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Carduus Benedictus

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Carduus Benedictus (Cnicus Benedictus) · Blessed Thistle / Spotted Thistle · "The Blessed Thistle Liver-Eye Remedy"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the eyes, respiratory tract, and digestive system, characterized by sensations of burning and contraction.

📖 Clarke writes:

Cnicus benedictus. Centaurea benedicta. N. O. Compositae. Tincture of whole plant when in flower.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Strong action on the eyes

•Gastro-abdominal disturbances

•Strongly affected respiratory sphere

•Sensation of contraction in many parts (most prominent symptom)

•General venous congestion

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Twitchings and disturbance of vision

•Flickerings

•Muscae volitantes

•Blackness before eyes for a short time

•Eyeballs feel larger

•Burning sensation throughout the proving

•Bitter burning in the stomach, as if much deranged

•Burning in hands after sweat

•Burning in the arms on exerting them

•Disordered taste

•Dysphagia

•Yawning and hiccough

•Cutting pains in abdomen

•Vomiting and diarrhoea

•Pain and contractive sensation in the trachea with hoarseness

•Inspired air feels cold

•Feeling as if buccal cavity were contracted

•Tension in tendons

•Aching and cracking in joints

•Aching, cutting pain

•Slight swelling of veins

•Red and afterwards yellow spots on skin

Modalities

•Symptoms are WORSE by motion

•Symptoms are WORSE by touch

•Symptoms are WORSE by walking

•Symptoms are WORSE by stretching the limbs

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Sensation of contraction in many parts of the body, especially the buccal cavity and trachea.

Clarke

Burning sensations throughout the body, particularly in the stomach, hands, and arms.

Clarke

Vertigo on raising the head, which is worse on stooping.

Clarke

Sour, almost sulphurous taste in the mouth, which is temporarily relieved by eating.

Clarke

Respiratory distress with a feeling of a closed trachea and cold inspired air.

Clarke

Eyeballs feel larger, with flickering, blackness, or grey spots before the eyes.

Clarke

Aching and cracking in the joints with tension in the tendons.

Clarke

Bitter burning in the stomach as if deranged, with constant yawning and hiccough.

Clarke

Red spots on the skin that turn yellow, accompanied by a nettle-rash-like eruption.

Clarke

Weakness of the knees when walking, especially during fever.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Anxiety and fretfulness, especially during fever, with a tendency to start at noises.

Anxiety, fear, starting at every noise, frequently breaking into cold sweat.

Fretful

during fever.

Cross humour.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Stretching

limbs

↑Better from

Eating

mouth contraction

sour taste

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Atropinum →Agaricus Muscarius →Belladonna →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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