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Aphis Chenopodii Glauci

30CAphis
Plant Louse of Goosefoot · "The Spasmodic Asthma Remedy"
aphis.AnimalRarePsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system, teeth, and digestive tract, often indicated for pains and specific digestive disturbances.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CHENOPODI GLAUCI APHIS)
Partakes largely of the properties of the plant upon which the insect lives.
👤 Constitution
Generally indicated for individuals experiencing sadness, aching pains that worsen with movement, and specific conditions.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Toothache, relieved by general warm sweat (Cham).
head
Severe pains in region of lower inner angle of left shoulder-blade, running into chest.
back
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for head and face pain, particularly toothache that radiates to the ear and temple.
Sad; aching, worse from motion.
Brain seems swashed hither and thither.
, with burning or biting in nostrils.
Noise in ears, as of cannon.
Yellow face.
Orbital right , with profuse .
Toothache, relieved by general warm sweat (Cham).
Toothache extends to ear, temple, and cheek-bone (Plantago).
🔑 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 30th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Natrium SulphuricumNux Vomica

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Aphis Chenopodii Glauci is listed in 11 rubrics across 5 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

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