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Carduus Marianus

30C / QCarduus Mar
Milk Thistle · St. Mary's Thistle · "The Liver Tonic"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the liver and portal system to relieve congestion, jaundice, and associated digestive or vascular disturbances.
📖 Boericke writes:
St. Mary's Thistle
The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer.Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Disturbs sugar metabolism. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility. Haemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals with a sluggish, congested liver, often associated with a history of alcohol consumption, sedentary habits, or pelvic congestion.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid.
stomach
Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhoea.
abdomen
Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc. Asthmatic respiration.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental states characterized by apathy and despondency linked to liver dysfunction.
Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
lower potencies
Other
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
⏭️ Similar
Chelidonium Majus →Aloe Socotrina →Bryonia Alba →Mercurius Solubilis →
🔄 Compare With
Podophyllinum →Chelidonium Majus →Chionanthus Virginica →Bryonia Alba →Aloe Socotrina →Mercurius Solubilis →Carduus Benedictus →
📚 Sources & References

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