Medusa


Medusa signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Medusa is used…


      Medusa (various species). Jelly-fish. Sea-nettles. Class, Acalephae. Tincture of living animal taken in summer.

Clinical

Lactation, abnormal. Nettle-rash. Urine, suppression of.

Characteristics

The effects of encountering jelly-fish while bathing are well known. These have been studied experimentally, and in addition the effects of drinking two cupfuls of a decoction, warm, by a woman affected with disease of the stomach and leucorrhoea has been recorded. In this case there was rapidly produced oedema, anxiety, and difficult speech. Secretion of urine, which had been suspended for days, returned, and milk came into the breasts three years after the birth of her last child. Pricking heat and numbness of skin of face, arms, breasts, and vesicular eruption, followed later by desquamation.

Relations

*Compare: Ast. fl., Homar., Murex, Sepia, Apis, Bombyx, etc.

SYMPTOMS.

Mind

Extreme anxiety with difficult speech.

Eyes

Eyes puffed and oedematous.

Face

Face (eyes, ears, nose) puffed and oedematous (soon).

Urinary Organs

Secretion of urine, which had been suspended for twelve days, returned.

Female Sexual Organs

Secretion of milk re-established in a woman’s breasts three years after birth of last child, she had twelve children and had not suckled any of them, having had no milk (effect of two cupfuls of a decoction).

Skin

Desquamation. Burning sensation very soon after contact, in five minutes a slight redness, then lentil-shaped elevations. Vesicular eruption. Pricking heat, numbness, and burning of skin of face, arms, shoulders, and breasts (soon).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica