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Adonis Vernalis

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Pheasant's Eye · Spring Adonis · "The Heart Tonic"

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🎯 A heart tonic that regulates pulse, increases heart contraction strength, and promotes urine flow in cases of heart failure or dropsy.

📖 Boericke writes:

Pheasant's Eye

A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright's disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca.

👤 Constitution

•Patients with low vitality, weak heart action, and tendencies toward fluid retention (dropsy) following conditions like rheumatism, influenza, or kidney disease.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to eyes.

head

Preaecordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnoea.

heart

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for headaches associated with dizziness and circulatory disturbances.

Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to eyes.

Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down.

Tinnitus.

Scalp feels tight.

Eyes dilated.

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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Mother Tincture

📝Five to ten drops of the tincture.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Convallaria Majalis →Strophanthus Hispidus →Digitalis Purpurea →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Adonis Vernalis is listed in 40 rubrics across 9 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 12 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Circulatory System22 Urinary System5 Generalities3 Locomotor System2 Head2 Respiratory System2 Nervous System2 Stomach1 Fever1

See all 40 rubrics for Adonis Vernalis →