Boletus Laricis

White Agaric

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

(POLYPORUS OFFICINALE)

Quotidian intermittent fever. Sweat is light, and without relief. Night-sweat in phthisis.

Head

Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache. Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented. Constant nausea.

Fever

Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes. Yawns and stretches when chilly. Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back. Profuse perspiration at night , with hectic chills and fever.

Skin

Hot and dry, especially in palms. Itching more between scapulæ and on forearms.

Relationship

Compare: Agaricin , active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other enervating nightsweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema). Boletus luridus (Violent pain in epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa). Boletus satanus (dysentery, vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities and face).

Dose

First attenuation.

Boletus Laricis across the other classic books

Boletus Laricis appears in 5 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.
“[This includes the first proving by Dr. Burt, published in this work under Boletus .] Polyporus officinalis, Fries. Natural order , Fungi. Common names , Larch agaric. Preparation , Tincture of the fresh plant. Authorities.”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“12 Noon”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“B. purgans. N. O. Fungi. Trituration. Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Fever / Gall-bladder, affections of / Headache / Liver, diseases of Burt proved the crude substance and the 3rd trituration. The gastro-enteric irritation common to the Fungi was very well marked. Motion < headache. Compare. Agaric., &c. Coccul. (head…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Larch Agaric. Fungi. A fungus growing on the larch tree ; formerly called Boletus laricis. Provings by Burt, Am. Hom. Obs., 1868, p. 116 ; Lord, Am. Hom. Obs., 1868, p. 60 ; Smedley, Wood, Cooley and Miller, Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 8, p. 142 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Sick-headache, periodical headache , Shepherd…”

Boletus Laricis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Boletus Laricis in 131 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (24), CHILL (19), BACK (16), MOUTH (11), STOMACH (11).

BACK - HEAT - flushes - Spine - in
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Dorsal region - scapulae - between
BACK - PAIN - chill - during
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill)
BACK - PAIN - extending to - hips
ABDOMEN - HEAVINESS,as from a load,etc. - Liver,in
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - extending - hip - to the
CHILL - BEGINNING in and extending from - back
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - yellow
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints
GENERALITIES - EXERTION,physical - agg.
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Knee
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee
EXTREMITIES - PAIN
MOUTH - TASTE - bitter
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting
BACK - PAIN

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