Schinus


Schinus 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 Schinus is used…


      Schinus molle. *N. O. Anacardiacae. Tincture of the berries. Tincture of leaves and berries.

Clinical

Diarrhoea. Liver, griping pain in. Oesophagus, dryness of. Spinal cord, drawing in. Vomiting.

Characteristics

Allen says *Schinus is an evergreen shrub, native of Mexico and South America, and frequently cultivated in Southern California under the names “Pepper tree” and “Chilli pepper.” The symptoms were observed by Dr. P. W. Poulson on a young lady who ate a few berries after dinner, and on himself. Poulson ate leaves as well as berries, and he had heartburn, griping in liver, and “a kind of drawing sensation a in the spinal cord and cerebellum.”.

Relationships

*Compare: Anacardium, Rhus, Comoc.

Stomach

Long-continued vomiting, “as if all the bowels would be emptied out”, vomiting very painful, as the vomiting subsided diarrhoea came on, the diarrhoea being painless.-Heartburn, dryness of oesophagus.

Abdomen

Rolling and flatulence in the bowels, and a griping sensation in the liver.

Stool

Painless diarrhoea following painful vomiting.- Profuse diarrhoea continuing all night.

Back

Drawing sensation as in the spinal cord and cerebellum.

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