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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

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

Primary Dosage

lower potencies

Other

🌿 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 →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Carduus Marianus is listed in 59 rubrics across 12 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 16 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen20 Stomach10 Respiratory System5 Head5 Skin5 Generalities4 Tongue3 Fever2 Urinary System2 Female Sexual System1 Taste1 Circulatory System1

See all 59 rubrics for Carduus Marianus →