CURARE


CURARE signs and symptoms from the Characteristic Materia Medica by William Burt of the homeopathic medicine CURARE…


SPHERE OF ACTION

This remedy especially affects the anterior portion of the spinal cord, producing paralysis, and doing so from the periphery towards the centre. Curare acts upon the extremities with more intensity than Strychnine, and Strychnine upon the cord with more intensity than Curare; such is the shade of difference in their action.’ Curare and Strychnine differ in their action only by shades.

Curare, like Strychnine, determines convulsions by augmenting the excitability of the spinal cord.-MESSRS. MARTIN, MAGROU and BUISSON.

Adapted to neurotic and paralytic diseases. Of late it has been highly recommended for tetanus. It is very useful for the debility of old people, and diseases that greatly exhaust the motor nervous system.

William Burt
William H. Burt, MD
(1836-1897)
Characteristic materia medica Published 1873
Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the physiological action of our remedies; together with their characteristic indications and pharmacology. Published 1881