Euphorbium officinarum

euph-off

Spurge

An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in the joints. Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. Pains of cancer. Everything appears larger than it really is. Read on in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, General ↓

These texts come from 2 classic Materia Medicas dating from 1927 to 1931, reproduced in full because they are in the public domain. They record what their authors observed and taught, as historical reference for students and practitioners of homeopathy — not current clinical evidence. Nothing on this page is medical advice: for any health problem, see a qualified doctor.

Where each author writes about Euphorbium officinarum

A map of this page. Each number counts the sections, or the paragraphs the author labelled himself, that one book gives a topic, and opens the first of them. Kent and Farrington wrote lectures, so only what they labelled is counted.

TopicBogerBoericke
Keynotes1none
Generalnone1
Modalities1none
Headnone1
Facenone1
Stomachnone1
Abdomennone1
Respiratorynone1
Extremitiesnone1
Skinnone1

Relationships

Antidoted by:
Camphora (Boericke),
Opium (Boericke)
Related:
Nitricum acidum (Boger),
Sulphur (Boger)

As each book states it.

A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

Cyrus Maxwell Boger · 1931

Words in capitals are Boger's highest grade.

Euphorbium officinarum — Keynotes

Cite

Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Euphorbium officinarum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-03a8cbdc-04da-443e-84d7-c24b1fccf6e3.

Internal burning; in bones at night. Caries. Much secretion, with a sense of dryness. Paralytic weakness; in joints. Slow inflammation. .................... Much abortive sneezing. Coryza, with swelling. Ozœna; acrid. Mouth feels coated with rancid grease (Iris.). Brittle, crumbling teeth. Stitches from epigastium into sides of chest on coughing. Erysipelas; bullosum; right side, of mucous membranes. High fever.

Euphorbium officinarum — Worse

Cite

Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Euphorbium officinarum — Worse. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-644fb115-bf2b-4255-bf55-88fbbdb9c4e0.

Sitting. Rest. Beginning motion. Mercury.

Euphorbium officinarum — Region

Cite

Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Euphorbium officinarum — Region. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-bff76ba3-67f2-42ef-a0be-fbb638c02fb9.

Mucous membranes. Bones. Skin. Teeth.

Euphorbium officinarum — Relationships

Cite

Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Euphorbium officinarum — Relationships. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-76b90458-34a9-4cb8-b539-376f75a9a4b5.

Related: Nit-ac. Sul.

Homoeopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927)

Euphorbium officinarum — General

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-f7666d4f-85a9-4f36-ac78-fda9665f8db3.

An irritant to the skin and mucous membranes. Burning pain in bones. Pains in limbs and paralytic weakness in the joints. Important respiratory and skin symptoms. Terrible burning pains. Pains of cancer. Everything appears larger than it really is.

Euphorbium officinarum — Head

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Head. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-a45cc1cc-6569-43cc-aa51-3c0b81108f60.

Acute mania. Violent, pressive headache.

Euphorbium officinarum — Face

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Face. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-98f07ac3-2ee2-4b4a-a3b0-905968325c37.

Erysipelas; yellow blisters. Burning in cheek; worse, left. Eyes inflamed and agglutinated in morning; Red swelling of cheeks. Nasal pruritus with mucous secretions from naso-pharynx.

Euphorbium officinarum — Stomach

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Stomach. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-6e4d321f-5d51-4794-8ec7-f446907eddc6.

Great hunger. Sialorrhea (profuse salty saliva). Waterbrash. Thirst for cold drinks.

Euphorbium officinarum — Abdomen

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Abdomen. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-bfedc14a-b94d-4751-bdc7-02a1d8b545ae.

Sunken; spasmodic, flatulent colic. Stools fermented, profuse, clayey. Feels hollow.

Euphorbium officinarum — Respiratory

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Respiratory. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-3bbc253a-e39f-416e-9486-eaccabf187de.

Breathing oppressed, as if chest were not wide enough. Spasmodic, dry cough, day and night, with asthma. Violent, fluent coryza, with burning and cough. Constant cough, with stitches from pit of stomach to sides of chest. Croup, dry, hollow, cough. Warm feeling in chest, as if hot food had been swallowed.

Euphorbium officinarum — Extremities

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Extremities. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-187a02db-8709-4e0f-a73e-decc7da0aa3b.

Paralytic pains. Pain in hip-joint and coccyx.

Euphorbium officinarum — Skin

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Skin. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-3f8a8278-4467-494d-9c69-3e13000aaf58.

Erysipelatous inflammation, especially of the cheek. Biting and stinging, red, swollen. Vesicular erysipelas. Carbuncle; old, torpid, indolent ulcers with biting, lancinating pain. Old torpid ulcer, pustules; gangrene (Echinac; Secale). Ulcerating carcinoma and epithelioma of the skin.

Euphorbium officinarum — Relationships

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Relationships. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-7ca30f1e-0e96-4fca-8e1a-9ef4c0317651.

Compare: Euphorbia amygdaloides-Wood Spurge (in pain in antrum, illusion of smell, odor of mice. Sense of taste blunted. Diarrhœa; stools difficult, with painful anal spasm). Euphorbia corollata-Large Flowering Spurge––(a diaphoretic expectorant and cathartic of the old school in gastro-enteric disturbance, with deathly nausea. Vomiting of food, water, and mucus and copious evacuations. Attacks recur after short intermissions. Feeling of clawing in stomach; cold sweat) (Verat alb). Euphorbia marginata-Snow on the mountain––(Honey from the flowers is poisonous, detected by the hot, acrid taste. The milky juice produces skin symptoms like Rhus). Euphorbia pilulifera-Pillbearing Spurge––(Humid asthma, cardiac dyspnœa, hay-fever, and bronchitis. Urethritis, with intense pain on urinating, and much urging. Acrid leucorrhœa; worse least movement. Hæmorrhages from sunstroke and traumatism).

Compare, also: Psoralea-A Columbian plant––(Pain of cancer, ulcers. Leucorrhœa fetid. Pruritus. Uterine tumors). Croton; Jatropha; Colchic. Antidotes: Camph; Opium.

Euphorbium officinarum — Dose

Cite

William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Euphorbium officinarum — Dose. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/euphorbium-officinarum#s-0740f527-4059-48e5-abff-ab8919b6e16b.

Third to sixth potency.

Study Euphorbium officinarum with the tools

A free account adds search across every book, bookmarks and the repertory. Pro adds phrase search, remedies side by side, highlights and notes.

Create your free account