Filix mas
Dryopteris filix-mas · Plant · Dryopteridaceae
Filix Mas is a principal remedy for tapeworm and intestinal worm conditions, suited to patients who are pale with blue rings around the eyes and gnawing abdominal pains worse from sweet things. It is also used in torpid lymphatic glandular inflammations and pulmonary tuberculosis in young scrofulous patients without fever.
Key symptoms
- Tapeworm and intestinal worm symptoms especially with constipation
- Gnawing boring pains in abdomen worse after sweet things
- Pale face with blue rings around eyes from worms
- Worm colic with itching of nose
- Bloated abdomen; diarrhoea and vomiting
- Blindness from atrophy of optic nerve
- Torpid inflammations of lymphatic glands
Worse (aggravation)
- Sweet things aggravate abdominal gnawing and boring pain
- Walking and standing aggravate bladder and urinary symptoms
Male Fern (ASPIDIUM)
A remedy for worm symptoms, especially with constipation. Tapeworm. Soporific conditions. Torpid inflammations of lymphatic glands (Maceration of fresh root). Pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients, no fever, with limited, ulcerated lesions, formerly classified as scrofula.
Eyes
Blindness, monocular amblyopia.
Abdomen
Bloated.--Gnawing-pain; worse eating sweets. Diarrhœa and vomiting. Worm colic, with itching of nose, pale face, blue rings around eyes. Painless hiccough.
Relationship
Compare: Aspidium Alhamanticum.--Panna -3 doses, 2 grammes each, all in half hour, fasting in a glass of milk. Tasteless and will remove tape worm. Cina; Granat; Kousso.
Dose
First to third potency. For the expulsion of tapeworm, a full dose of 1/2 to 1 dram of the Oleoresin, fasting.
Male Fern. N. O. Filices. Tincture of fresh root, or fresh root grated.
Clinical
Abdomen, bloated. Abortion. Blindness. Sterility. Tapeworm.
Characteristics
Male fern has been recognised as a vermifuge from the time of Galen, and Dioscorides credits it with the power of causing sterility and abortion. A fragmentary proving in Allen's Appendix records a case in which 15 to 20 drops of the tincture given three times a day to a woman suffering from bloated abdomen with more or less pain caused diminution of the bloating, but also: Severe prolapse of vagina, pain and tenesmus of bladder with copious and frequent emission of urine with intense pain. Filix was discontinued and then Chimaphila relieved. The symptoms did not return afterwards, except after much walking and standing. Hering says the best time to give the drug for expulsion of tapeworm is in the summer when the fresh root can be obtained. If an ounce of the grated root is given in the forenoon, usually the tapeworm comes away in the afternoon. Among …
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