Anantherum Muricatum

Cuscus-An East Indian Grass

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

(ANATHERUM)

A skin remedy of high order.

Painful swelling of various parts, going on to suppuration. Glandular inflammation.

Head

Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse in afternoon. Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp. Wartlike growth on eyebrows. Boils and tumors on tip of nose. Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges; copious salivation.

Urine

Turbid, thick, full of mucus. Constant urging . Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity. Involuntary. Cystitis.

Sexual

Chancre-like sores. Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix. Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated.

Skin

Diseased and deformed nails. Offensive foot-sweat. Abscesses boils, ulcers . Erysipelas. Pruritus, herpes.

Relationship

Compare: Staphisag; Mercur; Thuja .

Dose

Third potency.

Anantherum Muricatum across the other classic books

Anantherum Muricatum appears in 4 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Andropogon muricatus, Rets. (anantherum muricatum.) Common names , Vetiver or Viti-vayr. Nat. order , Gramineæ. Authority. Houat (Nouvelles Données, 2d series, p. 119). Gay humor, with disposition to laugh and sing. Sadness and restlessness, with fear of death and of the future. Sheds tears easily. Hypochondria, with…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“muricatum. Andropogon muricatus. Andropogon squarrosus. Cuscus grass. Vetiver or Viti-vayr. A medicinal grass cultivated in the Markarentas Islands (E. Ind.). (Houat.) N. O. Gramineæ. Tincture of root. Abscesses / Aphonia / Boils / Cancer / Erysipelas / Glandular inflammation / Hydrophobia / Sycosis / Syphilis / Tic…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Vetiveria Odorata. Gramineæ. A well-known grass in the East Indies, cultivated on the Markarentas Islands for its medical use ; the root is aromatic and stimulating or diaphoretic. Proved and introduced by Dr. L. J. Houat in Nouvelles Données, second series, translated in Criterio Medico, 1869, vol. 10, p. 183, and by…”

Anantherum Muricatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Anantherum Muricatum in 520 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (44), EXTREMITIES (37), FACE (36), STOMACH (33), HEAD (32).

MALE GENITALIA - MASTURBATION,disposition
MALE GENITALIA - SEXUAL PASSION - violent
MALE GENITALIA - SEXUAL PASSION - increased
FEMALE GENITALIA - ERUPTIONS - rash
EXTREMITIES - ABSCESS, - Lower Limbs
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - red - scarlet
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Hand - itch-like
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - greenish - yellow - thick,with priapism
HEAD - ERUPTION - scurfy - moist
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Upper Limbs
FEMALE GENITALIA - ERUPTIONS - pustules
EXPECTORATION - COPIOUS - paroxysmal cough,after each
HEAD - ERUPTION - crusts,scabs - moist
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL - followed by copious mucus
EAR - ABSCESS BEHIND
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Leg - boils
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Hand
HEAD - ULCERS
EYE - HAIR falling from brows
HEAD - ERUPTION - herpes

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