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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 and great 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.

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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.

1X to 6X

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🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Rhus Toxicodendron →Nux Vomica →

🔄 Compare With

Ammonium Carbonicum →Baptisia Tinctoria →Arnica Montana →Lachesis Mutus →Rhus Toxicodendron →Muriaticum Acidum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Ailanthus Glandulosa is listed in 76 rubrics across 17 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 30 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Fever20 Throat13 Mind8 Generalities5 Respiratory System4 Skin4 Head4 Nose3 Eyes3 Abdomen3 Face2 Tongue2 Stomach1 Teeth1 Female Sexual System1 Circulatory System1 Nervous System1

See all 76 rubrics for Ailanthus Glandulosa →