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Sphingurus

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Sphingurus Martini · Prehensile-Tailed Porcupine · "The Porcupine Remedy"

AnimalRarePsoric✨ Clarke only

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 A remedy derived from the prickles of the New World porcupine, primarily affecting the hair, jaw, and digestive system.

📖 Clarke writes:

Spiggurus Martini (Mure). Histrix subspinosum. Histrix prehensilis. Tree Porcupine. N. O. Sphingurinae. Trituration of prickles taken from one of the sides.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Derived from the prickles of the New World porcupine (Sphingurinae)

•Proved by Mure using the 3x trituration

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Falling out of the hair, especially of whiskers

•Pain in the jaw-joint

•Pain in the right zygoma

•Itching of the pubes after taking tea

•Embarrassed speech

•Nausea at sight of food

Modalities

•WORSE Lying down

•WORSE After tea

•BETTER Walking in open air

•BETTER After dinner

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Hair loss, especially of the whiskers.

Clarke

Pain in the jaw-joint and right zygoma.

Clarke

Nausea at the sight of food.

Clarke

Violent pain in the urethra after urinating, worse from stooping.

Clarke

Itching of the pubes after taking tea.

Clarke

Embarrassed or difficult speech.

Clarke

Dizziness behind the head with prickling on the vertex.

Clarke

Bitter mouth with a salt taste.

Clarke

Knees feel weak and give way.

Clarke

Itching all over the body with bleeding after scratching.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

✨ Clarke Exclusive

🧠Mind

Use for capricious moods and a general sense that everything is disagreeable.

Capricious mood.

Everything is disagreeable to him.

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Tea

itching of pubes

↑Better from

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

Compiled from classical homeopathic texts in the public domain. Click any active source badge to open the original text. For educational and reference purposes only. Always consult a qualified homeopath for treatment.