- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Cevadilla. (Liliaceae) Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion with a weak, relaxed muscular system. Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., Spig.). Nervous diseases; twitching, convulsive tremblings, catalepsy; from worms (Cina, Psor.). Illusions: that he is sick; parts shrunken; that she is pregnant when…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Asagræa officinalis, Lindley (Veratrum officinale, Schlicht.; Sabadilla officinarum, Brandt). Natural order , Liliaceæ (Melanthaceæ). Common names , Cebadilla, Cevadilla, Sabadilla. Preparation , Tincture of the seeds. Authorities. [With corrections by Dr. Hering.] (Nos. 1 to 18 , from Stapf's collection, Archiv f…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Cevadilla Seed. Asagræa Officialis Action on mucous membrane of the nose and the lachrymal glands, producing coryza and symptoms like hay-fever , which have been utilized homeopathically. Chilliness ; sensitive to cold. Ascarides, with reflex symptoms (nymphomania; convulsive symptoms). Children's diarrhœa with…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“AIR Open, Amel.:- IN ROOM, agg., air hunger, etc. CHILLY, cold DIRECTION of sensations, Ascending. FINE PAINS, needle, splinter, thread or hair-like, etc. HANGING LOOSE or down, as if PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. ROLLING, turning over, etc., as if (Comp. Loose, Ball, etc.) SCRAPING…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Asagræa officinalis. Veratrum officinale. Sabadilla officinarum. Cebadilla. Cevadilla. N. O. Melanthaceæ (of the Liliaceæ). Tincture of seeds. Coryza / Debility / Diphtheria / Dyspepsia; of pregnancy / Earache / Epistaxis / Hay asthma / Headache / Head-lice / Imaginary diseases / Influenza / Intermittents / Mania /…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Like Veratrum album, Sabadilla is a useful remedy on account of its mental symptoms. It may be used with success in cases of imaginary disease. For example, the patient imagines that she is pregnant when she is merely swollen from flatus: or that she has some horrible throat disease which will surely end fatally…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Intermittent complaints which come every week, or two weeks, or four weeks apart. Especially for children who are disposed to worms; worms discharged with stool, whether lumbrici or tape-worms. Sweetish taste. No thirst during chill; heat often internal. Troubles appearing on the right side; on the toe nails…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Cebadilla. Liliaceæ. Indigenous to Eastern Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela. It is a bulbous plant bearing greenish-yellow flowers on a spikelike raceme. The tincture is prepared from the powdered seeds. Provings by Hahnemann, Gross, Hartlaub, Hromada, Langhammer, Rückert, Schultz, Schönke, Stapf, etc., Archiv für…”
- Hughes & Dake — The source evidence — provings and poisonings retained with their experimental context.
“SABADILLA. Asi^raa i^cinalis, L. Cevadilla, Nat. Ord., Melanthacta. 1. Provings, — I. Hahnemann. — Painful pressure at r. temple from within outwards (10 h.) ; burning itching within lobules of ears, without external redness or heat ; burning in stomach ; bruised pain in anterior muscles of thighs while walking, worse…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“The Sabadilla patient is a shivering patient, sensitive to the cold air, a cold room, cold food. He wants to be well wrapped up; wants hot drinks to warm up his stomach. He is subject to catarrhal conditions, and in these he wants hot air. The catarrhal conditions of the throat require hot drinks and food. Warm things…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Anxious restlessness. Startled from the noise. Imagines himself sick or having imaginary diseases. Vertigo with fainting, everything becomes black before the eyes (when rising from a seat). Stupefying headache with coryza, itching and burning of the scalp and general heat of the whole body; worse in the forenoon. The…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: cevadilla. Worm affections of children (Bell., Bry., Calc., Cina, Merc., Sil., Spig., Sulph.) (A.). Twitching, convulsive tremblings and catalepsy from worms (Cina, Graph., Psor.) (A.). Nymphomania from ascarides (Plat.) (A.). Hay fever (All-C., Ars., Gels.) (D.). Chill returning at the same hour (Ars.)…”
- Nash (Respiratory) — The respiratory picture — the cough, the breathing, and the expectoration that separate one remedy from another.
“Sabadilla, Has profuse sneezing and lachrymation which is decidedly aggravated in open air and bright light. There is often sore throat running from left to right like Lachesis, but unlike it there is desire for hot drinks, which ameliorate. There is also a sensation as of a lump in the throat which creates constant…”
- Nash (Testimony) — The outcome — what the remedy did once the characteristic symptoms were matched.
“CORYZA. (97) Case.—Miss E., aged 23, bookkeeper, rather tall, thin, but counting herself in good health, complained of a single annoying symptom of long standing, as follows: Since fourteenth year of age had suffered from attacks of sneezing and lachrymation. The slightest change in temperature, the most trivial…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Sabadilla is not a markedly rheumatic remedy, but the deep bone pains, as if scraped with a sharp instrument, will call it to mind in such cases as may require its use. Stitches in muscles of arms. Pain in right shoulder extending to chest. Rheumatic pain in hips, severe stitching, < during rest, < from motion…”
