# Ilex Aquifolium

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Ilx-a. has been used in coughs, pleurisy, colic, gout and rheuma tism. Infiltration of cornea, 
staphyloma, nightly burning in orbits, rheumatic inflammation of eye. Intermittent fever. Marked eye symptoms, 
spleen pain. All symptoms better in winter. 
COMMENTS - Cooper cured spleen pain with it. His keynote indication for it is “symptoms better in winter.” 
He improved with it a bad case of chronic deafness having that peculiar ity. A feeling of irritation in the urethra 
with constant dripping from orifice, probably from prostate, in a man about 50, disappeared after a drop of the 
tincture. 
Cooper said the diarrhea of Ilx -a. is ac companied with mucus flux and he suggests that it may be useful in 
pilosis (sprue). 
Hale quoted an artic le by Dr. Hendricks on the affect of Ilx -a. on the eye. With 5 - drop doses of the lx, given 
four times a day. Dr. Hendricks cured several cases of “rheumatic inflammation of the eye with periostitis of 
the frontal bone, which often leads to staphylomatous degeneration of the cornea.” 
Hendricks noted the case of a girl, 17, who had been under the most renowned oculists since her fifth year. 
She had great infiltration of cornea, staphyloma, eyeball looked like a lump of flesh. Nightly burning pains in 
orbits. Ilx-a. cured completely in six days.

## Symptoms by System