Tussilago petasites

Butter-burr

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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

Has some action on the urinary organs, and found useful in gonorrhœa. Affections of pylorus.

Urinary

Crawling in urethra.

Male

Gonorrhœa; yellowish, thick discharge. Erections, with urethral crawling. Pain in spermatic cord.

Relationship

Compare: Tussilago fragrans (pylorus pain, plethora and corpulency); Tussilago farfara (coughs); as an intercurrent medicine in phthisis pulmonalis (See Tuberculinum).

Dose

Tincture.

Tussilago petasites across the other classic books

Tussilago petasites appears in 3 of the 21 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 — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Properly PETASITES. Petasites vulgaris, Desf. (Tussilago petasites, Linn.) Natural order , Compositæ. Common name , Butter-bur. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant. Authorities. (Kuchenmeister, A. H. Z., 32, 131, tincture made from the whole plant at the time of flowering.) Some confusion of the head, in the…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Petasites vulgaris. Bitter-bur. (Sandy meadows on the banks of streams.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Gonorrhœa / Headache / Lumbago / Night-sweat / Pylorus, affections of / Throat, sore / Tibia, pain in / Uvula, burning in Petasites is "a genus of Compositæ established for three or four species of…”

Tussilago petasites in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Tussilago petasites in 15 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in BACK (10), URETHRA (3), MALE GENITALIA (2).

BACK - PAIN - aching - Lumbar region - ascending stairs
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - purulent - drop of pus before urinating
BACK - PAIN - aching - standing - on
URETHRA - CRAWLING
BACK - PAIN - aching - Lumbar region - rising up - on
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - standing
BACK - PAIN - aching - Lumbar region - walking
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - rising - from a seat
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - yellow
BACK - PAIN - rising from sitting
BACK - PAIN - standing - while
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - walking - while
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - stooping
MALE GENITALIA - PAIN - drawing - Testes
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - wanting (impotence)

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