Homeopathic polychrests

In homeopathy , the term polychreste (“useful too much”, from the Greek  πολύς , a lot and χρηστός, usable, useful) is used for some homeopathic medicines which, in the opinion of homeopaths, cover many different therapeutic areas and are therefore often used. The polychrests are usually in the homeopathic collections of symptoms ( materiae medicae ) with many thousands of symptoms . In addition to the actual symptoms of the examination, symptoms of poisoning and healed clinical symptoms were also included in the homeopathic materia medica.

Examples of homeopathic polychrests:

• Calcium carbonicum ( calcium carbonate , lime from the middle oyster shell , called over 8000 individual symptoms)
• Lycopodium (spores of the club moss , more than 8600 individual symptoms named)
• Sodium muriaticum ( sodium chloride , table salt, called over 7700 individual symptoms)
• Nux vomica ( Strychnos nux-vomica , common vomit , more than 7,300 individual symptoms)
• Phosphorus (named over 9000 individual symptoms)
• Sepia (ink of the squid , named over 8400 individual symptoms)
• Sulfur ( sulfur , called over 11,000 individual symptoms)

swell

• Frank R. Bahr (Hrsg.): Practice Compendium of Homeopathic Medicinal Pictures, (c) Doctors' Day for Medicine without Side Effects, 1997
• Timothy Field Allen: The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica , 10 volumes, Reprint, New Delhi 1995 (originally: 1874–1879)
• Samuel Hahnemann: Pure drug theory . 6 volumes. (relevant volume 1, page 192), Karl F. Haug Fachbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-83-040263-5

literature

• Gisela Foerster: Comparative Drug Doctrine of Homeopathic Polychrests , Karl F. Haug Fachbuchverlag, 2002, ISBN 3830471254
• Catherine R. Coulter: Portraits of Homeopathic Medicines Volume 1 to 3