# Symphoricarpus Racemosus

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

## Keynote Indications
Prof. S. Burdick investi gated the medicinal pr operties of many plants hitherto unused by 
the profession, including Symphoricarpus racemosa. 
Useful for persistent vomiting of pregnancy. Nausea during menstruation. Nausea, worse from any motion. 
Averse to all food, better when lying on the back. Gastric disturbances, fickle appetite, nausea, water brash, 
bitter taste. Smell and thought of food repugnant. Constipation. 
COMMENTS - When Burdick gave some of the Sym-r. to the first prover, a woman, she felt the marked nausea, 
and exclaimed, as soon as it w as produced, “Doctor, this is precisely like the morning sickness I always 
experienced during pregnancy.” 
Dr. Burdick became more interested, repeated the experiment with other provers, and obtained almost uniform 
results, viz., a feeling varying from qualmishness to intense vomiting. It was given to female provers only and 
merely tested far enough to verify that symptom. 
Upon this clue, Dr. Burdick gave Sym -r. in the higher potencies to patients suffering from the vomiting of 
pregnancy with the most satis factory results. After a trial of many years, he found it so far superior to other 
remedies that he relied on it altogether with rarely any but entirely satisfactory results.  
Burdick mentioned the drug in his course of lectures, so Moaffat bore it in mind waiting for a test case. Soon 
that came in the person of a young woman three months advanced in her first pregnancy.  
She was suffering from a deathly nausea with vomiting and retching so prolonged and violent as to produce 
hematemesis. The smell or thought of food was repugnant in the extreme. 
An examination disclosed no malposition or apparent cause for the trouble, so he procured some Sym-r. 200c 
from Dr. Burdick and gave her one dose in the midst of a violent paroxysm. 
In a few minutes she stopped vomit ing and said she felt soothed and quieted all over. In half an hour the 
nausea began again, but a few pellets checked it promptly and she fell asleep. Once during the night she 
awoke distressed and took a dose, but slept again quite soon. 
For a month or so she felt very well until af ter over-exerting herself she became nause ated once more, but it 
was promptly checked, nor did it return during her pregnancy. The indications have been observed in cases 
of pregnancy with a feeling of qualmishness, with indifference to food. 
In more severe cases, there is a deathly nausea, the vomiting is continuous, violent retching. Sym-r. does not 
seem to be con fined to any particular morning aggravation, a prominent symptom is the disgust at the sight, smell or 
thought of food. 
In one case, the patient was comparatively comfortable while lying on the back, but would be nauseated by 
the slightest motion of the arms, particularly raising them. The case was completely relieved by a few doses 
of Sym-r.

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