Origin Simple
Sources 14 entries across 12 books: Boericke, Kent, Allen, Nash, Hering …
Dose Boericke
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200th and higher of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times
Reason for useNash
Weak, puny children; not from want of nourishment taken, but defective assimilation. Inflammations tending to end suppuration or refusing to heal; becoming chronic. Coldness, lack of vital warmth, even when taking exercise; must be wrapped up, especially the head, which >. Suppressed sweat, especially of feet, which is profuse and offensive. Weak, nervous, easily irritated, faint-hearted; yielding, giving up disposition, "grit all gone." Constipation; stool protrudes and then slips back again, again and again; week expulsive power.
▲ Worse from cold or draft, motion, open air, at new moon
▼ Better in warm room, wrapping up head; magnetism and electricity
Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 2, Hepar 2, Angustura Vera +8
Complementary Thuja Occidentalis, Pulsatilla Pratensis, Sanicula Aqua +4
Follows well Hepar Sulphur, Lycopodium Clavatum, Calcarea Carbonica +7
Compare Conium Maculatum, Gettysburg Water, Graphites +31
* 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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