SENEGA


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


SPHERE OF ACTION

Through the cerebro-spinal system, it especially affects the vagi, through it the mucous membrane of the lungs and stomach.

Also acts prominently upon the fibrous tissue.

GRAND CHARACTERISTICS

Its main sphere of usefulness is in diseases of the respiratory mucous membrane.

Profuse secretion of mucus in the lungs of old people, with loose, rattling cough.

Great rattling of mucus in the chest.

Irritating, shaking dry cough; in chronic bronchitis, especially in old people.

In sub-acute or chronic exudations of the pleura, and in catarrhal pleuro-pneumonia, where Bryonia has failed.-HALE.

Severe pains about the chest.

Soreness of the walls of the chest on moving the arms, particularly the left, with much rattling of mucus in the chest.- DR. J.B.BELL.

Boring pain about the heart.-J.B.BELL.

Adynamic pneumonia.

It has been administered with great success, in hydrothorax, ascites, and anasarca, after primary or secondary albuminuria.- E.M. HALE.

Sensation of trembling, with no visible trembling.- Dr.J.B.BELL. (See Sulphuric acid).

Watery diarrhoea, with griping pains in the bowels, nausea and vomiting.

Frequent urination, with greenish tinge, depositing a cloudy sediment.-HAHNEMANN.

Urine at first mixed with mucous filaments; afterwards it becomes thick and cloudy.-JAHR.

Iritis, and specks on the cornea.

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