Cypripedium

Yellow Lady’s Slipper

Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 251

The skin symptoms correspond to those of poisoning by Rhus, for which it has been found an efficient antidote. Nervousness in children; from teething and intestinal troubles. Debility after gout. Hydrocephaloid symptoms, result of long, exhausting diarrhœa. Sleeplessness. Cerebral hyperasthesia in young children often the result of overstimulation of brain.

Head

Child cries out at night; is wakeful and begins to laugh and play. Headaches of elderly people and during climacteric.

Relationship

Compare: Ambra; Kali brom.; Scutellar.; Valerian; Ignat. Skin relatives: Grindelia; Anacard.

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

Cypripedium in the other books