Origin Plant · Solanaceae · Simple
Habitat Not to be confounded with "Deadly Nightshade," Belladonna, nor with "Climbing Bitter-sweet," Celastrus
ClarkePreparation Tincture prepared from fresh green stems and leaves, gathered just before flowering.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
2X–30X
Second to thirtieth potency
Reason for useNash
Affections caused by taking cold when the air changes suddenly from dry and warm to wet and cold. Tongue and jaws become lame, if cold air or water chills them; neck stiff, back painful, loins lame, after taking cold. Colic as if diarrhoea would occur, from taking cold. Yellow watery diarrhoea with cutting colic before every stool, or dysentery from taking cold. Most catarrhal states, with secretion of much mucus, caused by exposure to damp cold. Dropsical swelling after suppressed sweat, or paralysis and other troubles from suppressed eruptions, after taking cold.
▲ Worse from wet, cold weather after warm, dry; at nights and when at rest
▼ Better rising from a seat; motion; warmth in general and dry weather
Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 4, Cuprum Aceticum 2, Kali Carbonicum 2 +10
Complementary Baryta Carbonica, Kalium Sulphuricum
Follows well Bryonia Alba, Calcarea Carbonica, Lycopodium Clavatum +5
Compare Bryonia Alba, Calcarea Carbonica, Pulsatilla Pratensis +28
* 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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