Online Materia Medica

Achillea millefolium - Dunham

MILLEFOILYARROW This wayside drug produces haemorrhage from all the mucous surfaces The haemorrhage is painless and the blood very light colored and flui...

Aconitum napellus - Dunham

Regarding each drug of the materia medica as possessed of individual specific properties peculiar to itself and which preclude its being a substitute for or bei...

Allium cepa - Dunham

THE COMMON RED ONION Why should not this peculiar and pungent vegetable which contains notably phosphorus and sulphur and of which the juice even in the ...

Aloe socotrina - Dunham

The ALOE SPICATA the inspissated juice of the leaves of which is the part used in medicine It has various names denoting the origin of the specimen ...

Apium virus - Dunham

Apisinum Ophthalmia angina erysipelas diarrhoea dysentery cholera infantum urticaria haematuria dropsy intermittent fever hydrocephalus each accompanied by th...

Arsenicum album - Dunham

METALLUM ALBUM ARSENIOUS ACID This substance is generally prepared by sublimation from the ores of cobalt and is often found adulterating the ores of zin...

Belladonna - Dunham

DEADLYNIGHTSHADE The whole plant is used in medicine It has always been known as a dangerous poison classed among the narcotics or the cerebral ...

Bryonia alba - Dunham

The tincture of the root of BRYONIA ALBA or dilutions made from it were used by Hahnemann in his provings The root of this vine which grows in hedgerows and alo...

Calcarea carbonica - Dunham

Lime is used in allopathic therapeutics 1 As caustic lime in combination with caustic potash as an escharotic it lessens the deliquescence of the potash and mak...

Carbo animalis - Dunham

The symptoms of Carbo animalis are however in the main identical with those of Carbo vegetabilis In those of the eye longsightedness is noted instead of myop...

Carbo vegetabilis - Dunham

CARBO LIGNI VEGETABLE CHARCOAL Charcoal possesses the power of absorbing gases in large quantities in vastly greater proportions than the relation of its bul...

Causticum - Dunham

This drug is known only to the homeopathist at least under this name What is it Hahnemann directed it to be prepared as follows Take a piece of recently p...

Chamomilla matricaria - Dunham

The name of this medicinal plant is derived fromMATRIX because of the specific action supposed by the ancients to be exerted by it on the uterus ...

Cina - Dunham

The Wormseed or Tartarian Southernwood of which the unexpanded flowerheads are used in medicine is found in Asia Minor the Levant Africa and Persia The flowers ...

Cocculus indicus - Dunham

Menispermum cocculus Cocculus indicus Cocculus suberosus Anamirta cocculus The seeds or berries are the parts used in medicine This substance was employed by...

Colchicum - Dunham

Having now studied the properties and uses of Bryonia Aconite and Rhus remedies which in addition to their applicability in fevers and various other affections ...

Conium maculatum - Dunham

SPOTTED HEMLOCK Umbelliferae It is a native of Europe but is naturalized in the United States The active principle is conia a yellowish oilylooking transpare...

Cucumis colocynthis - Dunham

SQUIRTING CUCUMBER BITTER APPLE We use in medicine the pulp of the fruit an exceedingly bitter and nauseous production It was known to the early Greeks a...

Cyclamen europium - Dunham

SOWBREAD The student of materia medica should at the very outset of his career begin to guard against a danger which often besets the physician and leads him as...

Dulcamara - Dunham

GENERAL ANALYSIS VITAL POWER A Sensorium Depressing signs of anaemia vertigo on rising with debility and general trembling B SPECIAL SENSES A partial acti...

Eupatorium perfoliatum - Dunham

This drug which has hardly as yet an established place in the pharmacopoeia although it is a much used and highly prized domestic remedy has been but imperfe...

Euphrasia officinalis - Dunham

EYEBRIGHT Euphrasia officinalis or Eyebright is an annual belonging to the family SCROPHULARIACEAE It is common in northern Europe and in England and is found i...

Graphites - Dunham

This remedy belongs exclusively to the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia It was classed by Hahnemann among the Antipsoric Remedies as being more especially adapted to t...

Helleborus niger - Dunham

BLACK HELLEBORE CHRISTMAS ROSE Before passing from this group I desire to say a few words upon this drug of which we know but littlethat little bein...

Hepar sulphuris calcareum - Dunham

LIVER OF SULPHUR IMPURE CALCIC SULPHIDE The liver of sulphur of the shops and of the British and United States pharmacopoeias is a sulphuret of potassium...

Hydrargyrum - Dunham

A metal known to the ancients It was used medicinally by the Arabs from whom the Europeans derived a knowledge of it through the Moors of Spain Its general intr...

Hyoscyamus niger - Dunham

HENBANE Is classed along with Belladonna among the narcotics or among the cerebrostimulants It resembles Belladonna in some respects though lacking its power to...

Ignatia amara - Dunham

STRYCHNOS IGNATIA FABA SANCTI IGNATII ST IGNATIUS BEAN The seed of a large tree a native of the Philippine Islands It contains strychnine and in poisonou...

Kalmia latifolia - Dunham

Broadleaved Kalmia Calicobush Mountainlaurel Spoonwood a native of North America not mentioned in allopathic works on materia medica Bigelow in his Medical ...

Kreosotum - Dunham

This remedy of which a proving was published by Dr Wahle in the Archiv and which in Dr Benninghausens opinion has not received from practitioners the attention ...

Lachesis - Dunham

VENOM OF LACHESIS TRIGONOCEPHALUS It was procured by Dr C Hering and proved under his auspices The results were published in Archiv and in his monograph ...

Ledum palustre - Dunham

The LEDUM PALUSTRE or marsh ledum marsh tea ROSMARIMUM SYLVESTRE a plant belonging to the heath family is a native of northern Europe It is also found in Britis...

Lycopodium clavatum - Dunham

SENSORIUM Vertigo occurring particularly in the forenoon and in a hot room accompanied by nausea it seems as though everything were turning around The pe...

Murex purpurea - Dunham

A viscous juice found in a small sack between the heart and liver of the mollusks of the genus purpura of the family buccinidae and also of the muricidae A simi...

Natrum muriaticum - Dunham

This remedy cannot often in chronic cases be repeated without an intercurrent HEAD Vertigo when walking everything goes round in a circle when sitting q...

Nitricum acidum - Dunham

Hahnemann says Nitric acid is especially indicated for those disposed to diarrhoea It is most especially effective after Kali carbonicum Most of...

Nux vomica - Dunham

The seed of the fruit of a large tree found in the East Indies Whether this very powerful and most useful drug was known to the ancients is a disputed questi...

Phosphorus - Dunham

SPECIAL ANALYSIS DISPOSITION Phosphorus presents interesting alternations of the psychical condition as the following series of symptoms show I Sadness d...

Platina - Dunham

The physical and chemical properties and reactions of this metal are described from another chair It finds no place in the Pharmacopoeia of England or th...

Podophyllum peltatum - Dunham

This remedy has been flippantly called the VEGETABLE MERCURY It resembles it no more than the greenback or paper dollar is like the precious metal which by a fi...

Pulsatilla - Dunham

ANEMONEPRATENSISPULSATILLANIGRICANS I have chosen this drug to commence a course of lectures on materia medica as well because it has been very thoroughl...

Rhododendron - Dunham

SIBERIANSNOWROSEALPINEROSE This plant which is most abundant in the Alpine regions of Siberia but is found likewise in other mountainous and snowy regions of As...

Rhus toxicodendron - Dunham

Rhus Toxicodendron or Rhus Radicans these two plants are now regarded by botanists as identical differing only in their modes of growth The former was proved by...

Sabina - Dunham

SAVINE An evergreen shrub of South Europe The leaves and tops are used in medicine Their properties depend on an essential oil which dissolves in alcohol ...

Secale cornutum - Dunham

ERGOT SPURRED RYE MUTTERKORN A metamorphosis of rye or other grain by which it is converted wholly or in part into a curved purplishblack cylindrical tap...

Sepia - Dunham

SEPIAE SUCCUS The juice of the cuttlefish a blackish fluid contained in the abdomen of the animal and from which the animal has the power of projecting the juic...

Silicea - Dunham

SYNONYMS KIESELERDE TERRASILICEA ACIDUM SILICIUM The proving of Silicea upon the healthy subject was published by Hahnemann in vol iii of the Chronic Di...

Spigelia anthelmia - Dunham

A native of the West Indies and of South America It must not be confounded with the SPIGELIA MARYLANDICA a native of the United States and the officinal Spigeli...

Stramonium - Dunham

THORN APPLE OR JAMESTOWN WEED Indigenous in the United States and Europe So common in our waste places about the cities that cases of poisoning with it...

Sulphur - Dunham

We use the sublimed Sulphur flores sulphuris triturated with sugar of milk and then prepared in dilutions IN MODO HAHNEMANNI or else a tincture prepared with al...

Veratrum album - Dunham

WHITE HELLEBORE The root of the plant is used in medicine It may be prepared by trituration or used in the form of a tincture It was known to the ancient...