materia medica drug taraxacum officinale

1. TARAXACUM OFFICINALE
By,
YESHA VIJAY SAVLA

2. TARAXACUM
OFFICINALE
• Common Name:
DANDELION
• Family: COMPOSITAE
• Parts used: The tincture
from the whole plant
when in flower.
• Proved by: HAHNEMANN

3. INTRODUCTION
• For gastric headaches, bilious attacks, with characteristically
mapped tongue and jaundiced skin.
• Cancer of bladder.
• Flatulence.
• Hysterical tympanites.

4. CLINICAL
• Ague.
• Bilious.
• Debility.
• Diabetes.
• Flatulence.
• Gallstones.
• Headaches.
• Jaundice.
• Hepatitis.
• Liver, disorders.
• Liver, weakness.
• Neuralgias.
• Night, sweats.
• Rheumatism.
• Tongue, mapped
• Typhoid fever.

5. MENTALS
• Depressive, morose, sad condition.
• Memory weak. Apathy, lack of reactions.
• Dislike for labor, but after beginning works well.
• Impatient and irritable.
• Anxiety while sitting.
• Restlessness on waking.
• Irresolution.
• Constant muttering to himself.
• Inclined to talk, laugh and be merry.
• Loquacity during perspiration.
• Unconsciousness.

6. HEAD
• Sensation of great heat on top of head.
• Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to touch.
• Heavy and numbing headache.
• Stinging pains in the head head and face.
• Neuralgic headaches due to liver disturbances.
• Headaches contraction or expansion of brain.
• Volient headache, felt only when standing or walking.
• Sensation of great heat in vertex.
• Drawing pain in left temple while sitting ceasing when walking or standing.
• Tearing pain in occiput.
• Lancinatons in forehead and temples.
• Tension of scalp

7. EYES
• Pain in eyes, as if a grain of sand were in internal canthus.
• Burning and stinging pains in the eyes.
• Inflammation of eyes.
• Lachrymation and photophobia.
• Nocturnal agglutination of lids.
• Aversion light.

8. EAR
• Shootings in ears.
• Drawing pain in external ear.
• Stinging, rending pains in the ears.

9. NOSE
• Cold nose.
• Nosebleeds.

10. FACE
• Hot and red face.
• Sensation of heat and redness in face.
• Shootings and pressure in cheeks.
• Upper lip cracked.
• Pustule in right corner of lips.
• Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alae nasi and lips.

11. MOUTH
• Bitter taste and eructations.
• Salivation.
• Acid saliva in mouth.
• Salivation with sensation as if larynx was pressed shut.
• Bitter taste, rising from pharynx into mouth.
• Smarting, burning and rawness in the mouth and fauces.
• Accumulation of sour water and in mouth.
• Tough, ropy, sur-tasting saliva.

12. TEETH
• Toothache with drawing pain in carious teeth, extending to
eyebrows.
• Pressive pains in teeth.
• Teeth set on edge as from acids.
• Flow of acid blood from decayed teeth.
• Blunt teeth.
• Hawking up of sour mucus, causing teeth to feel dull.

13. TONGUE
• MAPPED TONGUE (Lachesis, Merc., Nat-mur)
• Covered with a white film with sensation of rawness
• This film comes of in patches, leaving dark red, tender, very
sensitive spots.
• Tongue dry, loaded with a drown coating on waking in morning.

14. THROAT
• Hawking up of acid mucus.
• Sore throat with pressive pain, as from internal swelling.
• Dryness, shootings and bitter mucus in the throat.
• Burning in throat from smoking, better drinking.

15. GASTRO-INTESTINAL SYSTEM
• For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches
• Jaundice with enlargement and induration of liver (mapped
tongue)

16. STOMACH
• Loss of appetite.
• Gastric bilious attacks.
• Bitter taste, risings, belchings and hiccough.
• Empty belching after drinking.
• Nausea , as after an excess of greasy food.
• Nausea with inclination to vomit or vomiting from very fat food,
with anxiety and pressive headache, better in open air, Nausea,
with headache, anxiety, after fat food.

17. ABDOMEN
• Liver enlarged and indurated.
• Sharp stitches in left side.
• Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels.
• Tympanites.
• Evacuation difficult.

18. RECTUM
• Stools white.
• Inefficient urging to go to stool.
• Evacuation often, but accomplished with difficulty, even if stool is
soft.
• Feces of the consistence of pap, followed by tenesmus.
• Bilious diarrhea.
• Constipation following an abundant expulsion of feces.
• Voluptuous itching in perineum.

19. MALE
• Pain in testes.
• Permanent erections.
• Frequent pollutions, on alternate nights.

20. FEMALE
• Suppressed menses.

21. BACK
• Tearing pain from ear down to neck.
• Sternomastoid muscle very painful to touch.
• Pressive jerkings and shootings in muscles of neck, throat and
nape.
• Pressive and tensive shootings in back and loins, when lying
down with obstructed respiration.
• Pressing, stinging in spine and sacrum with dyspnea.
• Vibration and quivering in right scapula.

22. EXTREMITIES
• Very restless limbs.
• Neuralgia of knee; better, pressure.
• Limbs painful to touch.

23. FEVER
• Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, especially when
convalescencing from bilious or typhoid fever
• Restlessness of limbs in typhoid (Rhus tox, Zinc.)
• Neuralgia of knee; better, pressure.
• Limbs painful to touch.

24. SKIN
• Profuse night sweats

25. SLEEP
• Irresistible drowsiness after meals
• Sleepiness in daytime and yawning while sitting
• Sleepiness and going to sleep while listening to a scientific
discourse
• Vivid, unremembered dreams, frequent waking and tossing.

26. MODALITIES
• AGGRAVATION:
Almost all symptoms appear when sitting
Lying down
Resting
Standing
• AMELIORATION
Walking
Touch

27. RELATIONSHIP
Compare
• Bryonia, Chelidonium, Hydrastis, Nux vomica, in gastric and
bilious affections
• Choline, a constituent of Taraxacum root, has given encouraging
results in the treatment of cancer.
• Choline is closely related to Neurin, it is the "Cancronie" of Prof.
Adamkiewicz (E. Schlegel).
• Bry; Hydrast; Nux.
• Tela aranea (nervous asthma and sleeplessness).

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