Hecla Lava

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

Lava Scoriæ from Mt. Hecla

(HEKLA LAVA)

Marked action upon the jaws . Of great use in exostosis, gum abscess, difficult teething. Nodosities, caries of bone, etc. Osteitis, periostitis, osteosarcoma; rachitis. Tumors in general. Bone necrosis. Necrosis and sinus after mastoid operation.

Face

Ulceration of nasal bones. Facial neuralgia from carious teeth and after extraction. Toothache, with swelling about jaws. Abscess of gums. Enlargement of maxillary bone . Cervical glands enlarged and indurated.

Relationship

Compare: Silica; Mercur; Phos; Conchiolinum --Mother of pearl (diaphysis of bone affected; parts extremely sensitive to touch).

Amphisbæna

-Snail-like lizard (great affinity for the jaw bones, worse by air and dampness).

Slag

--(Great itching of parts).

Dose

Lower triturations.

Hecla Lava across the other classic books

Hecla Lava appears in 3 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.

Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Heclæ lava. The finer ash from Mount Hecla, falling in distant localities. Trituration. Antrum of Highmore, tumour of / Bones, affections of / Breast, tumours of / Dentition, difficult / Exostoses / Glands, affections of / Jaws, tumours on / Milk, deficient / Neuralgia / Osteitis deformans / Osteomalachia /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Vertigo, everything goes up, down and side-wise. Chronic headache. Destructive (syphilitic) ulceration of nasal bones. Facial neuralgia or headache dependent on derangement of dental nerves, or where the irritating cause is a carious tooth. Polypoid growth commencing in antrum Highmorii and from thence encroaching…”

Hecla Lava in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Hecla Lava in 21 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (5), NOSE (4), TEETH (3), CHEST (2), EXTERNAL THROAT (2).

FACE - EXOSTOSIS
TEETH - SENSITIVE,tender - pressure,to
EXTREMITIES - CARIES of bone - Foot
MOUTH - PAIN - Gums - extraction of teeth,after
EXTREMITIES - CARIES of bone - Tibia
EXTREMITIES - EXOSTOSES - Tibia
MOUTH - ABSCESS,Gums
NOSE - CARIES
TEETH - ABSCESS of roots
EXTERNAL THROAT - INDURATION of glands
TEETH - CARIES,decayed,hollow
CHEST - PAIN
NOSE - EPISTAXIS
FACE - ENLARGED - jaw
NOSE - CARIES - septum
EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Leg - tibia
EXTERNAL THROAT - INDURATION of glands - like knotted cords
GENERALITIES - EXOSTOSES
NOSE - POLYPUS
CHEST - MILK - disappearing

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