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Anagallis Arvensis

30CAnagallis
Scarlet Pimpernel · Poor Man's Weatherglass · "The Skin and Rheumatism Remedy"
anag.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the skin, causing intense itching and tingling, and has a historical reputation for aiding in the expulsion of foreign bodies like splinters.
📖 Boericke writes:
(ANAGALLIS)
Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old medicine for and . Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.
👤 Constitution
The typical person needing this remedy may experience high spirits or hilarity, often accompanied by specific and digestive disturbances.
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Useful for located over the eyes that are associated with digestive gas and improved by coffee.
Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and ; better from coffee.
Sick headache.
Pain in facial muscles.
🔑 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.

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🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Cyclamen EuropaeumPrimula Obconica

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Anagallis Arvensis is listed in 19 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System7Skin6Urinary System4Mind2

See all 19 rubrics for Anagallis Arvensis