INDOLUM


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


A Crystalline Compound Derivable from Ind., but also a product of Putrefaction of Proteids
(INDOL)

Primary action is to increase the elimination of Indican. Auto-intoxication. Compare: Skatol.

Persistent desire to sleep, dull, discontented mental state, hideous, delusions and nervousness, constant motion of fingers and feet. Intestinal putrefaction.

Head.–Dull occipital and frontal headache in afternoon. Dull sensation over eyes. Eyeballs hot and hurt when moved. Pupils dilated with headache.

Stomach.–Bloated feeling. Hungry sensation after full meal. Great thirst. Constipation.

Extremities.–Very tired and sore in lower limbs. Feet burn. Knee-joints sore.

Sleep.–Sleepiness. Continuous dreaming.

Dose.–Sixth attenuation.

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.