Origin Mineral · Simple
Sources 16 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
3X–6X
Third to sixth potency.
Reason for useBoericke
A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. "Boiling" sensation.
▲ Worse head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon
▼ Better open air
By regionBoericke
Mind Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief.
Head Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.
Eyes Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract.
Stomach Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in stomach. Epigastric pain immediately after eating. …
Female Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. …
Respiratory Hoarseness and burning in larynx. Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in chest. …
Back Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. …
Extremities Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. …
Skin Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications.
Fever Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate. …
Books*
Antidoted by Coffea Cruda 4, Nux Vomica 4, Causticum
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Calcarea Carbonica, Senega, Carbo Animalis +10
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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