Nuphar luteum

Yellow Pond-lily

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

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Produces nervous weakness, with marked symptoms in the sexual sphere.

Male

Complete absence of sexual desire; parts relaxed; penis retracted. Impotency, with involuntary emissions during stool, when urinating. Spermatorrhœa. Pain in testicles and penis.

Stool

Entero-colitis. Yellow diarrhœa; worse in the morning. Diarrhœa during typhoid.

Relationship

Compare: in sexual weakness; Agnus; Kali brom; Lycop; Selen; Yohimbin . In diarrhœa: Chelid; Gambog; Sulph, Nymphea odorata -Sweet Water Lily--(early morning diarrhœa, backache); acrid leucorrhœa, offensive ulcers; bronchorrhœa; ulcerative sore throat.

Dose

Tincture to sixth potency.

Nuphar luteum across the other classic books

Nuphar luteum appears in 6 of the 21 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Nuphar luteum, Smith. Natural order , Nymphæaceæ. Common names , Nixen-blume, Nenuphar Jaune. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. Excessive moral sensibility, giving one great pain on witnessing the sufferings of animals (eleventh day), 1. General Head. Heaviness in the whole head in the middle of the day…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Small Yellow Pond Lily. N. O. Nymphæaceæ. Tincture of fresh root. Cholerine / Diarrhœa / Dyspepsia / Headache / Impotence / Psoriasis / Rhus poisoning / Seminal emissions / Typhoid-fever Nuphar l., the Yellow Pond Lily, was proved by Pitet, and many of his symptoms have been clinically confirmed. Most marked was a…”
Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Small-flowered Yellow Pond Lily.) Botanical Description. — There are three species of the Nuphar in the United States, namely: Nuphar advena, Nuphar kalmiana, and Nuphar sagittsefolia. The first named has large, yellow flowers; the second wa8 once designated, by Smith, Torrey, and Gray, the Nuphar lutea. Smith, a…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Nixen Blume ; Small Yellow Pond Lily. Nymphæaceæ. A variety of pond lily native to Europe ; also found at Manayunk, near Philadelphia. The width of the flower is about two inches. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root. Proved by Pitet, Journ de la Soc. Gal., vol. 3, p. 129. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Entero-colitis…”
Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“NUPHAR. Nupkar bUtum, Smith. Small-flowered yellow pond lily, Nat. Ord., Nymphdcacex, I. Prwingi. — 1. a. Dr. Pitet took 4lh dil. irregularly for several d. On 6ih d. he had some colic, and Frequent prickings on post, surface of 1. thigh. On 9th ^jmd 10th d., pressive headache in forehead and I. temple. On nth there…”

Nuphar luteum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Nuphar luteum in 63 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MALE GENITALIA (15), RECTUM (14), HEAD (11), EXTREMITIES (5), STOOL (4).

RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - night - midnight - after - 5-6 a.m.
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - seldom
MALE GENITALIA - RETRACTION - penis
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - evening
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - rhus poisoning
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly) - stool - during
MALE GENITALIA - SEMINAL emissions (nightly) - erections,without
RECTUM - PAIN - burning - diarrhoea - during
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - leprosy
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - incomplete
MALE GENITALIA - RELAXED,Scrotum
MALE GENITALIA - SEXUAL PASSION - diminished
MALE GENITALIA - SEXUAL PASSION - wanting
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS - acrid
VISION - SPARKS
MALE GENITALIA - ITCHING - Scrotum
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - painless
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - wanting (impotence)
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stool - before
STOOL - THIN,liquid

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