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Chionanthus Virginica

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Fringe Tree · Old Man's Beard · "The Liver Jaundice Remedy"

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🎯 A prominent liver remedy acting on hepatic derangements, jaundice, and various types of headaches.

📖 Boericke writes:

(CHIONANTHUS)

This remedy is often of service in many types of headaches, neurasthenic, periodical sick, menstrual and bilious. Taken for several weeks, drop doses, will often break up the sick headache habit. The pain in the forehead, chiefly over eyes. Eyeballs very painful, with pressure over root of nose. Hepatic derangements. Jaundice. Enlarged spleen (Ceanoth). Jaundice with arrest of menses. A prominent liver remedy. Gallstones (Berberis; Cholest; Calc). Diabetes mellitus. Paroxysmal, abdominal pain.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are listless, apathetic, and prone to bilious or hepatic complaints with jaundice.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Jaundice.

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Diabetes mellitus.

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Yellow conjunctiva.

head

Sore; enlarged, with jaundice and constipation.

abdomen and liver

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for various types of headaches including sick, menstrual, and bilious headaches.

Listless, apathetic.

Dull frontal headache, over root of nose, over eyes, through temples, worse stooping, motion, jar.

Yellow conjunctiva.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 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

🕒several weeks, drop doses

📝will often break up the sick headache habit

Primary Dosage

first attenuation

Decimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Ceanothus Americanus →Chelidonium Majus →Carduus Marianus →Leptandra Virginica →Podophyllinum →Cinchona Boliviana

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Chionanthus Virginica is listed in 40 rubrics across 10 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 9 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen17 Head6 Modalities4 Urinary System3 Stomach3 Female Sexual System2 Mouth2 Tongue1 Face1 Fever1

See all 40 rubrics for Chionanthus Virginica →