Leptandra Virginica

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Liver.
Right side.

WORSE

Cold drinks.
Motion.
Periodically.

BETTER

Lying on stomach or side.

Hepato-hæmorrhagic diathesis. Burnings; in hepatic region. .................... Hopeless, weak and drowsy. Craves iced drinks. Bilious vomitus. Sore or dull bursting ache over gall - bladder, or liver, down over bowels to navel or toward left scapula, or along spine. Liver swelled transversely. Acute liver conditions. Gall - stones. Muddy, watery, morning stool. STOOLS TARRY OR BLACK, FOUL; stringy, waxy; spurting; with pain at navel. Dysentery; after diarrhœa. Prolapsing piles; with hæmorrhage (Lach.). Leucorrhœa; warm, watery; runs down limbs. Pain in (l) sciatic nerve on sitting. Nails very thin; soft and splitting. Jaundice.

Complementary: Pho.

Related: Bap. Card-m. Chio.

Leptandra Virginica across the other classic books

Leptandra Virginica 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.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Veronica Virginica, Linn. (Leptandra Virginica, Nutt.). Natural order , Scrophulariaceæ. Common name , Culver's Physic. Preparation , Tincture or trituration of the root. Authorities. Feeling very gloomy (after third dose, first day), 1. Very gloomy and irritable all day (second day), 2. Vertigo. Very dizzy while…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Culver's Root (LEPTANDRA) A liver remedy, with jaundice and black, tarry stools . Bilious states. Enfeebled portal circulation. Malarial conditions. Dull frontal pain; vertigo, drowsiness, and depression. Smarting and aching in eyes. Tongue coated yellow . Great distress in stomach and intestines, with desire for…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“LIVER AND GALL BLADDER LYING, on abdomen, Amel.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Virginica. Veronica Virginica. Black Root. Culver's Physic. Tall Speedwell (U.S.A.). N. O. Scrophulariaceæ. Tincture of resinoid Leptandrin. Tincture of fresh root of second year. Trituration of dried root. (A fresh plant tincture should also be made and tested.) Ascites / Bilious attack / Bilious fever / Constipation…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Culver's Root. Scrophulariaceæ. Introduced by Hale. Provings by Burt and a student in Hahnemann Med. College. See Hale's New Remedies. Both provers made use of Leptandrin. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Sick headache , Barlow, Times Retros., vol. 2, p. 14 ; Bilious headache , Hale's Therap., p. 387 ; Hepatic disease …”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“While writing on Aurum muriaticum natronatum I mentioned Veronica with which Dr. Baruch followed that remedy in the cure of my own case. After returning home I tried to find the two remedies. Found Aurum muriaticum natronatum in Hering’s Guiding Symptoms, and, although meager, had something to go by in treating other…”

Leptandra Virginica in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Leptandra Virginica in 135 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in STOOL (29), ABDOMEN (22), RECTUM (17), STOMACH (12), EXTREMITIES (9).

ABDOMEN - PAIN - burning - Liver
ABDOMEN - PAIN - sore,bruised,tenderness,etc - Liver,in
STOOL - LARGE
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stitching (Sticking,etc.) - Liver
STOOL - BLACK
ABDOMEN - LIVER and region of
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Liver
MIND - SADNESS,mental depression
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Elbow - disappearance of rash
STOOL - TARRY-LOOKING
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - stool - causing urging to
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - yellow - centre
STOMACH - VOMITING - periodic
STOOL - BLACK - faecal
RECTUM - DIARRHOEA - damp weather
STOOL - THIN,liquid - black
STOOL - MEMBRANOUS
STOOL - WATERY - black
BACK - PAIN - lameness - Lumbar region
STOMACH - VOMITING - bile - headache,with

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