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Hmedicine Materia Medica
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Hmedicine Materia Medica compiled by Ayan Kayal, Yale University
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Latin Name: Caladium Seguinum
Common Name: American Arum
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences and modifies the craving for tobacco. It also influences and counters the symptoms of respiratory disturbances associated with smoking.
Latin Name: Calcarea Carbonica
Common Name: calcium carbonate
Description: Used for chills and susceptibility to cold, night sweats, especially on head, and sour smelling discharges. Symptoms are often improved in dry weather. It often helps in people who are irritable and fear the dark. It is commonly used for teething (Jonas 256, Lockie 54).
Latin Name: Calcarea Fluorica
Common Name: calcium floride, fluorite
Description: Used to increase tissue flexibility and for unwanted bone growths, deficient tooth enamel, back pain, and swollen adenoids. In children, it helps bone development in relation to learning to walk. Pains are often better with motion and heat (Lockie 121-122).
Latin Name: Calcarea Phosphorica
Common Name: calcium phosphate, phosphate of lime
Description: Used for slow development of bones and teeth, a sensation of numbness, and swollen glands. Symptoms are generally better in the summer in warm, dry weather. It is commonly used for people who demonstrate fretful whining, always wanting to go somewhere. Good for teething (Jonas 256, Lockie 89, Panos 38).
Latin Name: Calcarea Sulphurica
Common Name: calcium sulfate, gypsum, plaster of Paris
Description: Used for pus discharge and slow to heal wounds. A yellow film may appear on the bottom of tongue. Other symptoms include swollen glands and a burning sensations on the bottoms of feet. Symptoms are better in fresh air, and worse in cold, wet weather (Lockie 122).
Latin Name: Calendula Officinalis
Common Name: Marigold
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences healing when applied locally. It promotes healthy and rapid healing and is useful for irritated tissue that will not heal.
Latin Name: Cantharis
Common Name: Spanish fly
Description: Used for intense inflammations, highly sensitive body parts, and burning pains. Symptoms are usually worse with touch or while urinating. Used for burns and scalds, as well as painful urination. It is commonly used for people exhibiting restlessness and increased sex drive (Jonas 256, Panos 38, Lockie 107).
Latin Name: Carbo Vegetabilis
Common Name: charcoal, vegetable charcoal
Description: Used for exhaustion, weakness, recovery or shock from operation or illness, lack of oxygen in tissues due to poor circulation, and digestive problems. Also used for frequent bleeding with dark blood, gas, indigestion, and hemorrhoids. Symptoms are usually worse in the evening, and are commonly exhibited in people with a stagnant lifestyle and apathethic behavior (Panos 38, Jonas 256, Lockie 90).
Latin Name: Caulophyllum Thalictroides
Common Name: caulophyllum, blue cohosh
Description: Eases the process of labor and labor pains, often needle-like pains in the cervix. Also used for weakness, menstrual cramps, and exhaustion. Symptoms usually get worse at night. People often exhibit irritability and apprehensiveness (Jonas 257).
Latin Name: Causticum
Common Name: potassium hydrate, acrid potassium salt
Description: Used for muscle and joint contractions, weakness, numbness, paralysis, burning and soreness. Symptoms are worse in dry, cold weather. Also used for coughs, urinary retention, after childbirth, and neck pain. Often used for people who are sad, cry easily, and fear something will happen (Jonas 257, Lockie 123).
Latin Name: Chamomilla
Common Name: German chamomile
Description: Used for people who are highly sensitivity to pain, pain with numbness, teething, night sweats, excessive thirst, diarrhea in children, earaches, and toothaches. Commonly used for people who are whining, impatient, and snappish (Jonas 257, Lockie 134).
Latin Name: Chelidonium Majus
Common Name: greater celandine, wartweed
Description: Used for ailments of the liver and bile, such as gallstones, indigestion, jaundice, and hepatitis. Also treats warts, upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, and pain (usually right-sided). Symptoms may improve after drinking milk or hot drinks. Often used to treat people who are pessimistic, lethargic, and tend to be depressed (Lockie 123).
Latin Name: Cimicifuga Racemosa
Common Name: actaea racemosa, bugbane, black snakeroot, black cohosh, rattle root
Description: Used for menstrual symptoms such as congestion in the head preceeding menstruation and heaviness and cramps in the lower back during menstruation. It is also a common remedy for ailments associated with pregnancy such as post-partum depression, early miscarriage morning sickness, sleeplessness, and sharp pains in uterus. Cimicifuga racemosa also aids symptoms of menopause as well as headaches stemming from neck stiffness. It is also used for emotional symptoms such as sighing, sadness, anxiety, and irritabilitiy (Lockie 93).
Latin Name: Cina
Common Name: wormseed
Description: Used for chicken pox, eczema, irritability, worms, moodiness, and for nervous system disorders. Those who require this remedy may exhibit nervousness, and in children, irritability. Symptoms are improved by lying on stomach (Likowski Duncan 282).
Latin Name: Cinchona Officinalis
Common Name: china, peruvian bark, cinchona bark, Jesuits' bark
Description: Used for nervous exhaustion for those recovering from illness, weakness from nursing, or excess dehydration such as from sweating, vomiting, or diarrhea. Also used for excessive sweating, shivering, and flushing, dizziness, nosebleeds, hemorrhages, stomach flu, gall bladder, gas, ringing in the ears, muscle spasms due to exhaustion, headaches that improve with firm pressure, but are worse with light pressure. Helpful for lack of concentration, apathy, indifference, edginess, and uncharacteristic angry outbursts (Lockie 92).
Latin Name: Cocculus Indicus
Common Name: Indian cockle
Description: Used for motion sickness, weakness, numbness, and sensitivity to noise. People often exhibit sadness and difficulty concentrating. Symptoms often worsen with motion, talking, smoking, and thought of food (Jonas 257).
Latin Name: Coffea Cruda
Common Name: unroasted coffee, coffea arabica
Description: Used for nervousness hyper excitability, extreme sensitivity to pain and noise, overly sensitive skin. Also used for insomnia, toothaches, labor pain, and menopause. Symptoms improve with warmth or for holding cold water in mouth for a toothache (Lockie 125, Jonas 257).
Latin Name: Collinsonia Canadensis
Common Name: Stone Root
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences the sore and itching feeling in the rectum asociated with hemorrhoids. It also assists in the relief of constipation associated with this condition.
Latin Name: Colocynthis
Common Name: bitter cucumber, bitter apple
Description: Used for sharp pains, cramps, colic, abdominal pain often with nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. Also helpful for nerve pain around kidneys or ovaries, menstrual cramps, sciatica, rheumatism, or dizziness and acute emotional problems. Those who may require this remedy are often easily offended or irritable (Jonas 258, Lockie 94).
Latin Name: Condurango
Common Name: Condor Plant
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that stimulates digestive functions and thus improves general health. It is also for the relief of painful afflictions of the stomach and ulceration symptoms.
Latin Name: Cuprum Metallicum
Common Name: copper
Description: Used for diarrhea, muscle spasms, heat stroke, nausea, muscle cramps, paleness (with a blue tint on skin), asthma, whooping cough, epilepsy, mental exhaustion. People who may requie this remedy may be delirious or incoherent. Symptoms often improve with sweating or drinking cold beverages (Jonas 258, Lockie 95).
Latin Name: Ephedra Vulgaris
Common Name: Teamsters' Tea
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences fatigue and the stiffness of neck and joints associated with stress.
Latin Name: Eupatorium Perfoliatum
Common Name: boneset, agueweed, thoroughwort
Description: Used for flu, sharp pains, bone pain, fevers with chills, restlessness, and possible cough (Lockie 128-29).
Latin Name: Euphrasia Officinalis
Common Name: eyebright
Description: Used for common cold, eye injuries, inflammation of mucous membranes, hayfever, night sweats, watery discharges from nose or eyes. It is also used for intense headaches, constipation, measles, short painful menstruation, in women, inflammation of the prostate gland, in men (Lockie 97, Jonas 258).
Latin Name: Ignatia Amara
Common Name: St. Ignatius bean
Description: Used for emotional causes, cramps, trembling, spasms, oversensitivity to all stimuli, and pain in small areas. It is commonly used to treat acute emotional problems or grief. Also treats ailments with contradictory symptoms, headaches, and coughs. Symptoms are worse in the morning and better while eating. This remedy may be required by those who frequently sigh, sob uncontrollably, are moody, and high-strung (Jonas 260, Lockie 58).
Latin Name: Influenzinum
Common Name: Influenza - 2007-08 Strand
Description: Influenzinum is made each year from the influenza vaccination shot. Here's how it is made, and how we have made it for years. It is in the HPUS (Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States). We take the shot itself and place it in 9 parts water and succuss (25 thumps)- the result is 1x - We then take that 1x, put in 9 parts alcohol and succuss it again and make a 2x (& a 1c). The 3x or 2c are then made separately - 1:9 (x) or 1:99 (c). We continue in this manner up to 30x and 30c (by hand and from the 30c on to the 200c using the Helios potentizing machine). (Joe Lillard,WHP)
Latin Name: Ipecacuanha
Common Name: ipecac root
Description: Used for constant nausea, bright red hemorrhages, gastoenteritis, morning sickness, difficulty in breathing, and nosebleeds. Symptoms are often worse when lying down. This remedy may be used for those that are irritable and fickle (Jonas 260, Lockie 91).
Latin Name: Natrum Muriaticum
Common Name: sodium chloride, rock salt
Description: Used for acute emotional problems and grief. Dry mucous membranes, water retention, weakness, watery discharges, eye strain, menstrual headaches, cold sores, gingivitis, bad breath, anemia, constipation, backache, and indigestion. In women, this remedy is used for absent menstruation as a result of shock or grief, irregular menstruation, vaginal discharges, and vaginismus. Symptoms are better from sweating, fresh air, and fasting. People who require this remedy may be depressed or irritable (Lockie 64, Jonas 261).
Latin Name: Natrum Phosphoricum
Common Name: Sodium Phosphate
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences acid neutralization, acidity and stomach distress.
Latin Name: Natrum Sulphuricum
Common Name: sodium sulfate, sal mirabile, Glauber's salt
Description: Used for liver ailments, ailments in chest such as asthma or bronchitis, head injuries in which a person has emotional changes. Symptoms are better with fresh and dry air, and worse in the morning and late evening (Lockie 137).
Latin Name: Nux Vomica
Common Name: poison nut, Quaker buttons
Description: Used for common cold, constipation, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, hemorrhoids, hangovers, gastroenteritis, headaches, menstrual cramps, larynx pain, runny nose, migraines, morning sickness, and labor pain. People who require this remedy may be sullen or irritable. Symptoms are often better with warmth, sleep, and in the evening, and worse in cold weather and from eating spicy foods (Jonas 262, Lockie 74).
Latin Name: Ratanhia
Common Name: Krameria
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that relieves the pain experienced immediately after bowel movements. Influences the urgent need to evacuate, as well as the swelling of hemorrhoidal tissue.
Latin Name: Rhus Toxicodendron
Common Name: poison ivy, poison oak
Description: Used for restlessness, bruised pains, burning discharges, extreme thirst, ailments of skin and joints, sciatica, sharp back pains, chicken pox, herpetic skin eruptions, influenza, skin rashes, sore throat, and neck stiffness. Those who may require this remedy may exhibit extreme restlessness, indifference, and sadness. Symptoms are often better with warmth and walking, and worse at night during sleep (Jonas 263, Lockie 108).
Latin Name: Rumex Crispus
Common Name: yellow dock
Description: Used for dry mucous membranes, intense itching, excess mucous flow, swollen glands, migratory pains, and coughs. People who may require this remedy may avoid work, display low spirits, and be irritable. Symptoms are better with warmth, and worse in the evening (Jonas 263).
Latin Name: Ruta Graveolens
Common Name: rue, bitter herb, herb-of-grace
Description: Used for tendon, bone, and joint pain, strained muscles and tendons, weakness, burning, stinging pains, eye injuries, sciatica, sharp back spasms, ganglion cysts, tennis elbow, eyestrain, and bruises due to falls or blows (Lockie 109, Jonas 263).
Latin Name: Sabina
Common Name: savin juniper
Description: Used for hemorrhage of the uterus or a threatened abortion. This remedy may not prevent abortion, but will improve the conditions of the patient. This product is also used for menstrual cramps and heavy menstrual flow (Panos 81).
Latin Name: Sanguinaria Canadensis
Common Name: Blood Root
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences burning, soreness and itching associated with hemorrhoids.
Latin Name: Sepia
Common Name: cuttlefish ink, cuttlefish
Description: Used for slowness, dullness, pale skin, exhaustion, hair loss, morning sickness, post-partum depression, and vaginal infection and other gynelogical complaints. Symptoms are worse before noon, and better after exercise (Lockie 70, Jonas 264).
Latin Name: Silicea
Common Name: silica, quartz, rock crystal, pure flint
Description: Used for poor stamina, weakness, inflammation of glands, chronic discharges, uncharacteristic odor emanating from feet, sensitivity to senses, boils and abcesses, earaches, splinters, and inflamed eyelids. Symptoms are worse in cold air and better with warmth. People who require this remedy may exhibit mental exhaustion, nervousness, and excitability (Jonas 264, Lockie 72).
Latin Name: Solidago Virgaurea
Common Name: Goldenrod
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that favorably influences bitter tastes in the mouth. It is also indicated for sensation of pain and deep pressure in the abdomen and for relief of flatulent distension.
Latin Name: Spongia Tosta
Common Name: toasted sponge, sponge
Description: Used for dry coughs, asthma, heart disease, exhaustion, chest pains, and suffocation during sleep. It is particularly useful when a family has a history of tuberculosis or chest conditions. People who need this remedy may also fear suffocation. Symptoms are better when sitting up, and worse with movement (Lockie 146, Jonas 264).
Latin Name: Staphysagria
Common Name: stave sacre, palmated larkspur
Description: Used for neuralgia, teething problems, cystitis, inflamed eyelids, and headaches with pressure on forehead. It is also used for women who experience pain during sexual intercourse. Symptoms are often better with warmth and worse when emotions are suppressed. People who may need this remedy may have violent outbursts, suppressed emotions, irritability, and be easily fatigued (Lockie 126, Jonas 264).
Latin Name: Sterculia Acuminata
Common Name: Kola Nut
Description: A homeopathic ingredient that helps improve digestion. It helps you engage in prolonged physical exertion without feeling fatigued.
Latin Name: Sulphur
Common Name: Sulfur, flowers of sulfur, brimstone
Description: Used for skin conditions such as eczema, candidiasis, or diaper rash. This remedy also treats digestive complaints, mental stress, gynelogical complaints, fatigue, forgetfulness, depression, insomnia due to nightmares, chicken pox, diarrhea in children, earaches, gastroenteritis, hemorrhoids, pinkeye, and profuse offensive perspiration. Symptoms are often worse with rest and better with open air. People who require this remedy may be lazy, selfish, occupied, and have difficulty thinking (Lockie 76, Jonas 265).
Latin Name: Sulphur Iodatum
Common Name: sulfur iodide
Description: Used for skin conditions such as eczema, candidiasis, or diaper rash. This remedy also treats digestive complaints, mental stress, gynelogical complaints, fatigue, forgetfulness, depression, insomnia due to nightmares, chicken pox, diarrhea in children, earaches, gastroenteritis, hemorrhoids, pinkeye, and profuse offensive perspiration. Symptoms are often worse with rest and better with open air. People who require this remedy may be lazy, selfish, occupied, and have difficulty thinking (Lockie 76, Jonas 265).
Latin Name: Symphytum Officinale
Common Name: comfrey
Description: Used for prickling pains, black eyes, and fractures. This remedy acts on bones, joints, and tendons (Jonas 265).
Latin Name: Tabacum
Common Name: tabacco
Description: Used for nausea, vomiting, and motion sickness. This remedy also treats the sudden onset of excess salivation, pain, cold sweats, anxiety, and vertigo. Symptoms are worse with movement, and better after vomiting. Those who require this remedy may be forgetful, unhappy, and insomniacs (Jonas 265, Lockie 138).
Latin Name: Thuja Occidentalis
Common Name: arbor vitae, tree of life, white cedar
Description: Used for skin complaints such as oily skin and weak nails, urethral and vaginal infections, headaches from stress or excitement, warts, excess sweating, tooth decay, and swollen gums. People who require this remedy may be emotional, opinionated, and irritable. Symptoms are better from rubbing and pressure, and worse at night. (Jonas 265, Lockie 110).
Latin Name: Urtica Urens
Common Name: dwarf stinging nettle
Description: Used for irritated skin due to allergic reactions, rashes such as hives, burns, blisters, eczema, insect bites and stings, and rheumatism. In women, vulval itching, unhealthy breast milk, burning urine associated with cystitis. Symptoms are worse with touch and cool, moist air (Jonas 265, Lockie 111).
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