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Caladium Seguinum

30CCaladium
Dumb Cane · American Arum · "The Tobacco Craving Remedy"
calad.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the genital organs, addressing intense itching and sexual dysfunction, while also influencing respiratory and tobacco-related complaints.
📖 Boericke writes:
This remedy has a marked action on the genital organs, and of this region. Coldness of single parts and inclination to lie down, with aggravation on lying on left side. Slightest noise startles from sleep. Dread from motion. Modifies craving for tobacco. Tobacco heart. Asthmatic complaints.
👤 Constitution
•The typical person needing this remedy is often a smoker who is forgetful, easily startled by noise, and prefers to lie down, especially avoiding the left side.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Dread from motion.
introduction
Stomach feels full of dry food; sensation of fluttering.
stomach
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male
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for and mental fog in smokers who are hypersensitive to noise.
and mental states of smokers.
Very forgetful, does not know about the occurrences of things.
Confused headache with pain in shoulder, pressure in eyes and forehead; extremely sensitive to noise, throbbing in ear.
🔑 Modalities
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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.

3X to 6X
Decimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Nitricum Acidum →
🔄 Compare With
Selenium Metallicum →Capsicum Annuum →Phosphorus →Causticum →Lycopodium Clavatum →Tribulus Terrestris →
⚠️ Inimical
Arum Triphyllum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Caladium Seguinum is listed in 73 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 21 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System25Modalities8Fever6Female Sexual System6Stomach5Respiratory System4Mind4Nervous System3Skin3Generalities3Urinary System2Head2Circulatory System1Abdomen1

See all 73 rubrics for Caladium Seguinum →