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Chimaphila Maculata
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🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for sudden, intense headaches with visual disturbances and digestive issues associated with fever.
📖 Hering writes:
Chimaphila Maculata.
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
Chim-m. * Full text * Red and blue only * Red only
Spotted Wintergreen. Pyroleaceae.
Grows in the woods of North America.
Proved by George H. Bute on himself and members of his family, also clinically verified by him.
Provings by Dr. H. P. Gatchell, in A. O., vol. xiii, p. 75, 1876. Prof. H. C. Wood, in his Materia Medica, p. 476, pronounces it "the inert congener of Chimophila umbellata." The United States Dispensatory, Wood & Bache, says, "it probably possesses similar virtues." The umbellata and the maculata, although easily distinguished, have been strangely mixed up, or still more strangely separated. By some the maculata has been pronounced inert. The Indians declared it to be poisonous. If the latter opinion rests on correct observation and experience, it could only be explained by the supposition that the maculata has volatile properties which the other has not. Both the Chimophila maculata and umbellata are old Indian and popular medicines. They are proved by Jeanes and G. Bute as long ago as 1840 and 1856. It was particularly the latter prover who began to separate the symptoms of the two. The Indian doctors used only the umbellata and avoided the maculata, which they thought poisonous, a difference which to us would be a recommendation. Darlington, Flora Cestrica, says, "maculata possesses properties similar to the umbellata, but in a lesser degree." Rafinesque, a good authority, regards the effect in sickness, preferring maculata (mentioned in his book as a Pyrola), and gives each to a different sub genus, calling the maculata Chimophila and the umbellata Pipsissewa.
[It is against the genius of the Greek language to spell Kreosote with an a (see Gross' Comparative Materia Medica), and a scholar will never adopt such Ballhornian improvements (see N. J. Lucas' Dictionary of English and German language, vol. ii, p. 239), and yet we find the same blunder, in a reversed form, committed in spelling the Greek name of this dear little wintergreen.].
👤 Constitution
•Adapted to mild, amiable, refined, sensitive, intellectual persons.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sudden headache accompanied by dimness of vision.
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Headache so severe and disorienting that the patient must be led to bed.
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Sudden headache located above the eyes.
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Headache symptoms are aggravated by lying down.
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Diarrhea occurring in conjunction with worm fever.
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General feeling of being light-headed during acute attacks.
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Visual impairment associated with cranial distress.
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Acute digestive disturbance linked to febrile conditions.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Sudden headache with dimness of vision
- •she had to be led to bed ;
- •felt light-headed..
Sudden headache above eyes ; WORSE on lying down.
Sensation of lightness in head.
Momentary unconsciousness.
Pressing frontal headache ; WORSE after lying down.
Frontal headache with fulness in stomach and belching.
Pain in and above forehead.
Rheumatic tearing pain in temples.
Dull, heavy pain in whole front and top of head.
Sharp pains and heat in interior of head, unfitting for exertion.
Wants head pressed.
Headache with pain in bowels.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Afternoon
Painful stiffness in right hip and leg
↑Better from
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Chimaphila Umbellata →Pulsatilla Pratensis →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Hering's Guiding Symptoms↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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