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Genista Tinctoria · Dyer's Weed (Dyer's Greenweed) · "The Dyer's Weed Diuretic"
PlantRarePsoric
Source
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, causing sharp, piercing pains and sudden, urgent bowel movements.
📖 Clarke writes:
Genista Tinctoria. Dyer's Greenweld. N. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of whole plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Sharp piercing pains in the head and ear
Brain feels loose and sensitive
Sensitive feeling in brain, eye, and throat
Urgent desire for stool, which is expelled suddenly
A peculiar eruption of dark red confluent spots
Modalities
Aggravation (WORSE): Rising; turning quickly; shaking head; walking
Amelioration (BETTER): In open air; in cool rooms; by eating (headache)
Time: In the night, water-brash
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Vertigo and headache triggered by rising or shaking the head.
Clarke
Sensation as if the brain were loose and highly sensitive.
Clarke
Urgent desire for stool, expelled suddenly like a wad from a pop-gun.
Clarke
Sharp, piercing pains in the head and ears.
Clarke
Peculiar dark-red, confluent skin eruption that itches intensely.
Clarke
Headache relieved by eating.
Clarke
Water-brash occurring during the night.
Clarke
Throat feels dry and sensitive.
Clarke
Stool may be soft, scanty, or tinged with blood.
Clarke
Eyes sensitive to touch in the forenoon.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Use for vertigo and sharp, piercing headaches that worsen with movement.
Vertigo and headache on rising or shaking head, BETTER after dinner.
Sensation as if brain were loose and very sensitive.
Frequent, sharp pain in r. temple from within outwards.
Piercing pain in l. temple.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Rising
vertigo
headache
Better from
Eating
headache
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Baryta CarbonicaRhus Toxicodendron
📚 Sources & References
Kent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM

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