Valeriana officinalis
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Valerian
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Keynotes
Suddenly changeable disposition and symptoms. Alternations and want of reaction. Pains move outward; are here and there or come and go. Illusions; of smell, taste or hearing. Sense of floating; of a ball or plug. Globus. Impulse to move. Jerks. Weak single parts; eyes, arms, wrists, popliteæ, etc. .................... NERVOUS, excitable and weak; wriggles or squirms about; inclined to faint. Anger. Very mobile ideas, going from one extreme to another. Hysteria. Luminosities, before eyes in dark. Objects seem too near eyes. Greasy or rancid taste. As of a thread in throat. Eructations, like bad eggs. Hunger, with nausea; as if from navel. Gastric cramp. Flatulence. Colic. Polyuria. Strangling on dropping to sleep. Crampy pain in l. humerus, wakes from sleep. Heels pain when sitting. Coldness in upper head. Chills start and go down back from occiput. Fever composed of disagreeable heat only. Sudden gushes of sweat.
Worse
REST. STANDING. Excitement. Evening.
Better
Changing position. Walking about. Rubbing.
Region
NERVES: Spinal. Genito-urinary. Mind. Muscles, etc.: Calf. Heels. Tendo Achilles.
Relationships
Related: Asaf. Ign. Pul.
What the other books say about Valeriana officinalis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Valeriana officinalis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Valeriana officinalis in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Valeriana officinalis 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. Valeriana officinalis — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/valeriana-officinalis. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.