Cypripedium pubescens

Yellow Lady's Slipper

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

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

(CYPRIPEDIUM)

The skin symptoms correspond to those of poisoning by Rhus, for which it has been found an efficient antidote. Nervousness in children; from teething and intestinal troubles. Debility after gout. Hydrocephaloid symptoms, result of long, exhausting diarrhœa. Sleeplessness . Cerebral hyperasthesia in young children often the result of overstimulation of brain.

Head

Child cries out at night; is wakeful and begins to laugh and play. Headaches of elderly people and during climacteric.

Relationship

Compare: Ambra; Kali brom; Scutellar; Valerian; Ignat . Skin relatives: Grindelia; Anacard .

Dose

Tincture, to sixth attenuation. For Poison Oak, 5 drops of tincture per dose, also locally.

Cypripedium pubescens across the other classic books

Cypripedium pubescens appears in 4 of the 21 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.

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Lady's Slipper. N. O. Orchidaceæ. Tincture and infusions of fresh root gathered in autumn. Brain affections / Chorea / Convulsions / Debility and sleeplessness / Delirium tremens / Ecstasy / Epilepsy / Mental despondency / Nervous debility / Neuralgia / Post-influenzal debility / Sleeplessness / Spermatorrhœa / Stye…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Lady's Slipper.) Description. — Root fibrous and branching; stems single, a foot or more high, bearing three or four broad, ovate, rather downy, ribbed leaves, clasping the stem at the base, and one or two large flowers. These consist of two lanceolate, brown-purple sepals, and a pair of somewhat narrow, wavy petals…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Lady's Slipper. Orchidaceæ. The yellow lady's slipper, Cypripedium pubescens, grows wild in abundance in woods that are moist throughout the United States. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root gathered in Autumn. It has been used by the Old School as a substitute for Valerian. A fragmentary proving of the…”

Cypripedium pubescens in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Cypripedium pubescens in 10 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MIND (6), BACK (1), EXTREMITIES (1), GENERALITIES (1), MALE GENITALIA (1).

GENERALITIES - CHOREA
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly)
MIND - ECSTASY - night - waking - on
BACK - ERUPTIONS - boils - Cervical region
MIND - INDIFFERENCE,apathy,etc. - everything,to
MIND - ECSTASY
EXTREMITIES - TWITCHING
MIND - HYSTERIA
MIND - ANGER,irascibility
MIND - INDIFFERENCE,apathy,etc.

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