Sabadilla
as Ernest Albert Farrington recorded it in Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1908
Sabadilla
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Lecture
Lecture XXIV — Melanthaceae — Colchicum, Veratrum album, Veratrum viride and Sabadilla
Sabadilla.
Like Veratrum album, Sabadilla is a useful remedy on account of its mental symptoms. It may be used with success in cases of imaginary disease. For example, the patient imagines that she is pregnant when she is merely swollen from flatus ; or that she has some horrible throat disease which will surely end fatally.
Thuja has the symptom, imagines herself double or treble, or that she is made of glass, and is in constant fear of being touched lest she be broken.
Sabadilla is useful in influenza and that troublesome affection, hayfever. There are violent spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation on going into the open air ; the throat also is affected, giving you a perfect picture of tonsillitis. The difficulty begins on the left side, and extends to the right; the pain is worse on empty swallowing and is relieved by warm drinks. Sometimes there is a sensation as of a thread or string in the throat, or else a sense of constriction in the throat, as if it was tied by a string. Lachesis as you know has sore throat going from left to right. It is readily distinguished by the marked aggravation from hot drinks and after sleep.
We may also make use of Sabadilla in worms, when there are nausea and vomiting associated with a peculiar colic, as though the bowels were being whirled around like a wheel.
What the other books say about Sabadilla
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Sabadilla in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Sabadilla in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Sabadilla in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Sabadilla in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Ernest Albert Farrington. Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 4th edition, revised and enlarged by Harvey Farrington (1908). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Sabadilla — Lecture, p. 258. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/farrington/sabadilla. Published 1908: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1885). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.