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Corydalis Formosa

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Turkey Corn · Bleeding Heart · "The Syphilitic Skin Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on chronic syphilitic conditions, glandular swellings, and states of deep-seated tissue weakness.

📖 Boericke writes:

(CORYDALIS - DICENTRA CANADENSIS)

Syphilitic affections. Ulcers of mouth and fauces. Cancer cachexia pronounced. Gummata and night-pains. Chronic diseases, with atony. Tongue clean, broad, and full. Tissues flabby, doughy, cold. Gastric catarrh (Hydrast).

👤 Constitution

•The typical person needing this remedy has a flabby, doughy, and cold physical build. They often present with a clean, broad, and full tongue, indicating a state of chronic atony or lack of tone.

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧴Skin

Indicated for dry, scaly skin conditions in the elderly and swollen lymph nodes.

Dry, scaly scabs on face of old people.

Lymphatic glands swollen.

🔑 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.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

🕒three times a day

📝twenty drops

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Nitricum Acidum →Fluoricum Acidum →Kalium Iodatum →Kali Iodatum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Corydalis Formosa is listed in 9 rubrics across 7 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System3 Throat1 Tongue1 Stomach1 Mouth1 Skin1 Generalities1