Cubeba Officinalis

Cubebs

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

(CUBEBA)

Mucous membranes generally, but especially that of the urinary tract, are chiefly affected by this remedy. Frequent urination of a nervous origin. Leucorrhœa in little girls.

Urine

Urethritis, with much mucus, especially in women. Cutting after urination, with constriction. Hæmaturia. Prostatitis, with thick yellow discharge. Cystitis.

Respiratory

Catarrh of nose and throat, with fetid odor and expectoration. Mucus trickles from posterior nares. Rawness of throat and hoarseness.

Relationship

Compare: Cucurbita; Copaiva; Piper meth; Sandal .

Dose

Second and third attenuation.

Cubeba Officinalis across the other classic books

Cubeba Officinalis appears in 7 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.
“Piper Cubeba, Linn. (Cubeba officinalis, Mig.). Natural order , Piperaceæ. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Appendix . -(Houat's proving, from Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd.) This truly astonishing collection of symptoms is put by itself, since there is no way of determining what is pathogenetic and what…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Mucous membranes: URETHRA. Bladder. Vagina. Night in bed. Walking about. Burning rawness. Violent inflammation, then acrid, yellow or green, offensive discharges. Catarrhs. .................... Veins of forehead distended. Gelatinous, cold stools; with grains like rice. Cramp or cutting-burning after urinating…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Piper cubeba. Cubeba officinalis. Cubebs. N. O. Piperaceæ. Tincture of dried unripe fruit. Albuminuria / Aphthæ / Croup / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Enuresis / Gleet Gonorrhœa / Hernia / Leucorrhœa in children / Orchitis / Prostatitis / Rheumatism / Roseola / Urticaria Cubeba corresponds to catarrh. It is an old-world…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Cubebs. Piperaceæ. The unripe berries of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing plant of Java and other portions of the East Indies. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Pressure and pain in region of femoral ring , E. M. Hale, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 496 ; Dysentery , Bachmeister, Organon, vol. 3, p. 357 ; Nocturnal enuresis , Battmann, Rück…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Exaltation of temper and of the mental faculties. Diarrhœa, with rumbling and cutting in the abdomen and burning in the rectum. Suppuration of the rectum. Burning and itching of the anus. Foaming urine. Burning and itching in the fossa navicularis. Discharge from the urethra of a dark-reddish color (gonorrhœa)…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“This remedy, also fallen into disrepute from its empirical use in the old school, has an important place in the therapeutics of gonorrhœa, if after the first or inflammatory stage is passed under the usual remedies for that stage there still remains burning in the urethra after urination and the discharge remains…”

Cubeba Officinalis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cubeba Officinalis in 254 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 (26), STOMACH (25), URETHRA (23), EXTREMITIES (20), MIND (20).

URETHRA - PAIN - burning - urination, - during
URINE - BURNING (includes Hot)
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Ovaries - extending to - groin
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - girls,little
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - profuse
MIND - LEWDNESS
MOUTH - FLABBY Tongue
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - greenish - yellow
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - thick
STOOL - MUCOUS,slimy - yellow
URETHRA - INFLAMMATION
URETHRA - CHORDEE
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - purulent
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - yellow
PROSTATE GLAND - INFLAMMATION
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - mucous
BLADDER - URINATION - unsatisfactory
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - painful
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - gleety

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