Spigelia anthelmia
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Pinkroot
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Keynotes
Combined heart and eye symptoms, or the latter as an accompaniment. PAIN; in violent attacks; radiating from l. occiput to over l. eye; < stooping. Neuralgia. Sun pains. Vertigo; feet feel higher than the head. Shudders; if touched or bruised. .................... Stammering. Fears pointed things. Left supra-orbital or occipital pain; boring. EYES: sore, drawing ache; sunken; feel large; red; flowing tears on affected side; squinting; yellow rings about. Post-nasal dropping. Fetor oris. Toothache. Ravenous hunger. Pains about navel; in children. Mucus lumps in stools. Worms. Dyspnœa, < moving arms. HEART; violent, audible PALPITATION, attending other symptoms; violent sticking, or compressive pains radiating to throat, arm or scapula, < least motion; or bending double; soreness; purring; crackling. Cardiac angina, etc. Neck stiff; pains into l. temple or from l. shoulder into neck. Cutting about l. scapula. Numb l. arm. Weak, tremulous or irregular pulse. Pulsation in patellæ. Follows: Aco.
Worse
TOUCH. MOTION. Jar. Periodically; with the sun. Tobacco. Coition. Raising arms.
Better
Lying on R. side, with head high.
Region
NERVES: TRIFACIAL. HEART. Neck. Fibrous tissue. EYES. Teeth. LEFT SIDE.
Relationships
Complementary: Spo. Related: Cact.
What the other books say about Spigelia anthelmia
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Spigelia anthelmia in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Spigelia anthelmia in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Spigelia anthelmia in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Spigelia anthelmia 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. Spigelia anthelmia — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/spigelia-anthelmia. 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.