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Epiphegus Virginiana

30CEpiphegus

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

👤Head

Indicated for nervous headaches caused by exhaustion, characterized by left-sided temple pressure and excessive salivation.

Pressing pain in temples from without inwards, worse, left side.

Viscid salivation, constant inclination to spit.

Sick headache coming on when deviating from ordinary pursuits.

Headaches from nerve tire caused by mental or physical exhaustion, preceded by hunger.

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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.

1st to 30th

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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Sanguinaria Canadensis →Fagus SylvaticaIris Versicolor →Melilotus Officinalis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Epiphegus Virginiana is listed in 18 rubrics across 6 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 11 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

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