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Euonymus Europaea

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Euonymus Europaeus · European Spindle Tree · "The European Spindle Tree Purgative"

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🎯 It acts primarily as a powerful purgative and liver stimulant, often indicated in cases of severe digestive distress and bilious congestion.

📖 Clarke writes:

Spindle-tree. N. O. Celastraceae. Trituration of dried seeds; tincture of fresh seeds.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Closely related to the Rhamnaceae (including Cascara sagrada)

•Acts on the liver (engorgement, biliousness)

•Acts on the gastrointestinal tract (diarrhoea, constipation, gastric derangements)

•Acts on the urinary system (albuminuria)

•Produces profound collapse

•Induces tetanic convulsions

•Cutting, sticking, and drawing pains predominate

•Left side is more affected than the right

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Vertigo

•Obscuration of sight

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Frightful abdominal pain

•Profuse diarrhoea, eventually bloody

•Involuntary evacuations of blood and mucus

•Coated tongue

•Bad taste

•Constipation, passive constipation with haemorrhoids θ

•Severe pain in back like lumbago

•Stool generally very profuse and variable in colour

•Gastric derangements with albuminuria

•Headache

•Weakness

•Cutting pains in the malar bones

•Cutting pains in the tongue

•Cutting in the penis extends up to the bladder

•Pains compel lying down, and are then relieved or reappear in other parts

•Violent shivering chill over whole body

•Pains in chest, head and abdomen are WORSE after eating

•Tingling in the skin which provokes scratching is followed by a burning sensation

•Eruption of small dry pustules

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Severe abdominal pain and profuse, bloody diarrhea.

Clarke

Aggravation of chest, head, and abdominal pains after eating, especially after dinner.

Clarke

Pains that compel the person to lie down for relief.

Clarke

Left-sided symptoms predominate.

Clarke

Tingling in the skin followed by burning after scratching.

Clarke

Sensation as if a nail were driven into the side of the crown of the head.

Clarke

Obscuration of sight with vertigo.

Clarke

Cutting pains in the tongue and malar bones.

Clarke

Violent shivering chill over the whole body.

Clarke

Eruption of small dry pustules.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Morose, peevish, and fretful states with a disinclination for work and vanishing thoughts.

Morose

peevish

fretful.

Disinclined for work.

Vanishing of thoughts on exerting the mind when reflecting about anything (or reading) and ill-humour thereat.

Absence of mind.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Eating

abdominal pain

chest pain

headache

↑Better from

Lying down

shooting pains

drawing pains

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Iris Versicolor →

📚 Sources & References

✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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