Materia Medica

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Explore 616 classical remedies and tissue salts with keynote symptoms, modalities, constitutional types, and potency guidance.

Classical Remedies(347)

Avena sativa
Plant

Avena sativa

Aven.

Common Oat

The great nervous tonic remedy. Nerve exhaustion after debilitating illness, overwork, or addiction. Inability to concentrate. Sleeplessness. Best suited as a mother tincture tonic for general nervous debility. Opium habit breaker.

Balsamum peruvianum
Plant

Balsamum peruvianum

Bals-p.

Balsam of Peru

Remedy of chronic catarrh with profuse purulent expectoration. Bronchitis with copious muco-purulent sputum. Night cough. Night sweats. Phthisis (tuberculosis support). Promotes expectoration in chronic chest conditions.

Baptisia tinctoria
Plant

Baptisia tinctoria

Bapt.

Wild Indigo

Acute remedy for septic states with rapid prostration and putrid discharges. Great muscular soreness — bed feels too hard. Confusion — feels scattered, as if body parts are separated. Typhoid-like states.

Belladonna
Plant

Belladonna

Bell.

Deadly Nightshade

Remedy of sudden, violent onset with throbbing, redness, heat, and congestion. Dilated pupils, hot red skin, throbbing carotids, delirium. No thirst with fever. Right-sided complaints.

Bellis perennis
Plant

Bellis perennis

Bell-p.

Daisy

The "wound remedy" of deeper tissues. For injuries to deep tissues, especially pelvic organs and trunk. Complements Arnica for deeper bruising. Venous congestion. Stasis after surgery.

Berberis aquifolium
Plant

Berberis aquifolium

Berb-a.

Oregon Grape

The great skin remedy. Clears complexion — psoriasis, eczema, acne, dry rough skin, blotches. Pimply, dry, rough skin. Hepatic stimulant. Used as a "blood purifier" in old literature. Scaly eruptions on scalp.

Berberis vulgaris
Plant

Berberis vulgaris

Berb.

Barberry

The great kidney and gallbladder remedy. Radiating pains from a central point. Renal colic. Biliary colic. Pains that change location rapidly. Bubbling sensation in kidneys.

Boletus laricis
Plant

Boletus laricis

Bol-la.

Larch Agaric

Remedy of night sweats and chronic diarrhea. Profuse, drenching night sweats. Chronic diarrhea with hepatic involvement. Liver torpor. Jaundice. Used to check excessive sweating.

Bovista
Plant

Bovista

Bov.

Puffball

Remedy for skin affections and hemorrhagic conditions. Eczema on backs of hands. Menses flow only at night or lying down. Clumsiness — drops things. Stuttering. Awkward, clumsy.

Brassica napus
Plant

Brassica napus

Brass.

Rape / Canola

Remedy of dropsy and gangrene. Edema. Dark, fetid stool. Gangrene — moist, offensive. Used for post-operative gangrene. General debility.

Brucea antidysenterica
Plant

Brucea antidysenterica

Bruc.

False Angostura

Dysentery and tetanic spasms. Bloody dysentery. Strychnine-like convulsions.

Bryonia alba
Plant

Bryonia alba

Bry.

Wild Hops (White Bryony)

The great 'do not disturb' remedy. All symptoms worse from any motion, even breathing. Stitching pains. Great thirst for large quantities at long intervals. Dryness of all mucous membranes. Irritable, wants to be left alone.

Bryonia dioica
Plant

Bryonia dioica

Bry-d.

Red Bryony

Similar to Bryonia alba. Rheumatic pains. Pleurisy. Cough worse from motion.

Cactus grandiflorus
Plant

Cactus grandiflorus

Cact.

Night-blooming Cereus

The great heart remedy with constriction. Sensation as if the heart were grasped by an iron hand. Constriction felt everywhere — chest, throat, bladder. Hemorrhages of black, clotted blood.

Cajuputum
Plant

Cajuputum

Caj.

Cajuput Oil

Remedy of laryngeal spasm and hiccough. Choking sensation in throat. Persistent hiccough. Sensation of enlargement. Earache with fullness.

Caladium seguinum
Plant

Caladium seguinum

Calad.

American Arum

Remedy of sexual debility and tobacco craving. Impotence with mental desire but physical inability. Pruritus of female genitalia. Craves tobacco but it makes him sick. Mosquitoes avoid this person.

Calendula officinalis
Plant

Calendula officinalis

Calen.

Marigold / Pot Marigold

The supreme wound-healing remedy. Promotes rapid healing of lacerated, torn, and ragged wounds. Prevents suppuration. Remarkable antiseptic properties. Used both internally and topically.

Calotropis gigantea
Plant

Calotropis gigantea

Calo.

Giant Milkweed / Crown Flower

Remedy of syphilitic skin conditions and leprosy. Deep ulcers with offensive discharge. Elephantiasis. Chronic skin diseases resistant to treatment. Glandular enlargement.

Camphora
Plant

Camphora

Camph.

Camphor

The great collapse remedy. Icy coldness of the whole body, yet patient throws off covers. First stage of cholera. Sudden collapse with cold sweat. Antidotes many remedies.

Canchalagua
Plant

Canchalagua

Canch.

Centaury

Intermittent malarial fever. Liver torpor. Jaundice. Bitter tonic.

Cannabis indica
Plant

Cannabis indica

Cann-i.

Indian Hemp (Hashish)

Remedy of altered perception, time distortion, and theorizing. Everything seems exaggerated — space, time, sensation. Opens and shuts, loses thread of conversation. Dual nature — observer and experiencer simultaneously.

Cannabis sativa
Plant

Cannabis sativa

Cann-s.

Hemp

Acts prominently on the urinary and sexual organs. Gonorrhea. Urethral burning and inflammation. Also affects the mind with peculiar sensations of time distortion and space perception changes.

Capsicum annuum
Plant

Capsicum annuum

Caps.

Cayenne Pepper

Remedy for homesickness and nostalgia. Burning pains like pepper — burns but does not inflame. Chilly, sluggish, fat persons. Mastoiditis. Ailments of persons who are far from home.

Carduus marianus
Plant

Carduus marianus

Card-m.

Milk Thistle

The great liver remedy. Portal congestion with pain in right hypochondrium. Jaundice. Gallstones. Varicose veins from hepatic congestion. Nausea and vomiting of bile. Golden-yellow urine. Left lobe of liver especially affected.

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