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Crataegus Oxyacantha
Q / 30CCrataegusHawthorn · English Hawthorn · "The Heart Tonic Remedy"
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🎯 A powerful heart tonic that improves heart muscle function, regulates pulse, and helps reduce blood pressure.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CRATAEGUS)
Produces giddiness, lowered pulse, and air hunger and reduction in blood-pressure. Acts on muscle of heart,and is a heart tonic. No influence on the endocardium.
Myocarditis. Failing compensation.Irregularity of heart. Insomnia of aortic sufferers; anaemia; oedema; cutaneous chilliness. High arterial tension. Is a sedative in cross, irritable patients with cardiac symptoms.
Chronic heart disease, with extreme weakness. Very feeble and irregular heart action. General anasarca. Very nervous, with pain in back of head and neck. Collapse of typhoid. Haemorrhage from bowels. Cold extremities, pallor; irregular pulse and breathing. Painful sensation of pressure in left side of chest below the clavicle. Dyspepsia and nervous prostration, with heart failure. In the beginning of heart mischief after rheumatism.Arteriosclerosis. Said to have a solvent power upon crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries.
👤 Constitution
•Typically elderly or weak individuals with chronic heart disease, suffering from nervous exhaustion, irritability, and physical collapse.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Irregularity of heart.
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Arteriosclerosis.
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Said to have a solvent power upon crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries.
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Cardiac dropsy.
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Extreme dyspnoea on least exertion, without much increase of pulse.
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Pain in region of heart and under left clavicle.
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Heart dilated; first sound weak.
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Pulse accelerated, irregular, feeble, intermittent.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Used for nervous, irritable patients experiencing mental dullness and tension headaches.
Apprehensive, despondent.
Very nervous and irritable, with pain in back of head and neck.
Mental dullness conjunctival irritation nasal discharges.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
1-15 drops
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝Fluid extract or tincture · Must be used for some time
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Naja Tripudians →Strophanthus Hispidus →Cactus Grandiflorus →Digitalis Purpurea →Iberis Amara →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Boericke's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Hering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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