Phellandrium Aquaticum

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

REGION

Mucous membranes.
Right side: Chest. Mammæ.
Nerves.

WORSE

Air; cold; open.
Using eyes.

BETTER

While nursing.
Catarrhal

symptoms. Phthisis. .................... Clang, like striking on metal, in brain. Everything tastes sweet. Expectoration; terribly foul; loose; profuse; smeary; causing dyspnœa. Pain in milk-ducts, into abdomen; on nursing. Pain from (l), border of (r), mamma, to between shoulders. Pains going backward through (r), chest. Sleepy.

Related: Asaf.

Phellandrium Aquaticum across the other classic books

Phellandrium Aquaticum appears in 8 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.
“Œnanthe phellandrium, Lamk. (Phellandrium aquaticum, Linn.). Natural order , Umbelliferæ. Common names (G.), Wasser-fenchel, Pferde-kuemmel, Ross-fenchel. Preparation , Tincture of the seeds. Authorities. Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., 2, 138. Sensation of intoxication in the open air, that disappears in the house…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Water Dropwort (PHELLANDRIUM) The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis , bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. Everything tastes sweet . Hæmoptysis, hectic…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“CHEST, right”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Œnanthe phellandrium. Phellandrium aquaticum. Water dropwort. Fine-leaved water-hemlock. Horse-bane. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh ripe fruit. Abdomen, coldness in / Asthma / Breasts, affections of / Bronchitis / Catarrh / Ciliary neuralgia / Coryza / Cough / Headache / Influenza / Intermittent fever / Nipples…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Five-Leaved Water Hemlock. Umbelliferæ. Grows in swampy places and on river banks in Europe and Northern Asia. Proved by Nenning and Richter, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., vol. 2, p. 138. Turnbull observed the effects of seeds in large doses. --Pharm. Journ., 1853, p. 590. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Headache , Dudgeon…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Intolerable pains in the lactiferous tubes; much worse during the act of nursing.”
Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Sticking pains through right breast, near sternum. extending to back under shoulders. Cough with profuse fœtid expectoration, compels to sit up.”

Phellandrium Aquaticum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Phellandrium Aquaticum in 457 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (64), EXTREMITIES (36), MIND (34), EAR (33), CHEST (30).

CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Mammae - extending - to back
CHEST - PAIN - Mammae - right
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Mammae - right
EXPECTORATION - ODOR - offensive
GENERALITIES - PAIN - stitching - outward
CHEST - PAIN - Mammae - lactiferous tubes,in,when child nurses
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - morning - and evening only
MOUTH - VESICLES - Tongue - burning - like fire,right side
CHEST - PAIN - Mammae - extending to back
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - chill - before
CHEST - PAIN - tearing - Mammae - left
CHEST - PAIN - Mammae - menses, - during
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Mammae - under - right
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Mammae - under
STOMACH - AVERSION to - water - cold
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - last stage
HEAD - FALLING - backward of head
MIND - HYDROPHOBIA
CHEST - EMPHYSEMA
CHEST - PAIN - sore - bruised - Mammae - nipples

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