro.). Sleepy after the paroxysm (malaria).

Worse

EARLY MORNING. Eating. Hot weather. Dentition. Drinking. Motion. Mercury.

Better

Stroking liver. Lying on abdomen.

Region

Liver: Duodenum. Intestines. RECTUM. Right side: Ovary. Scapula. Throat.

Relationships

Complementary: Nat-m. Related: Alo. Chin. Merc.

What the other books say about Podophyllum peltatum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Podophyllum peltatum in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Podophyllum peltatum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Podophyllum peltatum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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