Radium bromatum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Dry, burning heat as if afire; craves cool air. Sudden shifting or electric pains; must lie down. Dull, hard ache; deep in joints. Constriction, chest, heart, etc.; with air hunger. Numbness, < stretching part. Rheumatism. Gout. Weak muscles. Necrotic changes. .................... Pain over eyes (l), backward. Red, smarting eyes, < reading. Rushing in ears, > lying on face. Raw throat. Craves pork. Averse to sweets. Abdominal, alternating with ear or chest pains. Sore, prolapsed rectum. Dysuria, then erections. Itching genitals. Cough, < smoking; > open air and exertion. Tightness at heart. Weak between scapulæ. Ascending lumbar pain. Irritable, thick, burning, itching skin; moist if scratched; < face and genitals. Branny scales. Scabby; on ears. Eczema. Psoriasis. Scleroderma. Callosities. Vivid dreams; of fire; awakes panting, with pounding of heart; seeming true. Rheumatism of hands.
Worse
Motion. Shaving. Washing.
Better
Open air. Hot bath (Rhus-v.). Eating. Cold drinks. Continued motion.
Region
Skin. Nerves. Lymphoid tissue. Bones. Muscles and joints: Lumbo-sacral. Great toe. Shifting sides.
Relationships
Related: Pho. Pul. Rhus-rad.
What the other books say about Radium bromatum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Radium bromatum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Radium bromatum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/radium-bromatum. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.