Sabadilla

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

Cevadilla Seed. Asagræa Officialis

Action on mucous membrane of the nose and the lachrymal glands, producing coryza and symptoms like hay-fever , which have been utilized homeopathically. Chilliness ; sensitive to cold. Ascarides, with reflex symptoms (nymphomania; convulsive symptoms). Children's diarrhœa with constant cutting pains.

Mind

Nervous, timid, easily startled. Has erroneous notions about himself. Imagines that he is very sick; that parts are shrunken; that she is pregnant; that she has cancer; delirium during intermittents.

Head

Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning around each other, accompanied by blackness before eyes and sensation of fainting. Dullness and oppression. Over-sensitiveness to odors. Thinking produces headache and sleeplessness. Eyelids red, burning. Lachrymation . Difficult hearing.

Nose

Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose. Coryza , with severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation. Copious, watery, nasal discharge.

Throat

Sore; begins on left side ( Lach ). Much tough phlegm. Sensation of a skin hanging loosely; must swallow it. Warm food and drink relieve . Empty swallowing most painful. Dry fauces and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat with constant necessity to swallow. Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air. Tongue as if burnt.

Stomach

Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough and difficult breathing. No thirst . Loathing for strong food. Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous food. Pyrosis; copious salivation. Cold, empty feeling in stomach. Desire for hot things. Sweetish taste.

Female

Menses too late; come by fits and starts. Intermit ( Kreos; Puls ). (due to transient and localized congestion of womb alternating with chronic anæmic state).

Fever

Chill predominates ; from below upwards. Heat in head and face; hands and feet icy cold, with chill. Lachrymation during paroxysm. Thirstless.

Extremities

Cracking of skin under and beneath toe; inflammation under toe-nails.

Skin

Dry, like parchment. Horny, deformed, thickened nails . Hot, burning, creeping, crawling sensation. Itching in anus.

Modalities

Worse , cold and cold drinks, full moon. Better , warm food and drink, wrapped up.

Relationship

Complementary: Sepia . Compare: Veratrina (is alkaloid of Sabadilla, not of Veratrum, locally in neuralgias, and for removal of dropsy. Five grains to two drams Lanolin, rubbed on inside of thighs, causes diuresis). Colch; Nux; Arundo and Pollatin . Phleum pratense -Timothy-Hay-fever-Potentized-12-specific to many cases and evidently acts in a desensitizing manner (Rabe). Cumarinum (hay-fever).

Antidotes: Puls; Lycop; Conium; Lach .

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Sabadilla across the other classic books

Sabadilla appears in 10 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 HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Cevadilla. (Liliaceae) Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion with a weak, relaxed muscular system. Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., Spig.). Nervous diseases; twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms (Cina, Psor.). Illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when…”
Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Asagræa officinalis, Lindley (Veratrum officinale, Schlicht.; Sabadilla officinarum, Brandt). Natural order , Liliaceæ (Melanthaceæ). Common names , Cebadilla, Cevadilla, Sabadilla. Preparation , Tincture of the seeds. Authorities. [With corrections by Dr. Hering.] (Nos. 1 to 18 , from Stapf's collection, Archiv f…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc. CHILLY, cold DIRECTION of sensations, Ascending. FINE PAINS, needle, splinter, thread or hair-like, etc. HANGING LOOSE or down, as if PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. ROLLING, turning over, etc., as if (Comp. Loose, Ball, etc.) SCRAPING…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. ANUS. Digestive tract. NERVES. Lachrymal glands. Throat. COLD; air; drinks. PERIODICALLY: Same hour. Forenoon. New and full moon. Odors. Undeveloped exanthema. Open air. Heat. Eating. Swallowing. Weak; nervous; easily startled. Alternate nerve and bodily symptoms. Formication. Twitches…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Asagræa officinalis. Veratrum officinale. Sabadilla officinarum. Cebadilla. Cevadilla. N. O. Melanthaceæ (of the Liliaceæ). Tincture of seeds. Coryza / Debility / Diphtheria / Dyspepsia; of pregnancy / Earache / Epistaxis / Hay asthma / Headache / Head-lice / Imaginary diseases / Influenza / Intermittents / Mania /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Cebadilla. Liliaceæ. Indigenous to Eastern Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela. It is a bulbous plant bearing greenish-yellow flowers on a spikelike raceme. The tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds. Provings by Hahnemann, Gross, Hartlaub, Hromada, Langhammer, Rückert, Schultz, Schönke, Stapf, etc., Archiv für…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“The Sabadilla patient is a shivering patient, sensitive to the cold air, a cold room, cold food. He wants to be well wrapped up; wants hot drinks to warm up his stomach. He is subject to catarrhal conditions, and in these he wants hot air. The catarrhal conditions of the throat require hot drinks and food. Warm things…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anxious restlessness. Startled from the noise. Imagines himself sick or having imaginary diseases. Vertigo with fainting, everything becomes black before the eyes (when rising from a seat). Stupefying headache with coryza, itching and burning of the scalp and general heat of the whole body; worse in the forenoon. The…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: cevadilla. Worm affections of children (Bell., Bry., Calc., Cina, Merc., Sil., Spig., Sulph.) (A.). Twitching, convulsive tremblings and catalepsy from worms (Cina, Graph., Psor.) (A.). Nymphomania from ascarides (Plat.) (A.). Hay fever (All-C., Ars., Gels.) (D.). Chill returning at the same hour (Ars.)…”

Sabadilla in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Sabadilla in 1,636 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (231), GENERALITIES (216), HEAD (174), MIND (102), STOMACH (95).

MIND - DELUSIONS, - abdomen is fallen in - his stomach devoured,his scrotum swollen
MIND - DELUSIONS, - body - erroneous ideas as to the state of his
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS - Leg - heat,during
GENERALITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - spots,in
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - right side - extending to - left side
SKIN - ITCHING - tickling - scratching,after
STOMACH - AVERSION to - wine
NOSE - CORYZA - annual (hay fever)
CHILL - ASCENDING
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - spots
COUGH - CHILL, - during
CHILL - QUARTAN
RECTUM - WORM - ascarides
STOMACH - THIRSTLESS - heat,during
COUGH - DRY - fever, - during
CHILL - WARM - external,amel
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - forenoon
CHILL - WARM - room - amel
GENERALITIES - PAIN - pinching - externally
CHILL - PREDOMINATING

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