Habitat Grows in boggy places from Canada southwards
ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh plant. Tincture of root.
Sources 4 entries across 4 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, T. F. Allen
Dose Boericke
3X–6X
Third to sixth potency
Reason for useT. F. Allen
Common names , Pitcher plant, Sidesaddle flower, Huntsman's cup, Flytrap, etc. Preparation , Tincture of the root. Authorities. 1 , Porcher, Hale's New Remedies, 1867, p. 939, took sixty pills, 3 grains each, of fresh root, between 10 and 12 P.M., taking six or eight at a time; 1 a , same, took 140 grains at once; 2 , T. C. Duncan, took 1/2 ounce of cold infusion of dried plant; 2 a , same, took 1 ounce of decoction and 1 drachm of tincture; 3 , Thomas, took tincture of dried root for eight days, repeated doses of 10 to 25 drops; 3 a , same, took cold an infusion of dried plant in hot water, frequently repeated (two hours), doses of 15 to 75 drops, for nine days; 4 , Dr. T. Cigliano, Il. Dinamico, Naples, 1871 (translation by Dr. Lilienthal, Am. Obs., 1871, p. 467). APPENDIX: Symptoms [Most astonishing, and apparently impossible. -T. F. A.] from Houat, Nouvelles Données de Mat. Méd. Hom., etc.
▲ Worse ( About midnight and at 3 P.M .), The symptoms. ( Stormy weather ), The symptoms
▼ Better ( In fresh air ), The symptoms. ( Out of bed ), The symptoms
By regionT. F. Allen
Mind Feel remarkably cheerful (first day), [2] . Spirits buoyant (fourth day), [2] . 12 M., mind despondent (third day), [2a] . …
Head Heaviness of the head, with alternate apathy and intellectual activity, [4] . 3 A.M., head feels dull and heavy (third day), [2] . [10.] Dull heavy ache in the head, especially in the frontal region, at 7.30 A.M. …
Stomach The appetite following the next day was unusually active, seeming to demand much to satisfy its requirements, but there was a sense of pain about the stomach like that following inflammation, or that felt in the muscular tissue of a limb after it has been overtasked, [1] . …
Chest Pains in the third and fourth ribs, with great apprehension of heart disease (these symptoms lasted for about three months after the remedy was stopped), [4] . …
Extremities Pains in the diaphyses of all the long bones; worse in the humerus, especially the left, [4] . 6 P.M., pain in the left carpus and tarsus (second day), [2] . …
Skin Eruptions similar to crusta lactea; on forehead and hands papular eruptions, changing to vesicular with the depression, as in small-pox, lasting from seven to eight days, [4] .
Sleep Sleepiness in daytime, sleep disturbed by strange and frightful dreams, [4] . Sleeplessness, [4] . …
Fever General chills between the shoulder-blades, [4] . Chills, heat, and sweat, at 5 P.M. …
* 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. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/sarracenia-purpurea
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