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Pilocarpinum Microphyllum
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Pilocarpinum Microphyllum Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm
The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Piloc is one of the most characteristic of several alkaloids which have been isolated from
jaborandi (Pilocarpus pin - natus).
It has been used like Jab to produce and cure profuse sweating, and by
oculists to produce contraction of the pupil, which it does whether it is injected subcutaneously or applied
directly to the eye.
It has also an action on the ear.
The hair as well as the skin is affected by Piloc., which is an ingredient in many “hair restorers." Schmitz of
Cologne treated two bald men with injections of Piloc mur.
to produce absorptio n of inflammatory residue
within the eye.
In both a secondary effect occurred, the growth of young downy hairs on the bald parts of the scalp.
One, age
60 in four months and his head covered “partly with gray and partly with black hairs” of considerable gr owth,
so as to entirely obliterate his previous baldness.
Piloc has also been known to turn white hair black.
In a case of lead paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body., it produced profuse salivation and sweat with sensation of great coldness and
excessive tremors of limbs.
Salivation and sweating speedily occur.
DilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart). of blood vessels, temporal artery becomes a thick, pulsating cord, veins of forehead stand out blue.
Exhaustion (after the perspiration) during which most of the patients fell asleep.
Faintness.
Temperature - Sensation of coldness and shaking chill without fall of temperature.
Increase of temperature
with feeling of intens e cold.
Sweat profuse, may lose Vom tow to tow powvts tu fet sw catwg.
After sweat,
thirst, feeling of relief and sense of increased vigor.
COMMENTS - G.
P.
Field gave it with good effect in labyrinthine deafness, tinnitusRinging or buzzing in the earsThe perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present. and auditory nerve vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement..
The cases least amenable to its influence were those in which the hearing was better in a noise as of a train,
etc and those in which the hearing is worse after a cold.
Subjects of syphilis, hereditary or acquired and
patients who are more deaf when tired, are the most suitable.
For eight weeks
she had saturated from six to ten handkerchiefs daily with tenacious saliva.
Nausea and vomiting were
constant, emaciation extreme.
Nausea worse by slightest movement.
Alternate redness and paleness of face, flushes of heat and perspiration.
Urine scanty, high colored, depositing
much uric acid.
Very chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets., obstinate constipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass..
Piloc was given, a teaspoonful every two hours.
The next day Wood found his patient sit ting up, cheerful and free from nausea and salivation.
The
improvemen,t with some fluctuations, continued.
Merc., Ip., Nit -ac., Kali-bi., Hydr., Cimic had all previously
failed.
A woman who had Piloc injections com plained to Cooper that thereafter she had been constantly catching
colds and had fears of getting bronchitisInflammation of the bronchial tubesInflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes, typically causing bronchospasm and coughing..
Her skin too, became irritable.
Piloc.
3x is Burnett's chief remedy in
mumps.
He regarded it (and Jab.) as an organ remedy of the sweat glands, parotid and pancreas.
Frohling related a case showing the power of Piloc over debilitating sweats left after acute diseases.
With
Merc.
12c he cured a case of rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. fever so far as the joint affection was concerned, but the sweats
persisted and strength declined in spite of remedies until Piloc was given, when the sweating stopped after
the first dose.
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📚Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
🩺Medical Verification & Disclaimer:
This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
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