Brachyglottis Repens

Puka-Puka

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

(BRACHYGLOTTIS)

Fluttering sensation ( Caladium ). Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate. Produces symptoms of albuminuria. Itching in ears and nostrils. Bright's disease . Oppression of chest. Writer's cramp.

Abdomen

Feeling as if something rolling about. Fluttering in region of ovary.

Urinary

Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate. Sense of swashing in bladder. Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained. Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium, albumen and casts.

Extremities

Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing-soreness extending along flexor carpi ulnaris.

Relationship

Compare: Apis; Helonias; Merc cor; Plumbum .

Dose

Third potency.

Brachyglottis Repens across the other classic books

Brachyglottis Repens 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.
“Brachyglottis repens, Forst. Natural order , Compositæ. Common names , Puka Puka (New Zealand). Preparation , Tincture of green leaves and flowers. Authority. L. C. Fischer, M.D., N. A. J. of Hom., vol. ix, 1878, p. 41, L. C. F., aged forty-six years, took 10 drops in water at 10 A.M. (first day); 20 drops in water at…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“New Zealand "Puka Puka." Tincture of green leaves and flowers. N. O. Eupatoriaceæ. Bright's disease / Dysmenorrhœa Brachyglottis was proved by C. L. Fischer. The Maories use the leaves to apply to old sores and ulcers. Horses eating young shrubs lose all power over hind legs and spine. It causes lassitude; weakness…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Puka puka. Eupatoriaceæ. A shrub growing in the northern Island of New Zealand, attaining even the size of a tree, to twenty feet in height, bearing large, broad, indented, glossy leaves, the under surface thickly covered with white, downy layers. The flower is large, hanging in clusters of very minute, sweet-scented…”

Brachyglottis Repens in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Brachyglottis Repens in 175 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (57), URINE (14), BACK (13), BLADDER (11), FACE (9).

CHEST - PAIN - Axilla - region of - extending - to pectoral muscles
BLADDER - PAIN - urinating, - after
GENERALITIES - TREMBLING - internally
BACK - WEAKNESS (tired feeling - in Spine)
URINE - ALBUMINOUS
ABDOMEN - PULSATION - Inguinal region - morning
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - extending - pectoral muscles and arms - to the - after riding
KIDNEYS - PAIN - gnawing - region of
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Wrist - writing,while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - burning - Toes - first - walking,while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - Shoulder - extending - to wrist
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - Upper Arm - biceps
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Thumb - writing,while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Wrist - pulsating
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Thigh - morning
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Upper Limbs - evening
URETHRA - PAIN - pressing - urination,after
URINE - CASTS,containing - mucous
URINE - CASTS,containing - waxy
FACE - CHILLINESS

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