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Calendula Officinalis

30C / QCalendula

Marigold Flower · "The Homeopathic Antiseptic"

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🎯 A powerful healing agent for wounds, ulcers, and skin injuries that promotes healthy tissue repair and prevents infection.

📖 Boericke writes:

A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention. Haemostatic after tooth extraction. Deafness. Catarrhal conditions. Neuroma. Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. Pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather. Paralysis after apoplexy. Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy. Has remarkable power to produce local exudation and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. Cold hands.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are extremely nervous, easily frightened, and have a constitutional tendency toward skin inflammation or erysipelas.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather.

introduction

Heartburn with horripilations.

stomach

Warts at the os externum.

female

Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch.

fever

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Used for head injuries, scalp wounds, and glandular swelling in the neck.

Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain.

Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch.

Pain in right side of neck.

Lacerated scalp wounds.

🔑 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.

tincture

Mother Tincture

📝internally

Primary Dosage

third potency

Other

📝internally

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🤝 Complementary

Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →

🚫 Antidotes

Chelidonium Majus →Rheum Palmatum →

🔄 Compare With

Hypericum Perforatum →Calcarea Carbonica →Arnica Montana →Hamamelis Virginiana →Ferrum Picricum →Graphites →Magnesium Carbonicum →Symphytum Officinale →Kalium Iodatum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Calendula Officinalis is listed in 63 rubrics across 12 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 7 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Generalities18 Skin14 Female Sexual System8 Nervous System5 Eyes5 Fever3 Ears2 Nose2 Respiratory System2 Stomach2 Male Sexual System1 Modalities1

See all 63 rubrics for Calendula Officinalis →