Spiranthes Autumnalis

Lady's Tresses

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

(SPIRANTHES)

Has been used for milk-flow in nursing women, lumbago and rheumatism, colic, with drowsiness and spasmodic yawning. Is an anti-phlogistic remedy akin to Acon its symptoms showing congestion and inflammation. Acidity and burning in œsophagus with eructation.

Female

Pruritus; vulva red; dryness and burning in vagina. Burning pain in vagina during coition. Leucorrhœa, bloody.

Extremities

Sciatic pain, especially right side. Pain in shoulders. Swelling of veins of hands. Pain in all articulations of hands. Coldness of feet and toes.

Fever

Flushes of heat. Sweat on palms. Hands alternately hot and cold.

Dose

Third potency.

Spiranthes Autumnalis across the other classic books

Spiranthes Autumnalis appears in 3 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.
“Spiranthes autumnalis, Rich. Natural order , Orchidaceæ. Common names , Lady's tresses; (G.) Wendelorche. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authority. Journ. de la Soc. Gal., 1st Series, 7, p. 361. Symptoms by Dr. Patti Chagon, Duc de Sorentino. ["The action of this drug begins with decided symptoms of inflammation…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“autumnalis. Lady's Tresses. N. O. Orchidaceæ. Tincture of the root. Breasts, painful / Breath, putrid / Burns / Coryza / Dysparunia / Eczema / Hysteria / Kidneys, pain in / Lumbago / Milk, excessive / Skin, affections of / Vision, dimness of The genus to which this orchid belongs received its name from the spiral…”

Spiranthes Autumnalis in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Spiranthes Autumnalis in 16 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in COUGH (5), HEAD (4), FEMALE GENITALIA (3), CHILL (1), EXTREMITIES (1).

COUGH - LOOSE - evening - 7 p.m.
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - urination,after,amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - nail,as from a - Temples - right
KIDNEYS - COLD sensation
COUGH - DRY - evening - 7 p.m.
HEAD - PAIN, - night - amel.
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burning - Vagina - coition - during
COUGH - EVENING - 7 p.m.
HEAD - PAIN, - nail,as from a - Temples
FEMALE GENITALIA - DRYNESS - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - burning - Vagina
HEAD - HAIR, - painful when touched
COUGH - HACKING - tickling in larynx,from
CHILL - NOON
COUGH - TICKLING - larynx,in,from
LARYNX TRACHEA - TICKLING in the air passages - Larynx,in

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