Sumbulus Moschatus

Musk-root

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

(SUMBUL - FERULA SUMBUL)

Has many hysterical and nervous symptoms, and is of use in neuralgic affections and anomalous, functional, cardiac disorders. Numbness on becoming cold . Numbness on left side. Insomnia of delirium tremens (fifteen drops of tincture). Sensation as if water dropped down spine. Asthma. A tissue remedy for sclerosed arteries.

Head

Emotional and fidgety. Dull in morning, clear in evening. Mistakes in writing and adding. Comedones. Tenacious, yellow, mucus in nose.

Throat

Chocking constriction; constant swallowing. Belching of gas from stomach. Spasm of pharyngeal muscles. Tenacious mucus in throat.

Heart

Nervous palpitation . Neuralgia around left breast and left hypochondriac region. Cardiac asthma . Aching in left arm, heavy, numb an weary. Loses breath on any exertion. Pulse irregular.

Female

Ovarian neuralgia. Abdomen full, distended, and painful . Climacteric flushes.

Urinary

Oily pellicle on surface of urine .

Modalities

Worse , active exercise; left side.

Relationship

Compare: Asaf; Mosch .

Dose

Tincture, to third potency. Dr. W. McGeorge advises the 2x every 3 hours for arterio-sclerosis.

Sumbulus Moschatus across the other classic books

Sumbulus Moschatus appears in 6 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.
“Ferula sumbul, Hook, f. (Bot. Mag., 1875). Natural order , Umbelliferæ. Common name , Sumbul (Persian and Arabic). Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities.”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“EMOTIONS, excitement, etc. FLOATING, flying, etc., as if (Comp. Vertigo.)”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Nerves. Heart. Left side. Motion. Inspiration. Climacteric. Music. Gentle motion. Nervous, irritable and sleepless. As of hot water flowing through part. Yellow, tenacious discharges. Early senility. .................... Laughs and weeps by turns. As of a hair or cobweb on face. Choking constriction in throat…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Ferula sumbul. Sumbul. Musk-root. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of the powdered root. Acne / Asthma / Breasts, pains in / Chorea / Diarrhœa / Epilepsy / Fainting / Heart, palpitation of, nervous; affections of / Pneumonia / Hysteria / Infra-mammary pains / Neuralgia / Porrigo capitis / Spermatorrhœa / Throat, catarrh…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Musk Root. Umbelliferæ. The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient ; the root enters commerce by way of Russia ; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture. Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273 ; Cattell, Brit. Jour. Hom., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852 ; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Russ., 1853 …”

Sumbulus Moschatus in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Sumbulus Moschatus in 678 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (110), GENERALITIES (51), CHEST (47), MALE GENITALIA (47), ABDOMEN (41).

BACK - HEAT - flushes - extending to body
BACK - HEAT - flushes
GENERALITIES - FAINTNESS,fainting - excitement,on
GENERALITIES - HEAT,flushes of
GENERALITIES - FAINTNESS,fainting
ABDOMEN - HEAT - flashes of - as of hot water flowing in
ABDOMEN - PAIN - gnawing - Hypogastrium - right
BACK - AIR,cannot bear a draft of,on nape - Spine
BACK - HEAT - Spine in - hot water flowing in
BACK - WIND - as if blowing - Lumbar region
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - left
LARYNX TRACHEA - LARYNGISMUS stridulus - night
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Lumbar region - air - as if cool,passed over it
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Lumbar region - morning
BACK - HEAT - flushes - Spine - in - warm air streaming up spine into head
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper Limbs - cold weather
FEVER - DRY heat - walking in open air
GENERALITIES - HEAT,flushes of - exertion,from least
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - left
COUGH - HACKING - daytime

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