Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie 1985; 29(1): 32-35
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-938122
Karl F. Haug Verlag in MVS Medizinverlage Stuttgart GmbH & Co KG, Stuttgart

Nepenthes distillatoria

W. Klunker
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Publication Date:
02 April 2007 (online)

Summary

Short history of the new remedy Nepenthes, an insectivorous plant, growing in the tropic forests around the Indian Ocean. Voisin, in his MM gives the following characteristic indication for Nepenthes: "Sudden prostration (weakness) in the afternoon, in depression". A comparison of the proving of Nepenthes with clinical cases, concerning depressive patients, veri-fies a number of pathogenetic and clinical depressive Symptoms. Especially the Symptom of the sudden prostration weakness in the afternoon can be considered as a characteristic keynote of Nepenthes and invites to study the whole remedy in such cases.

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