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Alfalfa
Q / 30CAlfalfaLucerne · 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'.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Acts as a nutritional tonic to improve appetite and digestion.
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Promotes weight gain and corrects tissue waste.
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Increases the quality and quantity of milk in nursing mothers.
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Ravenous hunger; must eat frequently.
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Induces a feeling of well-being and dissipates 'blues'.
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Useful in cases of neurasthenia and nervous exhaustion.
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Addresses urinary issues like diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia.
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Helps allay bladder irritation from prostate enlargement.
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Beneficial for rheumatic conditions.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
✨ Boericke Exclusive🧠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
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
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Avena Sativa →Gelsemium Sempervirens →Hydrastis Canadensis →Dipodium PunctatumPhosphorus →Zincum Metallicum →Phosphoricum Acidum →Kalium Phosphoricum →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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