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Materia Medica

Salix Nigra

Puss-willow

Black-willow Has a positive action on the generative organs of both sexes Hysteria and nervousness. Libidinous thoughts and lascivious dreams. Controls genital irritability. Moderates sexual passion. Satyriasis and erotomania. In acute gonorrhoea, with much erotic trouble; chordee. After masturbation; spermatorrhoea.

Face

Red, swollen, especially the end of nose-eyes blood-shot and sore to touch and on motion. Roots of hair hurt. Epistaxis.

Female

Before and during menses much nervous disturbance, pain in ovaries; difficult menstruation. Ovarian congestion and neuralgia. Menorrhagia. Bleeding with uterine fibroid. Nymphomania.

Male

Painful movement of the testicles.

Back

Pain across sacral and lumbar region. Unable to step out quickly.

Relationships

Compare: Yohimbin; Canth.

Dose

Material doses of the tincture, thirty drops.

Source: Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica by William Boericke (1906). Public domain, transcribed by OOREP. Also in Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed., p. 648.

Classical materia medica is provided for reference and study. It is not a prescription. Consult a qualified homeopath before taking any remedy.