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Arctium Lappa

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Burdock · Arctium Lappa · "The Skin Blood Purifier Remedy"

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🎯 A remedy primarily used for skin conditions, particularly those involving eruptions, boils, and styes, as well as pelvic organ weakness.

📖 Boericke writes:

Very important in skin therapeutics. Eruptions on the head, face, and neck; pimples; acne. Styes and ulcerations on the edge of the eyelids. Profuse and frequent urination. Crops of boils and styes (Anthracin).

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who feel a general lack of tonicity in the pelvic region and are prone to persistent skin eruptions.

🩺 Systems & Indications

💪EXTREMITIES

Indicated for joint pain and skin eruptions affecting the limbs.

Pain in hands, knees, and ankles extending downward to fingers and toes.

Pain in all joints.

Eruption on extremities.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 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.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

Primary Dosage

Decimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Anthracinum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Arctium Lappa is listed in 14 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 1 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System6 Locomotor System5 Skin2 Eyes1