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Cucurbita Pepo

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Pumpkin · Common Pumpkin · "The Nausea Worm Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily as an effective and gentle remedy for expelling tapeworms and relieving severe .
📖 Boericke writes:
Intense immediately after eating. of pregnancy. Seasickness. One of the most efficient and least harmful of teniafuges.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 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
🕒Take in morning after twelve hours' fasting, and follow in two hours by castor oil
📝Scald the seeds and peel off the outer skins when softened, the green inner pulp being the part used. Dose: two ounces of seed, yielding one of pulp. May be mixed with cream and taken like porridge.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Cuprum Oxidum NigrumFilix MasCuprum Metallicum

Boericke's Materia Medica