Xanthoxylum Fraxineum

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

REGION

Nerves.
Respiration.
Female sexual organs.
Left side.

WORSE

Sleeping.
Dampness.

BETTER

Vomiting.

Grinding, shooting, radiating pains. Numb l. side. .................... Nervousness. Head threatens to fly to pieces. Throat feels like a hollow cavern. Violent, agonizing, grinding dysmenorrhœal pains, not > in any position; pains go into thighs or radiate over whole body, even to heart. Leucorrhœa replaces menses. Soreness of face of thighs, before menses.

Related: Ars. Lach.

Xanthoxylum Fraxineum across the other classic books

Xanthoxylum Fraxineum 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.
“Xanthoxylum Americanum, Mill. Natural order , Rutaceæ. Common name , Prickly ash. Preparation , Tincture of the bark. Authorities. (Charles Cullis, M.D., Pub. Mass. Hom. Soc., vol. ii, 1861-6, p. 267). A feeling of depression and weakness (soon), 6. Great depression (second day), 3. Terrible, nervous, frightened…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Prickly Ash (XANTHOXYLUM) Its specific action is on the nervous system and mucous membranes. Paralysis, especially hemiplegia . Painful hæmorrhages, after-pains, neuralgic dysmenorrhœa , and rheumatic affections, offer a therapeutic field for this remedy, especially in patients of spare habit and nervous, delicate…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ALTERNATING EFFECTS, sides, states, etc.(Comp. Periodicity, Wandering, Waves). CLIMAXIS, Agg. DUALITY, in pieces, separated, as if some one else, etc.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“americanum. X. fraxineum. Prickly Ash. Toothache-tree. N. O. Rutaceæ. Tincture of fresh bark. After-pains / Asthma / Coccygodynia / Dysmenorrhœa / Earache / Fibroma / Headache / Hemiplegia / Hysteria / Jaw-joint, pain in / Levitation / Menstruation, painful / Nerves, injured / Nervousness / Neuralgia; crural /…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Prickly Ash. Rutaceæ. A shrub from five to ten feet in height, growing in woods and moist, shady places throughout the Northern, Middle and Western States. The tincture is prepared from the fresh bark. Proved by Cullis, Pub. Mass. Hom. Soc., vol. 2, p. 1861-6, p. 267. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Dysmenorrhœa , Burck, Org…”

Xanthoxylum Fraxineum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Xanthoxylum Fraxineum in 228 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (56), FEMALE GENITALIA (32), HEAD (28), GENERALITIES (12), ABDOMEN (11).

FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - dysmenorrhoea,during
HEAD - FULLNESS - menses, - during
GENERALITIES - HEAT,flushes of - perspiration,with
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - pale
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh - menses, - during
FACE - SWELLING - oedematous
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Hypogastrium - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - after-pains
HEAD - PAIN, - menses, - before
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA - PAIN - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - scanty
GENERALITIES - HEAT,flushes of
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - painful,dysmenorrhoea
HEAD - FULLNESS
FEMALE GENITALIA - MENSES - frequent,too early,too soon
FACE - HEAT
HEAD - HEAT
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - calf - flashes of
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - shooting - Foot - extending to knees

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