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Curare

30C / 200CCurare

Arrow Poison · Strychnos Toxifera · "The Muscle Paralysis Remedy"

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🎯 Curare acts primarily as a motor paralytic, causing muscular weakness and paralysis without affecting consciousness or sensory perception.

📖 Boericke writes:

(WOORARI)

Muscular paralysis without impairing sensation and consciousness. Paralysis of respiratory muscles. Reflex action diminished. Debility of the aged (Baryta) and from loss of fluids. Catalepsy. Nervous debility. Trismus. Glycosuria with motor paralysis. Curare decreases the output of adrenaline. Vomiting of bile in cirrhosis of liver. Diabetes mellitus, 4th dilution (Dr. Barkhard).

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for the elderly or those suffering from profound physical weakness and exhaustion following the loss of bodily fluids.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Reflex action diminished.

introduction

Threatened paralysis of respiration on falling asleep.

respiratory

Chest sore to pressure.

respiratory

Very distressing dyspnoea.

respiratory

Arms weak, heavy.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for states of mental apathy and loss of willpower.

Indecision; no longer wishes to think, or act for herself.

🔑 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.

6th to 30th

Centesimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Strychninum →

🔄 Compare With

Conium Maculatum →Causticum →Crotalus Horridus →Nux Vomica →Cystisin

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Curare is listed in 59 rubrics across 15 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 12 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nervous System16 Locomotor System13 Respiratory System6 Modalities4 Urinary System3 Mind3 Skin3 Throat3 Face2 Generalities1 Nose1 Mouth1 Head1 Circulatory System1 Tongue1

See all 59 rubrics for Curare →