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Badiaga

30CBadiaga
Fresh Water Sponge · Spongilla · "The Glandular Syphilitic Remedy"
bad.AnimalUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the muscles, skin, and glands, addressing soreness, swelling, and specific respiratory or skin conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with sensitiveness to cold. Glands swollen. General . . Lues, , .
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who feel as if they have been beaten, with extreme sensitivity to cold and a tendency toward swelling and skin eruptions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon.
head
The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils.
respiratory
Freckles.
skin
Rhagades.
skin
Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
back
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for with eye involvement, scalp conditions, and respiratory congestion.
Sensation of enlargement and fullness.
Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon.
Blueness under eyes.
; scalp sore, dry, -like.
Dull, dizzy feeling in head.
, , watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and cough.
Influenza.
Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better 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.

1X to 6X
Decimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Mercurius Solubilis →Iodium →Sulphur →
⏭️ Similar
Spongia Tosta →Phytolacca Decandra →Conium Maculatum →
🔄 Compare With
Mercurius Solubilis →Conium Maculatum →Spongia Tosta →Phytolacca Decandra →Kali Hydriodicum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Badiaga is listed in 30 rubrics across 12 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 6 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Generalities7Male Sexual System4Skin4Head3Female Sexual System2Locomotor System2Respiratory System2Modalities2Nose1Eyes1Mind1Nervous System1

See all 30 rubrics for Badiaga →