Pyrogenium
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Aching, BRUISED, SORE and prostrate; yet restless. Bed seems hard. Bone pains. Foul, taste, secretions, odor of body, etc. Rosy, red streaks. Decomposition or sepsis. .................... Rapid ideation. Loquacious. Excited. Feels as if he covered the whole bed. Anxious and sensitive. Confused. Sense of duality. Hallucinations. Violent, throbbing headache. Pains are > during hot stage. Throbbings, < neck (Bell. Spi.). Sudden pulsation, with fever and intense restlessness. Rolls head side to side. Throbbing headache, > tight band. Sensation as of a cap on the head. Disgust at his own body odor. Fiery red, smooth tongue. Sweet taste. Nausea, > very hot drinks. Adhesive urinary sediment. Purring at heart. Feels heart; as if tired, big or full. PULSE QUICK, OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO TEMPERATURE (Lil-t. Thyr.) or the reverse. Quickly oscillating temperature. The nails threaten to fly off. Chilly, wants to breathe heat of fire. Chills start between scapulæ; felt in bones; with sweat; at night. Fever, at menses. Puerperal sepsis. Slowly advancing hectic. Sweat, without relief; cold. Wants to inhale heat of fire. Follows: Lach.
Worse
Cold damp. Motion: Constant change of position. Hard rocking.
Better
Heat. Hot bath. Pressure.
Region
BLOOD. Heart. Circulation. Muscles.
Relationships
Related: Anthraxin. Ars. Bap. Echi.
What the other books say about Pyrogenium
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Pyrogenium in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Pyrogenium in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Pyrogenium 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. Pyrogenium — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/pyrogenium. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.