Materia medica: browse all 100 remedy profiles

Every remedy monograph in the ItsHomeopathy library, grouped by kingdom. Each profile covers keynote picture, modalities, clinical situations, differentiation, potency context, safety, FAQs, and sourcing. Start with the twelve classic polychrests, then follow your cases.

How to use this index

Students: master one remedy weekly via its full monograph plus a comparison table against its closest rival. Practitioners: use kingdom grouping to widen differentials when polychrests cycle without holding. Everyone: verify prescriptions against two materia medica sources beyond these summaries.

Plant kingdom (65)

• Aconitum napellus — Sudden fevers, croupy cough onset, fright after-effects
• Aesculus hippocastanum — Splinter-like piles with sacro-iliac backache
• Allium cepa — Streaming colds and hay fever with burning nasal discharge
• Aloe socotrina — Grape-like piles and insecure morning diarrhoea
• Arnica montana — Bruises, sprains, post-procedure soreness, over-lifting
• Belladonna — Abrupt fevers, throbbing headaches, hot sore throats
• Bellis perennis — Deep bruised soreness after procedures, sprains, and overwork
• Berberis vulgaris — Radiating renal colic and sandy urine
• Bovista lycoperdon — Awkward dropping and night-only menses
• Bryonia alba — Dry hacking cough, stitching chest pains, and flu with motion aggravation
• Cactus grandiflorus — Iron-band cardiac constriction with periodicity
• Calendula officinalis — Superficial cuts, scrapes, and slow-healing skin (external + internal supportive texts)
• Carbo vegetabilis — Bloating with gas, cold breathlessness wanting air, and collapse pictures (historical)
• Chamomilla — Teething fussiness, colic with doubling up, and oversensitivity to pain
• Chelidonium majus — Liver-gallbladder disorders with right scapular pain
• China officinalis — Debility after diarrhoea/bleeds/sweats and gassy bloating with periodicity
• Cicuta virosa — Opisthotonic convulsions and brain shocks
• Cina maritima — Wormy cross children with nose-boring
• Cocculus indicus — Motion sickness and sleeplessness prostration
• Coffea cruda — Sleeplessness from exciting news and hypersensitive pain states
• Colchicum autumnale — Cooking-odour nausea and untouchable gout
• Colocynthis — Cramping abdominal pains and sciatica better with pressure/heat
• Conium maculatum — Study of dizziness, gland hardness, and prostatic-age pictures (practitioner)
• Dioscorea villosa — Colic better stretching backward
• Drosera rotundifolia — Paroxysmal barking coughs (study) and laryngeal tickling
• Dulcamara — Damp-triggered colds, diarrhoea, back stiffness, and warts (flat fleshy texts)
• Eupatorium perfoliatum — Broken-bone influenza aching
• Euphrasia officinalis — Allergic conjunctivitis and colds where eyes suffer most
• Gelsemium sempervirens — Anticipatory dread with weakness and heavy flu states
• Hamamelis virginiana — Venous congestion and passive dark haemorrhages
• Helleborus niger — Stupor with slow answers and head rolling
• Hyoscyamus niger — Suspicious lascivious delirium with twitching
• Hypericum perforatum — Nerve-rich injuries: fingers, toes, coccyx, teeth
• Ignatia amara — Recent grief, disappointment, and exam-breakup sleeplessness
• Ipecacuanha — Nausea with clean tongue, gagging coughs, and bright bleeding pictures (study)
• Iris versicolor — Bilious sick headaches with sour vomiting and alimentary burning
• Kalmia latifolia — Downward-shooting pains with numbness
• Kreosotum — Corrosive discharges and precocious tooth decay
• Ledum palustre — Puncture wounds and cold-relieved ascending joint pains
• Lycopodium clavatum — Gassy bloating, liver-area fullness, and performance anxiety in responsible types
• Mezereum — Crusted eruptions, scalp scabs, and neuralgic toothache (study)
• Nux vomica — Overindulgence digestion, irritable constipation, and stimulant-linked insomnia
• Opium — Painless stupor with stertor and locked excretions
• Phytolacca decandra — Stony mastitis and hot-iron throat
• Plantago major — Toothache study patterns and ear-tooth linked pains
• Podophyllum peltatum — Painless gushing morning diarrhoea and teething-stool lore
• Pulsatilla pratensis — Bland discharges, digestive heaviness from fats, and weepy clinginess
• Rhus toxicodendron — Sprains with stiffness, flu with aching restlessness, and blistery skin
• Robinia pseudacacia — Intensely sour acidity setting teeth on edge
• Ruta graveolens — Tendon sprains, periosteal bruises, and eye strain
• Sabadilla officinarum — Spasmodic sneezing with palate itch
• Sabina — Bright clotted uterine bleeding with sacral pains
• Sanguinaria canadensis — Right-sided sick headaches and climacteric flushes
• Sarsaparilla officinalis — Bladder pain at the close of urination
• Secale cornutum — Passive dark bleeding with uncovering desire
• Senega — Sticky chest mucus with bruised chest walls
• Spigelia anthelmia — Left-sided ciliary neuralgia and shaking palpitation
• Staphysagria — Clean cuts, suppress-anger states, and honeymoon-cystitis lore (study)
• Stramonium — Night terrors and fright-aftermath study patterns (practitioner)
• Symphytum officinale — Non-uniting fractures and blunt eye injuries
• Tabacum — Deathly motion nausea with cold collapse
• Thuja occidentalis — Pedunculated warts and oily perspiring skin (study)
• Urtica urens — Stinging hives alternating with gout
• Veratrum album — Cholera-like collapse with cold sweat
• Wyethia helenioides — Scalded epiglottis with fruitless swallowing

Mineral kingdom (29)

• Alumina — Obstinate dry constipation, dry skin, and elderly sluggishness patterns
• Antimonium crudum — White-coated tongue with gastric upset and horny warts
• Antimonium tartaricum — Wet rattling coughs with weak expectoration, especially in extremes of age
• Argentum nitricum — Exam nerves, hurried diarrhoea from anticipation, and pharyngeal splinter pains
• Arsenicum album — Anxious GI upsets, burning coryza, restless midnight waking
• Aurum metallicum — Study of depressive heaviness, head congestion, and nocturnal pains (practitioner-level)
• Baryta carbonica — Developmental-delay and recurrent tonsillitis study patterns; elderly confusion texts
• Calcarea phosphorica — Delayed growth milestones and school headaches
• Causticum — Hoarseness mornings, warts on fingertips, and stress-incontinence pictures
• Ferrum metallicum — Anaemic pallor with sudden fiery flushing
• Ferrum phosphoricum — Early mild fevers, nosebleeds, and first-stage inflammations (study)
• Glonoinum — Bursting sun headaches with throbbing congestion
• Graphites — Weeping eczema, cracked skin, and keloid-tendency texts
• Hepar sulphuris — Splinter-like sore throats, croupy chilly coughs, and boil tendency
• Kali bichromicum — Thick ropy stringy discharges and pains in small spots
• Kali carbonicum — Lower-back weakness, 3am waking, and stitching chest pains (study)
• Kali phosphoricum — Nervous exhaustion and brain fag
• Magnesia phosphorica — Menstrual cramps and spasmodic pains better heat/pressure
• Mercurius solubilis — Suppurative sore throats, gum/ear complaints with salivation (study)
• Natrum muriaticum — Grief-held-in, periodic headaches, and dry-mucous-membrane patterns
• Natrum sulphuricum — Damp-weather asthma and post-concussion states
• Nitric acid — Anal fissures, mouth cracks, and warts with splinter pains (study)
• Petroleum — Bleeding winter skin cracks and motion sickness
• Phosphorus — Laryngitis with hoarseness, chest tightness, and easy-bleeding pictures (study)
• Platinum metallicum — Study of numbness/constriction and menstrual-linked neuralgias (practitioner)
• Silica — Splinters, non-healing suppurations, and sweaty-foot chilliness (study)
• Stannum metallicum — Chest weakness and gradual neuralgias
• Sulphur — Itchy burning skin, morning diarrhoea, and recurrent eruptions
• Zincum metallicum — Restless legs with fidgety feet and nervous exhaustion (study)

Animal kingdom (6)

• Apis mellifica — Stings, hives, and puffy oedematous swellings better with cold
• Calcarea carbonica — Constitutional study: dentition, growth, fatigue, and sour sweats
• Cantharis — Cystitis-like burning urgency (supportive study) alongside medical testing
• Lachesis muta — Hot-flush patterns, left-sided sore throats/headaches, and talkative intensity (study)
• Sepia officinalis — Hormonal weariness, bearing-down pelvic heaviness, and indifferent fatigue
• Spongia tosta — Dry barking croup and hoarse wheezy coughs (study)

All monographs original to ItsHomeopathy. Consult primary materia medica (Boericke, Kent, Clarke) for study depth.