SCROPHULARIA NODOSA


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


Knotted Figwort

A powerful medicine whenever enlarged glands are present. Hodgkin’s disease.

A valuable skin remedy. Has a specific affinity for the breast; very useful in the dissipation of breast tumors. Eczema of the ear. Pruritus vaginæ. Lupoid ulceration. Scrofulous swellings (Cistus). Painful hæmorrhoids. Tubercular testis. Epithelioma. Nodosities in the breasts (Scirrhinum). Pain in all flexor muscles.

Head.–Vertigo felt in vertex, greater when standing; drowsiness; pain from forehead to back of head. Eczema behind ear. Crusta lactea.

Eyes.–Distressing photophobia (Conium). Spots before eyes. Stitches in eyebrow. Sore eyeballs.

Ears.–Inflammation about auricle. Deep ulcerated auricle. Eczema around ear.

Abdomen.–Pain in liver on pressure. Colic below navel. Pain in sigmoid flexure and rectum. Painful, bleeding, protruding piles.

Respiratory.–Violent dyspnœa, oppression of chest with trembling. Pain about bifurcation of trachea. Asthma in scrofulous patients.

Skin.–Prickling itching, worse back of hand.

Sleep.–Great drowsiness; in morning and before and after meals with weariness.

Modalities.–Worse lying on right side.

Compare: Lobel erinus; Ruta; Carcinosin; Conium; Asterias.

Dose.–Tincture and first potency. Apply locally to cancerous glands also Semper viv.

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.