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Asclepias Cornuti
30C / QAsclepias CornCommon Milkweed · Asclepias Syriaca · "The Pleurisy Remedy"
asc-c.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system and urinary organs to promote fluid elimination and reduce swelling.
📖 Boericke writes:
(ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA)
Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who may need this remedy often suffer from fluid retention, rheumatic joint pain, or headaches caused by the body's inability to properly eliminate waste.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
head
Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity.
head
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Useful for nervous headaches associated with fluid retention or suppressed perspiration.
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple.
Constriction across forehead.
Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity.
Headache from retention of effete matters in system.
💊 Dosage & Potency
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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
🌿 Remedy Relationships
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