by E. B. Nash — Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics
Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.
Violent headache, with flickering before the eyes, or spots and various colors, < in the morning and at the menses.
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Cyclamen europaeum appears in 18 of the 27 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.
“Sow Bread. (Primulaccae.) Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anaemic or chlorotic conditions; easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labor; feeble or suspended functions of organs or special senses. Pale, chlorotic; deranged menses (Fer., Puls.), accompanied by vertigo, headache…”
“Cyclamen Europæum, Linn. Natural order , Primulaceæ. Common names , Sow-bread; (Germ.), Erdscheibe. Preparation , Tincture of the root gathered in spring. Authorities.”
“Sow-bread (CYCLAMEN) Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting; disturbed digestion with very salty saliva. Anæmic and chlorotic conditions. Affections of uterus. Gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts affected, inducing secondary anæmia and various reflexes. Sleepiness, moroseness, and lassitude . Cough…”
“ALIVE, sensations (Comp. Formication) BLACK, dark, etc. BURNT, scalded as if MOTION, Amel. PRESSURE, Agg., lying on painful or affected side, etc., Agg. SITTING, AGG. STANDING, Agg. VISION”
“Cerebro - spinal axis. Vision. Blood. Digestive tract. FEMALE SEX ORGANS. Cold. Evening. Fresh air. Sitting. Fats. Motion. During menses. Weeping. VISUAL EFFECTS or vertigo, from menstrual or gastric disorders. Dreads open air. Chlorosis. .................... Dull, sad, sleepy and morose. Self-reproaches. Silent…”
“Europæum. Sow-bread. N. O. Primulaceæ. Tincture of the root gathered in spring. Anæmia / Bones, pain in / Chlorosis / Climacteric sufferings / Coryza / Diplopia / Dyspepsia / Enteralgia / Eyes, affections of / Headache / Heel, pain in / Hiccough / Menstruation, disorders of / Mental derangement / Pregnancy, sickness…”
“SOW - BREAD. THE student of materia medica should, at the very outset of his career, begin to guard against a danger which often besets the physician and leads him astray in practice — the danger of regarding certain remedies as favorite remedies and looking at them with a partial eye; of allowing the high estimate in…”
“Eyes.--Patient sees stars all the time, with dimness of vision. Generalities.--Affections of the inner temples; of the perineum. Want of appetite; nausea in the throat; hiccough. Simple pressure in the muscles; tearing with drawing and pressure in the bones; pain as if paralyzed; itching better by scratching…”
“(Sowbread) (The expressed juice of the fresh root, obtained in autumn, mixed with equal parts of alcohol.) From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1816. From the earliest times this valuable plant has lain under the unfounded suspicion of acting violently and uncertainly. Even should we grant that Discorides really referred to this…”
“Sow-bread. Primulaceæ. A plant indigenous in the south of Europe. The tincture is made from the fresh root gathered in Autumn. "The Cyclamen Europæum, or Sow-bread, was extensively used in medicine by the ancients. Their descriptions of its properties are vague enough, but it is remarkable that they ascribe to it a…”
“CYCLAMΕΝ . Cyclamen europaum, L. Sowbread. Nat. Ord., Primulacee. I. Provings.-1 . HAHNEMANN, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. v of original, vol. i of translation. Contains 5 symptoms from self, and 197 from 4 fellow- observers . 2. D-, medical student, æt. 22, January 27th, 7.50 p.m., 4 dr. tinct. Confusion in 1. side of…”
“Remarks: Aversion to motion, yet motion ameliorates her pain and uneasiness. Aversion to the open air, yet open air ameliorates some symptoms especially the coryza and cough. The marked dullness of the senses and special senses is a striking part of this picture. Chlorosis; irregular menses; and palpitation. Stitching…”
“Pressing, drawing and tearing pain, principally in the periosteum. Chilblains of the feet. As long as he walks about he feels well with the exception of languor, but as soon as he sits down, especially in the evening, he suffers various inconveniences. Thirstlessness. Catamenia too profuse. Bad effects from eating…”
“Taciturn, depressed, out of humor. Inclined to internal, undemonstrative grief. Sudden change of sadness and cheerfulness. Weakness of the memory. Dulness of the mind and indisposition to perform any sort of labor. Vertigo; when leaning against something, he feels as if the brain were in motion. Vertigo; increasing…”
“Common name: sow bread. It has many things in common with Pulsatilla (Bl.). Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anæmic or chlorotic conditions (A.). Easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labour (A.). Pale, chlorotic, with deranged menses, and accompanied by vertigo, headache and dim…”
“Cyclamen is very similar to Pulsatilla in many ways, but indications for its use in rheumatic conditions differ in the aggravations and ameliorations, and in the decidedly saltish taste in the mouth. In some of its aggravations it closely resembles Rhus tox., but differs in that it is not apparently affected by damp…”
“AN experience of years ago, where Cyclamen promptly cured; has served to rivet this rather neglected remedy of visual aberrations on the mind. It is a drug of great power and prompt action in its special sphere as poisonings, provings and cures testify. Here is the experience, as remembered after all these years. On…”
Kent's Repertory lists Cyclamen europaeum in 1,521 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (209), HEAD (148), GENERALITIES (131), MIND (129), STOMACH (116).
