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Euphorbia Amygdaloides

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Euphorbia Amygdaloides · Wood Spurge · "The Wood Spurge Mouse-Odour Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily as an irritant to the intestinal tract and skin, producing burning sensations and rheumatic-like pains.
📖 Clarke writes:
Wood Spurge. N. O. Euphorbiaceae. Tincture of plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
General characteristics similar to Euphorbium
Produces irritation and burning sensations of the intestinal tract
Associated with vomiting and diarrhoea
Associated with skin affections
Seething sensation in the head and thigh
Rheumatic pains come on when heated
Malaise
Tired weak feeling during and after walking
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Illusion of smell: 'odour of mice'
Restlessness all night, turning about half awake and half asleep
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Burning in back of throat relieved by cold water (Note: burning WORSE from cold water in Capsicum)
Symptoms go from right to left
Many symptoms are WORSE evening
Many symptoms are WORSE walking
Many symptoms are BETTER after eating
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Burning in the back of the throat relieved by cold water.
Clarke
Strong, peculiar illusion of smelling mice.
Clarke
Seething sensation in the head, spine, and limbs.
Clarke
Digestive symptoms relieved by eating supper.
Clarke
Rheumatic pains triggered by becoming warm and perspiring.
Clarke
Symptoms progress from the right side to the left side.
Clarke
Restlessness all night, tossing between sleep and wakefulness.
Clarke
Diarrhea accompanied by painful anal spasm and prolapse.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Seething sensations in the head that extend down the back.
Seething sensation backwards and forwards in head, extending down back and going off during sleep.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Evening
general symptoms
leg sensations
diarrhea
Better from
Cold water
burning in throat
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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