by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Burning rawness. Violent inflammation, then acrid, yellow or green, offensive discharges. Catarrhs. .................... Veins of forehead distended. Gelatinous, cold stools; with grains like rice. Cramp or cutting-burning after urinating. Stringy gonorrhœa.
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Cubeba Officinalis appears in 7 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.
“Piper Cubeba, Linn. (Cubeba officinalis, Mig.). Natural order , Piperaceæ. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities. Appendix . -(Houat's proving, from Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd.) This truly astonishing collection of symptoms is put by itself, since there is no way of determining what is pathogenetic and what…”
“Cubebs (CUBEBA) Mucous membranes generally, but especially that of the urinary tract, are chiefly affected by this remedy. Frequent urination of a nervous origin. Leucorrhœa in little girls. Urethritis, with much mucus, especially in women. Cutting after urination, with constriction. Hæmaturia. Prostatitis, with thick…”
“Piper cubeba. Cubeba officinalis. Cubebs. N. O. Piperaceæ. Tincture of dried unripe fruit. Albuminuria / Aphthæ / Croup / Diarrhœa / Dysentery / Enuresis / Gleet Gonorrhœa / Hernia / Leucorrhœa in children / Orchitis / Prostatitis / Rheumatism / Roseola / Urticaria Cubeba corresponds to catarrh. It is an old-world…”
“Cubebs. Piperaceæ. The unripe berries of the Piper Cubeba, a climbing plant of Java and other portions of the East Indies. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Pressure and pain in region of femoral ring , E. M. Hale, B. J. H., vol. 26, p. 496 ; Dysentery , Bachmeister, Organon, vol. 3, p. 357 ; Nocturnal enuresis , Battmann, Rück…”
“Exaltation of temper and of the mental faculties. Diarrhœa, with rumbling and cutting in the abdomen and burning in the rectum. Suppuration of the rectum. Burning and itching of the anus. Foaming urine. Burning and itching in the fossa navicularis. Discharge from the urethra of a dark-reddish color (gonorrhœa)…”
“This remedy, also fallen into disrepute from its empirical use in the old school, has an important place in the therapeutics of gonorrhœa, if after the first or inflammatory stage is passed under the usual remedies for that stage there still remains burning in the urethra after urination and the discharge remains…”
Kent's Repertory lists Cubeba Officinalis in 254 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in FEMALE GENITALIA (26), STOMACH (25), URETHRA (23), EXTREMITIES (20), MIND (20).
