- Scroph-n., according to Dr. Cooperof London, has an esp ecial affinity for breast tissue.
- Adenoma and cancer come within its curative range.
- Enlarged glands.
- Hodgkin’s disease.
- Epithelioma.
- Nodosities in the breasts (Scirr.).
- Breast tumors.
- ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. swellings (Cist.).
- Threatened abscesses that show no sign o f disappearing.
- Lupoid ulceration.
- Tubercular testis.
- EczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches. of the ear.
- Vaginal itching.
- Painful hemorrhoids🩺 HemorrhoidsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Pain in all flexor muscles.
- Cutting pains in the joints (Rhus🌿 RhusMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.-t.), but more intense and longer-lasting, worse by rest and i n open air, better i n warm room.
- Darting pain from knee to ankle joints, which feel stiff.
- Weakness, languor, wants to lie down.
- COMMENTS-Scroph-n was proved by Franz, and later in America by W. H. Blakeley, who took from 10 to 60 drops of the tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. several times a day.
- Blakeley’s provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. showed pain in sigmoid flexure.
- Both Franz and Blakely noted pains in the liver.
- The most remarkable of Franz’s Scroph-n symptoms included excessive drowsiness in forenoon, in afternoon, and before and after eating.
- Sensation of a soft body in the gullet.
- Constriction of the chest.
- Op pression of chest with trembling as after much weeping.
- A sickly, giddy feeling with a sense of weakness and sinking at pit of chest, too weak to speak, along with pain from forehead to back of head.
- Most of these symptoms were confirmed by Blakeley.
- Gerard mentioned “hard kernels” and painful, swollen hemorrhoidsPiles or swollen veins in the rectumSwollen, inflamed blood vessels around the anus or lower rectum, causing pain, itching, or bleeding. as its indica tions.
- Cooper saw Scroph-n., in the form of a poultice, relieve peritonitis🩺 PeritonitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. affecting the lower abdomen.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. from slight vexation occurred in Franz’s proving.
- Cooper gave Scroph-n to a patient who had been poisoned by an Indian arrow poison which produced inflammation and suppurati on of the glands.
- Scorph-n relieved a most painful condition of the rectum and purulent discharge that had kept up for years afterwards.
- Cooper reduced strumous glands with it, cured deafness in a “bull-necked” patient, and cured a case of sycosis using Scroph-n externally as well as giving it internally.
- ’ “Nodosities in the breast” is another indica tion of Cooper’s.
- Temperature-Chilliness for several hours on moving about in cool air, after rising in morning, passing off with profuse sweat, followed by stupor and absence of all symptoms.
- Body feels dry and hot with burning sensation, followed by profuse sweat.
- Eczema around the navel.
- PeritonitisInflammation of the abdominal liningInflammation of the peritoneum, the silk-like membrane that lines the inner abdominal wall and covers organs..
- Pain in sigmoid flexure.
- Pain in right hypochondrium, worse deep inspiration or lying right side.
- Twisting pinching pain in umbilicus (left side).
- Dull, heavy, periodic pain worse when abdomen compressed, legs extended.
- Colic just below navel.
- Griping below naval, in the side in afternoon, 7 a.m., after a slight vexation.
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