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Asparagus Officinalis

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Garden Asparagus · "The Urinary and Cardiac Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the urinary system and the heart, causing weakness, fluid retention, and specific rheumatic pains.

📖 Boericke writes:

Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known. It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy. Rheumatic pains. Especially about left shoulder and heart.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals suffering from urinary disturbances, cardiac weakness, or rheumatic pains, particularly on the left side of the body.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Palpitation, with oppression of chest.

heart

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for morning headaches with visual disturbances and nasal congestion.

Confused.

Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid.

Aching in forehead and root of nose.

Migrainious morning headache with scotoma.

Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious mucus throat.

💊 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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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Apis Mellifica →Aconitum Napellus →

🔄 Compare With

Digitalis Purpurea →Sarsaparilla Officinalis →Spigelia Anthelmia →AlthaePhysalis Alkekengi →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Asparagus Officinalis is listed in 16 rubrics across 5 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 4 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System7 Head3 Locomotor System3 Circulatory System2 Generalities1