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Geum Rivale

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Geum Rivale · Water Avens · "The Water Avens Astringent"
PlantRare
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🎯 It acts primarily on the abdominal region, producing intense, shock-like pain that radiates to the urinary tract.
📖 Clarke writes:
Water Avens. N. O. Rosaceae. Tincture of the plant in flower.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Tearing, jerking pains
Pains shoot from deep within the abdomen, below the umbilicus to the end of the urethra
Pains are like electric shocks
Excessively severe pains
Pains always occur twice in succession
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Pains instantly unfit the patient for everything
Pains return as soon as he eats anything
Obliged to lie down when pains occur
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Tearing, jerking pains shooting from deep within the abdomen to the end of the urethra.
Clarke
Pains are described as being like electric shocks.
Clarke
Pains are excessively severe and instantly incapacitating.
Clarke
Pains always occur twice in succession.
Clarke
Symptoms are triggered or return immediately upon eating.
Clarke
Patient is obliged to lie down when the pains occur.
Clarke
Pain originates below the umbilicus.
Clarke
A remedy with very limited recorded clinical data.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
⚙️Generals
Used for intense, paroxysmal, electric-like pains that cause total physical incapacity.
Tearing-jerking pains, which instantly unfit him for everything
  • seem to shoot from deep within the abdomen below the umbilicus to the end of the urethra. As soon as he eats anything they return, then he is obliged to lie down ;
  • they are similar to electric shocks, excessively severe, and always occurring twice in succession..
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Eating
tearing jerking pains
electric shock sensations
📚 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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