Garlic(MATERIA MEDICA): Infection





HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
Presented by Médi-T




ALLIUM SATIVUM
Garlic

Acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis.
Colitis, with pathological flora. Has vaso-dilatory properties.
Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty
to forty drop doses of the tincture.

Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections.
High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than
they drink. Pain in hip, pain in psoas and iliac muscles. Pulmonary
tuberculosis.

Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes normal, weight
is gained, and sleep becomes regular. Hæmoptysis.

Head.--Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.

Mouth.--Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night. Sensation of a
hair on tongue or throat.

Stomach.--Voracious appetite. Burning eructations. Least change in
diet causes trouble. Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels.
Tongue pale, red papillæ.

Respiratory.--Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi. Cough in the
morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is
tenacious and difficult to raise. Sensitive to cold air. Dilated
bronchi, with fetid expectoration. Darting pain in chest.

Female.--Pain in swelling of breasts. Eruption in vagina and on
breasts and vulva during menses.

Relationship.--Allium Sat according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the
Bryonia group, including Lycopod. Nux. Colocy, Digital and Ignatia
which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all
vegetarians. Hence their special applicability to meat eaters rather
than to exclusive vegetarians.

Compare: Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit.

Complementary: Arsenic.

Antidote: Lycopod.

Dose.--Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six
grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided doses.



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