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Daphne Indica

30CDaphne
Indian Daphne · Spurge Laurel · "The Burning Neuralgic Remedy"
daph.PlantRarePsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the lower tissues, muscles, bones, and skin, often indicated for pains and specific sensations of bodily separation.
📖 Boericke writes:
Acts on lower tissues, muscles, bones and skin. Sudden, lightning jerks in different parts of the body. Craving for tobacco. Burning in stomach. Parts of the body feel separated (Bapt). breath, urine, sweat.
👤 Constitution
The typical person needing this remedy may have a history of complaints, a strong tobacco habit, and a tendency toward foul-smelling breath, urine, or sweat.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Craving for tobacco.
introduction
Feels as if skull would burst; as if head were separated from body.
head
Tongue coated on one side only (Rhus).
head
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Indicated for head pain with a feeling of detachment and one-sided tongue coating.
Feels as if skull would burst; as if head were separated from body.
Heat in head, especially in .
Tongue coated on one side only (Rhus).
Foul-smelling, hot.
🔑 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 6X
Decimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Rhus ToxicodendronBryonia Alba
🔄 Compare With
MezereumFluoricum AcidumAurum MetallicumStaphysagria

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Daphne Indica is listed in 33 rubrics across 12 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System8Nervous System7Urinary System4Mouth3Male Sexual System2Head2Circulatory System2Tongue1Mind1Stomach1Generalities1Fever1

See all 33 rubrics for Daphne Indica