Senecio aureus
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
Lack of reaction in genito-urinary sphere. Passive congestion, with irritation, profuse catarrhs, debilitating or vicarious discharges. Muscles draw into knots. Tightness, in nose, throat, etc. Globus. .................... Nervous, pale, weak, and sleepless women. Whining and irritable. Self- centered. Elated and sad alternately. Sharp pain backward over l. eye. Burning in nostrils. Sneezing. Itching; caused by tears; in Eustachian tube. Twitching about mouth. Averse to sweets. Nausea or vomiting of renal origin. Uræmia. Griping at navel. Bloody stool or urine. Heat in neck of bladder; with renal pain. Dysuria; with dysmenorrhœa. Pains from ovaries into breasts. Functional amenorrhœa. Sexual irritations; excite discharges. Thick, yellow leucorrhœa; flows down thighs. Feels as if menses would come. Cough; tickling; with blood-streaked sputum; > menstruation. Burning in l. nipple. Lumbar backache, as if to break; < amenorrhœa, renal disease, etc. Periodical, wandering rheumatism. Many dreams; erotic. Feet cold in bed. Brittle nails. Hay fever, with anorexia. Sleepless with amenia.
Worse
Puberty. Sexual excitement. Dampness. Cold. Open air.
Better
Menstruation.
Region
FEMALE: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. MUCOUS GLANDS. Nose. Lungs. Lumbar spine.
What the other books say about Senecio aureus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Senecio aureus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Senecio aureus 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. Senecio aureus — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/senecio-aureus. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.