Damiana

Turnera

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(TURNERA)

Said to be of use in sexual neurasthenia; impotency. Sexual debility from nervous prostration. Incontinence of old people. Chronic prostatic discharge. Renal and cystic catarrh; frigidity of females . Aids the establishment of normal menstrual flow in young girls.

Dose

Tincture and fluid extract-ten-to forty-drops doses.

Damiana across the other classic books

Damiana appears in 3 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Damiana. N. O. Turneraceæ. Tincture of fresh plant. Amenorrhœa / Dysmenorrhœa / Fatigue / Impotence / Leucorrhœa / Migraine / Prostate, affections of / Spermatorrhœa / Sterility / Urine, incontinence of Hale has collected from old-school sources much experience respecting this drug, showing its power over the…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Damiana.) Description. — It belongs to the natural order of Turneracea?. The genus Turnera is a small family of chiefly tropical American plants allied to the Passifloracere. The flowers are small, yellow, subsessile near the end of the small branches. Turnera aphrodisiaca, as found in the market, consists of broken…”

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