Clematis Erecta
Dewey, Essentials of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 1894, p. 50
Questions
What is this drug?
This is the Virgin'' s bower, a European plant, and the tincture is made from the roots and stems. "What is our principal use of the drug ?
In Orchitis, when it is of gonorrhoeal origin, and when the testicle is indurated and hard as a stone and very painful. Compare it with Rhododendron. In Rhododendron the testicle tends to atrophy; there is a crushed feeling in the gland, and it is more useful in chronic cases; both drugs have pains which course up the spermatic cord.
What members of the Papaveraceae family do we make use of in the Homoeopathic school ?
Chelidonium , Opium and Sanguinaria.