Scilla Maritima appears in 9 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.
“Urginea maritima, Baker. (Scilla maritima, Linn.) Natural order , Liliaceæ. Common names , Squills; (G), Meerzwiebel; (F.), Ognon marin. Preparation . Tincture of the bulbs. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 23 , from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 3, 265)”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Sea-onion A slow acting remedy. Corresponds to ailments requiring several days to reach their maximum. Persistent, dull, rheumatic pains permeate the body. A spleen medicine; stitches under left free ribs. Important heart and kidneys medicine. Broncho-pneumonia . Acts especially on mucous membranes of the respiratory…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“BREATHING, DEEPLY, Agg. CHEST, internal COUGH, incessant COUGH, painful RATTLING SIDE, Left STRETCH, impulse to”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Squill. Sea Onion. (Red variety.) N. O. Liliaceæ. Tincture of fresh bulb. Acetum. Angina pectoris / Asthma; dry; splenic / Bright's disease / Bronchitis / Conjunctivitis, phlyctenular / Coryza / Cough, catarrhal / Diabetes; insipidus / Dropsy / splenic / Eyes, affections of; watering of / Fidgets / Heart, palpitation…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Squills, Sea Onion. Liliaceæ. A bulbous plant, bearing a long spike of whitish flowers, found on the sandy shores of the Mediterranean. Introduced by Hahnemann, proved by himself, Becher, Hartmann, Hornburg, Mossdorf, Stapf, Teuthorn, Walther and Wislicenus, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. 3, p. 265. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Squilla was given in the olden times by the old school in all lung, bronchial, and kidney affections; pneumonia, asthma, scanty urine and dropsical affections. Has a loose morning cough and a dry evening cough (Alum., Carbo veg., Phos. ac., Sep., Stram., Puls., Squilla). Puls. and Squil, being strong here, but Squil…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Great anxiety of the mind, with fear of death. Angry over trifles. Vertigo (in the morning) with nausea. Headache in the morning on waking, with pressing pains. Painful sensitiveness of the vertex every morning. Pulsation in the head when raising it. Stinging headache. Staring look with the eyes wide open. The left…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Has been found useful in cough, with sneezing; watering of the eyes, and involuntary micturition. There may also be pleuritic stitches in the chest, with or without effusion. The cough is generally loose and rattling, with expectoration of much mucus, and the loose cough in the morning is more fatiguing than the dry…”
