Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Trituration and solution.
Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth potency. Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide
Reason for useGuernsey
Think of this remedy on seeing a withered and dried-up person. Mental.-- Apathy; taciturn and gloomy; time passes slowly; it seems as if others were hours in doing what is really accomplished in a short time; this worries the patient, because it seems such a long time. Memory weak, or lost; disturbed intellect; impulsive, time seems too short, wants to do things in a hurry, must walk fast, etc.--is always hurried; easily excited, nervous, irritable, anxious.
By regionGuernsey
Head Vertigo; as if turning in a circle, accompanied by headache, head symptoms are very prominent, cannot walk, talk or think, the head gets so giddy. …
Eyes Great photophobia, worse in warm room, eyes bloodshot, much lachrymation; purulent ophthalmia; eye troubles in general, pupils dilated. …
Stomach No appetite; longing for sugar; pain after eating. …
Chest Aching pains in, size of half a dollar. Palpitation of heart with nausea and faintness. Suffocative cough at noon.
Extremities Lower : Paralytic affections, almost losing use of lower extremities from rigidity of CALVES of the legs.
Fever Chills, shifting or constant are most lasting, with nausea.
Skin Peculiar discoloration, from blue-gray, violet, or bronze, to real black. Worse.-- At night; in morning; cold food; sugar. …
Books*
Antidoted by Natrum Muriaticum 5, Argemone Mexicana 2, Arsenicum Album 2 +16
Complementary —
Follows well Bryonia Alba, Causticum, Lycopodium Clavatum +3
Compare Argemone Mexicana, Arsenicum Album, Mercurius Solubilis +2
* 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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