- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Daphne Mezereum. (Thymelaceae.) For light-haired, irresolute persons of a phelgmatic temperament. Eczema and itching eruptions after vaccinations . Hypochondriacal and despondent; indifferent to everything and every one; angry at trifles and perfectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it. Toothache: in carious…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Daphne mezereum, Linn. Natural order , Thymelaceæ. Common names , Mezereon, (G.) Seidel-bast, (Fr.) Le bois gentil. Preparation , tincture of the bark of root and stem. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 26 , from Hahnemann, Chr. Kn.).”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Spurge Olive Skin symptoms, affections of bones, and neuralgias most important, especially about teeth and face. Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and stiffness. Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air . Bone pains. Eruptions after vaccination. Burning, darting sensation in…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BONES. BORING, grinding, etc. BURNING, stinging. CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE, weather, seasons, oncoming storms, etc. Agg. CRUSTS, scabs DESQUAMATION, hair falls, etc. DIRECTION of sensations, Radiating ERUPTIONS ERUPTIONS, Herpes PHAGEDENA, slough, etc. SHUDDERING, nervous SIDE, Left SPASMODIC OR CONVULSIVE EFFECTS…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Daphne mezereum. Chamælia germanica. Mezereon, Spurge Olive. (Hilly woods over nearly whole of Europe and Russian Asia.) N. O. Thymelaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark gathered just before the plant flowers in February and March. Bones, affections of / Coccygodynia / Constipation / Contraction of tendons / Crusta lactea /…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“this remedy is often useful in cases of very violent neuralgic pains about the teeth or face, particularly if the pain be in the left bone, running toward the ear; also neuralgic pains at night in the teeth. Affections of any kind appearing on the external head, principally right side; teeth in left side; forehead…”
- Hahnemann (CD) — The antipsoric proving record — Hahnemann's later materia medica in its chronic-disease setting.
“DAPHNE MEZEREUM, SPURGE OLIVE.[]. [] The pathogenesis of Mezereum belongs to the same category as Manganese. It is composed almost entirely of provings published in the Fragmenta de Viribus (1805) and the fourth volumes of the Archiv (1825) -the latter being avowedly made with the mother tincture. The only additions…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Daphne Mezereum ; Spurge Olive. Thymelaceæ. A hardy shrub, native of Great Britain and Northern countries ; flowers early in Spring, sometimes in the snow. The fresh bark is gathered before the flowers appear, and from it is prepared the alcoholic tincture. Introduced by Stapf and extensively proved by Hahnemann…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“MEZEREUM. Daphne Mttereum., L. Common merercon, spurge olive. Nat. Ord., Tkymtliutet. 1. Prmings. — 1. Hahnemann, Fragmenta de Virihus. Contains 62 symptoms from self, and 34 from authors. 2. Ibid, Chronic Diseases j part iv of original, vol. of translation. Contains 610 symptoms, including contributions from 11 other…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The principal use of this remedy is in eruptions and ulcerations. The most violent and important of its symptoms are those of mucous membranes, skin and periosteum. The outer surfaces of the body are in a constant state of irritation; nervous feelings, biting, tingling, itching, changing place from scratching. Even…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“Paralytic tension in the limbs and twitching of the muscles. Burning in internal parts and quivering in external parts. External chilliness is associated with the internal burning. Heaviness in the limbs. Sensitiveness to cold air is a strong indication for its use. Swelling of the bone and caries of the same…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Restlessness when alone and longing for company. Hypochondriac mood, with low spirits and weeping. Indifference about every thing and ever body around him. Aversion to talk, it seems to him to be hard work to utter one word. Disposed to reproach others or to quarrel. Irresolute. Unable to recollect, the mind is easily…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common names: daphne mezerium; spurge olive. Bad effects of Mercury and Alcohol (Podo., Sulph.) (A.). Headache: Violent after slight vexation; painful on the slightest touch, right-sided (A.). Heaviness in the limbs (Plb.). Paralytic tension in the limbs and twitching of the muscles. Burning in internal parts and…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Pains in the long bones, especially tibia. Facial neuralgia or toothache, when the pains are greatly by radiate heat. Noise; vesicular eruptions, with excoriations, formation of thick scabs, < at night; zona. Pains in the long bones, especially the tibia, are sometimes greatly relieved by this remedy. I once cured a…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“Tic Douloureux. (100) Case.—Mr. F. M. B., age 50, has had tic douloureux for nearly thirty years. His mother and a brother also suffered from the same affection. The pain starts near the root of the canine tooth, upper left side, extending to the root of the nose upwards into the left eye, and at times to the vertex…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“In periosteal rheumatism with boring, pressing pains coming like lightning and leaving parts numb we find the classic indications for the use of Mezereum. It is not to be forgotten in the nightly bone pains of children or when there is pain mostly in the long cylindrical bones as if in the marrow, and often associated…”
- Tyler — The whole picture — temperament and leading symptoms drawn as one portrait.
“(Daphne Mezereum) ONE of Hahnemann’s precious medicinal legacies. He says the juice, when touching the skin, produces a very painful burning, which lasts for a long time; and he tells us that, since the medicinal power of this drug is not volatile, it is better to dry the plant and triturate it like all other dry…”
