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Anacardium Orientale

30C / 200CAnacardium
Marking Nut · Semecarpus Anacardium · "The Two Wills Remedy"
anac.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to treat , digestive disturbances relieved by eating, and psychological states involving a lack of confidence or split personality.
📖 Boericke writes:
(ANACARDIUM)
The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous , relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable to Poison-Oak.
👤 Constitution
•Typically neurasthenic individuals who are irritable, depressed, and suffer from impaired memory or brain-fag.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort.
introduction
Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills.
mind
Brain-fag.
mind
Impaired memory.
mind
Absent mindedness.
mind
Very easily offended.
mind
Objects appear too far off.
eyes
Sense of smell perverted.
nose
Empty feeling in stomach.
stomach
Eating relieves the Anacardium .
stomach
Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines.
abdomen
Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty.
rectum
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for psychological states involving split personality, extreme irritability, and loss of confidence.
Fixed ideas.
Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills.
Anxiety when walking, as if pursued.
Profound and , with tendency to use violent language.
Brain-fag.
Impaired memory.
Absent mindedness.
Very easily offended.
Malicious; seems bent on wickedness.
Lack of confidence in himself or others.
Suspicious (Hyos).
Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead.
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Absence of all moral restraint.
🔑 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.

6th to 200th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Coffea Cruda →Rhus Toxicodendron →Eucalyptus Globulus →
⏩ Follows Well After
Platinum Metallicum →
🔄 Compare With
Rhus Toxicodendron →Platinum Metallicum →Cypripedium Pubescens →Anacardium Occidentale →Chelidonium Majus →Xerophyllum →Cornus Sericea →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Anacardium Orientale is listed in 237 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 105 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Mind54Stomach23Head22Abdomen18Nervous System17Skin17Locomotor System17Male Sexual System12Modalities10Respiratory System8Ears7Nose4Throat4Female Sexual System4Urinary System3Tongue3Circulatory System3Mouth3Fever2Face2Generalities2Eyes2

See all 237 rubrics for Anacardium Orientale →