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Chenopodium Vulvaria

30CChenop Vulv
Stinking Goosefoot · Nettle-leaved Goosefoot · "The Hysteria Offensive Odour Remedy"
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🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for nervous exhaustion, female reproductive disturbances, and specific respiratory or digestive complaints associated with a foul, fishy odor.
📖 Hering writes:
Chenopodium Vulvaria.
Mind. Sensorium. Inner head. Outer head. Sight and eyes. Hearing and ears. Smell and nose. Upper face. Lower face. Teeth and gums. Taste, speech, tongue. Inner mouth. Palate and throat. Appetite, thirst. Desires.. Eating and drinking. Hiccough, belching, nausea..
Scrobiculum and stomach. Hypochondria. Abdomen and loins. Stools and rectum. Urinary organs. Male sexual organs. Female sexual organs. Pregnancy. Parturition.. Voice and larynx. Trachea.. Respiration. Cough. Inner chest and lungs. Heart, pulse and circulation. Outer chest. Neck and back. Upper limbs. Lower limbs. Limbs in general. Rest. Position. Motion. Nerves. Sleep. Time. Temperature and weather. Fever. Attacks, periodicity. Locality and direction. Sensations. Tissues. Touch. Injuries.. Skin. Relations.
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Stinkender Gänsefuss. Chenopodiaceae.
"This plant has an odor of decaying fish, and contains a large amount of Trimethylamine (Propylamine)." --Allen's Encyclopaedia, vol. 3, p. 180.
Recommended : by Cullen ; by Jahn (decoction) in uterine complaints ; by Houlton (extract), in 1829, for disturbances of uterine life, insufficient menstruation, hysteria, etc. ; by Helbig (the tincture), in nocturnal enuresis.
Provings, in 1846, with 10 drops of the tincture, by C. Hering on himself and son Max, ten years old, also clinical verifications.
Proving by E. W. Berridge, on Mr. J. R. Croker, Malvern, Worcestershire, with 30 to 40 grains a day of the extract from the entire plant, excepting the root, for three weeks. --Mon. Hom. Review, vol. 15, p. 297.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are generally weak, nervous, and prone to exhaustion, often presenting with symptoms that have a distinct, offensive, fish-like smell.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Strong, offensive, fish-like odor emanating from the body or secretions.
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Profound nervous exhaustion and general physical weakness.
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Irritability and mental depression associated with physical illness.
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Disturbances of the female reproductive system, including leucorrhea.
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Respiratory symptoms accompanied by a feeling of constriction or oppression.
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Digestive discomfort with nausea and belching.
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Sensation of heaviness or pressure in the head.
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Symptoms often aggravated by exertion or movement.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Feeling of dulness, commencing in both sides of head behind ears, going upward.
Dulness more in back part of head, upper part of occiput, particularly behind both ears.
The dulness or fulness in head returns in waves, and is worse in back part of head.
Tenderness in left parietal region.
Pressure, first on left parietal region, posterior portion, then on vertex.
Pain in left parietal region.
In occiput sense of dulness coming in waves.
Hering Symptom Grade:
Keynote (Grade 3)
Important (Grade 2)
Minor (Grade 1)
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Evening
pricking in legs
restless feeling in legs
↑Better from
Bending Back
stitching-pressing in right side of back
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Chenopodium Anthelminticum →
📚 Sources & References

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