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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
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒several weeks, drop doses
📝will often break up the sick headache habit
Primary Dosage
first attenuation
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Ceanothus Americanus →Chelidonium Majus →Carduus Marianus →Leptandra Virginica →Podophyllinum →Cinchona Boliviana →
📚 Sources & References

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