Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris

by H.C. Allen — Keynotes And Characteristics With Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

Shepherds Purse. (Cruciferae)

Profuse passive haemorrhage from every outlet of the body; blood dark and clotted . Metrorrhagia: with violent cramps and uterine colic; in chlorosis; after abortion, labor, miscarriage; at climacteric; with cancer uteri (Phos., Ust.). Menses: too early; too profuse; protracted (eight, ten, even fifteen days); tardy in starting, first day merely a show; second day colic, vomiting, a haemorrhage with large clots; each alternate period more profuse. Haemorrhage or delaying menses from uterine inertia; exhausting, scarcely recovers from one period before another begins. Leucorrhoea: bloody, dark, offensive; some days before and after menses.

Relations . - Comare: Sinapsis, Tillium, Viburnum, Ustilago.

Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris across the other classic books

Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris appears in 8 of the 13 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.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Shepherd's Purse (CAPSELLA) Is an anti-hæmorrhagic and anti-uric-acid remedy. Albuminuria during gestation. Chronic neuralgia. Renal and vesical irritation. Hæmorrhage from uterine fibroid with aching in back or general bruised soreness. Aching between scapulæ. Uterine hæmorrhage, with cramps and expulsion of clots…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“HEMORRHAGE, bloody discharges”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Vascular system. Female organs. Every other month. Bathing. Dampness. Rapid motion. History of hæmorrhage or suppressed vaginal discharges. .................... Impulse to walk far. Pain from above eyes up over head to nape. Taste like bad eggs. Craves butter-milk. Flatulence (r). Kidney stone. Menses or leucorrhœa…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Capsella bursa pastoris. Shepherd's Purse. N. O. Cruciferæ. Tincture of fresh flowering plant. Abortion, hæmorrhage after / Dropsy / Dysentery / Dysuria / Fibroma / Gall-stones / Gonorrhœa / Hæmaturia / Hæmorrhages / Leucorrhœa / Liver, affections of / Metrorrhagia / Ranula / Renal calculi / Strangury / Uric acid…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Shepherd's Purse. Cruciferæ. An annual bearing small white flowers in elongated terminal corymbs, native to Europe but found in most civilized countries. It flowers from early Spring to Autumn. The tincture is prepared from the fresh flowering plant. Short provings by Macfarlan and McGeorge. Observations by…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Profuse hæmorrhages from all parts of the body.”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: shepherd's purse. Albuminuria during gestation (Apis) (Br.). Renal colic (Berb., Dios., Nux-V.) (Bl.). Phosphatic deposit in the urine (Calc-P., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (Bl.). Spasmodic retention of urine (Bell.) (Bl.) Dysuria (Canth., Ferr-P., Kali-B., Lyc., Merc.) (Bl.). Cystitis (Apis, Bell.) (Bl.) Urine…”

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