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Epiphegus Virginiana

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Beech Drops · Cancer Root · "The Exhaustion Headache Remedy"
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🎯 A remedy for nervous and sick headaches caused by exhaustion or stress, particularly in women.
📖 Boericke writes:
(EPIPHEGUS - OROBANCHE)
A remedy for sick, neurasthenic, and nervous headaches, especially in women, brought on or made worse by exertion, shopping, etc. Tongue coated yellow; bitter taste. Drowsy after meals. Loose stools.Subinvolution, with painful menstruation and congestion.
👤 Constitution
Typically women who are neurasthenic, easily exhausted by daily activities, and prone to nervous tension.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Pressing pain in temples from without inwards, worse, left side.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
📌Introduction
Useful for nervous exhaustion in women presenting with digestive disturbances and menstrual congestion.
Headaches in women caused by exertion or shopping.
Tongue coated yellow with a bitter taste.
Feeling drowsy after eating.
Loose bowel movements.
Uterine issues with painful menstruation and congestion.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1st to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Sanguinaria CanadensisFagus SylvaticaIris VersicolorMelilotus Officinalis
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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