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Ailanthus Glandulosa

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Tree of Heaven · Ailanthus Altissima · "The Malignant Diphtheria Remedy"
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🎯 A remedy for severe, malignant infections characterized by blood breakdown, extreme weakness, and dark, purplish skin eruptions.
📖 Boericke writes:
This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria,follicular tonsillitis, Streptococcus infection, Haemorrhagic diathesis, etc.The skin appears livid or purplish; face dark as mahogany, hot; sordes; throat swollen, purple, livid; semi-conscious, delirious; weak pulse, general torpor and prostration. Symptoms remarkably alike to malignant scarlatina. Diarrhoea, dysentery andgreat weakness are very marked. Adynamia characterizes all its conditions. Lividity, stupor and malignancy. Mucous membranes haemorrhagic and ulcerative (Lach. Ars).
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient is in a state of profound weakness, mental confusion, and physical collapse, often appearing dusky or dark in complexion.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA Chinese Sumach This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis, Streptococcus infection, Haemorrhagic diathesis, etc. The skin appears livid or purplish; face dark as mahogany, hot; sordes; throat swollen, purple, livid; semi-conscious, delirious; weak pulse, general torpor and prostration.
introduction
Suffused, dilated eyes; photophobia.
head
Much swelling, internal and external.
throat
Neck tender and swollen.
throat
Tongue dry and brown.
throat
Teeth covered with sordes.
throat
Irregular, patchy, livid eruption, disappearing on pressure.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Useful for congestive headaches and infections involving the head and eyes with a dark, dusky appearance.
General stupor, with sighing.
Confused mind, mental depression.
Headache, frontal, with drowsiness.
Passive congestion headaches.
Suffused, dilated eyes; photophobia.
Face dusky.
Thin, copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1X to 6X
Decimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Rhus Toxicodendron →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Ammonium Carbonicum →Baptisia Tinctoria →Arnica Montana →Lachesis Mutus →Rhus Toxicodendron →Muriaticum Acidum →
📚 Sources & References

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