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A Prática Clínica
da Homeopatia
Contemporânea
Caso 17 – Reino Plantae – Nymphaeaceae

Reino Plantae - Nymphaeaceaee

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A Prática Clínica da Homeopatia Contemporânea

Sumário
NUPHAR LUTEUM 2
Nymphaea odorata .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Three cases of nuphar luteum (R. Tomassini) ............................................................................................. 5
Face eruption: Nuphar luteum .................................................................................................................. 5
Case C.F. 7 years old - female. ................................................................................................................... 9
Case 3 is the most similar to Sulphur. .................................................................................................... 14
Conclusion by Riccardo Tomassini, MD .................................................................................................... 17
Vermeulen Synoptic II Nuphar luteum...................................................................................................... 18
Cases ................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Reino Plantae
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Nuphar luteum

INDICADORES PARA NUPHAR LUTEUM

1. Compassivo; sofre ao ver o sofrimento de animais.
2. Intolerante à contradição.
3. Impotência sexual com ausência total de desejo e ereção, apesar de fantasias eróticas.
4. Aversão ao coito (mulheres).
5. Enterocolite. Diarréia que aparece nas primeiras horas da manhã.
6. Psoríase.
VIJNOVSKY
NUPHAR LUTEUM (Nenúfar Amarillo)
MENTALES
 1 No tolera la menor contradicción. Es muy compasivo, y le duele ver el sufrimiento de
los animales.
GENERALES
 2 Peor: el día siguiente al coito; al anochecer (debilidad y prurito).
PARTICULARES
 3 Pesadez cefálica. Cefaleas frontales, como si fuera en los lóbulos frontales del cerebro.
Pitiriasis en el cuero cabelludo, con prurito intenso y caída del cabello.
 4 Ve chispas brillantes estando al sol, que convergen hacia el centro, peor al toser.
 5 Gusto dulzón. Lengua blanca. Boca pastosa. Languidez en el epigastrio, con
gastralgias y digestión lenta.
 ** 6 Diarrea que aparece temprano y lo saca de la cama, de 4 a 6 de la mañana,
generalmente precedida de cólicos, con heces abundantes, amarillas, acuosas, fétidas,
seguidas de un marcado agotamiento y ardor en el ano. Pinchazos como agujas en el
recto.
 7 Arenillas rojizas en la orina, adherentes y duras.
 *** 8 Es uno de los medicamentos importantes de la impotencia sexual masculina, con
total ausencia de deseos sexuales y de erecciones, a pesar de las fantasías eróticas que
llenan su imaginación; con pene retraído y escroto relajado. Espermatorrea o pérdidas
senlinales durmiendo o al defecar u orinar, con total ausencia de erecciones, debilidad
y palidez. Pinchazos en los testículos, que se extienden a la punta del pene. Caída de
pelo pubiano.
 9 Dolor retroesternal cuando corre.
 l0 Dolor sordo en la zona lumbar izquierda. Puntadas en los flancos al caminar.
Sensibilidad de la región renal. Debilidad en los miembros al anochecer. Lupus en los
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brazos. Pinchazos en la cara posterior del muslo izquierdo. Inquietud y cansancio en

las piernas. Dolores agudos en la cara plantar del dedo gordo derecho.
 11 Placas rojas prominentes, cubiertas de escamitas plateadas, con violento prurito peor
al anochecer; al desaparecer, quedan manchas pálido rojizas o amarillentas. Psoriasis.
Pitiriasis capitis. Intoxicación por Rhus Tox.
Nymphaea odorata

INDICADORES PARA NYMPHAEA ODORATA

1. Símbolo da pureza.
2. Sonhos lascivos.
3. Suposição de reprimir e dissipar inteiramente o desejo sexual.
4. Ulceração da boca e garganta.
5. Diarréia matinal (como em Nuphar luteum).
HALE – THERAPEUTICS
Nymphaea odorata
It is not strange that this beautiful and odorous flower should have been selected as an emblem of
purity, and that the ancient physicians supposed it to have the power to repressing and entirely
dissipating venereal desires and sexual power. It is said that the priestesses and vestals in temples
devoted to the worship of Diana, used to sleep on beds made of the odorous water-lily, in order to
keep themselves chaste and pure. In later times, an infusion, syrup, or distilled water of the root was
given internally for excited sexual desires. Even as late as the time of Culpepper, it was advised in
"nocturnal pollutions and amorous dreams."
Allopathic physicians have not made much use of this plant, except where they have borrowed its
use in diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, etc., from domestic practice. Eclectics have used it to greater extent,
but their knowledge of its qualities is quite meager.
King mentions its use in ulcers of the mouth and throat. He says: "I recollect a lady who, several years
since, was pronounced by several physicians to have uterine cancer, and which resisted all their
treatment. She was permanently cured by a squaw, who gave her to drink freely of the decoction of
a root, as well as to inject it into the vagina, which proved to be that of the White-pond-lily."
Nothing is said by any American writer in relation to its action on the functions of the sexual organs.
Dr. P.H. Hale informs me that he has prescribed an infusion of the root as an enema in many cases
of acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea, supposed to be caused by ulceration. The tincture was given at the
same time internally, and the leucorrhoea was cured with surprising rapidity.
I have been informed by many women that they have cured themselves of an obstinate leucorrhoea
by the use of an injection of an infusion of the fresh root.
If the root will act as a rubefacient when applied externally, it requires no stretch of imagination to
believe it acts homoeopathically as a topical application in chronic inflammation, erosion or abrasion
of the vagina and cervix uteri. I conjecture that it acts very similar to the lotions so popular in such
cases, with our school, namely: a mixture of the tincture, or Aqua Calendula with Glycerine; or more
nearly still, to Hamamelis, Calendula and Glycerine.
In order to ascertain whether it had any influence in repressing unnatural sexual desires, I once
administered the tincture of Nymphoea to a hysterical woman, who was much troubled by amorous
dreams, voluptuous sensations in the genitals, and uncontrollable flow of sensual thoughts. She took
ten drops every three hours for a week, with no perceptible effect on those symptoms.
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In the Winter of 1865-6, one of the class in Hahnemann Medical College proved it under my direction,
but no symptoms of sexual depression were induced during the experiment. If the drug had any
effect it was to slightly excite the genital organs. The only noteworthy symptoms related to the
urinary organs, lumbar region, and throat. It caused, apparently, some soreness of the throat in both
experiments. This proving, however, need to be substantiated by others before its symptoms will
possess much value.
Nymphaea odorata

(white pond lily.)

Botanical description
The white pond-lily has a blackish, large, fleshy perennial root or rhizoma, growing in mud where
the water is from three to ten feet deep, and is often as thick as a man's arm, sending up leaves and
flowers to the surface. The petioles are long, somewhat semi-circular, and perforated throughout by
long tubes or air vessels which serve to float them. The leaves are floating, orbicular, sometimes
almost kidney-shaped, peltate, cordate-cleft at the base, quite to the insertion of the petiole, the lobes,
one each side, prolonged into an acute point, entire, reddish, with prominent veins beneath, dark,
shining green above and five or six inches in diameter. The flowers are large white, or rose-colored,
and fragrant. A western species, the N. tuberosa, is odorless. The sepals are four, lanceolate, green
without, and white within. The petals are numerous, lanceolate, from an inch to two and a half inches
long, of the most delicate texture, white, sometimes tinged with purple on the outside. Stamens
numerous, yellow in several rows. Filaments dilated gradually from the inner to the outer series so
as to pass insensibly into petals. Anthers in two longitudinal cells growing to the filaments, and
opening inwardly. Stigma with from twelve to twenty-four rays, very much resembling abortive
anthers, at first incurved, afterward spreading. The pericarp is berry-like, many celled, many seeded.
This plant grows in ponds, marshes, and sluggish streams, flowering from June to September.
 Officinal preparations: Tincture of the fresh root; with strong alcohol.
 Analogues: Asarum, Agnus castus (?) Baptisia; Calendula; Eryngium, Hamamelis;
Nuphur; Phytolacca (?)
We have but one proving, which was made by Dr. Edwin Cowles, at Hahnemann Medical College,
Chicago, in 1865. One object of the proving was to ascertain whether its ancient reputation, as an
aphrodisiac, could be substantiated. The only noteworthy symptoms related to the urinary organs,
lumbar region, and throat. It caused, apparently, some soreness of the throat, in both experiments.
This proving, however, needs to be substantiated by others before its symptoms will possess much
value.
 Head: Lascivious dreams. Feeling of dullness. Headache, through the temples, with
severe coryza.
 Throat: Sore throat, with roughness and tingling. Frequent desire to swallow, with
painful deglutition.
 Bowels: Pain in hypogastric region. Pain in the bowels and back. Thin stools, with slight
burning.
 Urine: Sensation on urinating, as if the urine had not all passed. Increased flow of urine.
Slight involuntary passing of urine.
 Back and lower extremities: Pain in the back and lower limbs. Great weakness in the
lower lumbar region.
CLARKE
 Clinical. Back, pain in. Coryza. Diarrhoea. Throat, sore.
Hale mentions this emblem of purity and its traditional reputation as a dissipator of venereal desires.
There has been only one proving (by Dr. Cowles), and no definite clinical experience.
Like Nuphar, it has early morning looseness of bowels.
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1. MIND - RESTLESSNESS - night ( a1 ) 1 249

2. MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased ( a1 ) 1 237
3. MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased - night ( a1 ) 1 18
4. BACK - WEAKNESS - Lumbar region ( k ) 2 99
Three cases of nuphar luteum (R. Tomassini)
Face eruption: Nuphar luteum
Case January 1997
This is a case of a thirty-year-old woman that I have known for years, as we have some friends in
common. She has a degree in natural science and up to a short time before the visit she lived in a
house with a garden where she kept various animals: dogs, cats, rabbits, geese, etc.
I haven't seen her for a long time, but I remember her as a small woman, a little overweight, polite,
but rather unwilling to strike up a friendship and stay with other people, and she is easily in a bad
mood when one jokes too much with her. She got married not long ago and now lives in a flat without
a garden.
She says:
'An eruption appeared on my face; it is red color with subcutaneous itching pimples and my skin
became dry, and no one has understood them. The eruptions appear around my nose and my mouth,
even under my chin. In a word, it's as if I had a beard. I have used 500 billion ointments, more or less,
all of them with cortisone, but after a short time they aren't effective anymore; moreover I can't put
on cortisone for the rest of my life. I have also taken antihistamines which help, but I can't use them
all my life either.'
Since when have you had the eruptions?
'It appeared two to three years ago in December and it went away with lotion. Then, last winter it
came back again. I felt better in March, after my marriage, but in June it was horrible and it has gone
in this way with ups and downs until now and nobody knows why.
I feared an allergy to chocolate, but I have done research and I am not allergic to anything; but I eat
a lot of chocolate. I am not able to restrain myself. I eat mountains of chocolate before my menstrual
period. Anyway, I always need to eat sweet things; without them I would die.'
'Among other things I suffer from atrocious headaches, especially during my periods. When I have
a headache I can't bear light or noises; it seems like there are two hammering daggers here in my
temples, and I can't bear the light. I have to stay lying in the dark and immobile. Yes, two daggers. If
I sleep it usually goes away. It happens the day before or the day after my period. When I was very
young and up to the age of eighteen, I vomited, fainted, suffered from stomachaches and backaches
with my periods. It was a disaster. Then, I began taking the pill, because otherwise I was very unwell,
and so I felt definitely better. Now I have been using the pill for four to five years uninterruptedly. I
also feel swollen and in my opinion this is due to the pill.'
Then?
'This has nothing to do with it, but I have terrible nightmares: I dream about wars. I dream that I am
being bombed - that everywhere there are planes bombing. I am in my house, the one by the sea, and
there is a group of planes bombing, and I don't know where to run away to, while there are some
people who remain indifferent. I wake up very anxious. Other times I dream about tortoises that are
born in my garden, that come up from the ground and I am worried about them. I often dream about
tortoises, more than other animals. I also dream of horses because having a horse is the dream of my
life. Then I dream that my dog has been left in my parents' house. I haven't yet dreamt about the dog
I have now. Then I have parrots, canaries and many other animals. Another dream is that I still have
them, but I have to run away because there is a war and I have to leave. I fear that they will die of
hunger or might escape from the (aviary) greenhouse.'
How is your relationship with animals?
'I have always been very fond of them. I have had many. I speak to animals. Some would consider
me mad. An animal died and I cried like an I-don't-know-what. I cry also for human being's death. I
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painfully live this thing of death. Death is not a tragedy rationally, but if someone dies I cry without
being able to restrain myself.'
What do you think about death?
'I have lived another life. For me there must be something. I believe in aliens, in ghosts. I am not
afraid of them, but I believe in them.'
Do you feel for others?
'I share with everyone. I can't see suffering babies going hungry. These wars, people killing each
other - that's enough. I can't bear it anymore.'
What about your personality?
'I am quite calm. I was shy and perhaps I still am, but I mask it. It is necessary to do the best one can.
I like to stay in nature in quite places. I go scuba diving and it is wonderful.
Before marrying I had a house with a garden and animals. Now, I live in a flat and for me this has
been a tragedy. There is no greenery and so I have filled the house with plants and gotten a dog.
Living here has been upsetting; buildings are high here and they make me anxious. If I could I would
go to live in the countryside. The house has a northern exposure and I need the sun. I am a little
animal needing the sun, and not having it is hard for me.'
Other problems?
'I don't sleep much. I am not able to fall asleep before 1 am.'
Fears?
'Claps of thunder. I can't bear them. Moreover, my teeth have always been decayed. My milk molars
broke into lots of little pieces. I have always had nosebleeds too.'
Crying?
'I cry very often and I like being made a fuss over. I ask for it if I don't receive it. As a child I didn't
receive enough love, at least not enough for me. I felt I was neglected and my father was never
present. But I think it was my idea that I was neglected and that my mother loved my brother more
than me.' (Actually, as I know her family, I believe her feelings are not wrong.)
Analysis
This is the repertorization of the case.
MIND; LOVE; animals, for (and)
MIND; LOVE; animals, for; suffering (as) sympathetic for animals (in a combined rubric)
MIND; SYMPATHETIC
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; General
FACE; ERUPTIONS; General; mouth; around
FACE; ERUPTIONS; itching
SKIN; ERUPTIONS; itching
HEAD PAIN; LOCALIZATION; Temples
MIND; DREAMS; battles (and)
MIND; DREAMS; war (and)
MIND; DREAMS; air; attacks (in a combined rubric)
MIND; WEEPING, tearful mood; tendency
GENERALITIES; FOOD and drinks; chocolate; desires (not included)
MIND; FEAR; thunderstorm, of (not included)
I noted Natrum muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum, but they fail in many aspects that I consider
essential in order to prescribe them. So my attention was captured by Nuphar luteum and I chose it
with expectation.
Nuphar 30 CH in drops, morning and evening for at least ten days. Later on, I spoke with her by
telephone and I told her to continue taking the remedy in cycles for just a little more than three
months. (By cycles I mean - give the remedy for a few days, then wait and then give it again for a
few days and then wait. I don't use this method because I prefer to give the remedy until the
appearance of reactions and then wait the amelioration without prescription until the reappearance
of symptoms.) When she came for the visit she had stopped the therapy after about twenty days.
Follow-up after three months
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I see the patient again in April. She tells me:

'I feel good. Everything has gone away on my face; I don't have pimples anymore, just some normal
small boils. I haven't taken the pill for three months and my period still goes well. I lost three kilos.
And I am cheerful. I haven't even eaten chocolate anymore. I like it, but I don't crave it like before
when I couldn't do without it. Now, let's talk about what isn't doing well. The skin on my face is dry
and also on my hands. It's very dry and I put cream on continuously. The skin on my face is always
drawn too, so I have to use cream.'
Since when?
Ten to fifteen days, since I stopped the treatment. I forgot about cellulitis and that my hands and feet
swell especially in the evening because of fluid retention. It bothers me. Sometimes certain shoes
don't fit. Then I easily feel pins and needles in my arms and legs. If I cross them, they tingle.'
Since when have you been suffering from retention and tingling?
'Always. The retention was much worse when I took the pill, but it is genetic because my mother
suffers from it too.'
As for the rest?
'I feel much better than before. I am happy with the result of the treatment. Also my temper is better
and I wake up well. Before I woke up badly and I didn't want to get up. I would never get up, because
I was tired and very sleepy, but now things are better.'
Headache?
'Very little, almost nothing. Even without taking the pill I didn't have any pain at the onset of my
period. It has gone well for three months.'
Dreams?
'Always so many. They seem like movies.'
Bombing?
'Not any more. I dream that I go underwater and breathe like a fish. It's fantastic.'
Anything else?
'I dream of horses, but also think about them when I am awake. I would like to have one, but it's not
possible.'
Tortoises?
'No, not any more. I dream I have to take a graduation examination and I say that I have a degree so
I haven't to take it.'
And with animals?
'Things go well. I am always very fond of my creatures.'
How is your adaptation to the new house?
'Better. I'm getting used to it and I don't consider it to be so narrow and closed anymore.'
And what about death?
'My goodness! A neighbor of mine died a few days ago. I was sorry, but I reacted in a different way
than before. I felt more detachment, less involved. Now, he is well; he is in peace. Before he suffered,
and if things must go so, it's better to have an end. Now he isn't suffering anymore.'
Crying?
'No more, not even one time.'
Epistaxis?
'No, never.'
Follow-up after six months
I prescribed the same remedy, 30CH in cycles, indicating that she would act according to the
situation or, if in doubt, she would telephone me.
She didn't call me and came back for the visit in July, a month after complete cessation of the remedy.
A few days before the visit she fainted at the onset of her period.
She tells me: 'I almost always fainted up to the age of eighteen, with pain. This time I felt a terrible
pain and I felt as if I was going to be sick and then I fainted. I wish it would never happen again.
Then I recovered consciousness and I felt sick, but no more pain. In all, it maybe lasted about fifteen
minutes. As for the rest, everything is going very well.'
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(Actually, she hasn't had any more problems with her skin, headache, crying or fear of death.)
I prescribe the 30 CH dose again, in cycles, advising her to take it when she is near her period. Five
months later she felt very well. In particular she didn't have any problems with her periods any more,
or headaches, which she tells me she had tried many various treatments in the past years, without
any result. I decide to wait.
Follow-up after two years
The patient comes back a year later (in December 1998) during which she has taken the 30 CH dose
from time to time, at the onset of her period, always with very good results. She also tells me that in
spite of the fact that she is still very fond of animals, she feels less sensitive to them than before. In
the end, she adds that she had forgotten to tell me that her teeth had always been very sensitive and
aching, with dental caries, before the treatment. Each tooth with small caries was very painful. She
hasn't felt any pain and she hasn't had any new caries for a long time.
I prescribe the 30 CH dose in cycles again, as needed. During the winter the remedy helped her to
get over a form of influenza.
Follow-up after three years
The patient took the remedy only before menses until January 2000. Then she had head pain and
menses pain again and repetition of 30 CH failed. I prescribed LM6 in March, to be taken for 20 days.
There was a headache and I stopped the remedy. In June 2000 she was doing well without any
repetition of doses, so I think that the remedy was curative.
Refusing to answer
Nuphar luteum
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Case C.F. 7 years old - female.

First visit in June 1998.
The patient's mother contacts me before the visit and tells me that her daughter has problems of a
relational nature; she doesn't speak at all outside of her house. On the contrary, she has no problems
with her parents. She preferred to come and talk freely of these problems before letting her daughter
enter.
The mother's story:
'Since she was three I began to realize that if she was questioned, she didn't answer either adults or
children. When a baby visited she withdrew into herself as long as he/she stayed there. I thought
she would improve by going to nursery school, but when she was three she didn't even want to go
there; she only clung to me. We managed it when she was four. During the first year she only went
a little because she always fell ill, and there she didn't speak. She spoke a little at the end of the year.
The following year: nothing. She didn't speak the whole year. Perhaps the teachers weren't capable,
but she didn't fit in at all; she walked up and down the room and didn't even approach the others. I
took her to neurologists and psychologists and they advised me to help her get friendly with other
children by letting them play together in the presence of their parents. But it is not easy. She improved
a bit, little by little, and now she speaks with two children who we have seen many times. She hardly
speaks in her class.
She has also begun reading. She didn't do it before, as she is shy and insecure too, and she reads
badly. It turned out that she didn't read at all. By socializing she has improved a little.
On the contrary, she speaks at home continuously. Outside, she passes as a dumb person. When she
plays with other children and is asked to run towards a certain place, she doesn't even try to run; she
gives up at the beginning. I think it is due also to her character. Moreover, up to the age of four or
five she was always with her grandparents or with adults. Now, she wants to see children; she has
said that she wants a sister too. Previously, she wanted a cat or a tortoise.
Shyness?
'I think so, seeing that if she is asked for, she doesn't answer. It is as if she is afraid...'
Insecurity?
'I've let her have her way almost always, and I was told this could cause insecurity. If someone
reproaches her, she stops immediately. Not with me. If I reproach her, she gets a little bit nervous,
she answers me, she tells me: "Shut up! Let me speak". She wants me to let her have her way. If she
gets something into her head, she insists and doesn't change her mind. I have noticed that she grinds
her teeth at night. I hear it because she still sleeps with us.'
Why?
'She always woke up during the night and I discovered that with us she managed to sleep, and so.'
Is there anything else?
'She seems to have a strong character at home, but not outside, where she seems to be afraid.'
Fears?
'She tells me that she doesn't want me to die or to get old, but this is a fear that I have too. She often
doesn't want to remain alone in her room or she wants to be accompanied to the bathroom.'
How is her relationship with medical doctors?
'She goes there willingly.'
And what about her diet?
'She has appetite, but only for pasta and bread. She doesn't want meat, fruit or vegetables. Perhaps,
it is due to her love for animals.'
Do you have any animals?
'We have a cat, fish and tortoises. The cat was mine. She asked for the others. I have always loved
animals too; it's a family thing. She worries about animals when she sees meat and ham.'
And to animals in the street?
'She is very fond of cats. She wanted to feed them too; fortunately, we have managed to distract her.
Now, she would like to have a kitten or birds, but I have convinced her to get another fish. She also
wants a sister, otherwise, she says, she gets bored. I think she has thought about it going round with
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the two children that are sisters to each other.'

(I let the child come in, and she enters with her father.)
I tell her that we were talking about animals, and I'd liked to know what animals she has.
Immediately she begins speaking willingly.
'I have a fish, a tortoise and another tortoise and a cat and a frog.
(I go on asking her about things about animals, and before answering she always thinks about it a
little bit.)
What about diseases caught in the past?
Her mother answers: 'Chicken pox. As for other diseases, she was given vaccines.'
Would you like to have more animals?
The child answers: 'Yes, one more cat, and a dog. And canaries.'
Have you ever been to the zoo?
'Yes several times.' Her mother: 'She also says that she wants to become a veterinarian.' Her father:
'Yes, when she pretends, she is a doctor for animals. She visits them, takes care of them.' Her mother:
'Tell the doctor how many teddies you have.' Child: 'I have many of them. The biggest is a dog.
White, pink and black.'
The smallest one?
'A cat.'
Which one do you prefer?
'A black and white cat.'
Do you sleep with them?
'Yes.'
With how many of them?
'I don't know.' Her mother: 'About ten, more or less, in her bed. Then there are others on her
cupboard. It's a sort of invasion. Also when she was a baby, she always wanted games dealing with
animals. She didn't speak yet, but she pointed out games with animals. She put the animals in line,
like a zoo. She played a little with "Barbie", but much more with animals.'
Do you dream about animals?
'Yes, I dream about the cat, the seal and the bear.'
What do they do?
'They are still.'
And you?
'I wasn't there.'
Did you see them?
'Yes.'
Did you ever become frightened?
'No.' Mother: 'She likes grasshoppers and locusts too. She wants her father to pick them up.' Father:
'Yes, she also wants lizards, hornets and bees.'
Do you dream about tortoises? (I made this question because I was thinking of a similar case.)
'Yes, I have dreamt that I woke up and there was a bathtub with many tortoises, even big ones and
fish. Then Dad took them and put them in another tub and one of them bit him and there were also
fish. I put the tortoises in the tub too, but the small ones.'
(It is to be noticed that she doesn't talk about her dreams in general, while she talks about the one
with tortoises in a completely different way; she is much more involved.)
Analysis
In case two also we find the same relationships problem of case one, but in a larger aspect.
I chose the following symptoms:
MIND; LOVE; animals, for; human being, with great difficulties for (2)
MIND; LOVE; animals, for (13 (and)
MIND; LOVE; animals, for; suffering (3) (as combination rubric: sensitive to animals) (15)
TEETH; GRINDING; sleep, during (52)
MIND; ANSWER, answering, answers; aversion to (80) (and)
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MIND; ANSWER, answering, answers; refuses to (34) (in combined rubric) (89)
MIND; TIMIDITY (156) (and)
MIND; EMBARRASSMENT (17) (in combined rubric) (160)
MIND; EMBARRASSMENT; strangers, in presence of (4)
The differential diagnosis between remedies was easy because I didn't recognize any aspect of other
remedies present in the repertorization.
Sulphur is the only remedy with some aspects that seem similar, but there aren't important
symptoms of this remedy.
On the other hand I think that Nuphar could be very similar to Sulphur in many symptoms. There
was another reason to prescribe Nuphar.
I prescribed Nuphar Luteum 30 CH in drops, morning and evening, for at least two weeks.
After a telephone consultation she continued to take the remedy for two months.
Follow-up after four months
I saw her again two months after stopping the remedy, four months after the first visit.
She comes in and waves to me cheerfully. She wears some pendants round her neck - the kind one
can find inside a common packet of crisps. Two of them are of animals, one a pumpkin and one a
skull. When I ask her which one she prefers she tells me the ones representing animals.
Mother: 'She says she prefers the second standard in the primary school to the first one. She has also
learned to read, even if she is lazy. Anyway, things are much better.'
In what?
'In everything. Also her teachers feel the same way. She even goes to other classrooms to ask for the
chalk.'
And her friends?
'Now she has more friends than before. She goes to dance lessons, too. She often sees her friends,
and if she doesn't she becomes nervous; she is much more sociable. There is no comparison. It began
last summer and then, little by little, things have gotten better and better.'
And what about grinding her teeth during sleep?
'I haven't heard it for a long time.'
Animals?
'Her passion for them is still the same. Last summer we lost a small tortoise and we bought another
one.' Child: 'It was in the garden. I was looking at the big one. The small one went away and we
never found it again.'
And what do you play with now?
Mother: 'Now, she plays with her dolls, not only with animals.'
Fears?
'At this time she is afraid to remain alone in a room, but we don't know what she fears.'
Has she spoken of her mother's old age or of death anymore?
'No, not anymore. Perhaps her fear of remaining alone began after a movie that frightened her. In
particular there was a scene in which a horse was drowning and she burst into tears.'
I prescribed the same remedy for her, 6 LM in drops, in cycles.
Postscript after two years
Since this time, I have been in contact with her mother periodically, but I have not visited her child
again, because she feels very well. She is sociable and perfectly integrated into her school. She hasn't
had any problem in her relations outside of her family and she is enjoying excellent health. The
remedy helped her also when she had common seasonal influenza, which passed without any
problem and in a short time.
Inflammation of urethra
Nuphar luteum
Case
V.V. , a 34-year-old male veterinarian.
First visit on January 1998
The patient appears with a lifeless facial expression and a vacant glance. He looks dirty and shabby,
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his nails chewed and dirty.

He begins to tell his story:
'I have various problems, among which is a little chronic urethritis. I've done everything to cure it:
antibiotics, antifungal products, but uselessly. Years ago I was found to have chlamydia, and then
the test was doubtful and later negative. But it always troubles me a little. It gets worse with influenza
or masturbation. My girlfriend lives in another region and sometimes she has had fungi, but I have
had the tampon tested and the result is negative. I don't know what to do anymore. Even from an
emotional point of view, things are not excellent. I have left this girl twice, already. Perhaps I was
hurt years ago by a girl that I loved more than the others. She lived in another town too. I've always
had difficulties with women, with the female sex, also with cohabitation. I've always had girls that
lived a long way from my town. I've left two girls who lived in my town shortly after, even if I would
have preferred to remain their friend. At the university many girls ran after me, but I was in love
with the one that was not in the circle and with my ideals, and so I lost many occasions without doing
anything. They were ideals of life too. I wanted to go to South America with this girl, to do guerrilla
warfare. On the contrary, I stayed in Italy working as a veterinarian. I wanted also to go to Africa
and to natural parks, but I have not found concrete occasions to do so.
I think that I only drink a little, but according to my girlfriend I drink too much. I've taken drugs,
almost all kinds except heroin. I smoke - tobacco and even hashish - but only occasionally. I've never
run after a joint. If it appears, good, if not, never mind. I'm insecure, because I tend to accumulate
things: books, CDs, whatever generally interests me. I also work a lot in order not to tackle the
problems I have. I'm successful in my job. I've also worked as a volunteer in a dogs' home and for
many years I've been registered in naturalistic associations. I was active in radical politics and now
I'm a Rifondazione party member (post-Communist Italian party): in short a full life, too full. I've
performed as a theatre actor, choral singer, and things like that. Now I do religious practice, because
I'm a Buddhist and I do Aikido as a martial art. As for the rest, I can't do much since I work a lot. The
sexual, emotional side has always taken second place also, because I don't have the courage to tackle
problems.'
What problems?
'I also had short homosexual experiences, many years ago. I've always had troubled sexually. I
dream of a woman with ideals. I'm not satisfied with little. Now, I am having a love affair with a girl
four years older than I am, and her flaw is that she is passive. She's tired; she wants to sleep. It's a
relationship that leaves me very unsatisfied. We seem to be friends, apart from when we have sexual
intercourse, which she always finishes too early. I would prefer longer things, with sex games.'
What else?
'When I was a child I fell in love with my mother. When I was 14, I dressed up as a woman, obviously
only at home... then I masturbated, this is it.'
And what about the girl you loved very much?
'The distance made things go badly. I was deeply in love with her, even if my mother says that I left
that girl. I said that seeing the distance, if an affair had occurred we could have lived it. I made a
stupid mistake. I asked her if I could have a affair with a French girl. We left each other. Then, we
started again and left each other again, but my feeling towards her is still alive, even if I no longer
have possibilities with her after these six years have passed.'
What about guerrilla warfare?
'Everything started while reading Che. I felt great injustice. I've always hated Americans and their
government and I wanted to go and solve their problems. I intended to take part in the Brigate Rosse.
The fact that my father is a high-ranking official of Carabinieri played an important role. He is very
authoritative, even if he has been domesticated by my sister, who looks very much like me.'
How is your relationship with animals?
'As a child I petted all the dogs I met. Then I worked as a volunteer. Anyway, I'm very severe with
my animals. I have a little dog and to make it understand things, I've even smacked it. I have also
five cats, and if they did things at home I immobilized and smacked them a little. I've had other dogs,
but things didn't go well. Two of them ran away and one died, but it was not my fault.'
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What is the effect of animals' suffering on you?

'I'm sorry, but I'm used to it by now. It was worse before.
If you see them being ill-treated?
'I react, even if I've ill-treated my dog. I was undecided about giving it away or not, but then it
became very unwell. It saved itself, and so I've understood how important it is for me and I've cried
many times, but I've avoided crying before. Anyway, I have a very sweet relationship with animals.
I pet them; I kiss them, even too much. My teachers said that I should be more detached. I studied
law earlier, because I wanted to go into politics, but I changed my mind because of my passion for
animals, and I thought that I could do politics in any case. It comes to my mind now that I watch
hard porn movies and I read pornographic magazines. Then, I feel dizzy.'
Dizzy?
'I suffer from vertigo, but not in the mountains. Balconies and stairs give me vertigo. It's worse if I'm
stressed. Studying exhausted me and this improved with acupuncture. I've been to a psychologist
too.'
Have you ever felt strange sensations or seen strange images and colors?
'That happened with LSD: devils on the windscreen, lights, colors, but only in that situation.'
What else?
'Perhaps a certain inferiority complex towards my sister who is older than me, even if I was more
brilliant than her at school.'
And what about masturbation?
'It happens often. I watch a movie and then...Or from time to time I took a bra and then...it
happened...'
What's your attitude towards what is transcendental?
'It's something really important. I've tried to believe in our religion. I also joined Azione Cattolica,
but later I didn't get on well with it, and a friend of mine had spoken to me about Buddhism. I began
and then continued. I have to say that I've also traveled a lot. I've lived in several towns. I've always
moved without any problem. I've hitchhiked without any destination, with only my sleeping bag.
For a certain period of time I went around with a football team, later for a girl, now for courses,
congresses or for leisures, but I spend a little time on leisure. I have a very busy life, full of activities.'
Anything else about your urethritis?
'It's constant, painful, but it doesn't get worse if I urinate. If I masturbate, it gets worse. It's like a
sharp pain inside, constant.'
Any worsening?
'If it worsens I feel a major burning sensation. It worsens if I get flu. If I have sexual intercourse, it
doesn't get worse. When I was nineteen I had a fistula and anal rhagades. Moreover, I have always
wanted to live any kind of experience, to learn from experience and then to judge. To try and know
how it is.'
Have you ever suffered from diarrhea?
'I've forgotten to tell you about it. If I'm stressed or because of exams, I have diarrhea. Even three to
four times. On holiday I feel well. My stool are also sputtering and stinking, but never with blood.'
What time of the day do you usually have diarrhea?
'It may happen in the morning. I get up and have two discharges in half an hour. Food can cause it
too.'
Dreams?
'I can't remember them, now. Before, I used to write them in order to analyze them. I used to dream
about love, feelings. Many of them related to animals, but I can't remember now.'
Problems concerning others?
'I share with people a lot. I'm a blood donor, and I'm in the list of bone marrow donors. I've been
registered in Amnesty International. My problem is showing my affection to the girls I date, and
living a close relationship with them, staying with them. On the contrary I share with animals a great
deal. They are different, and they're at a lower level than we are. I also had humbler friends with
problems and I tried to help them. I've also defended ethnic minorities.'
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What do you think about death?

'I fear it a little. Cemeteries fascinate me, I used to go there at night to walk, even with a girl who
still loves me, but who I've never returned my love to. Now I see animals' death with more
detachment. I've gotten used to it. But not for my animals; I cry for them.'
Repertorization
MIND; FEAR; high places (24) (and)
VERTIGO; HIGH places (12) (as: high places agg.) (24)
MALE; MASTURBATION, disposition to (73) (and)
FEMALE; MASTURBATION disposition (51) (as masturbation) (78)
MIND; SYMPATHETIC, compassionate (45)
MIND; SYMPATHETIC, compassionate; animals; suffering, feels great pain seeing suffering animals
(3) (and)
MIND; LOVE; animals, for (13) (as love for animals) (15)
RECTUM; DIARRHEA; morning (158)
RECTUM; DIARRHEA; morning; bed, driving out of (34)
URETHRA; PAIN; stitching (116)
URETHRA; INFLAMMATION (83)
Case 3 is the most similar to Sulphur.
From diarrhea in the morning to the mental aptitude of the patient, many symptoms seem to look
like Sulphur. But 'Sympathetic' is unknown for Sulphur and it is also present in Nuphar. Also the
genital tropism is well known for Nuphar even if in this specific symptom it is absent.
So I prescribed Nuphar.
In the repertorization, we can see Phosphorus and Calcarea phosphorica also, but there are neither
the fears and hemorrhages of Phosphorus, nor themes of Calcarea phosphorica, like the ambivalence
between the desire for independence and the lack of strength to obtain it.
Nuphar L. 30 CH in drops twice a day, and later 0/6 LM in drops, repeated in cycles of about twenty
days every month.
Follow-up
I see the patient again five months later. He has spontaneously stopped taking the remedy.
He now appears a little bit quicker.
'Urethritis seems to be much better. Diarrhea on alternate days, but only a discharge. As for
sentimental relationships, I'm a little cold. I'm not at ease with her. A baby is coming, but I don't feel
like having it. She absolutely wants it; moreover she lives in the north. The baby will grow without
his/her father.' (He says this with regret.)
What do you think about it?
'That the baby will grow up imperfect, unbalanced, full of complexes, shy.'
Can't you find a solution?
'I think not. She doesn't want to come and live in my town, I cannot go to hers because of my job... I
want to work, to earn; I'm a go-getter. I can, even if I don't feel like it. I need a woman close to me at
night, not only on the weekends. I had too many of them like this.'
And as for your child that is coming?
'I don't feel like becoming father. I want to do something else, to enjoy myself, to work, to go round
or to have an ever-present woman, to live with someone and not to see her only on the weekends.'
What else?
'As for the rest, my morale is not so good. I'm tired and I feel like leaving.
How do you feel with animals?
'Everything goes very well.'
What about your emotional sharing with them?
'Perhaps it is lower. Sometimes I'm nervous and I ill-treat my animals; sometimes I'm very sweet. It
depends on the time. But I'm tired of always having them with me. I've taken a house with a garden
so I can leave them there. I have two of them, and another one is coming; I took it in from the street.
Then I took one kitten, a stray with an eye to be taken off, poor thing!'
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Politics?
'I didn't commit myself, but I have registered at two animal associations.'
Any kind of drugs?
'A little hashish. I wanted to try a barbiturate, but it befuddled me and so I haven't taken it anymore.
It was an experiment.'
Death?
'I've spoken about it with a friend of mine, I would like to make a cemetery for dogs. I think death
is a time of passing. We believe in reincarnation, and so I don't fear death very much.'
Masturbation?
'Just sometimes, but less than before. If I watch a film....'
Fear of the void?
'I fear it, but the vertigo has passed away.'
I insist on the 0/6 dose in cycles. He takes it for a long time randomly. He comes back eight months
later.
He starts speaking:
'There is family news. I had a baby three months ago. My partner and I are doing very well together.
Our child has linked us with each other, and now I'm convinced of it - me who didn't want him! The
fact is that she lives far away. I'm a little nervous, anxious. If I'm very stressed I get a little dizzy, but
I have an exhausting life.
As for urethritis, if I take the remedy it goes well. If I stop taking it, it comes back later, or if I
masturbate. With my girlfriend, if it happens, it's very beautiful also from this point of view,' (he
means from the sexual point of view), 'and so I never feel pain. I fear that I could suffer again from
exhaustion because of fatigue like years ago. I should stop.'
What about your intestines?
'I suffer form diarrhea, but not always. If I take the remedy, it is better. It depends also on the stress.
I'm not constant and a little untidy, I don't know if it is evident.' (Actually one can notice it
immediately.)
High places?
'They annoy me just a little bit.'
Animals?
'My relationship with them is always good, even with mine. Sometimes I can't stand them, but I
always feel a great love for them.'
He continues taking the remedy and six months after the latest visit he still feels physically well. As
for the relationships with his son and his partner, things go very well. He has changed some things
at his work in order to spend more time with them.
Later I gave a higher potency by telephone (18 LM for few days) and after a short initial accentuation
of symptoms, every physical symptom disappeared. I don't know the following psychological
evolution of the case because he didn't come back to visit any longer.
I think that the remedy was correct but, because of the many repetitions needed of the remedy, the
potency was initially too low.
Conclusion
I use the Complete Repertory of MacRepertory and I usually use the default strategy to analyze the
cases.
Massimo Mangialavori has been a friend of mine for many years and we have taught together since
1997 (the year of the founding of our Italian homeopathic school). We talk a lot about materia medica
and homeopathy in general. Many years ago we talked about Nuphar and he told me his opinion.
Later on I studied the remedy in the repertory too, and I agreed with his opinion.
These cases are a clinical confirmation of his ideas.
In accordance with Massimo, I think that love for animals and difficulties in relationships are two of
the most important themes of this remedy.
Cases two and three show both the problems well. In Case one, the difficulty in relationships is less
evident, but I had known the patient well for many years before her visit and I had noted her
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difficulties for many years.

I think that important aspects of the remedy are:
* Oversensibility and difficulties in relationships
* Sexual troubles
* Tendency to elimination with difficulties in elimination and/or non-physiological elimination (i.e.
eruptions and diarrhea especially) or aggravation with elimination
* Weakness (especially related to elimination)
I think that both love for animals and sexual problems are strictly connected to the difficulty in
relationships. This seems the aim of the psychological problem of Nuphar and it is perhaps the
expression of the difficulty to manifest him/herself in the world.
I need to underline that the behavior with animals could be ambiguous. We can often see love for
animals or fear for some of them or tendency to ill-treat some of them. This could be another aspect
of the difficulties in relationships, but this is a hypothesis. I have noted in three or four cases a
particular sensibility toward turtles - dreams, less love, 'suspiciousness' or, on the contrary,
admiration, but I'm not sure of this symptom. Finally I noted a big problem with death: fear and a
tendency to avoid the problem with an incapacity to accept this event.
Physical triggers of the remedy are:
* Head (pain)
* Skin (eruptions and itching)
* Rectum (diarrhea)
* Genitals (every trouble)
As a conclusion I need to say a little about repertorization. The choice of symptoms is very subjective
and I could speak for hours to explain why I take one symptom and not another.
I will try to explain something about it. Generally we have many symptoms in each case, often too
many! I think that it's very important to understand the patient first and his/her problems. This is
the only way to choose the important symptoms. For instance, in Case one, 'Fear of thunderstorms'
is a symptom, but it doesn't represent the patient. Eruptions, headache, love for animals are aspects
that describe the aim of the case. 'Desire for chocolate' could be a good symptom (i.e. , a
representation of profound problems with parents) but we know that it is a bad rubric because there
are only a few remedies.
Riccardo Tomassini, MD
I.R. M.S. O.
Via Paolo Emilio 32
00192 Rome
Italy
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Conclusion by Riccardo Tomassini, MD

 See three cases of Nuphar luteum
I use the Complete Repertory of MacRepertory and I usually use the default strategy to analyze the
cases.
Massimo Mangialavori has been a friend of mine for many years and we have taught together since
1997 (the year of the founding of our Italian homeopathic school). We talk a lot about materia medica
and homeopathy in general. Many years ago we talked about Nuphar and he told me his opinion.
Later on I studied the remedy in the repertory too, and I agreed with his opinion.
These cases are a clinical confirmation of his ideas.
 In accordance with Massimo, I think that love for animals and difficulties in relationships are
two of the most important themes of this remedy.
Cases two and three show both the problems well. In Case one, the difficulty in relationships is less
evident, but I had known the patient well for many years before her visit and I had noted her
difficulties for many years.
I think that important aspects of the remedy are:
 Oversensibility and difficulties in relationships
* Sexual troubles
* Tendency to elimination with difficulties in elimination and/or non-physiological
elimination (i.e. eruptions and diarrhea especially) or aggravation with elimination
* Weakness (especially related to elimination)
I think that both love for animals and sexual problems are strictly connected to the difficulty in
relationships. This seems the aim of the psychological problem of Nuphar and it is perhaps the
expression of the difficulty to manifest him/herself in the world.
I need to underline that the behavior with animals could be ambiguous. We can often see love for
animals or fear for some of them or tendency to ill-treat some of them. This could be another aspect
of the difficulties in relationships, but this is a hypothesis. I have noted in three or four cases a
particular sensibility toward turtles - dreams, less love, 'suspiciousness' or, on the contrary,
admiration, but I'm not sure of this symptom. Finally I noted a big problem with death: fear and a
tendency to avoid the problem with an incapacity to accept this event.
Physical triggers of the remedy are:
 Head (pain)
* Skin (eruptions and itching)
* Rectum (diarrhea)
* Genitals (every trouble)
As a conclusion I need to say a little about repertorization. The choice of symptoms is very subjective
and I could speak for hours to explain why I take one symptom and not another.
I will try to explain something about it. Generally we have many symptoms in each case, often too
many! I think that it's very important to understand the patient first and his/her problems. This is
the only way to choose the important symptoms. For instance, in Case one, 'Fear of thunderstorms'
is a symptom, but it doesn't represent the patient. Eruptions, headache, love for animals are aspects
that describe the aim of the case. 'Desire for chocolate' could be a good symptom (i.e. , a
representation of profound problems with parents) but we know that it is a bad rubric because there
are only a few remedies.
Riccardo Tomassini, MD
I.R. M.S. O.
Via Paolo Emilio 32
00192 Rome
Italy
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Vermeulen Synoptic II Nuphar luteum

Signs

Nuphar luteum. Yellow Water Lily. Frog Lily. N.O. Nymphaeceae.

Perennial aquatic herb, grows to the surface of the water from a thick horizontal rootstock. Growing
on long peduncles, the flowers open as the sun rises, after a few hours gradually closing, being
entirely closed during the midday heat and at night. The scented flowers are visited by bumblebees,
bees, flies and beetles, which usually bring about cross-pollination. The fruit is shed when ripe, and
it floats around for a long time before it disintegrates. The plant grows all over Europe, Siberia and
Iran. The name comes from the Persian word nufar, a reduced form of ninufar, from Sanskrit
nilotpala [from nila, blue, and utpala, lotus].
 "Water-lilies [Nymphaea] were well known to primitive Man who, groping for signs and
portents of the Deity, saw in their blooms living symbols of regeneration and
purification. Their manner of rising with the return of the rains, pure and undefiled from
the mud and slime of dried up watercourses suggested immortality, purity and
resurrection... Professor Goodyear ascribed to Water-lilies a high place in the arts of thirty
centuries before Christ. From its twisted petals he traces the Ionic capital and from that
the Greek fret or meander. This doubled becomes the swastika, earliest of all symbols
and according to the way it faces the representative of good or evil, male or female, light
or darkness. The well-filled seed pods suggest the cornucopia, emblem of fertility and
another old symbol." [Perry]
The flowers of Nuphar are smaller than those of Water-lilies. They will grow in deep, shaded or
running water - all situations which do not suit Nymphaeas. The tuberous rhizomes have been used
for tanning purposes and fed to stock. The seeds can be roasted like popcorn.
Although less appealing to the imagination, Nuphar has an equally long history as Nymphaea.
Paracelsus praised it as a good remedy for affections of the uterus and called it a 'coagulativum.' The
French preparation of Nuphar flowers, 'Eau de Nénuphar,' were traded as an anaphrodisiac.
 The constituents of Nuphar and Nymphaea are almost identical.
 Both have a digitalis-like glucoside and an alkaloid that affects the smooth musculature
of the intestines and the blood vessels.
 Animal experiments carried out in the middle of this century isolated an alkaloid that
puts animals into a kind of hypnotic state.
 Proved by Pitet [on himself].
 Compare: Phosphorus. Sulphur. Lycopodium. Iris. Picricum acidum.
 Region: Brain. Gastrointestinal tract; rectum. Sexual organs. Skin.
Leading symptoms

M Sympathetic.
"Great moral sensibility; acute pain on witnessing suffering of animals."
M Impatience at slightest contradiction.
G Weakness after coition; from diarrhoea.
G Complete absence of sexual desire.
Voluptuous thoughts do not cause erections.
G Sore, bruised pains [head; thorax; posterior part of thigh].
agg. Jar [walking].
P Pressive pain in forehead and temples.
amel. Open air.
and Dull pain and sensation of weight in orbits.
"You may find it useful in some headaches attending depressed condition of the generative organs."
[Hale]
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P Brilliant sparks before the eyes when coughing [hard].

P Acute or chronic enterocolitis.
Yellow diarrhoea in early morning [between 4 and 6 a.m. ]; sour, offensive.
agg. Slightest error in diet. ["Least excess of any kind."]
agg. After coition.
and Sense of exhaustion in epigastric region.
and Depression of sexual functions.
P Skin.
"There appeared on different parts of the body a number of red blotches, tolerably regular in outline,
ovoid or circular, prominent, and covered with little scales of a silvery white, in short, resembling
psoriasis; there were a few on the posterior surface of the arms, but they were most abundant on the
anterior surface of the legs; they itched violently, especially in the evening; friction removed the little
scales, which were rapidly reproduced, remained a few days, and then fell off again from the
scratching induced by the itching; this eruption lasted a month and a half; as it disappeared, and the
scales ceased to be reproduced, the skin at the place of each blotch became pale red or yellowish
[after ten or twelve days]." [Allen]
Rubrics

 Mind: Intolerance of contradiction [1]. Voluptuous thoughts [2].

Head: Falling out of hair [1]. Painful sensation of heaviness in temples, in morning [1]. Violent
itching of scalp at night [1]. Motions in head while walking [1].
Eye: Painful heaviness in right orbit [1/1].
Face: Pale discolouration [1].
Stomach: Acrid eructations [2].
Abdomen: Pain during daytime [1]; before stool [1]; agg. after stool [1].
Rectum: Diarrhoea in morning, driving out of bed [1]; after breakfast [1]; painless [1]. Burning
pain during diarrhoea [2]. Urging agg. after stool [1].
Prostate: Emission of prostatic fluid during stool [2]; on straining [1].
Male: Seminal emissions in morning during pressing at stool [2]; seminal emissions without
erections [2]; during sleep, without erections [2; Dios.]. Retraction of penis [2]. Sexual desire
diminished [1].
Female: Aversion to coition [1].
Extremities: Stitching pain in thigh amel. pressure [1].
MURPHY
Nuphar luteum (yellow pond-lily)
 Pharmacy: Nuph. Nuphar luteum. Nymphaea lutea. Yellow pond lily. N. O.
Nympheacee. Tincture of fresh root. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, tincture
to sixth potency.
 History: Nuphar left the Yellow Pond Lily, was proved by Pitet and many of his
symptoms have been clinically confirmed. Planets: Venus.
 Homeopathic: Nuph. has a yellow diarrhea coming on in the early hours of the
morning. With the diarrhea is great exhaustion. Nuph. has cured many cases of
diarrhea so characterized and even cases of typhoid fever. Produces nervous weakness
with marked symptoms in the sexual sphere. Sexual weakness and pollutions. Pityriasis
capitis very much aggravated with much itching and falling out of the hair.
 Clinical: Cholerine. Colitis. Diarrhea. Dyspepsia. Exhaustion. Headaches. Impotence.
Psoriasis. Rhus poisoning. Seminal emissions. Typhoid fever.
 Modalities: The diarrhea was worse 4 to 6 a.m. , worse after the least excess of any kind.
Weakness and itching were worse evening. Walking causes painful shocks in hams and
pain in flank, which was better by pressure. Worse day after sex.
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Symptoms

Mind: Impatient of slightest contradiction. Excessive moral sensibility, acute pain in witnessing
sufferings of animals.
Abdomen: Entero-colitis. Colicky pains all round waist, worse 5 to 7 a.m.
Back: Dull pain left lower lumbar region. When walking painful stitch to flank. Better by pressure.
Sensitive on kidney region.
Chest: Pain behind sternum, when running, as though subjacent organs violently shaken.
Eyes: When standing in sparks filled field of vision, converging from circumference to center.
Head: Heaviness of head. Bruised shaking in brain. Dull pains in front part of base of brain on level
of orbits. Lancination in right and left anterior lobes of brain. Headaches attending depressed states
of generative organs.
Limbs: Weakness and loss of power in limbs, worse evening.
Male: Complete absence of sexual desire, parts relaxed, penis retracted. Impotency with involuntary
emissions during stool, when urinating. Spermatorrhea. Pain in testicles and penis. Weakening
nocturnal omissions while convalescing from typhoid.
Mouth: Sweetish taste. Tongue white, mouth pasty.
Rectum: Smarting and burning at anus after every stool. Stitches as from needles in rectum, above.
Much exhaustion with stools, sense of exhaustion in epigastric region.
Skin: Violent itching. On different parts of body red blotches tolerably regular in outline, ovoid or
circular, prominent and covered with little silvery white scales. As eruption disappeared, scales
ceased to be reproduced and skin at place of each blotch became pale red or yellowish.
Stomach: Painful sensation of weariness in stomach. Digestion slow, wind colic with liquid, sour-
smelling stools. Exhaustion in epigastrium.
Stool: Yellow diarrhea, worse in the morning. Diarrhea during typhoid. Soft stools preceded by some
colic for several days or painless diarrhea. Stools: liquid, yellow, fetid.
Urine: Urine deposits copious reddish sand, which is hard and adheres to the vessel.
Comments

Another marked feature of the proving was the excessive depression of the male generative system.
Nuph. has done good work in analogous conditions and headaches associated therewith.
Compare

(1) in sexual weakness, Agnus, Kali-br., Lyc., Sel., Yohimbin. Nymphea odorate.
(2) In diarrhea: Chel., Gambog., Sulph.,
(3) Early morning diarrhea: Sulph., Nat-sulph., Rumex, Podo.
(4) Sexual debility, Gels., Con., Dig., Nat-m., Chin.
MIND
1 - Excessive moral sensibility, giving one great pain on witnessing the sufferings of animals
(eleventh day).
CLARKE

Clinical. Cholerine. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Headache. Impotence. Psoriasis. Rhus poisoning. Seminal
emissions. Typhoid fever.
Nuphar l., the Yellow Pond Lily, was proved by Pitet, and many of his symptoms have been clinically
confirmed. Most marked was a yellow diarrhoea coming on in the early hours of the morning. With
the diarrhoea is great exhaustion. Nuph. has cured many cases of diarrhoea so characterised, and
even cases of typhoid fever. Another marked feature of the proving was the excessive depression of
the male generative system; and Nuph. has done good work in analogous conditions, and headaches
associated therewith.
The diarrhoea was < 4 to 6 a.m.; < after the least excess of any kind. Weakness and itching were <
evening. Walking = painful shocks in hams; and pain in flank, which was >> by pressure. < Day after
coitus.
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Compare: Early morning diarrhoea, Sul., Nat. sul., Rumex, Pod. Sexual debility, Gels., Con., Dig.,
Nat. m., Chi.
1. Mind.
Impatient of slightest contradiction.
Excessive moral sensibility, acute pain on witnessing sufferings of animals. @
Cases
Case 445:
Virginia S., had typhoid fever already, for 3 weeks, when I was called to see her. The fever, during
its whole course, partook more of the abdominal character; she had, in 24 hours, twelve to fifteen
liquid, yellow and foetid stools; the pulse was small and miserable; emaciation extreme; and her
whole state in such a depression, that only an unfavorable prognosis could he given. As the stools
were especially frequent between 4 and 7 in the morning, I prescribed, without hesitation Nuphar
luteum, of the 12th dilution, a dose every 2 hours, and some beef tea in the interval. The next night
she had only five passages towards morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening; the second
night, three; the third none; and in the fourth reconvalescence was fully established.-Bibl. Hom. S. L.
Case 446
An old man, 71 years old, suffered from Cholerine since a week, in spite of Laudanum, Bismuth, etc.;
and was already in the last stage of marasmus. After taking Nymphoea lutea, for 12 hours, the stools,
the chief cause of the exhaustion, were arrested, and he could take nourishment suitable to his state.-
Bibl. Hom. S. L.

Case 447
Miss B. 54 years old, suffers since several weeks from entero-colitis, with severe colicky pains in the
rectum, and the characteristic stools of the Nymphoea. At the same time, she shows, in different parts
of her body, psoriasis, with great itching. Nymphoea12 cured in three days the intestinal affection,
and eradicated, quickly, the exanthema. Bibl. Hom., April, 1870. S. L.
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