Some Tips from Henry C. Allen, M.D. – 1836-1909

Variolinum – As a preventive of smallpox, it is far superior to crude vaccination and absolutely safe from the sequelae, especially septic and tubercular infection.

Tarantula – Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pain in the chest and cardiac region.

Syphilinum – Teeth decay at edge of gum and break off. Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Asar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac).

Aethusa Cynapium – Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated, foam at the mouth, jaws locked, pulse small, hard, quick.

Tuberculinum bacillinum – When Psorinum, Sulphur., or the best-selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve. Follows Psorinum. As a constitutional remedy in hay fever, asthma.

Agnus Castus – Premature old age, melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-contempt, arising in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers, seminal losses.

Veratrum Album – Mania with a desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes (Taran.), lascivious talk, amorous or religious (Hyos., Stram.). Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carbo v., Sulph.).

Hepar Sulph renders patients less susceptible to atmospheric changes and cold air.

Thuja – Headache as if a nail had been driven into the parietal bone (Coff, Ign.)

Hyoscyamus – Convulsions of children from fright or the irritation of intestinal worms (Cina).

Podophyllum antidotes the bad effects of mercury

Causticum – Cannot cover too warmly, but warmth does not ameliorate.

Aconite should never be given simply to control the fever, never alternated with other drugs for that purpose. If it be a case requiring Aconite no other drug is needed. Aconite will cure the case.

German health minister calls to cut state-funded homeopathy

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has said that homeopathic medicine has no place in the science-based statutory health insurance system and called for it to be cut. “For that reason, we are going to reassess if homeopathy should be removed as a benefit of statutory healthcare.”

Editor’s note: According to a 2020 study conducted by social research institute Forsa, more than half of Germans have used homeopathy and 70 percent are open to it.

Some grand characteristics -William H. Burt, M. D. -1895

Helleborus Niger – Slow comprehension, soporous sleep with screaming and starting. Shocks pass through the brain like electricity.

Cinchona – Complete deafness, from malaria or loss of vital fluids.Throbbing headache, as if the brain would burst, with roaring noises in the ears, after hemorrhage, or loss of vital fluid.

Cocculus – Great intolerance of fresh air. Trembling of the hands. The knees threaten to sink from weakness.

Hepar Sulph – Chronic hepatization of the lungs. Head and chest perspire constantly, sweats day and night

Ignatia – Prolapsus of the rectum from slight straining at stool; sharp pains from piles.

Iodum – A remarkable and unaccountable sense of weakness, and loss of breath in going up stairs. Great dwindling away of the mammae,

Ipecacuanha – Incessant and moist spasmodic cough, with every breath, in delicate children, and great paleness of the face, with nausea.

Kali Carbonicum – Much weakness and weariness of the chest. Copious night sweats, without relief.

Argentum Nitricum – In thin, scrawny people having a dried-up appearance, looking like mummies. A feeling as if the body, or some part of it, was expanding.

Apis Mellifica – Waxy paleness of the skin; hands, legs, and feet greatly swollen, almost transparent, great oedema.

William H. Burt, M. D. -1895 – Characteristic Materia Medica Memorizer