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Dolichos Pruriens

30C / 200CDolichos

Cowhage · Mucuna Pruriens · "The Intense Itching No Eruption Remedy"

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🎯 A remedy primarily acting on the liver and skin, characterized by intense, generalized itching without visible skin eruptions.

📖 Boericke writes:

(DOLICHOS PURIENS - MUCUNA)

A right-sided medicine, with pronounced liver and skin symptoms. A general intense itching without eruption. Exalted nervous sensibility. Senile pruritus. Haemorrhoidal diathesis.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals with a right-sided tendency, liver congestion, or a hemorrhoidal disposition, often exhibiting heightened nervous sensitivity.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically.

throat

Constipation, with intense itching; bloated abdomen.

abdomen

🩺 Systems & Indications

🫁THROAT

Useful for throat pain that feels like a splinter, particularly on the right side.

Pain in throat, worse swallowing, below right angle of jaw, as if splinter were imbedded vertically.

Pain in gums prevents sleep.

🔑 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.

Decimal

Primary Dosage

Tincture

Mother Tincture

📝drop doses, in hemorrhoids

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Nitricum Acidum →Rhus Toxicodendron →Belladonna →Fagopyrum Esculentum →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Dolichos Pruriens is listed in 21 rubrics across 6 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 6 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin7 Abdomen5 Modalities3 Throat3 Teeth2 Gums1

See all 21 rubrics for Dolichos Pruriens →