Mephitis putorius

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Historical reference for practitioners and students.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

Nerves.

WORSE

Lying.
Night.
After menses.

BETTER

Cold bath or weather.
Spasmodic

effects. Foul breath and expectoration. Debility after severe illness. Trembling and twitching of exophthalmos. .................... Excitable. Loquacious. Vivid fancies. Violent vertigo. As of a finger pressing on occiput. Food goes the wrong way. Chokes easily. Can't exhale. Asthma. Asthma of consumptives or drunkards. Cough; violent; spasmodic; nervous; suffocative; whooping; < talking or drinking. Choking cough.

Related: Coral. Mosch.

Mephitis putorius across the other classic books

Mephitis putorius appears in 9 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.
“Mephitis putorius; M. chinga, Tied. Class , Mammalia. Order , Carnivora. Family , Mustelidæ. Common names , Skunk, stinkthier. Authorities. Hering, Corresp. Blatt., symptoms obtained from 30th dilution, and several from inhaling the substance while preparing the dilutions. (Dr. Neidhard's report of the effect of the…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Skunk (MEPHITIS) A great medicine for whooping-cough . In order to insure its full success, it should be given in the lower dilutions from 1x to 3x. Suffocative feeling, asthmatic paroxysms, spasmodic cough; cough so violent, seems as if each spell would terminate life. Child must be raised up, gets blue in face…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“EXHALATION. Agg.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“putorius. Skunk. N. O. Mustelidæ. Alcoholic dilution of the liquid contained in the anal glands. Asthma / Blindness / Choking, easy / Cold, sensitiveness to / Eyes, affections of / Laryngismus / Sight, weak / Whooping-cough Mephitis was proved by Hering in the 30th. Among the symptoms he developed was "choking while…”
Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Whooping, or any kind of cough, which is very violent, coming on spasmodically and seeming as though each spell would terminate life.”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Skunk. Mustelidæ. The alcoholic dilution is prepared from the liquid contained in the glands of the animal. Introduced by Hering ; symptoms obtained from the 30th dilution, and from inhaling the substance while preparing the dilutions. Also proved, in 1853, by Cowley, through Neidhard, MSS. (Not contained in Allen's…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great talkativeness as if he were intoxicated. Excited, with heat of the head. Angry about trifles or about imaginary things. The fancies are so vivid that he is unfitted, for mental labor. Numb and dull, with the sensation as if the head became enlarged, with ill-humor and, nausea. Vertigo when stooping; sudden…”
Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Mephitis has shifting rheumatic pains with urgent desire to urinate, occasionally with pains as if struck by a shock of electricity; great dejection and lassitude during which the muscles are painful when touched or on exercise. With this symptom picture we might well consider this remedy more frequently in rheumatic…”

Mephitis putorius in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Mephitis putorius in 342 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (50), COUGH (28), HEAD (26), RESPIRATION (24), EYE (22).

STOMACH - VOMITING - eating - after
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
EXTREMITIES - HEAT - Leg - night
LARYNX TRACHEA - FOREIGN substances drop into larynx when drinking or talking
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - cold - water - agg.
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - coughing agg.
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - drunkards
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - riding, - on horseback agg.
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Upper Limbs - leprous
LARYNX TRACHEA - LIQUIDS pass into larynx
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - evening - after lying down
THROAT - CHOKING,constricting - eating,while
LARYNX TRACHEA - FOOD drops into larynx
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - expiration
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - morning
COUGH - CONVULSIONS,with
RESPIRATION - STRIDULOUS
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - night
EXTREMITIES - HEAT - Leg

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