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Calotropis Gigantea
Q / 30CCalotropisGiant Milkweed · Madar · "The Leprosy Skin Remedy"
calo.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 It acts as a powerful sudorific and skin stimulant, particularly useful in chronic conditions like syphilis and leprosy.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CALOTROPIS)
Has been used with marked success in the treatment of syphilis following Mercury; also, in elephantiasis, leprosy, and acute dysentery. Pneumonic phthisis. Tuberculosis.
Increases the circulation in the skin; has powerful effects as a sudorific. In the secondary symptoms of syphilis, where Mercury has been used but cannot be pushed safely any farther, it rapidly recruits the constitution, heals the ulcers and blotches from the skin, and perfects the cure.Primary anaemia of syphilis. Heat in stomach is a good guiding symptom. Obesity, while flesh decreases, muscles become harder and firmer.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who have been weakened by chronic disease or excessive use of Mercury, showing signs of skin ulcers, blotches, or general constitutional depletion.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Primary anaemia of syphilis.
introduction
🩺 Systems & Indications
⚙️General
Useful for chronic constitutional depletion, skin diseases, and recovery from deep-seated infections.
Used for syphilis after Mercury treatment has failed or can no longer be used safely.
Reduces body fat while making muscles harder and firmer.
Effective for elephantiasis and leprosy.
Used for tuberculosis and lung-related wasting diseases.
Increases circulation in the skin and acts as a powerful sweat-inducing agent.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Movement
pains in limbs
pain in feet
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒three times a day
📝one to five drops
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Sarsaparilla Officinalis →Mercurius Solubilis →Ipecacuanha →Berb Aqui →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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