Phellandrium aquaticum
Water Dropwort
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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
(PHELLANDRIUM)
The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis , bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. Everything tastes sweet . Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhœa.
Head
Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and above eyes . Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.
Eyes
Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.
Female
Pain in milk ducts ; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.
Chest
Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders . Dyspnœa, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.
Fever
Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.
Extremities
Tired feeling when walking.
Relationship
Compare: Con; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis arvensis .
Dose
Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.