Myrtus Communis

Myrtle

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

The leaves contain Myrtol, an active antiseptic. Chest pains, as found often in consumptives, call for this remedy. Incipient phthisis. Nerve sedative and stimulant to mucous membranes, bronchitis, cystitis and pyelitis.

Chest

Stitching pain in left breast, running through to shoulder-blade ( Illic; Therid; Pix ). Dry, hollow cough, with tickling in chest. Worse in the morning. Sensation of burning in left chest.

Relationship

Compare: Myrtus Chekan (Chronic bronchitis with dense, yellowish sputum, difficult to detach. Copious expectoration keeps patient distressed and coughing).

Dose

Third potency.

Myrtus Communis across the other classic books

Myrtus Communis 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.

Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“STICKY, stringy, etc.(Comp. Adhesive.)”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Myrtle. (Closely allied to Granatum, the Pomegranate-tree.) N. O. Myrtaceæ. Tincture of fresh shoots and leaves. Tincture of fresh flowering shoots and leaves. Catarrhal fevers / Chest, stitches in / Coryza / Cough / Tuberculosis Myrt. com. is an unproved remedy, the symptoms of the Schema being entirely clinical…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Myrtle. Myrtaceæ. A cultivated shrub or small tree native to countries bordering on the Mediterranean. It is mentioned by Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides, the Arabians and other ancient writers (see article by Hering, Hah. Mo., vol. 7, p. 62, 1871). No provings. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Cough and coryza , Wahle, Rück…”

Myrtus Communis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Myrtus Communis in 18 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in CHEST (9), COUGH (5), EXTREMITIES (3), GENERALITIES (1).

CHEST - HEPATIZATION of lungs - left
CHEST - PULSATION - Clavicle,region of
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Clavicle - under - left
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - cough,during
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee
CHEST - PAIN
COUGH - DRY
COUGH - IRRITATION in air passages,from - chest,in - upper
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder - dislocation,as of
COUGH - TIGHT
CHEST - PAIN - burning - Sides - left
CHEST - SHOCKS
COUGH - TICKLING - chest
COUGH - HOLLOW
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Lungs
GENERALITIES - AIR - open - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder

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