Materia Medica

Castoreum

The Beaver

A great remedy for hysteria. Prostration marked. Hysterical symptoms. Day-blindness; cannot endure the light. Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic affections after debilitating dis- eases. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts. Tongue.— Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.

Female

Dysmcnorrhoa; blood discharged in drops with tenesmus. Pain commences in mididle of thighs. Amenorrhoea, with painful tympanites.

Fever

Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilli- ness with ice-coldness in back.

Relationships

Compare: Ambra: Moschus; Mur. acid; Valeriana. Antidote: Colch.

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 202. Public domain.

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