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Euphorbia Lathyris
30CEuphorb LathCaper Spurge · Mole Plant · "The Violent Purging Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily as a powerful irritant to the skin and mucous membranes, causing intense inflammation, blistering, and digestive distress.
📖 Boericke writes:
Gopher-Plant, Caper Spurge
The fresh milky juice is exceedingly acrid when applied to the skin and the fruit is highly purgative and poisonous. The juice causes redness, itching, pimples, sometimes gangrene. The symptoms point to its use in erysipelas. Poison Oak, etc. Rheumatic pains during rest. Paralytic, weakness in joints.
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient may present with intense skin inflammation, coldness, and signs of systemic toxicity, often appearing weak or delirious.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Very sensitive and oedematous mucous membranes with ulceration.
nose
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for states of severe mental clouding or delirium.
Delirium and hallucinations.
Stupor, coma.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
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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.
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Rhus Toxicodendron →Veratrum Album →