by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
Stitches. .................... Depression. Coated tongue, with raw patches; mapped. Sour taste or hawks sour mucus. White stools. Bilious diarrhœa. Jaundice. Restless limbs, with tearing pains. Chilly after eating. Cold fingertips. Burning toes. Night sweats.
Related: Nux-v.
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Taraxacum appears in 11 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.
“Dandelion. (Compositae.) For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches. Mapped tongue (Lach., Mer., Nat. m.); covered with a white film with sensation of rawness. This film comes off in patches , leaving dark red, tender, very sensitive spots (Ran. s.). Jaundice with enlargment and induration of liver…”
“Taraxacum Dens-leonis, Desf. (Leontodon Taraxacum, Linn.) Natural order , Compositæ. Common name , Dandelion; (G.) Löwenzahn. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant just before the perfection of the flower. Authorities. ( 1 to 5 , from Hahnemann.) Talkativeness and incessant prattling, 4. Religious, pious mood…”
“Dandelion For gastric headaches, bilious attacks, with characteristically mapped tongue and jaundiced skin. Cancer of bladder. Flatulence. Hysterical tympanites . Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to touch. Mapped tongue. Tongue covered with a white film; feels raw; comes off…”
“DIRECTION of sensations, Diagonally SIDE, left to right”
“Leontodum taraxacum. Taraxacum Dens-leonis. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole plant just before the perfection of the flower. Ague / Bilious attacks / Debility / Diabetes / Gall-stones / Headache, gastric / Jaundice / Liver, affections of / Neuralgia / Night-sweats / Rheumatism / Tongue, mapped / Typhoid fever The…”
“Dandelion. Compositæ. Introduced and proved by Hahnemann, assisted by Franz, Gutmann, Kummer, Langhammer and Rasazemsky. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Ague , Bartl., Newmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 990 ; Typhoid fever , Bœnninghausen, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 54 ; Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 790. Constant muttering to himself…”
“The limbs are movable, but it seems to him as if the moving power is obstructed. Painfulness of all the limbs by touch and a like condition when in an improper position. Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to the touch. Crampy pains in different parts of the body. Cramp in the…”
“Irresoluteness. Inclined to talk, to laugh, and to be merry. Sensation as if the brain were expanded or constricted. The headache is felt only when standing (or walking). Aversion to light; stinging-burning in the eyes. Red, hot face. Pimples on the cheeks, wings of the now, and corners of the mouth. The upper lip is…”
“Common name: dandelion. The limbs are movable, but it seems to him as if the moving power was obstructed. Painfulness of all the limbs by touch and a like condition when in an improper position. Crampy pains in different parts of the body (Cupr., Mag-P., Sec.). Sensation of weakness through the whole body with a…”
“Tongue coated white, which peels off in patches, leaving dark, red, tender, sensitive spots; mapped tongue.”
Kent's Repertory lists Taraxacum in 740 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (149), GENERALITIES (108), HEAD (106), SKIN (41), MIND (40).
