Filix mas

Male Fern

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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

(ASPIDIUM)

A remedy for worm symptoms, especially with constipation. Tapeworm. Soporific conditions. Torpid inflammations of lymphatic glands (Maceration of fresh root). Pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients, no fever, with limited, ulcerated lesions, formerly classified as scrofula.

Eyes

Blindness, monocular amblyopia.

Abdomen

Bloated. Gnawing-pain; worse eating sweets. Diarrhœa and vomiting. Worm colic, with itching of nose, pale face, blue rings around eyes. Painless hiccough.

Relationship

Compare: Aspidium Alhamanticum . Panna -3 doses, 2 grammes each, all in half hour, fasting in a glass of milk. Tasteless and will remove tape worm. Cina; Granat; Kousso .

Dose

First to third potency. For the expulsion of tapeworm, a full dose of 1/2 to 1 dram of the Oleoresin, fasting.

Filix mas across the other classic books

Filix mas appears in 5 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.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Aspidium Filix mas, Swartz. (Nephrodium Filix mas, Rich.; Polypodium Filix mas, Linn.) Natural order , Filices. Common names , Male Fern; (Germ.), Farnwurzel; (Fr.), Fougère mâle. Preparation , Tincture of the inner part of the root. Authority. Dr. Berridge, provings, Med. Invest., N. S., 3, p. 282: 1 , Mr. --- took 1…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Male Fern. N. O. Filices. Tincture of fresh root, or fresh root grated. Abdomen, bloated / Abortion / Blindness / Sterility / Tapeworm Male fern has been recognised as a vermifuge from the time of Galen, and Dioscorides credits it with the power of causing sterility and abortion. A fragmentary proving in Allen's…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Male Fern. Filices. "Galen, Theophrastus, and Avicenna speak of it as a vermifuge medicine. Dioscorides adds to this its capability to induce sterility and abortion." Fragmentary provings by Berridge, Med. Inv., N. S., vol. 3, p. 282. The tincture must be prepared from the fresh root ; "old preparations and tinctures…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Tænia. Worm fever. Sterility.”

Filix mas in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Filix mas in 2 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic.

RECTUM - WORM - taeniae
RECTUM - WORM - complaints

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