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Colostrum

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Colostrum · First Milk · "The Newborn Nutrition Remedy"
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Source
🎯 It acts primarily as a clinical remedy for digestive disturbances and diarrhea in infants.
📖 Clarke writes:
The milk first secreted after childbirth. Solution.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Symptoms are purely clinical
Use in diarrhea suggested by the purgative effect of Colostrum on the infant
Temperament & Physical Profile
Pale face
Tongue coated white or yellow
Emaciation
The whole body smells sour
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Great nervous irritability
Listlessness
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Stools: Green, watery; yellow; watery; mucous; bilious; profuse; sour-smelling; excoriating
Colicky pains in hypogastrium during stool
Vomiting of sour or bitter substances
Loss of appetite
Fever
Aggravation: In nursing infants
Aggravation: During dentition
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Green, watery, or mucous stools that are sour-smelling and excoriating.
Clarke
Colicky pains in the lower abdomen during stool.
Clarke
The whole body emits a sour odor.
Clarke
Vomiting of sour or bitter substances.
Clarke
Great nervous irritability or listlessness.
Clarke
Tongue coated white or yellow.
Clarke
Pale face associated with digestive upset.
Clarke
Loss of appetite.
Clarke
General emaciation.
Clarke
Fever accompanying gastrointestinal symptoms.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
⬇️Rectum
Think of this remedy when dealing with stool that is distinctly yellow in color and emits a sour odor.
Stool, odor, sour
Stool, yellow
Rectum, cholera, infantum
Stool, acrid, corrosive, excoriating
Stool, copious
Stool, watery, green
Stool, watery, yellow
 
Main
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Nursing
diarrhea
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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