{"id":1522,"remedy_name":"Fucus Vesiculosus","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Psoric Miasm","temperament":"Neutral","aggravation_time":"Neutral\/Anytime","keynote_indications":"Fuc. is a tissue remedy of great power and must be compared with lod., of which it contains \na large proportion. \nDigestion is improved and flatulence dimin ished. Obstinate constipation, forehead feels as if compressed by \nan iron ring. \nVery weak and restless. Thyroid enlarge ment in obese subjects. Obesity and non toxic goiter,  also \nexophthalmic. Goiter has been cured with it in teaspoonful doses of the tincture given two or three times a day.","modalities":"","symptoms_by_system":{"Head":"Intolerable headache, forehead felt as if compressed by an iron ring. Headache with hemorrhages. \nBurning at vertex. Nausea, vertigo, and slight headache. \nKidneys - Frequent desire to urinate. Urine contains much blood. Intolerable headache, forehead felt as if compressed by an iron ring. Headache with hemorrhages. \nBurning at vertex. Nausea, vertigo, and slight headache. \nKidneys - Frequent desire to urinate. Urine contains much blood.","Eyes":"Sight dim.","Face":"Face became yellow.","Chest":"Difficult breathing. Sense of suffocation, especially during menses. Inclination to cough, causing him \nto spit blood. \nNose - Nosebleed.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Vomiting of bright red blood. COMMENTS - Anshutz wrote \u201cThe following letter, by Dr. J. Herbert \nKnapp to the Homeopathic Recorder, was publishedin 1896: \u2018After treating many cases of exophthalmic goiter, \nI have come to the conclusion that I have found a specific for that disease in Fucus vesiculosus, (sea-wrack). \nI might record one case. \n\u201c \u2018Mrs. Mary B., age 24 years, German, came into my clinic at the Brooklyn E. D. Homeopathic Dispensary to \nbe treated for swelling of the neck of several years duration. I gave her the tincture of Fucus ves., thirty drops \nthree times a day. The treatment began December 1, 1895 and patient was discharged cured, on October 2, \n1896. Would be pleased to hear from any others who have had any experience with Fucus vesiculosus.' \n\u201cSo far as I now remember, this is the only hint I ever receive which led me to try in goiter. At the same time, I \ndo not feel sure of this. I had met in some medical journal \na statement respecting the relation of this drug to goiter, which fact led me to look it up in the \u2018Eclectic \nDispensatory.' But if so, I cannot recall the authority. \n\u201cAt all events, I was led to try the remedy in a pronounced case of goiter with such goods results that I have \nnever since given any other remedy for that disease either in the exophthalmic or in the uncomplicated form.  \n\u201cWhat is more, I have never  known it to fail to cure when the patient was under thirty years of age. After that \ntime of life or about that period, it seems to be no longer efficacious. \n\u201cI have now used it on more than twenty - four cases with the same unvarying result and never with any other \nresult-that is, no unpleasant consequences have ever accompanied or followed its use. \n\u201cI published this fact in the medical investigator after I had used it in a few case and again announced it in the \n \n \nChicago Homeopathic Medical Society still later and again have frequently repeated it with growing confidence \nand of greater numbers of cases in medical societies in colleges and in private conversation with physicians.  \n\u201cAnd yet the fact is so utterly unknown that your journal published Dr. Knapp\u2019s  inquiry respecting it, which \nshows how easily a good thing may be forgotten. Also how readily a genuine specific may be superseded by \na host of abortive procedures right under the eyes of the profession. It is most probable that more real good \nremedies have been forgotten or cast aside in medicine. \n\u201cRespecting this Fucus vesiculosus and its use in goiter, I would like to add a few words. The drug is of variable \nquality. If one specimen fails to give satisfaction it ought to be discarded and another tried. The pharmacist \nmust be importuned to make special efforts to give us an article that is not inert, but contains all the activity \nthat belongs to the drug. \n\u201cTime is required for effecting a cure. This varies according to the age and size of the goiter. Thre e months \nmay suffice for a small goiter of one year's growth. Six months may be required for one twice as  \nlarge and of longer standing. A year and a half is the longest period during which I have had to continue the \nmedicine. But during all that time the goiter was manifestly diminishing.\u201d Flatulency diminished and then \ndisappears. Bearing-down pains in lower part of abdomen.","Urinary & Genital":"Menorrhagia, bright red blood, bearing-down pains in lower abdomen."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}