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Ceanothus Americanus

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New Jersey Tea · Red Root · "The Spleen Remedy"
cean.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 A specific remedy for spleen disorders, particularly enlargement and , often associated with malarial conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CEANOTHUS)
This remedy seems to possess a specific relation to the spleen. cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemastatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood.
👤 Constitution
• patients who suffer from chronic liver and spleen dysfunction.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
; pain all up the left side.
abdomen
🩺 Systems & Indications
🔵Abdomen
Used for significant spleen enlargement, , and associated left-sided abdominal pain.
Enormous enlargement of the spleen.
; pain all up the left side.
Deep-seated pain in left , of spleen.
.
Violent .
profuse, and yellow weakening .
Unable to lie on left side.
Pain in liver and back.
🔑 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.

First attenuation
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📝Locally as hair tonic.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Tinospora CordifoliaMyrica Cerifera →Agaricus Muscarius →Ceanothus Thrysiflorus →Berberis Vulgaris →Cedron →Polymnia UvedaliaLithium Bromatum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Ceanothus Americanus is listed in 30 rubrics across 8 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 12 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen10Urinary System5Generalities4Fever3Female Sexual System3Modalities2Respiratory System2Male Sexual System1

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