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Gastein

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Gastein Aqua · Gastein Springs (Radioactive Hot Springs) · "The Radioactive Hot Springs Remedy"

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🎯 Acts as a powerful thermal stimulant that influences the nervous system, circulation, and the resolution of scar tissue.

📖 Clarke writes:

The hot springs of Wildbad Gastein in Salzburg, Austria, contain Sodium Sulphate predominantly, but also Silicic Acid, Potassium Sulphate and Carbonate, Lithium Chloride, Magnesium Carbonate, Ferrum Carbonate, Aluminium Phosphate, and traces of Calcium Fluoride, Strontium, Arsenicum, Titanic Acid, Rubidium, Caesium; also free Carbonic Acid. Lapis albus is a kind of gneiss found in the spring. It is a Silico-fluoride of Calcium. Dilutions.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•General unpleasant sensation upon initial contact

•Skin drawn up as if by a tight astringent

•Slight dyspnoea

•Abdominal walls draw together

•Testicles rise to the inguinal rings

•Unusual warmth accompanied by shocks and tremors spreading throughout all limbs

•Pulse becomes hard and vibrating

•Face becomes suffused

•Humming in the ears

•Thermal influence concentrates on the nervous system after 7-14 baths

•Increase of vitality spreading through the whole being

•Diminished secretions

•Activity of all the veins; excitement of the circulation

•Sensation of indescribable mental and physical comfort running through all the fibres during the bath

•Pulsation in the body, especially in the arms, with jumping in them

•Contractive sensations predominate

•Scar tissues and callosities are affected

Temperament & Physical Profile

•Phlegmatic patients: increase of force and tone, disappearance of involuntary losses of semen

•Energetic or irritable temperaments: erotic dreams and unwonted excitement, like cantharides; waters are aphrodisiac

•Weakness and weariness

•Dragging sensation in the abdomen, as if it were too heavy

•Exhaustion and inclination to sleep

•Takes cold very easily (caused, then cured)

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Feels more active than before

•Longest walks cause hardly any fatigue, promptly repaired by sleep

•Sensation of indescribable mental and physical comfort

Modalities

•All symptoms WORSE before a storm

•All symptoms WORSE during the Sirocco

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Old scars and callosities become painful or break out anew.

Clarke

Sensation of contraction or being drawn up as if by a tight astringent.

Clarke

Increased vitality and sexual tone, often acting as an aphrodisiac.

Clarke

Expulsion of stones from the kidneys and bladder.

Clarke

General feeling of physical and mental comfort during the bath.

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Liability to take cold easily.

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Pulse becomes hard, vibrating, and full.

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Profuse, pungent perspiration that stains linen.

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Dragging sensation in the abdomen as if it were too heavy.

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Veins become active and swollen.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Use for states of mental lethargy or when a boost in vitality is required.

Lively mind

vivid fantasies

conversational.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Before a storm

all symptoms

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Fluoricum Acidum →Silicea Terra →

📚 Sources & References

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

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