Materia Medica

Magnolia Grandiflora

Magnolia

Rheumatism and cardiac lesions are proininent eat- ures in the symptomatology of this drug. Stiffness and soreness. Alternating pains between spleen and heart. Patient tired ani stiff. Soreness when quiet. Erratic shifting of pains.

Heart

Suffocated feeling when walking fast or ly- ing on left side. Dyspncea. Crampy pain in heart. Angina pectoris. Endocarditis and pericarditis. Ten- dency to faint. Sensation as if heart had stopped beating. o n

Extremities

Stiffness and sharp erratic pains; worse in joints. Feet itch. Numbness in left arm. Rheumatic pain in clavicles. Shooting in all limbs.

Modalities

Worse, damp air, lying on left side; in morning on first rising. Better, dry weather, motion; intermenstrual flow. [Ham.; Bovista; Bell.; Elaps.]

Relationships

Compare : Rhus.; Dulcam.; Aurum.

Dose

Third potency.