Taxus Baccata

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Taxus Baccata Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
GENERAL
  • Tax is for pustular diseases of skin and night-sweats.
  • GoutArthritis with severe joint pain and swellingA disease in which defective metabolism of uric acid causes arthritis, especially in the smaller joints of the feet. and chronic rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
  • Pains in the knees, elbows and back.
  • Slight tremor over whole frame.
  • Trembling.
  • Convulsions.
  • Fainting and collapse.
  • Relaxation of muscles.
  • Cancer, chemotherapy effects
MODALITIES ETC
  • Worse by pressure, by application of liquids.
  • Worse before and after each meal.
  • Worse after sex.
  • Coughing causes headache.
  • Deep breathing causes cough.
  • Rubbing imp roves the itching of eyelids
RELATIONSHIPS
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Antidotedby: Staph - prostration with oppression after an embrace. Compare: (1) Ars., Bell.,
Nux-v., Colch., Dulc., Kali phos., Lyc. (2) The Coniferae. (3) Load at stomach, Abies -n. (4) Rapid digestion,
Sulph. (5) Podagra, Urt-u.
RÉFERENCES - Boericke. Clarke.

MIND
  • Impatience, which unfits the patient for mental application.
  • DeliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations..
  • Stupor.
  • Delirium.
  • Stupor
HEAD
  • Supra-orbital and temporal pain on right side with lachrymation.
EYES
  • Pupils widely dilated.
  • Drawing with lachrymation and pressure.
  • Lachryma tion of left eye.
  • Itching of external angle of left eye.
  • Burning itching in eyelids.
  • Vision dim
EARS
  • Polyps in the ears
FACE
  • Puffy and pale.
  • Looks ill.
  • Face livid, convulsed.
  • Lips are purplish, livid, black brown, especially upper.
  • Frothing at mouth
MOUTH
  • Sensation of coldness in teeth.
  • Mouth dry.
  • Burning pricking on tongue excoriated, moist, tremulous.
  • Saliva hot, acrid.
  • Saliva increased, extremely viscid, acrid.
  • Bitter taste like that Taxus baccata of Cinchona.
  • Nose - A round spot of a reddish-brown color, on the end of the nose with desquamationPeeling or shedding of skin layersThe shedding or peeling of the outer layers of the skin, typically in scales or sheets, following inflammation or infection. of skin
CHEST
  • Oppression, when stomach is either too full or too empty or else with pain below xiphoid cartilage.
  • Sharp pain in left side.
  • Chest full and hot.
  • Lungs engorged.
  • Irregular action of heart.
  • Pulse rapid, slow, feeble, small, wiry, almost imperceptible.
  • Violent and fatiguing cough.
  • Short cough after every meal, excited by full inspirations with oppression
ABDOMEN
  • Feeling of emptiness, must eat frequently.
  • Violent hunger, soon after breakfast with general uneasiness and weakness in region of stomach.
  • Aching, burning and pinching in region of stomach.
  • Pain in pit of stomach and region of navel.
  • After eating, cough.
  • Feeling of pins and needles at pit of stomach.
  • Nausea with accumulation of saliva.
  • Retching.
  • Vomiting ending in death.
  • Vomit, tenacious, containing bile.
  • Temperature - Perspiration from least ex ertion with great prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. of strength.
  • Profuse night -sweats.
  • Commencing with shivering followed by dry heat of hands and feet.
  • Offensive viscid sweats with itching and redness.
  • COMMENTS - The symptoms of the Tax pathogenesis are made up of poisonings by leaves and berries and also of provings by Gastier.
  • Fainting is a very prominen t feature with Tax.
  • And, in the fatal cases there are convulsions, collapse and syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain..
  • Death from yew poisoning, said Cooper, is remarkably painless.
  • “Empty feeling” in the stomach was prominent and it was noted that the digestion was very rapid.
  • “Must eat frequently.” Gastric catarrhInflammation of mucous membranes with dischargeExcessive buildup of mucus in the nose or throat, associated with inflammation of the mucous membrane. is set up with vomiting of tenacious mucus.
  • Increased saliva, viscid.
  • Pustular skin affection.
  • Large, flat, strongly itching pustules.
  • Viscid sweat.
  • Shooting pains in the toes.
  • Gout.
  • Irritation in the kidneys and bladder.
  • Disturbed heart.
  • Tax has been recommended as a substitute for Dig., being considered superior to the latter in having no cumulative effect.
  • On the suggestion of Cooper, Clarke once gave a single dose of Tax tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. in a case of ear polyps (bright red) with catarrh in a youth with the result that the polyps shriveled up to one-third of its former size.
  • Tension in abdomen, as if the stomach were overloaded.
  • Squeezing and tension across abdomen.
  • Aching in umbilical region.
  • BorborygmiStomach gurgling or rumbling soundsGurgling, rumbling, or splashing noises heard from the abdomen, caused by gas moving through the intestines..
  • Violent hunger.
  • Frequent want to eat with activity of digestive functions.
  • Kidneys - Cutting pain at base of kidneys which allows him neither to sit still nor stand up and even prevents turning in bed.
  • Urinary tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain..
  • Frequent want to urinate with difficult emission in a fine stream.
  • StrangurySlow, painful, drop-by-drop urinationA painful condition characterized by the slow, spasmodic discharge of urine drop-by-drop, accompanied by a constant urge., urine red
GENITALS ETC
  • Flow of semen without erection or sexual pleasure for several successive nights.
  • Great excitement during sex.
  • After sex, weakness and great oppression.
  • Uterine cancer and tumors
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Numbness of limbs and paralysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. after several sweats.
  • Sharp, transient, wandering pains.
  • Contusive and incisive pain, which hinders walking.
  • AbscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. at right knee.
  • Violent pinching in left calf.
  • Tingling crawling sensation in whole left foot.
  • Lancinations in hand.
  • Burning dry ness of palms of han ds.
  • Dull pain in joints of fingers.
  • RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pain in fingers
BACK AND NECK
  • Drawing pain in muscles of neck (left).
  • Constant pain in back.
  • Sa cral pains, which allow no rest either in a standing or sitting posture and which compel the patient to remain in bed.
  • Incisive pain in sacrum.
  • Pain in shoulder blade, which subsequently removes to loins
SKIN
  • Large, flat, itching pustules.
  • Badly smelling and offensive night -sweats.
  • Peculiarly offensive sweat with eruption of vesicles.
  • Podagra.
  • ErysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face..
  • All hairy parts become denuded.
  • Black jaundiceYellowing of the skin and eyes from bile pigmentA medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin..
  • Skin red.
  • Body covered with pustules.
  • Miliary eruption of large pimples.
  • Dry tetter causing much itching
SLEEP
  • Sleeplessness during whole night, yawning without inclination to sleep

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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.
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