Juglans Regia

Walnut

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

Skin eruptions are prominent.

Head

Confused; feels as if head were floating in air. Occipital sharp pain. Styes .

Female

Menses early, black, pitch-like coagula. Abdomen distended.

Skin

Comedones and acne of the face. Crusta lactea, with soreness around ears. Itching and eruptions of small red pustules. Scalp red, and itches violently at night. Chancre-like ulcer. Axillary glands suppurate.

Relationship

Compare: Juglans cinerea .

Dose

Tincture, and lower potencies.

Juglans Regia across the other classic books

Juglans Regia 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.
“Juglans regia, Linn. Natural order , Juglandaceæ. Common name , Walnut (European). Preparation , Tincture from leaves and from the rind of the green fruit (Clottar Muller). Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Nux juglans. Walnut. Juglandaceæ. Tincture of leaves and of rind of green fruit. Acne / Anus, burning in / Axillary glands, suppuration of / Chancre / Ecthyma / Eyes, pain over / Favus / Flatulence / Headache / Herpes / Herpes preputialis / Levitation, sensation of / Menorrhagia / Purpura / Ringworm / Scurvy / Spleen…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Indisposition and aversion to converse. Inattention when reading and disinclination to work. Excitement as if intoxicated, with the sensation as if one were flying. Headache above the eyes, especially the left; worse on motion. Burning heat in the head in the evening, with icy-cold extremities. Painful swelling and…”

Juglans Regia in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Juglans Regia in 182 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (48), ABDOMEN (20), HEAD (20), CHEST (12), SKIN (12).

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - eczema
SKIN - ERUPTIONS
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Upper Limbs - scabs
EXTERNAL THROAT - ERUPTION - pimples
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - vesicular - itching
EYE - STYES
BACK - ERUPTIONS
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - itching
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - vesicular
GENERALITIES - EATING - after
SKIN - ITCHING
CHEST - ERUPTIONS - Axilla - scaly
CHEST - ITCHING - Axilla - perspiration agg.
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Hand - back of - red
EXTREMITIES - JERKING - Hand - electric shocks
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sprained,as if - Toes - first - morning
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sprained,as if - Toes - first - morning - bed,in
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - drawing - Uterus - menses - before
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - pressing - Uterus - menses - before
STOMACH - VOMITING - food - waking,on

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