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(House leek)

General
Is recommended for herpes, zoster and CANCEROUS TUMORS. Scirrhous induration of tongue. Mammary carcinoma. Ringworm. Hemorrhoids.

Mouth.
Malignant ulcers of mouth. Cancer of tongue. (GALIUM.) Tongue has ulcers; BLEED EASILY, especially at night; much soreness of tongue with STABBING pains. Whole mouth very tender.

Skin.
Erysipelatous affections. WARTS and corns. Aphthae. Flushed surface and stinging pains.

Relationship.
Compare: SEDUM ACRE — small House leek — (scorbutic conditions; ulcers, intermittent fever). (GALIUM; KALI-CYANATE.) OXALIS ACETOSELLA — Wood sorrel — (The inspissated juice used as a cautery to remove cancerous growths of the lips). COTYLEDON. FICUS CARICA — (Fig) — The milky juice of the freshly broken stalk applied to warts; causes their disappearance.

Dose.
Tincture and 2 decimal, also fresh juice of plant. Locally for bites of insects, stings of bees, and poisoned wounds, WARTS.

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PHARMACY - Semp. Sempervivum tectorum. Houseleek. N. O. Crassulaceae. Tincture of fresh leaves. Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, tincture and 2x, also fresh juice of plant. Planets: Mars, Saturn.
HERBAL - In Hufeland’s Journal, says Kallenbach, the fresh juice of Sempervivum tectorum is recommended in chronic aphthae in grown persons in causal relation to hemorrhoids, as well as in scirrhus indurations of the tongue. In many countries Semp. has a popular reputation for indurations and sores on the tongue. Reichel of Staben, considers it curative in spasms of the uterus and in menstrual disturbances of all kinds, as well as in cases of too exalted vascular activity in the sexual sphere, also in aural troubles consequent on hardened ear-wax and in inflammatory exudations of the ear.
HOMEOPATHIC -- Semp. is externally used for bites of insects, stings of bees and poisoned wounds, warts. It is recommended for herpes, zoster and cancerous tumors. Scirrhus induration of tongue. Breast carcinoma. Ringworm. Hemorrhoids.Grimmer states: “Sempervivum tectorum has cured many cases of induration and sores on the tongue, it also has definite action on the uterus and menstrual function in cancer constitutions, it could be thought of in cases of tongue cancer.”
CLINICAL - Bites insects. Menopause. Menses, suppressed. Tongue indurations. Wounds, poisoned.
COMMENTS - Kallenbach was consulted (1) by Mrs. S., 44, childless of sickly looks, for an affection of the tongue. For the previous six months menses had appeared only every eight to ten weeks and were accompanied with pains darting from small of back to uterus and vulva. During the six months she had stitching pain on right rim of tongue about 3/4 inch from the point, at which place after a few weeks, a swelling formed, the size of a small bean.
Which bled at times and at night caused a burning sensation as of a small coal, disturbing sleep. Sour food causes pain. The swelling is not hard on the surface, but contains two hard nodules of size of lentils, one of which is denuded and bleeds on tough. Three enlarged veins cross the swelling and enter the tongue muscle behind it. After over a month of treatment with Aur., Ars., Carb-v. in vain.
Kallenbach moistened the swelling with the fresh juice of Semp. thrice a day. Within three days it was smaller and folds appeared, the enlarged veins were contracted, formed thin, tense vessels crossing the swelling and seemingly tying it. During the next three days the patient applied the juice too energetically and Kallenbach found the surroundings in inflammatory irritation and very sensitive.
The applications was stopped and Semp. 2x given internally. After a week’s use the swelling had shriveled to one-third and ten days later the menses, which had ceased altogether, reappeared and continued very profusely for five days. The swelling shriveled to the size of a small pea, was firmer, harder, devoid of sensation and gave no further trouble. The menses continued regular.
On the side a denuded spot exuded a whitish albuminous matter which could easily be wiped off: Semp. 6c, one powder every forty-eight hours. On the second day the swelling was less sensitive and in a week much smaller. Then the menses reappeared (first time since confinement) and in three weeks the whole swelling was gone. Leaving only in its place a somewhat engorged vein.
Kallenbach treated with applications of 1x a General v. B. who had nodules on left rim of his tongue with swollen veins, the nodules disappeared and the sensitiveness was removed and the patient was so well that he refused to stay for the completion of the cure and failed to report.
Clarke’s experience with Semp. was in domestic practice. For some child affections of the eyes he used rags moistened with “House leek and cream” (about equal parts of the juice and fresh cream) were applied and his recollection of it is that the application was exceedingly pleasant.
SOURCES - Boericke. Clarke. Grimmer.