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Gossypium Herbaceum

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Cotton Plant · Levant Cotton · "The Suppressed Menses Remedy"
goss.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 A powerful emmenagogue that acts on the female reproductive system, particularly in cases of suppressed or tardy and pregnancy-related reflex conditions.
📖 Boericke writes:
(GOSSYPIUM)
A powerful emmenagogue, used in physiological . Homeopathically, it corresponds to many reflex conditions, depending on disturbed function and pregnancy. Gossypium will relieve tardy , especially with sensation that the flow is about to start and yet does not do so. Tall, bloodless patients, with nervous chills.
👤 Constitution
Tall, bloodless patients who suffer from nervous chills.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
pain in ovaries.
female
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Used for neck pain and tension associated with nervous states.
Pain in region with tendency for head to draw backward with nervousness.
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture to 6X
Mother Tincture
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
⏭️ Similar
Secale CornutumSabinaLilium TigrinumCimicifuga Racemosa
🔄 Compare With
SabinaCimicifuga RacemosaLilium Tigrinum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Gossypium Herbaceum is listed in 21 rubrics across 6 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 7 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Female Sexual System14Head2Stomach2Fever1Nervous System1Generalities1

See all 21 rubrics for Gossypium Herbaceum