Materia Medica Quiz No. 3

A good remedy for cock's gait (when walking, lifts feet higher than usual, and puts down heel hard)

To the genius and the heroism of Hering the world owes this remedy and many another of which this has been the forerunner. Hering's first experiments were made he was studying the botany and zoology of the Upper Amazon for the German Government. Except his wife, all those about him were natives, who told him so much about this dreaded snake that he offered a good reward for a live specimen. At last one was brought in a bamboo box and those who brought it immediately fled and all his native servants with them. Hering stunned the snake with a blow on the head as the box opened, then, holding its head in a forked stick, he pressed its venom out of the poison bag upon sugar of milk. The effect of handling the virus and preparing the lower potencies was to throw Hering into a fever with tossing delirium and mania  much to his wife's dismay.  Towards morning he slept and on waking his mind was clear. He drank a little water to moisten his throat and the first question this indomitable prover asked was: "What did I do and say ?" His wife remembered vividly enough. The symptoms were written down and this was the first installment of the proving of this wonderful snake remedy. The natives crept back one by one next day and were astonished to find Hering and his wife alive. The snake grows to seven feet and upwards in length, has fangs nearly an inch long, a reddish brown skin marked along the back with black brown rhomboidal spots. Nearly all the provings of this medicine were made with the 30c and higher potencies.

Avery good remedy for fear of being in large open spaces during climacteric period.

A very good remedy to antodote the abuse of ether ( A common addictive agent used by lower income group in the form of white fluid ink. )

This remedy is one of Hahnemann's anti - psoric for gout, rheumatism and as a diuretic. It was first recommended by Brinton in the Lancet in 1857 for quinsy.   It is useful in gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to neck. Tearing pain in skull, worse cold, wet weather. Head feels swollen and blood-vessels distended. Pains often end in a stitch, especially in head. Brain feels loose. Headache better walking, pressure, worse sitting, standing.

It is an arrow poison used by South American Indians. This remedy affects the muscles and brain. It is useful in paralysis of muscles without impairing the sensations and consciousness.

Labor-like pains during menses aggravated by standing.  

This remedy is useful in Functional amenorrhoea of young girls with backache.

Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically.

This remedy will relieve tardy menses, especially with sensation that the flow is about to start and yet does not do so.