Materia Medica

Juglans Cinerea

Butternut

A faulty elimination that produces jaundice and vari- ous skin eruptions, is picture by this drug. T'he sharp, occipital heudache, usuaily associated with liver dis- turbances, is very characteristic. Pain in chest, axilla am scapula, with suffocative sensation. Cholelithiasis. 413

Head

Dull, full head. Eruption on scalp. Sharp, occipital headache. Head feels enlarged. Pus- fules on lids and around eyes.

Nose

Tingling in nose; sneezing. Coryza, pre. ceded by pain under sternum, with threatening suffoca- tion. Later, copious, bland, thick mucus discharge.

Mouth

Acrid feeling in mouth and throat. Sore- ness in n region of tonsils externally. Dryness of root of tongue and fauces.

Stomach

Atonic dyspepsia with much eructation and flatulent distention. Soreness in region of liver.

Stool

Yellowish-green, with tenesmus and burn- ing at anus. Camp diarrhoea.

Back

Muscles of neck rigid, lame. Pain between scapula and under right. Pain in lumbar vertebra.

Skin

Jaundice, with pain about liver and right scapula. Itchiny and pricking when heated. Pustules. Eczema, especially on lower extremities, sacrum and hands. Erythema and erysipelatous redness.

Modalities

Better, getting heated, exercise, scratch- ing, on rising in morning. Worse, walking.

Relationships

Compare: Juglandin 1 (duodenal ca- tarrh; bilious diarrhcea) ; Chelidon.; Bryon., Iris.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 406. Public domain.

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