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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.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together by India-rubber.
Boericke
General sore and bruised feeling all over the body.
Boericke
Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.
Boericke
Skin wrinkled like a washer-woman's.
Boericke
Severe intermittent fever and influenza.
Boericke
Sensitive to cold trade-winds.
Boericke
🩺 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
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 →
📚 Sources & References

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