====== DRYOPTERIS FILIX-MAS ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Filix Mas.</span>

<span grade2>{{anchor:s2}}Male Fern. {{anchor:s3}}Filices.</span>

{{anchor:s4}}"Galen, Theophrastus, and Avicenna speak of it as a vermifuge medicine. {{anchor:s5}}Dioscorides adds to this its capability to induce sterility and abortion."

{{anchor:s6}}Fragmentary provings by Berridge, Med. Inv., N. S., vol. 3, p. 282.

{{anchor:s7}}The tincture must be prepared from the fresh root; "old preparations and tinctures won't do. {{anchor:s8}}The best time for curing tapeworm is, therefore, the summer season, when the root of Filix mas may be obtained in a fresh state. {{anchor:s9}}It is grated and taken in the course of the forenoon, to the amount of an ounce. {{anchor:s10}}Usually in the afternoon, the tapeworm, rolled up in a lump, takes its departure". {{anchor:s11}}(A. H. Z., 80, p. 141).

====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======

{{anchor:s13}}- <span grade2>Tape-worm</span>, (100 cases reported), B. J. H., vol. 22, p. 322; (24 cases), Ogle, B. J. H., vol. 23, p. 273; (2 cases), Lobeth, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 804; Müller, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 388; <span grade2>Worms</span>, Werber, Rck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 804.

====== MIND. [1] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s15}}Irritable and cross.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s16}}~</span> <span grade3>Worms.</span>\\ {{anchor:s17}}Great anxiety; loss of consciousness.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s19}}Itching of nose.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s20}}~</span> <span grade3>Worms.</span>

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s22}}Pale face; blue rings around eyes.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s23}}~</span> <span grade3>Worms.</span>

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s25}}Furred tongue. <span sbita>{{anchor:s26}}~</span> Worms.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

<span grade3>{{anchor:s29}}Loss of appetite.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s30}}~</span> <span grade3>Worms.</span>

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s32}}Coffee amel. the numbness in right arm.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s34}}Painless hiccough, starts 10 minutes after meal, lasting 15 to 30 minutes.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Tightness in left hypochondrium, extending forward to middle line, causing difficulty of breathing, in a warm room, in the evening after sunset; amel. walking in open air; kept her awake in bed till 1 A. M., on awaking next morning, the same; amel. after a Turkish bath.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s38}}Bloating of abdomen.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s39}}Gnawing and boring in bowels, agg. eating sweet things.</span>\\ {{anchor:s40}}Abdominal pains.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s42}}Ineffectual urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Pappy stools.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s44}}Gnawing and boring in bowels, agg. eating sweet things; constipation; loss of appetite; furred tongue; pale face; blue rings around eyes; itching of nose; irritable and cross.</span> <span grade2>{{anchor:s45}}~</span> <span grade3>Worms.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s46}}Symptoms indicative of worms, particularly when constipation is present.</span>\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s47}}A woman who had repeatedly passed segments of tape-worm was seized with severe colic which quickly disappeared under Filix mas, and was followed eight days later by discharge of tape-worm, 50 inches in length.</span>

====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======

{{anchor:s49}}Menstrual function stimulated.

====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======

{{anchor:s53}}Causes abortion.\\ <span grade2>{{anchor:s54}}Sterility.</span>

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s56}}Numbness of back of right wrist, extending up radial side of arm to just above elbow; felt as if the use of the limb would go; then the same feeling in left wrist, but transient and slighter; afterwards the same in a small spot on right vertex, rather anteriorly; afterward in anterior right shoulder; the numbness seemed to be in the bone in every case.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s58}}Restless and sleepless at night.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s60}}Evening after sunset; tightness of left hypochondrium.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s62}}Warm room: tightness of left hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s63}}Open air: amel. tightness of hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s64}}Turkish bath: amel. tightness of left hypochondrium.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

<span grade2>{{anchor:s66}}Worm fever.</span>

====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======

{{anchor:s68}}During 15 or 30 minutes: hiccough.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s70}}Right: numbness in arm; numbness of wrist, extending up arm; numbness in small spot on vertex; numbness in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Left hypochondrium: tightness in; wrist numb.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s73}}As if the use of the limb would go Abdominal pains.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Gnawing: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Boring: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s76}}Tightness: of left hypochondrium.\\ {{anchor:s77}}Bloating: of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Numbness: of right arm; of back; of right wrist, extending up arm; left wrist; right vertex; right shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Itching: of nose.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s81}}A large majority of the patients cured were young girls or women.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 05, 1887 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r987|Dryopteris Filix-mas]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r987|Dryopteris Filix-mas]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1887 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}