Sumbul

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

REGION

Nerves.
Heart.
Left side.

WORSE

Motion.
Inspiration.
Climacteric.
Music.

BETTER

Gentle motion.

Nervous, irritable and sleepless. As of hot water flowing through part. Yellow, tenacious discharges. Early senility. .................... Laughs and weeps by turns. As of a hair or cobweb on face. Choking constriction in throat. Hysteria. Burning pyrosis. Oppressive tightness in left chest. Dyspnœa. Asthma; cardiac. Sexual excitability. Trickling along spine. Pale, cold skin. Internal itching. Dreams of falling.

Complementary: Lact.

Related: Mos.

Sumbul across the other classic books

Sumbul appears in 6 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.
“Ferula sumbul, Hook, f. (Bot. Mag., 1875). Natural order , Umbelliferæ. Common name , Sumbul (Persian and Arabic). Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities.”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Musk-root (SUMBUL - FERULA SUMBUL) Has many hysterical and nervous symptoms, and is of use in neuralgic affections and anomalous, functional, cardiac disorders. Numbness on becoming cold . Numbness on left side. Insomnia of delirium tremens (fifteen drops of tincture). Sensation as if water dropped down spine. Asthma…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“EMOTIONS, excitement, etc. FLOATING, flying, etc., as if (Comp. Vertigo.)”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Ferula sumbul. Sumbul. Musk-root. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of the powdered root. Acne / Asthma / Breasts, pains in / Chorea / Diarrhœa / Epilepsy / Fainting / Heart, palpitation of, nervous; affections of / Pneumonia / Hysteria / Infra-mammary pains / Neuralgia / Porrigo capitis / Spermatorrhœa / Throat, catarrh…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Musk Root. Umbelliferæ. The plant, a perennial, is a native of the Orient ; the root enters commerce by way of Russia ; from it, finely powdered, is prepared the alcoholic tincture. Provings by Lembke, A. H. Z., vol. 34, p. 273 ; Cattell, Brit. Jour. Hom., vol. 9, p. 256, 1852 ; Muranjew, Med. Zeit. Russ., 1853 …”

Sumbul in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Sumbul in 678 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (110), GENERALITIES (51), CHEST (47), MALE GENITALIA (47), ABDOMEN (41).

BACK - HEAT - flushes - extending to body
BACK - HEAT - flushes
GENERALITIES - FAINTNESS,fainting - excitement,on
GENERALITIES - HEAT,flushes of
GENERALITIES - FAINTNESS,fainting
ABDOMEN - HEAT - flashes of - as of hot water flowing in
ABDOMEN - PAIN - gnawing - Hypogastrium - right
BACK - AIR,cannot bear a draft of,on nape - Spine
BACK - HEAT - Spine in - hot water flowing in
BACK - WIND - as if blowing - Lumbar region
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - left
LARYNX TRACHEA - LARYNGISMUS stridulus - night
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Lumbar region - air - as if cool,passed over it
BACK - COLDNESS (including Chill) - Lumbar region - morning
BACK - HEAT - flushes - Spine - in - warm air streaming up spine into head
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper Limbs - cold weather
FEVER - DRY heat - walking in open air
GENERALITIES - HEAT,flushes of - exertion,from least
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - left
COUGH - HACKING - daytime

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