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Cichorium

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Cichorium Intybus · Chicory · "The Chicory Liver Bitter"

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Source

🎯 It acts primarily as a gentle digestive stimulant and tonic for states of lethargy and mental fatigue.

📖 Clarke writes:

Cichorium intybus. Chicory. Endive. N. O. Compositae. Tincture or trituration of dried root.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•General heaviness

•Weight at stomach

•Great indisposition to bodily and mental exertion

•Want of energy

•Bowels relaxed

•Acts as a gentle aperient when taken in infusion like coffee

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Great indisposition to mental exertion

•Want of energy

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Headache

•Feeling of deadness in the eyes at night, preventing reading (not from external irritation)

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

General feeling of heaviness throughout the body.

Clarke

Great indisposition to both bodily and mental exertion.

Clarke

Feeling of deadness in the eyes preventing reading at night.

Clarke

Weight at the stomach.

Clarke

Bowels are relaxed or act as a gentle aperient.

Clarke

General lack of energy.

Clarke

Headache associated with general heaviness.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

⚙️Generals

General heaviness.

Drowsiness.

Headache.

Sensation of weight at stomach and great indisposition to bodily and mental exertion.

Want of energy.

Bowels relaxed. Authority. 2 , J. W. Slater, Lancet, 1855 (2), p. 379, effect on a young man from roasting chicory.

Unable to read at night, not from an outward irritation, but, as he phrased it, from a feeling of "deadness" in the eyes, [2] .

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Night

inability to read

feeling of deadness in eyes

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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