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Alfalfa

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Lucerne · Medicago Sativa · "The Tonic Remedy"

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Exclusively Documented in Boericke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Boericke's Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts as a nutritional tonic that improves appetite, digestion, and physical vigor while correcting tissue waste.

📖 Boericke writes:

Medicago Sativa, California Clover or Lucerne

BETTERFrom its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in "toning up" the appetite and digestion resulting in greatly improved mental and physical vigor, with gain in weight. Disorders characterized by malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, nervous indigestion, etc. Acts as a fat producer, corrects tissue waste. Deficient lactation. Increases quality and quantity of milk in nursing mothers. Its pronounced urinary action suggests it clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia; and it is claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy. The rheumatic diathesis seems especially amenable to its action.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are physically run down, suffering from malnutrition, or experiencing nervous exhaustion and 'splanchnic blues'.

🩺 Systems & Indications

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🧠Mind

Useful for clearing mental fog and lifting the spirits in cases of nervous exhaustion.

It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i.e, a general feeling of well being; clear and bright, so that all blues are dissipated.

Dull, drowsy, stupid (Gels); gloomy and irritable, worse during evening.

🔑 Modalities

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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.

5-10 drops of tincture

Mother Tincture

🕒several times daily

📝The best results are elicited with material doses. · Continue its use until tonic effects ensue

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Avena Sativa →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Hydrastis Canadensis →Dipodium PunctatumPhosphorus →Zincum Metallicum →Phosphoricum Acidum →Kalium Phosphoricum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Alfalfa is listed in 39 rubrics across 10 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 7 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System8 Stomach7 Mind6 Abdomen6 Nervous System4 Head3 Eyes2 Ears1 Male Sexual System1 Modalities1

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