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Carya Alba

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Carya Alba · Shellbark Hickory · "The Rare Hickory Remedy"
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🎯 It acts as an antiscorbutic agent that profoundly affects the blood and vascular system, causing hemorrhages and skin discoloration.
📖 Clarke writes:
Shellbark, or Shagbark Hickory. N. O. Juglandaceae. Tincture of nuts.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Possesses antiscorbutic properties
Produces symptoms of scurvy
Haemorrhages from all surfaces
On the least excoriation of skin, very dark blood gushed out
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Blood gushed from gums
Blood gushed from nose
Blood gushed from ears
Blood gushed from other parts
Very dark blood
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Profuse hemorrhages of dark blood from all surfaces.
Clarke
Gums swell, bleed, and turn black.
Clarke
Body covered with livid spots ranging from pin-head size to one inch in diameter.
Clarke
Extreme swelling of the face and limbs.
Clarke
Discharge of black blood by stool.
Clarke
Blood gushes out upon the slightest excoriation of the skin.
Clarke
Face appears clay-colored.
Clarke
Short, difficult breath accompanied by a quick pulse.
Clarke
Profuse discharge from lips upon movement.
Clarke
Abdominal swelling.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
😶Face
Used for clay-colored, swollen faces.
Face clay-coloured
swollen.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Excoriation of skin
gushing of dark blood
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Bryonia AlbaRhus ToxicodendronHamamelis VirginianaCarbo VegetabilisMercurius SolubilisArnica Montana
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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