Cochlearia armoracia

Horse-radish

Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 221

Frontal bone and sinus, antrum and salivary glands are specifically affected by this drug. Bloated sensation. Raises vital forces. Used as a gargle in scorbutic gums and sore throat. Hoarseness and in relaxed conditions of the fauces. Internally in gonorrhœa. Useful as a condiment in enfeebled states of the stomach. An infusion of the root in cider, for dropsy, causes copious diuresis. Locally cures dandruff.

Head

Thinking is difficult. Anxiety, driven to despair by pain. Pressing, boring pain as if frontal bone would fall out. Violent headache with vomiting. Impaired hearing.

Eyes

Sore and scrofulous; traumatic inflammation of eyes, blearedness and cataract. Copious running from eyes.

Stomach

Pain towards back; worse, pressure on dorsal vertebre. Belching and cramps. Colic with backache. Violent cramp from stomach through both sides around to back. Griping around navel.

Back

Pain in back as from incarcerated flatulence from abdomen through to back and down into sacrum.

Respiratory

Dry, hacking, laryngeal cough, also post-influenzal cough, dry or loose, worse lying down. Chest painful to touch. Coryza, with hoarseness. Mucous asthma. Œdema of lungs. Throat feels rough and hoarse.

Urinary

Burning and cutting at glans penis before, during, and after urination. Frequent urination.

Modalities

Worse evening and at night.

Relationship

Compare: Cannab; Sinapis; Caps.

The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.

Cochlearia armoracia in the other books