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Gambogia

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Gamboge · Garcinia Morella · "The Yellow Gushing Diarrhea Remedy"
gamb.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 It acts primarily on the gastro-enteric tract to produce intense, sudden, and forcible diarrhea.
📖 Boericke writes:
(GAMBOGIA - GARCINIA MORELLA)
The use of this drug in Homeopathy has been confined to its action on the alimentary tract. It produces a diarrhoea very similar to Croton. BETTERFrom its pathogenesis, it is very evident that it has very intense and definite action especially on the gastro-enteric tract.
👤 Constitution
•Typically affects elderly individuals, especially during hot weather, who suffer from digestive weakness and sensitivity.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Rumbling and rolling.
gastro-enteric symptoms
Diarrhoea, with sudden and forcible ejection of bilious stools.
gastro-enteric symptoms
Tenesmus after, with burning at anus.
gastro-enteric symptoms
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Used for head heaviness accompanied by eye irritation and sneezing.
Heavy, with inertia, and drowsiness.
Itching and burning in eyes; lids stick together, with sneezing.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency
3rd to 30th
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Gamboge painted on the chest in lung tuberculosis is considered specific.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Croton Tiglium →Aloe Socotrina →Podophyllinum →
📚 Sources & References

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