Compiled by Richard L. Farr

The method of Eclectic Specific Medication was developed by John Milton Scudder, M.D. in the early 1870’s and became the dominant approach to therapeutics by the Eclectic School of Medicine until the disappearance of Eclecticism from the medical scene in the 1940’s. Eclectic Specific Medication is based upon the elective affinity (tropism) of medicinal substances for specific tissues and organs. In addition to knowing which tissues and organs a particular herb has an elective affinity for, it is also necessary to know:

a) the specific symptoms of the tissue/organ calling for a particular herb, and

b) the specific symptoms of the individual’s systemic reaction to imbalance of the tissue/organ involved.

Merely diagnosing the presence of a particular disease will not be sufficient to select the specific herbal medicine needed for the case: HOW the individual is expressing their reaction to that disease condition via their own unique specific symptoms, is the key to selecting the herbal corrective remedy (or remedies) needed by that individual at that particular stage of their imbalance. This was the method worked out by Dr. Scudder and his associates, such as John King, Finley Ellingwood, H.T. Webster, John Uri Lloyd, Eli Jones, and other investigators. Practical application of this method enabled the Eclectic School of Medicine to achieve highly successful results both in acute cases and in conditions of chronic ill-health. The following is a listing of the organ affinities of the botanical remedies thus precisioned by the Eclectic Specific Medicationists. The specific symptomatology for each herb-the herb’s “specific indications”-can be studied in the reference works left to us by the authors listed above.

(Note: currently available herbal extracts are listed by their English common names; botanicals which are only available {o-t-c} in attenuated form {usually in the “3x” liquid dilution, which is a 1% concentration of the herb’s “Mother Tincture”} are listed by the H.P.U.S. Latin names used in homeopathy.)

Brain & Nervous System

Agrimony
Aletris (True Unicorn Root)
American Ginseng
Belladonna 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Black Cohosh
Blue Vervain
Bugleweed
California Poppy
Camphora 1x “Mother Tincture”
Conium maculatum 3x liq.dil.
Cramp Bark
Damiana
Evening Primrose
Gelsemium sempervirens 3x li.dil.
Goldenseal Root
Guarana
Hawthorne Berry
Helonias (False Unicorn Root)
Hops
Hyoscyamus niger 3x liq.dil.
Ignatia amara 3x liq.dil.
Jamaica Dogwood
Kola Nut
Linden Flower
Melilot
Mistletoe
Muirapauma
Musk Root (sumbul)
Night-blooming Cereus
Nux vomica 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Passion Flower
Prickly Ash
Pulsatilla nigricans 1x “Mother Tincture”
Saint Johnswort (Hypericum)
Saw Palmetto
Secale cornutum 3x liq.dil.
Skullcap
Staphisagria 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Stramonium 6x liq.dil.
Wild Lettuce
Wild Oat
Wood Betony

Nasal Mucosa & Throat

Amenopsis (Yerba Mansa)
Blue Flag
Blue Violet (Sweet Violet)
Eucalyptus
Goldenseal Root
Guaiacum (Lignum Vitae)
Oregon Grape Root
Penthorum sedoides 1x “Mother Tincture”
Poke Root
Saw Palmetto Berry
Stillingia
Thuja
Witch Hazel

Laryngeal Conditions (Chronic)

Arum triphyllum 3x liq.dil.
Penthorum sedoides 1x “Mother Tincture”
Poke Root
Stillingia
Stone Root (Collinsonia)
Witch Hazel

Lungs/Bronchi/Pleura (Chronic Conditions)

Balsam tolu 1x “Mother Tincture”
Boneset
Bryonia alba 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Bugleweed
Damiana
Elecampane
Elderberry
Eucalyptus
Greater Celandine (Chelidonium)
Grindelia
Pleurisy Root
Quebracho
Red Clover Blossom
Saw Palmetto Berry
Spikenard
Squilla maritima 3x liq.dil.
Stillingia
Thuja
Wild Cherry
Yarrow
Yerba Santa

Heart & Arterial Circulation

Aconitum napellus 6x liq.dil.
Adonis vernalis 3x liq.dil.
Arnica montana 3x liq.dil.
Bitter Candytuft (Iberis amara)
Black Cohosh
Bryonia alba 3x liq.dil.
Bugleweed
Convallaria majalis 3x liq.dil.
Hawthorne Berry
Lilium tigrinum 1x “Mother Tincture”
Lycopodium clavatum 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Melilot
Mistletoe
Motherwort
Night-blooming Cereus
Poke Root
Prickly Ash
Secale cornutum 3x liq.dil.
Spigelia anthelminticum 3x liq.dil.
Squilla maritima 3x liq.dil.
Stone Root (heart affinity, not arteries)
Strophanthis hispidus 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Sumbul 3x liq.dil.
Veratrum viride 3x liq.dil.

Veins & Veinous Circulation

Horse Chestnut
Milk Thistle
Nux vomica 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Pulsatilla nigricans 1x “Mother Tincture”
Stone Root (Collinsonia)
Witch Hazel

Stomach & Intestinal Tract

Aletris (True Unicorn Root)
American Ginseng
Bayberry
Blue Flag
Butternut
Calamus Root (Sweet Flag)
Cascara sagrada
Chelone glabra 1x “Mother Tincture”
Cocculus indica 3x liq.dil.
Condurango
Conium maculatum 3x liq.dil.
Cranesbill (Alum Root)
Comfrey Root
Culver’s Root (Leptandra)
Damiana
Dandelion Root
Epigea repens 1x “Mother Tincture”
Evening Primrose
Eucalyptus
Gentian Root
Goldenseal Root
Hops
Horse Chestnut
Ignatia amara 3x liq.dil.
Kava-kava
Jambul Seed
Meadow Sweet
Neutralizing Cordial (combination remedy)
Nux vomica 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Oak bark
Peach leaf
Podophyllinum (resin) 3x – 6x trituration
Prickly Ash
Ptelea (Wafer Ash) 1x “Mother Tincture”
Slippery Elm
Stone Root (Collinsonia)
Wild Cherry
Witch Hazel

Chronic Abdominal Pain (no lesions found)

Culver’s Root (Leptandra)
Fringetree
Nux vomica 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Podophyllinum (resin) 3x – 6x trituration
Wild Yam Root

Pancreas

Blue Flag
Chelone glabra 1x “Mother Tincture”
Fringetree

Liver & Gall Bladder

Barberry Root
Bayberry
Blue Flag
Boneset
Bryonia alba 3x liq.dil.
Butternut
Chelone glabra 1x “Mother Tincture”
Cinchona officinalis 3x liq.dil.
Culver’s Root (Leptandra)
Dandelion Root
Euonymus (Wahoo) 1x “Mother Tincture”
Fringetree
Greater Celandine (Chelidonium)
Lycopodium clavatum 3x liq.dil.
Milk Thistle
Nux vomica 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Oregon Grape Root
Podophyllinum (resin) 3x – 6x trituration

Spleen

Blue Flag
Cinchona officinalis 3x liq.dil.
Polymnia uvedalia 1x “Mother Tincture”
Quercus glandium spiritus 1x liq.dil.
Red Root (Ceanothus americana)
Squilla maritima 3x liq.dil.
Stinging Nettle (U. urens especially)

Kidneys (also urine, quality of)

Agrimony
Barberry Root
Buchu
Burdock
Cornsilk
Epigea repens 1x “Mother Tincture”
Goldenrod
Helonias (False Unicorn Root)
Horsetail
Hydrangea (7 Barks)
Jambul Seed
Juniper Berry
Kava-kava
Ladies Mantle
Lycopodium clavatum 3x liq.dil.
Oxydendron 1x “Mother Tincture”
Pipsessewa (Chimaphila)
Queen of the Meadow (Eupatorium purpurea)
Squilla maritima 3x liq.dil.
Stinging Nettle (U. urens especially)
Sweet Sumach
Uva-ursi
Yarrow

Bladder & Urethra (sub-acute & chronic cases)

Cornsilk
Cubeba 1x “Mother Tincture” – 3x liq.dil
Elaterium 3x – 6x trituration or liq.dil.
Epigea repens 1x “Mother Tincture”
Horsetail
Hydrangea (7 Barks)
Lycopodium clavatum 3x liq.dil.
Nux vomica 3x liq.dil. or trituration
Pipsessewa (Chimaphila)
Quack Grass (Triticum repens)
Queen of the Meadow (Eupatorium purpurea)
Shepherd’s Purse
Staphisagria 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Thuja
Xanthium spinosa 1x “Mother Tincture”

Male Reproductive System

Black Willow
Cornsilk
Damiana
Hops
Ignatia amara 3x liq.dil.
Muirapauma
Mullein
Nuphar luteum 3x liq.dil.
Poke Root
Pulsatilla nigricans 1x “Mother Tincture”
Saw Palmetto Berry
Sea Holly (Eryngo)
Secale cornutum 3x liq.dil.
Staphisagria 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Stone Root (Collinsonia)
Thuja
Wild Oat
Wintergreen
Witch Hazel

Female Reproductive System

Aletris (True Unicorn Root)
American Ash (Fraxinus americanus)
Belladonna 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Black Cohosh
Black Haw
Bladderwrack
Blue Cohosh
Burdock
Conium maculatum 3x liq.dil.
Cotton Root
Cramp Bark
Damiana
Erigeron
Goldenseal Root
Helonias (False Unicorn Root)
Ignatia amara 3x liq.dil.
Ladies Mantle
Lilium tigrinum 1x “Mother Tincture”
Partridge Berry
Periwinkle (Lesser)
Poke Root
Pond Lily
Prickly Ash
Pulsatilla nigricans 1x “Mother Tincture”
Queen of the Meadow (Eupatorium purpurea)
Raspberry Leaf
Rue
Sage
Saw Palmetto Berry
Sea Holly (Eryngo)
Secale cornutum 3x liq.dil.
Senecio aureus 3x liq.dil.
Shepherd’s Purse
Stone Root (Collinsonia)
Sweet Sumach
Thuja
Trillium (Beth Root)
Ustilago maydis 3x liq.dil.
Vitex agnus-castus
Wild Yam Root
Wintergreen
Yarrow

Lymphatics

Ailanthus glandulosa 3x liq.dil.
Bladderwrack
Bryonia alba 3x liq.dil.
Burdock
Corydalis formosa (Dicentra canadensis) 1x
Conium maculatum 3x liq.dil.
Dulcamara 2x – 3x liq.dil.
Echinacea (angustifolia)
Figwort (Scropularia)
Marigold
Oregon Grape Root
Pipsessewa (Chimaphila)
Poke Root
Polymnia uvedalia 1x “Mother Tincture”
Red Root (Ceanothus americanus)
Sarsaparilla
Thuja
Wild Indigo (Baptisia)

Musculo-Skeletal System

Apocynum andromosefolia 3x liq.dil.
Arnica montana
Barberry Root
Black Cohosh
Blue Cohosh
Blue Vervain
Boneset
Bryonia alba 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Burdock
Butternut
Cascara sagrada
Colchicum autumnale 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Comfrey Root
Echinacea (angustifolia)
European Ash leaf (Fraxinus excelsior)
Franciscia manaca (uniflora) 1x “Mother Tincture”
Guaiacum (Lignum Vitae)
Horse Chestnut
Horsetail
Ignatia amara 3x – 6x liq.dil.
Juniper Berry
Kalmia latifolia 3x liq.dil.
Ledum palustre 1x “Mother Tincture”
Lungwort (Sticta)
Meadow Sweet
Melilot
Oregon Grape Root
Poke Root
Pulsatilla nigricans 1x “Mother Tincture”
Rhamnus californica 1x “Mother Tincture”
Rhus toxicodendron 3x liq.dil.
Rue
Stone Root (Collinsonia)
Thuja
Wild Yam Root
White Willow
Witch Hazel