- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“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…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Leptandra virginica is a drug which acts prominently upon the liver. Locally, we find dull aching in the right hypochondrium in the region of the gall-bladder, and also posteriorly in the posterior portion of the liver. This aching is often accompanied by soreness. At other times the congestion is great enough to…”
- Hale — The introduction story — early pathogenetic and clinical evidence for medicines new to Hale's generation.
“(Black Root — "Culver's Physic.'") Description. — This is the Veronica virginica of Linnaeus. It is an indigenous, perennial plant, with a simple, straight, smooth, herbaceous stem, from two to five feet high. The leaves are whorled in fours to sevens; short petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrate. The flowers…”
- 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 …”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“LEPTANDRA. teptandra inr^nica, Nutt. Black root, Calver! physic. Nat. Ord^ Scrophulariaci^. I. Provings. — i. a. Dr. Burt, on Jan. 29th, took i gr. Leptandnn at 10 a.m. la (noon), constant dull frontal headache, worse in temples; constant distress in lower part of epigastric region and umbilicus, by spells there are…”
- 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…”
