Taxus Baccata

Yew

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

In pustular diseases of skin and night-sweats. Also in gout and chronic rheumatism.

Head

Supra-orbital and temporal pain on right side, with lachrymation. Pupils dilated. Face puffy and pale.

Stomach

Saliva hot , acrid. Nausea. Pain in pit of stomach and region of navel. After eating, cough. Feeling of pins and needles at pit of stomach; of emptiness , must eat frequently (compare the coniferæ).

Skin

Large, flat, itching pustules. Badly smelling night-sweats. Podagra. Erysipelas.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Taxus Baccata across the other classic books

Taxus Baccata 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.
“Taxus baccata, Linn. Natural order , Coniferæ. Common names , Yew; (G.). Eibe; (Fr.), L'If. Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Yew. N. O. Coniferæ. Tincture of the fresh young shoots. (Tincture of the berries.) Ciliary neuralgia / Cystitis / Digestion, too rapid / Dysuria / Ear, polypus of / Eruptions / Fainting / Gout / Hair, falling out / Headache, with photopsia / Heart, affections of / Kidneys, affections of / Knees, abscess of /…”

Taxus Baccata in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Taxus Baccata in 116 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (36), HEAD (12), STOMACH (12), MOUTH (8), EYE (6).

EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Forearm - pimples
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING - fasting,while
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Forearm - night - amel.
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Upper Arm - posterior part
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - evening - perspiration,after
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Fingers - joints of - first joint
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Thigh - night bed,in - amel.
EYE - ERUPTIONS, - canthi - external
STOMACH - APPETITE - ravenous,canine,excessive - .ìeating - 2 hours after
STOMACH - VOMITING - bile - night - 9 p.m.
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Thigh - daytime
HEAD - HEAVINESS - coughing,on
MOUTH - SALIVA - hot - during nausea
STOMACH - APPETITE - increased (hunger in general) - morning - breakfast,after
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Fingers - sides of
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Forearm - morning
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - afternoon - 3 p.m.
FEVER - NIGHT - 2 a.m.
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower Limbs - corrosive
MIND - HELPLESSNESS,feeling of

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