Online Materia Medica

Abies nigra - Farrington

I cannot forbear mentioning a symptom of this Abies nigra a symptom too that has been frequently confirmed I refer to the application of the drug in dyspeps...

Absinthium - Farrington

Absinthium another form of wormwood is of interest to you not only as a medicine but also because you will meet with cases of its abuse in those who indulge in ...

Aconitum napellus - Farrington

Aconitum napellus is the monkshood Aconite itself means without dust The plant has been so named from the botanical fact that it grows on dry rocks with scarcel...

Actea racemosa - Farrington

WE have in the homeopathic materia medica two varieties of the Actea ACTEA RACEMOSA and ACTEA SPICATA The last named of these may be dismissed in a very few wor...

Alumina - Farrington

Alumina is a form of pure clay and is known as ARGILLA According to Hering the symptoms which Hartlaub obtained are not pure becaused he simply washed his p...

Ambra grisea - Farrington

Ambra grisea is supposed to be a diseaseproduct derived from the whale It has a decided medicinal action Like all substances having a strong odor it acts pr...

Ammonium carbonicum - Farrington

We will first study Ammonium carb Let me call your attention to the fact that the Carbonate of Ammonia may be antidoted by CAMPHOR and some of its symptoms...

Ammonium muriaticum - Farrington

As I have already explained to you Ammonium mur is suited to sluggish persons who are rather corpulent as to the body but disproportionately thin as to the limb...

Ammonium phosphoricum - Farrington

I have one or two symptoms of Ammonium phosphoricum to give you It has been successfully used in the treatment of constitutional gout when there are nod...

Anacardium orientale - Farrington

Anacardium exerts a very depressing influence on the system not only as to the mind but as to the body as well It produces a weakness of memory this symptom we ...

Antimonium crudum - Farrington

In the above schema I have placed no complementary remedy to Antimonium crudum SCILLA has been said to be complementary to it but I have not satisfied myself...

Antimonium tartaricum - Farrington

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM or TARTAR EMETIC as it is also called is a compound salt of antimony and potash both of which substances depress the circulation Hence you...

Apis mellifica - Farrington

For this remedy we have two names according to the manner in which the preparation is made It is either APIS MELLIFICA the honeybearing bee or APIUM VIRUS the p...

Apocynum cannabinum - Farrington

Apocynum cannabinum was said by Pliny to be fatal to dogs and from this circumstance its name was derived It has a tough fibre like hemp which has been used for...

Aranea diadema - Farrington

Aranea was suggested by Grauvogl as one of the remedies for what he called the hydrogenoid constitution this being a constitution which could not tolerate moist...

Argentum metallicum - Farrington

Argentum metallicum produces spasms which simulate those of epilepsy The attacks are followed by delirious rage The patient jumps about and tries to strike thos...

Argentum nitricum - Farrington

ARGENTUM NITRICUM or the Nitrate of Silver in its action on the brain and spine furnishes us with a list of symptoms that lead to the use of the remedy in many ...

Arnica montana - Farrington

Arnica montana is commonly called leopards bane The tincture of Arnica montana should be prepared from the roots of the plant rather than from the flowers be...

Arsenicum album - Farrington

Today we take up for study the last of the acid remedies I refer to Arsenious acid or ARSENICUM ALBUM It has quite a number of concordant remedies and quite a s...

Artemisia vulgaris - Farrington

ARTEMISIA VULGARIS another member of the order Compositae is a very serviceable remedy in epilepsy when the attacks have been brought on by violent emotions and...

Arum triphyllum - Farrington

The socalled Jack in the pulpit is the first drug in the order for our consideration This drug has an interesting history Some twentyfive years ago there appear...

Asafoetida - Farrington

ASAFOETIDA is a gum having a decided odor of an alliaceous kind It is especially useful in two classes of disease First in nervous diseases developing a perfect...

Aurum metallicum - Farrington

Aurum is a remedy of not very extensive application but still it is well marked in its limited sphere Its antidotes are principally HEPAR BELLADONNA and MERCURI...

Baptisia tinctoria - Farrington

I have selected for our study today a member of the leguminous plants BAPTISIA TINCTORIA or the wild indigo It is a drug which has a short history but one that ...

Baryta carbonica - Farrington

Barium and strontium are very closely related to each other chemically Of the elements themselves we have no provings The carbonates of these have however been ...

Belladona - Farrington

Belladonna or the deadly nightshade was known to the medical world as early as 1500 AD The Venetians named the plant HERB A BELLA DONNA from the circumstance t...

Berberis vulgaris - Farrington

Berberis vulgaris belongs to the order BERBERIDACEAE along with Caulophyllum and Podophyllum It contains an alkaloid called BERBERINA which by the way is also f...

Borax veneta - Farrington

Borax is the biborate of soda As a medicine it won its first laurels in the nursery where it has long been used in the treatment of sore nipples and childrens s...

Bryonia alba - Farrington

There are three species of the Bryonia so nearly identical are they that Allen has classed them under one heading in his Encyclopaedia It is one of the oldest r...

Caladium seguinum - Farrington

Caladium is indicated in stout persons of flabby fibre who are subject to catarrhal asthma that is asthma with the production of mucus which is not readily rais...

Calcarea ostrearum - Farrington

Calearea ostrearum is a drug that may come into use in almost every form of disease and is second only in importance to Sulphur You will recall that it is not a...

Calcarea phosphorica - Farrington

The complementary drugs of Calcarea phos are ZINC RUTA GRAVEOLENS and SULPHUR Zinc you will find complementary to Calcarea phosphorica in hydrocephaloid Ruta i...

Cantharis vesicatoria - Farrington

The remedy which I propose to bring before you for study today is CANTHARIS the socalled Spanish fly It is my purpose to speak of the more important symptoms...

Capsicum annum - Farrington

Capsicum possesses few if any of the narcotic properties of the Solanaceae but it has highly marked the irritating properties of the group It takes but little o...

Carbo animalis - Farrington

Carbo animalis and Carbo veg do not follow each other well They are so far inimical that one may not be given with benefit after the other They are too nearly t...

Carbo vegetabilis - Farrington

As I have already intimated to you Carbo veg contains some carbonate of potash It is also a fact worthy of note that KALI CARB is complementary to Carbo veg esp...

Causticum - Farrington

Causticum is evidently a potash preparation but its exact composition I do not know Hahnemann was not able to define it and chemists since his time have not bee...

Chamomilla matricaria - Farrington

The Chamomilla of the homeopathic materia medica is the German variety the Chamomilla matricaria The drug acts best apparently upon patients with a morbidly sen...

Chelidonium majus - Farrington

I will be brief in my remarks on Chelidonium as we have not the time to exhaustively treat of the drug It is a unique remedy possessing points of similarity wit...

Cina - Farrington

The medicinal virtues of Cina are largely although not entirely due to a poisonous active principle which it contains that active principle is SANTONINE the cen...

Cinchona officinalis - Farrington

Cinchona is certainly a wonderful drug wonderful in the many varieties of its species wonderful in its composition and wonderful in its effects It also has a...

Cocullus indicus - Farrington

Cocculus indicus owes its properties to an active principle called PICROTOXINE this term being derived from two words meaning when combined bitter poison You wi...

Coffea arabicum - Farrington

Coffea is extensively used as a beverage Its active principle is CAFFEINE which is identical chemically with several others as THEINE the active principle of te...

Colchicum - Farrington

The symptoms of Colchicum I have arranged under four headings The first the nerves includes typhoid conditions and debility You must know that the drug tends to...

Colocynthis cucumis - Farrington

This is the bitter cucumber It is not indigenous to this country but is imported from Syria and Turkey In shape it is something like an orange or lemon with the...

Conium maculatum - Farrington

Conium maculatum acts as a depressor on the cerebrospinal system It develops a paretic state which spreads from below upwards the lower part of the body giving ...

Cuprum metallicum - Farrington

Cuprum metallicum and Cuprum aceticum are used interchangeably by many physicians as having the same symptomatology The original idea of those who proposed the ...

Curare - Farrington

Curare acts on the periphery of the motor nerves hence it produces paralysis of motion without any disturbance of sensation When taken internally it causes viol...

Digitalis purpurea - Farrington

DIGITALIS contains among other ingredients two substances one known as DIGITALIN the other as DIGITOXIN The latter is found in larger quantity than the former D...

Dulcamara - Farrington

Dulcamara or the bittersweet contains a small quantity of Solanine a much smaller quantity in fact than any other member of the group The tender leaves and twig...

Eupatorium perfoliatum - Farrington

or the boneset is a popular remedy in malarial districts for chills and fever In this disease it is indicated by the following symptoms The chill begins from se...

Euphrasia officinalis - Farrington

Euphrasia is particularly of use to us as a medicine acting on mucous membranes especially the conjunctiva and the nasal mucous membrane It has long been kno...

Ferrum - Farrington

Ferrum has two complements CINCHONA or CHINA and ALUMINA Ferrum and Alumina are complementary in chlorosis and Ferrum and Cinchona in ansemia from loss of anima...

Fluoric acid - Farrington

This is a highly excoriating acid eating as you know even into glass It is to be particularly remembered from its action on the bones and on the skin It acts pa...

Gelsemium sempervirens - Farrington

Gelsemium Semprevirens is a yellowflowering plant indigenous to the South It is an evergreen and puts forth its fragrant flowers among the earliest in spring...

Glonoinum - Farrington

Glonoin is nitroglycerine It is a very easy drug to study Its main point of attack is the blood It does not however affect the quality of the fluid so much a...

Graphites - Farrington

Graphites is not a pure carbon Even the purest specimens of it contain some iron You will note that I have placed beneath it two complements namely Arsenicum an...

Gratiola - Farrington

GRATIOLA is useful in diarrhoea It produces and cures a profuse yellowish gushing watery diarrhoea as though it were rushing from the hydrant This diarrhoea is ...

Helleborus niger - Farrington

I propose considering first today HELLEBORUS NIGER This is also termed the Christmas rose because it blossoms in midwinter It has a dark brown root which Con...

Hepar sulphuris calcarea - Farrington

Next we will consider HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREA This is really an impure calcium sulphide containing traces of the sulphide of lime organic matter possibly and v...

Hydrocyanic acid - Farrington

Hydrocyanic acid acts upon the cerebrospinal nervous system and particularly upon the medulla and upper portion of the spinal cord It produces convulsions which...

Hyoscyamus niger - Farrington

Botanically and in a measure therapeutically Hyoscyamus is similar to Belladonna This interesting drug though innocuous to some animals is poisonous to fowls an...

Ignatia amara - Farrington

Ignatia amara or more properly speaking STRYCHNOS IGNATIA is a large climbing shrub growing in the Philippine Islands and in CochinChina The fruit is spherical ...

Kali bichromicum - Farringto

Today I shall lecture on Kali bichromicum or the Bichromate of Potash You would expect in a drug having the combination of this one to obtain not only the resul...

Kali bromatum - Farrington

The first potash preparation we will consider is KALI BROMATUM or Bromide of Potassium We find that this drug is antidoted by Hepar mainly It has some few analo...

Kali carbonicum - Farrington

Today I will study with you Carbonate of Potash known in our nomenclature as Kali carb This is complementary to CARBO VEG and similar to it in many forms of dis...

Kali hydriodicum - Farrington

The Iodide of Potassium or Kali hydriodicum does not like the Bromide of Potassium act on the higher tissues of the body It seems to affect more the lowest tiss...

Lachesis - Farrington

Now let us consider LACHESIS First of all in order that you may comprehend the subject I wish to refer to those symptoms which are universal We notice that Lach...

Leptandra virginica - Farrington

LEPTANDRA VIRGINICA is a drug which acts prominently upon the liver Locally we find dull aching in the right hypochondrium in the region of the gallbladder and ...

Linaria vulgaris - Farrington

This drug produces fainting It may be serviceable in fainting of cardiac origin The patient faints dead away without apparent cause Linaria has repeatedly produ...

Lithium carbonicum - Farrington

Lithium carb has not a very extensive range of action It is particularly useful in affections of the joints It does have very much depreciating effect on the vi...

Lycopodium clavatum - Farrington

Lycopodium Clavatum 1 Constitution 2 Blood A Fevers B Ebullitions pulse c Varices D Typhoid e Scarlatina f Diphtheria 3 Liver 4 Dr...

Magnesia carbonica - Farrington

Magnesia is much used in one form or another by allopaths as a purgative medicine When thus abused several results may follow The constipation for which it has ...

Magnesia muriatica - Farrington

The next remedy of which I shall speak is the Chloride of Magnesia or Magnesia mur This remedy acts particularly on women and children especially in hysterical ...

Mercurius solubilis - Farrington

We begin this morning with the study of Mercury and its combinations Mercury has long been known and used as a medicine in the old school of practice Its abu...

Millefolium - Farrington

Is of interest to you as being a remedy in haemorrhages from the lungs or bowels of mechanical origin The flow of blood is usually bright red It is distingui...

Moschus - Farrington

The order of Ruminantia furnishes us with an article called Musk which is obtained from the MOSCHUS MOSCHIFERUS or muskdeer It is found in a sac just back of th...

Muriaticum acidum - Farrington

Now that we have obtained an idea of the acids in general we will find Muriatic acid a very easy drug to study The continued use of Muriatic acid must give u...

Mygale lasiodora - Farrington

The MYGALE LASIODORA is a large black spider native in the island of Cuba It was first proved by Dr Houard of this city It is one of our best remedies for uncom...

Natrum carbonicum - Farrington

Natrum carbonicum is the first preparation of soda we have to consider It is much used in the allopathic school of practice as a remedy for acidity of the stoma...

Natrum muriaticum - Farrington

Today we begin our study of Natrum muriaticum or common tablesalt This has always been held up to us as an opprobrium against medicine and as a confirmation of ...

Natrum sulphuricum - Farrington

Natrum sulphuricum would hardly have been used by members of our school had it not been alluded to by Grauvogl as the central remedy for his hydrogenoid constit...

Nitricum acidum - Farrington

Nitric acid as a chemical substance need scarcely be explained to you as you know its properties so well I therefore pass on to consider its use as a medicin...

Nux vomica - Farrington

Nux VOMICA is a drug that was known as early as 1540 AD in which year one Valerius Cordus wrote a remarkably accurate description of it The fruit of the tree is...

Oleander nerium - Farrington

The OLEANDER NERIUM is a native of Palestine but it is also found wild in Southern Europe and is much cultivated in gardens and hothouses everywhere it thrives...

Palladium - Farrington

Palladium is of use principally for its action on the female genital organs Its characteristic mental symptoms seem to find origin in the sexual symptoms and fo...

Petroleum - Farrington

This is a highly carbonaceous oil but it is not a pure carbon Medicinally it stands somewhat between Sulphur and Phosphorus on one hand and Graphites and Carbo ...

Phellandrium aquaticum - Farrington

PHELLANDRIUM AQUATICUM we find to be indicated in headache which involves the nerves going to the eye There is a crushing feeling on the top of the head with bu...

Phosphoric acid - Farrington

Today we have to study Phosphoric acid This is a combination of oxygen with phosphorus Phosphoric acid produces weakness or debility Sometimes it causes a trans...

Phosphorus - Farrington

This hour I wish to say a few words about Phosphorus It has two complements ARSENICUM and ALLIUM CEPA I have placed Nux vomica and Terebinthina as the antidotes...

Picrid acid - Farrington

Picric acid causes at first some congestions These are soon followed by weariness and mental inactivity showing how intensely the remedy attacks the vital force...

Pix liquida - Farrington

Pix liquida has but two symptoms worthy of note One proceeds from its action on the lungs You may give it with confidence in suppurative processes affecting the...

Platina - Farrington

The action of Platina is to be studied under three headings namely The mental symptoms its action on the nervous system in general and its effects on the sexual...

Podophyllum peltatum - Farrington

Podophyllum peltatum is the mandrake or Mayapple it also is a member of the order Berberidaceae It is a plant that grows to the height of some two or three feet...

Pothos foetidus - Farrington

Pothos foetid us is a remedy you ought to remember in asthma It is useful for asthma that is worse from any inhalation of dust as for example the inhalation of ...

Psorinum - Farrington

Psorinum has been proved sufficiently to enable us to use it successfully in the treatment of disease We find it especially indicated in constitutions which are...

Pulsatilla - Farrington

Today we have to study Pulsatilla The species which I shall consider is the Pulsatilla of Hahnemann the PULSATILLA PRATENSIS and not the American plant the PULS...

Ranunculus bulbosus - Farrington

We have two varieties of the Ranunculus to consider today These are the RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS and the RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS Now both of these plants possess a jui...

Ranunculus sceleratus - Farrington

RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS is more irritating in its action than is the Ranunculus bulbosus In its action on the skin it produces a vesicular eruption with thin yell...

Rhus toxicodendron - Farrington

The drug of which I wish to speak this morning is the chief member of the Anacardiaceae namely the poisonivy or RHUS TOXICODENDRON You must remember it as compl...

Sabadilla - Farrington

Like Veratrum album SABADILLA is a useful remedy on account of its mental symptoms It may be used with success in cases of imaginary disease For example the pat...

Sabina - Farrington

I am also obliged to slight SABINA JUNIPERUS for want of time You know of it as a remedy in the treatment of uterine disease and as a remedy to prevent impen...

Sanguinaria canadensis - Farrington

Before proceeding with our study of Sanguinaria I will say that there is a variety of the poppy plant which grows in Mexico called the ARGEMONE MEXICANA It i...

Secale cornutum - Farrington

Secale Cornutum is also spoken of as the spurredrye Ergot a term borrowed from the French is the name of the drug in the old school pharmacopoeia The drug is no...

Selenium - Farrington

Selenium is isomorphous with Sulphur and resembles it both chemically and medicinally We find it producing very little effect on the blood and lymphatic vessels...

Sepia - Farrington

Belonging to the Mollusca is an animal called the SEPIA or cuttlefish A hard calcareous substance belonging to the cuttlefish is you all know used for the feedi...

Silicea - Farrington

SILICA or SILICEA in its crude state is inert It is insoluble and hence has very little effect on the system When potentized according to the formula of Hahn...

Spigelia anthelmia - Farrington

Spigelia is a member of the order Loganiaceae To understand it as a remedy is not a difficult thing to do if we start with the idea that it acts on the nerve...

Spongia tosta - Farrington

Spongia is not a chemical substance It is derived from the animal kingdom but because its symptoms are closely allied with those of the halogens it is conven...

Stannum metallicum - Farrington

Stannum is a drug that Las not many symptoms hence it can be disposed of very quickly Its complement is PULSATILLA The STANNUM patient is usually sad a...

Staphysagria - Farrington

Staphysagria is indicated in the first place in patients who appear pale and are worn out and exhausted especially as regards their nervous system Both brain an...

Stramonium - Farrington

Stramonium differs somewhat from Belladonna The mental symptoms which lead us to the choice of the remedy are these The mania or delirium is of a wild charac...

Strontiana carbonica - Farrington

Strontiana carbonica has a few symptoms that are of importance It has more effect on the circulation than has its relative Baryta We have as characteristic flus...

Sulphur - Farrington

Sulphur is an element with which you are all familiar You must be careful if you prepare the medicine yourself that you obtain it perfectly pure The sublimed Su...

Sulphuricum acidum - Farrington

Sulphuric acid is indicated when the patient is hasty quick and restless in his actions sometimes too when there is the opposite condition one of great depre...

Tabacum - Farrington

Tabacum contains several active ingredients the most important of which is Nicotine Ever since smoking was an art attempts have been made to get rid of this Nic...

Taraxacum - Farrington

Or the ordinary dandelion is a decided liver remedy If given long enough it will produce a free flow of bile from the bowels The symptoms to guide you in its se...

Tarentula cubensis - Farrington

The Tarentula Cubensis the hairy spider causes a perfect picture of carbuncle even to the sloughing It may be used effectually when there are great prostration ...

Tarentula hispanica - Farrington

In poisoning by the bite of the Tarentula the symptoms are strikingly similar to those of the Ophidia The bitten part becomes swollen and discolored the lymp...

Terebinthina - Farrington

Terebinthina or turpentine is a drug that has been much abused by oldschool physicians therefore it has been greatly neglected by homeopaths In the revulsion fr...

Theridion curassavicum - Farrington

THERIDION compares with the Tarentula in headache nervousness hysteria According to provings there is a similar restless busy state he desires to occupy himself...

Thuja occidentalis - Farrington

The remainder of the hour we will devote to Thuja occidentalis the last member of this group and we will have ample time to consider it fully The history of ...

Veratrum album - Farrington

Veratrum album is not a difficult remedy to understand It has been used since the days of Hahnemann for cholera Asiatica cholera morbus and other abdominal affe...

Veratrum viride - Farrington

Although the name of this drug is similar to that just considered you must not reason thereby that it produces the same symptoms Veratrum viride produces conges...

Verbascum - Farrington

Verbascum is to be thought of as a remedy for catarrhs or colds when they are associated with neuralgia of the face which appears quite periodically generally t...

Vinca minor - Farrington

This is one variety of the periwinkle This Vinca minor contains a bitter and astringent principle making it of service as a tonic to use oldschool language and ...

Zincum metallicum - Farrington

Zincum metallicum is the zinc preparation we most frequently use You will notice the very peculiar fact that two preparations containing strychnia NUX VOMICA...