Materia Medica

Sarracenia Purpurea

Pitcher-plant

A remedy for variola. Visual disorders. Congestion to head, with irregular heart action. Chlorosis.

Eyes

Photophobia. Eyes feel swollen and sore. Pain in orbits. Black objects move with the eye.

Stomach

Hungry all the time, even after a meal. Sleepy during meals. Copious, painful vomiting.

Extremities

Limbs weak ; bruised pain in knees and hip-joints. Bones in arm pain. Weak between shoul- ders.

Skin

Variola, aborts the disease, arrests pustula- tion.

Relationships

Compare : 'Tartar. em.; Variol.; Maland.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Source: Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 8th ed. by William Boericke (1922), p. 657. Public domain.

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