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Fagus

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Fagus Sylvatica · Beech · "The Beech Tree Remedy"
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🎯 Fagus acts primarily on the nervous system, producing symptoms of irritation and convulsion similar to those seen in hydrophobia.
📖 Clarke writes:
Fagus sylvatica. Beech. N. O. Cupuliferae. Trituration of the nuts.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Nerve irritation similar to the poison of rabies
Dread of liquids
Salivation
Trembling
Convulsions with periodic spasms
Stiffness
Coldness
Swelling of the mouth
Headache
Potential for fatal outcomes
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Symptoms derived from the ill effects of eating the nuts
Hydrophobia (dread of liquids)
Salivation
Trembling
Convulsions with periodic spasms
Stiffness and coldness
Swelling of the mouth
Headache
Death has resulted from the effects of the nuts
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Intense dread of liquids and water
Clarke
Profuse salivation with frothing at the mouth
Clarke
Convulsions with periodic spasms
Clarke
Intolerable thirst accompanied by a shuddering aversion to drinking
Clarke
State of intoxication, gloominess, and torpor
Clarke
Violent burning skin and ardent fever
Clarke
Dull frontal headache lasting several hours
Clarke
Swelling of the mouth
Clarke
Fiery red urine with turbid white sediment
Clarke
Vomiting of porracious bile
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for states of mental confusion, intoxication, and extreme apprehension of death.
Intoxication.
Dread of water.
Terrified
apprehensive of death.
Gloomy and torpid.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Eating nuts
gloominess
torpor
dread of liquids
salivation
📚 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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