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Black Lead · Plumbago · "The Honey Discharge Remedy"
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🎯 A powerful anti-psoric remedy acting primarily on the skin, metabolism, and digestive system, particularly in individuals with a tendency toward obesity, constipation, and chronic skin eruptions.
📖 Boericke writes:
Black Lead-Plumbago
Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation,fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders.Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anaemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhoea. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer.
👤 Constitution
•Stout, fair-complexioned, chilly, and prone to constipation; often exhibits a tendency toward obesity and skin disorders.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
GRAPHITES Black Lead-Plumbago Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily.
introduction
Eradicates tendency to erysipelas.
introduction
Music makes her weep.
mind
Burning on vertex.
head
Eyelids red and swollen.
eyes
Eczema of lids; fissured.
eyes
Dryness of inner ear.
ears
Moisture and eruptions behind the ears.
ears
Hears better in noise.
ears
Hot drinks disagree.
stomach
Constrictive pain in stomach.
stomach
Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; must loosen clothing; presses painfully at abdominal ring.
abdomen
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for emotional states characterized by indecision, anxiety, and sensitivity to music.
Great tendency to start.
Timid.
Unable to decide.
Want of disposition to work.
Fidgety while sitting at work.
Music makes her weep.
Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Sixth to thirtieth
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Causticum →Argentum Nitricum →Arsenicum Album →Lycopodium Clavatum →Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →Tuberculinum →
🚫 Antidotes
Arsenicum Album →Aconitum Napellus →Nux Vomica →
⏩ Follows Well After
Causticum →Arsenicum Album →Tuberculinum →Hepar Sulphur →Lycopodium Clavatum →
🔄 Compare With
Fluoricum Acidum →Sulphur →Sepia Officinalis →Petroleum →
📚 Sources & References

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