Verbascum thapsus
as Ernest Albert Farrington recorded it in Clinical Materia Medica, being a course of lectures delivered at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1908
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Lecture
Lecture XXXVII — Scrophulariaceae — Digitalis purpurea, Linaria vulgaris, Verbascum, Gratiola, Leptandra virginica and Euphrasia
Verbascum.
Verbascum is to be thought of as a remedy for catarrhs or colds when they are associated with neuralgia of the left side of the face, which appears periodically, generally twice a day, the same hour in the morning and afternoon of each day. It is described as a dull pressure on the malar bone as from a finger, with tension of the cheek and numb feeling. It is worse from every change of temperature, especially a change from warm to cold. There is considerable coryza and lachrymation present.
Verbascum has a peculiar cough which is characteristically laryngeal and tracheal. It could be produced only in a hard unyielding tube like the larynx or trachea.
The cough is hollow, hoarse, barking or trumpet-like, and is associated with hoarseness, the voice itself being deep and hard, a sort of " basso profundo " It bears some resemblance to Drosera, Spongia and Sulphur.
What the other books say about Verbascum thapsus
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- Verbascum thapsus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Verbascum thapsus 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. Verbascum thapsus — Lecture, p. 395. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/farrington/verbascum-thapsus. 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 Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.