Other names and synonyms
silphu.Description Source
Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
Rosin-weed (SILPHIUM).
Is used in various forms of asthma and chronic bronchitis сatarrh of bladder. сatarrhal influenza. Dysentery; attack preceded by constipated stools covered with white mucus.
Is used in various forms of asthma and chronic bronchitis сatarrh of bladder. сatarrhal influenza. Dysentery; attack preceded by constipated stools covered with white mucus.
Chest organs
Cough with expectoration profuse, stringy, frothy, light-colored. Excited by sense of mucus rattling in chest and worse by drafts of air. сonstriction of lungs. сatarrh, with copious, stringy, mucous discharges. Desire to hawk and scrape throat. Irritation of posterior nares, involving mucous membranes of nasal passages with constriction of supra-orbital region.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Aral; сopaiv; Tereb; сubeb; Samb; Silphion cyrenaicum (phthisis pulmonum, with incessant cough, profuse night-sweats, emaciation, etc); Polygonum aviculare (has been found useful in phthisis, when given in material doses of the mother tincture); Salvia (tickling cough). Arum dracontium (loose cough at night on lying down). Justicia adhatoda (bronchial catarrh, hoarseness, oversensitive).
Method of drug use and dosage
Third potency. Lower triturations preferred by some.