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Silphium Lacinatum

Silphium laciniatum
SILPHU · 3 entries across 3 books
PreparationTincture of fresh plant. Clarke
3X
Third potency. Lower triturations preferred by some.Dose · Boericke

Reason for use

Is used in various forms of asthma and chronic bronchitis Catarrh of bladder. Catarrhal influenza. Dysentery; attack preceded by constipated stools covered with white mucus.

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Respiratory

Cough with expectoration profuse, stringy, frothy, light-colored. Excited by sense of mucus rattling in chest and worse by drafts of air. Constriction of lungs. Catarrh, with copious, stringy, mucous discharges. Desire to hawk and scrape throat. Irritation of posterior nares, involving mucous membranes of nasal passages with constriction of supra-orbital region.

Relationship

Compare: Aral; Copaiv; Tereb; Cubeb; Samb; Silphion cyrenaicum (phthisis pulmonum, with incessant cough, profuse night-sweats, emaciation, etc); Polygonum aviculare (has been found useful in phthisis, when given in material doses of the mother tincture); Salvia (tickling cough). Arum dracontium (loose cough at night on lying down). Justicia adhatoda (bronchial catarrh, hoarseness, oversensitive).

Complete text of the Silphium Lacinatum entry in Boericke - Pocket Manual of Materia Medica; origin and preparation from Clarke. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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Simple remedy · Plant

3 entries across 3 books · abbreviations: SILPHU · Family: Compositae

Remedies said to end or reduce the action of Silphium Lacinatum, for example if it has caused an unwanted reaction. What is an antidote?

Antidoted byNo antidote recorded in these books