NUPHAR LUTEUM


Homeopathy medicine Nuphar Luteum from William Boericke’s Pocket manual of homoeopathic materia medica, comprising the characteristic and guiding symptoms of all remedies, published in 1906…


Yellow Pond-lily

Produces nervous weakness, with marked symptoms in the sexual sphere.

Male.–Complete absence of sexual desire; parts relaxed; penis retracted. Impotency, with involuntary emissions during stool, when urinating. Spermatorrhœa. Pain in testicles and penis.

Stool.–Entero-colitis. Yellow diarrhœa; worse in the morning. Diarrhœa during typhoid.

Relationship.–Compare: in sexual weakness; Agnus; Kali brom; Lycop; Selen; Yohimbin. In diarrhœa: Chelid; Gambog; Sulph, Nymphea odorata-Sweet Water Lily–(early morning diarrhœa, backache); acrid leucorrhœa, offensive ulcers; bronchorrhœa; ulcerative sore throat.

Dose.–Tincture to sixth potency.

William Boericke
William Boericke, M.D., was born in Austria, in 1849. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1880 and was later co-owner of the renowned homeopathic pharmaceutical firm of Boericke & Tafel, in Philadelphia. Dr. Boericke was one of the incorporators of the Hahnemann College of San Francisco, and served as professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He was a member of the California State Homeopathic Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was also the founder of the California Homeopath, which he established in 1882. Dr. Boericke was one of the board of trustees of Hahnemann Hospital College. He authored the well known Pocket Manual of Materia Medica.