INDIGO TINCTORIA


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


Ind.–Dye-stuff
(INDIGO)

Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. Excited mood and desire to be busy. Neurasthenia and hysteria. Pure powdered Ind. placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison (Kali permang; Golondrina; Cedron). Stricture of œsophagus; blue color (Cupr).

Head.–Vertigo with nausea. Convulsions. Sensation of a band around forehead. Undulating sensation through whole head. Sensation as if brain were frozen. Gloomy; cries at night. Hair feels pulled from vertex. Head feels frozen.

Nose.–Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.

Ears.–Pressure and roaring.

Stomach.–Metallic taste. Eructations. Bloating. Anorexia. Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head.

Rectum.–Falling of rectum. Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus.

Urinary.–Constant desire to urinate. Urine turbid. Catarrh of bladder.

Extremities.–Sciatica. Pain from middle of thigh to knee. Boring pain in knee-joint; better, walking. Pain in limbs worse after every meal.

Nerves.–Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates Excessive nervous irritation. Epilepsy; flashes of heat from abdomen to head; fit begins with dizziness. Aura from a painful spot between shoulders. Reflex spasms from worms.

Modalities.–Worse, during rest and sitting. Better, pressure, rubbing, motion.

Relationship.–Compare: Cuprum; Œstrus cameli, an Indian medicine for epilepsy.

Dose.–Third to thirtieth 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.