Materia Medica

Phellandrium

Water Dropwort

The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the ofensir'e expectoration and cough in phthisis, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, af- fecting generally the middle lobes. Ezerything tastes sweet. Haemoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhcea.

Head

IWcight on Tertex, aching and burning in temples ana above eyes. Crushing feeling in vertex.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.

Female

Pain in milk ducts; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.

Chest

Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders. Dyspnoea, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.

Extremities

Tired feeling when walking.

Fever

Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration ; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.

Relationships

Compare: Con.; Phyt.; Sil.; Ant. iod.; Myosotis arvensis (phthisis, with copious purulent sputd, emaciation, and night-sweats).

Dose

Tincture, to sixih potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 572. Public domain.

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