Cubeba officinalis

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica · 1915 (expanded editions through 1931)

Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.

REGION

Mucous membranes: URETHRA. Bladder. Vagina.

WORSE

Night in bed.

BETTER

Walking about.

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.

Related: Cist. Cop.

Cubeba officinalis across the other classic books

Cubeba officinalis appears in 8 of the 27 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.
“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…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“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…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“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…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“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)…”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“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…”
Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“From the pathogenesis of Cubeba we should find it of value in acute gonorrhœal rheumatism when it attacks the wrists, as noted below. As yet clinical experience is wanting; therefore we do not find it rated according to its relative importance. Cubeba is compatible with Copaiva. Nux vom. is its antidote. Acute…”

Cubeba officinalis in Kent's Repertory

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).

URETHRA - PAIN - burning - urination, - during
URINE - BURNING (includes Hot)
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Ovaries - extending to - groin
FEMALE GENITALIA - LEUCORRHOEA - girls,little
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - profuse
MIND - LEWDNESS
MOUTH - FLABBY Tongue
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - greenish - yellow
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - thick
STOOL - MUCOUS,slimy - yellow
URETHRA - INFLAMMATION
URETHRA - CHORDEE
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - purulent
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - yellow
PROSTATE GLAND - INFLAMMATION
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - mucous
BLADDER - URINATION - unsatisfactory
MALE GENITALIA - ERECTIONS, - painful
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - gleety

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