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Apium Graveolens

30CApium

Celery · Wild Celery · "The Urinary Remedy"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the urinary system, digestive tract, and female reproductive organs, often addressing retention of urine and sharp, sticking pains.

📖 Boericke writes:

Contains a soporific active principle. Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Rheumatic pain in muscles of neck also in sacrum. Growing pains. Hungry for apples. Dysmenorrhoea, with sharp, short pains, better flexing legs.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are energetic but prone to feeling restless or fidgety, often suffering from sleep disturbances and specific localized pains.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for headaches that improve with eating and eye discomfort characterized by itching or a sunken feeling.

Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking.

Headache; better eating.

Eyeballs feel sunken.

Itching in eyes.

Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye.

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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.

First to thirtieth potency

Other

Primary Dosage

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Apium Graveolens is listed in 22 rubrics across 10 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 1 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System5 Nervous System4 Skin3 Respiratory System3 Eyes2 Locomotor System1 Head1 Abdomen1 Urinary System1 Mind1

See all 22 rubrics for Apium Graveolens →