Haematoxylon Campechianum

Logwood

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

(HAEMATOXYLON)

Sense of constriction is characteristic. Sensation as if a bar lay across chest . Angina pectoris.

Head

Feels constricted; heavy, hot. Eyelids heavy.

Stomach

Painful digging from abdomen to throat, causing pain in region of heart with oppression. Colic, tympanitis. Borborygmi and diarrhœa. Swollen, painful.

Chest

Constriction, extending to epigastrium. Sensation of a bar across chest. Convulsive pain in heart region with oppression. Great soreness in region of heart. Palpitation.

Female

Pain in hypogastrium, attended with slimy, whitish leucorrhœa. Weak feeling, with painful bearing down sensation at menstrual period .

Relationship

Compare: Cactus; Colocy; Naja .

Dose

Third potency.

Haematoxylon Campechianum across the other classic books

Haematoxylon Campechianum 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.
“Hæmatoxylon Campechianum, Linn. Natural order , Leguminosæ. Common names , Logwood; Bois d'Inde; (Germ.), Blauholz. Preparation , Tincture of the heart-wood. Authority. Jouve, Pathogénésie Symptomatique de la Bib. Hom., 2de Série, 1839, "Symptoms obtained from two healthy persons of different sexes, who took the…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“campechianum. Logwood. (Central America.) N. O. Leguminosæ Cæsalpiniæ. Tincture of the heart-wood. Angina pectoris / Colic / Diarrhœa / Dysmenorrhœa / Headache / Indigestion / Ptosis / Throat, sore Logwood is the well-known dye of commerce. The tincture was proved by Jouve in 1839, and some very distinctive symptoms…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Pain in the forehead, and disposition to vomit on stooping. Redness of the eyes, with blue margins. Contraction of the pupils and dimness of sight. Violent pain in the right ear, extending to the throat; throat feels contracted, with burning pain during deglutition. Pale face, with desponding expression. Pain in the…”

Haematoxylon Campechianum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Haematoxylon Campechianum in 38 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (9), ABDOMEN (5), MIND (4), GENERALITIES (3), STOMACH (3).

MIND - ANXIETY - night
ABDOMEN - TENSION - Hypogastrium - stool,before
CHEST - BAR of iron - across the centre of chest
GENERALITIES - STRETCHING - colic,during
LARYNX TRACHEA - VOICE, - lost - heated,from being
LARYNX TRACHEA - VOICE, - hoarseness - overheated,from being
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Dorsal region - spine
THROAT - SWALLOWING, - difficult - saliva
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Hypogastrium - stool - before
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - left side - extending to - right side
ABDOMEN - DISTENSION - night
EXTREMITIES - DRYNESS, - Hands - palm
VISION - LOSS OF VISION. - reading,while
STOMACH - NAUSEA - abdomen - during pain in
HEAD - PAIN, - sore bruised,sensitive to pressure - Temples
EXTREMITIES - PERSPIRATION - Foot - suppressed
THROAT - SWALLOW,constant disposition to
MIND - MISTAKES - speaking
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Sides
STOMACH - ANXIETY

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