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Canchalagua

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Centaurium Exaltatum · Canchalagua · "The Malarial Bitter Tonic"

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🎯 Acts as a bitter tonic and fever remedy, particularly useful for severe intermittent fevers and influenza.

📖 Boericke writes:

Erythraea venusta-Centaury

Used extensively as a fever remedy and bitter tonic (Gentiana), antimalarial and antiseptic. Of use in severe type of intermittent fever in hot countries; also, in influenza. Sore, as if bruised all over. Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are sensitive to cold trade-winds and suffer from a general bruised, sore feeling throughout the body.

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Useful for head congestion characterized by a tight, bound sensation and sensory disturbances in the eyes and ears.

Congested.

Scalp feels tight; head feels as if bound; burning in eyes; buzzing in ears.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse 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.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

🕒drop doses

📝Must be made from the fresh plant; medicinal properties are lost in the dry.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Gentiana Lutea →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Canchalagua is listed in 11 rubrics across 3 chapters.

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