# Filix Mas

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
A fragmentary proving in Allen's Appendix records a case in which 15 to 20 drops of the 
tincture given three times a day to a woman suffering from bloated abdomen with more or less pain caused 
diminution of the  bloating. Also, severe prolapse of vagina. Pain and tenesmus of bladder with copious and 
frequent emission of urine, with intense pain. 
Filix was then discontinued and Chim. relieved the symptoms. They did not return afterwards, except after 
much walking or standing. 
The leading symptoms include a pale face with blue rings around the eyes, and blindness from atrophy of the 
optic nerve. Torpid inflammations of lymphatic glands. Pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients, no fever 
with limited, ulcerated lesio ns. Gnawing, boring pains in abdomen, worse after sweet things. Tapeworms. 
Soporific conditions.

## Symptoms by System

### Eyes
- Blindness, monocular amblyopia.
- Blindness, first mydriasis and amaurosis with normal fundus, eight 
days later, atrophy of optic nerve.
- Immobility of pupil.

### Face
- Pale face, blue rings around eyes.
- Female - Menstruation stimulated.
- Prolapse 
of vagina with pains and tenesmus of bladder and copious frequent emission of urine with internal pains.
- Abortion.
- Sterility.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Nausea.
- Sick after taking food.
- Temperature - Violent rigor, fever, great pain in abdomen with 
diarrhea and constant vomiting.
- COMMENTS - C.
- S.
- Spencer recorded this effect from taking capsules each contain ing ten minims of the oil 
of male fem for tapeworm: 
“A feeling of nausea, abdomen became painfully distended with colicky pains.
- Menses returned after only one 
week's absence and continued profusely for three weeks.
- Very sick after taking her food.
- The worm was got 
rid of and the capsules stopped when these symptoms passed away.” 
Hering said the best time to give the drug for expulsion of tapeworm is in the summer when the fresh root can 
be obtained.
- If an ounce of the grated root is given in the forenoon, usually the tapeworm comes away in the 
afternoon.
- Teste used it successfully in a case of violent dyspnea without cough, with stitches in region of heart and 
obscure symptoms of pericarditis.
- The patient was a young woman of lymphatico -nervous temperament and 
was much weakened by long sickness.
- Bloated.
- Gnawing and boring in bowels, worse eating sweet things.
- Great pain in abdomen with 
diarrhea and constant vomiting.
- Worm colic with itching of nose, pale face, blue rings around eyes.
- Painless 
hiccough.

### Extremities
- Numbness of right wrist.
- Nose - Itching of nose.

### Sleep
- Soporific condition.
- Restless and sleepless at night.