Lupulus Humulus

Hops

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

Is a good remedy in unstrung conditions of the nervous system attended with nausea, dizziness, headache following a night's debauch. Infantile jaundice , Urethral burning. Drawing and twitching in almost every muscle. Nervous tremors; wakefulness and delirium of drunkards. Giddiness and stupefaction. Slow pulse. Perspiration profuse, clammy, greasy.

Head

Morbid vigilance. Highly excited. Dull, heavy headache with dizziness. Drawing and twitching in every muscle.

Sleep

Drowsy during the day. Sopor.

Male

Painful erections. Emissions, depending on sexual weakness and after organism . Spermatorrhœa.

Skin

Scarlatina-like eruption on face. Feels like insects crawling under skin; feels chapped, skin peels.

Relationship

Antidotes: Coffea; Vinegar .

Compare: Nux; Urtica; Cannab .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency. Lupulin 1X trit (Best in seminal emissions. Locally in painful cancers).

Lupulus Humulus across the other classic books

Lupulus Humulus 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.
“Humulus lupulus, Linn. Natural order , Urticaceæ. Common names , Hop, Hoppen, Houblon. Preparation , Trituration of the hops. Authorities. 1 , Dr. Bethmann, A. H. Z., 10, 72, proving in a girl aged twenty-three, took tinct. 8 drops first day, 30 drops third and fifth days; 2 , same, a girl, aged twenty-one, took 45…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Humulus lupulus. Hop. N. O. Cannabinaceæ (of the Urticaceæ). Tincture of the seeded spikes. Trituration. Tincture of Lupuline (small resinous granules covering the scales). Dyspepsia / Dysuria / Gonorrhœa Lupulus has had a somewhat extensive proving, to the symptoms of which have been added the effects of working with…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Vertigo, stupefaction. Sopor. Great drowsiness. Pulse slow. Profuse, greasy, clammy perspiration.”

Lupulus Humulus in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Lupulus Humulus in 1 rubric.

MIND - STARTING,startled - sleep, - from sleep

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