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Copaiva Officinalis

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Copaiba Balsam · Copaifera Officinalis · "The Urinary Balsam Remedy"

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🎯 Acts powerfully on mucous membranes, particularly the urinary tract, respiratory system, and skin.

📖 Boericke writes:

(COPAIVA)

Acts powerfully on mucous membranes, especially that of the urinary tract, the respiratory organs, and the skin, here producing a well-marked nettle-rash. Cold and catarrhs.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who are sensitive to sharp sounds and prone to catarrhal conditions, often with skin sensitivities or urinary issues.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Mucous Colitis.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for throbbing headaches that are worse on the right side and aggravated by motion.

Excessive sensitiveness; pain in occiput.

Dull, frontal headache, passes to occiput and back again, with throbbing, worse right side and motion.

Scalp sensitive.

Sensitive to sharp sounds.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 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.

1X to 3X

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Mercurius Solubilis →Belladonna →

🔄 Compare With

Apis Mellifica →Cubeba Officinalis →Erigeron Canadense →Vespa Crabro →Senecio Aureus →Cantharis Vesicatoria →Sepia Officinalis →Barosma Crenulatum →Santalum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Copaiva Officinalis is listed in 99 rubrics across 11 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 33 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System37 Male Sexual System19 Respiratory System8 Skin7 Abdomen7 Female Sexual System7 Nose5 Locomotor System3 Generalities3 Stomach2 Fever1

See all 99 rubrics for Copaiva Officinalis →