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Equisetum Hyemale

30CEquisetum
Scouring Rush · Horsetail · "The Bladder Fullness Remedy"
equis-h.PlantCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the bladder to relieve irritation, painful urination, and incontinence.
📖 Boericke writes:
(EQUISETUM)
Principal action on the bladder. A remedy for and .
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Frequent urging with severe pain at the close of urination.
urinary
🩺 Systems & Indications
💧URINARY
This remedy is indicated for various urinary complaints including painful urination, bladder irritation, and incontinence.
Severe, dull pain and feeling of fullness in bladder, not relieved by urinating.
Frequent urging with severe pain at the close of urination.
Urine flows only drop by drop.
Sharp, burning, cutting pain in while urinating.
Incontinence in children, with or night-mares when passing urine.
Incontinence in old women, also with involuntary stools.
Retention and during pregnancy and after delivery.
Much mucus in urine.
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Involuntary urination.
🔑 Modalities
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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.

Tincture to 6X
Mother Tincture
📝A decoction or tincture in hot water is useful for urinary tract irritability, stones, and painful urination.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Hydrangea →Linaria →Ferrum Phosphoricum →Chimaphila Umbellata →Ferrum Metallicum →Apis Mellifica →Silicea Terra →Cantharis Vesicatoria →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Equisetum Hyemale is listed in 50 rubrics across 5 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 24 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System40Modalities6Female Sexual System2Nervous System1Male Sexual System1

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