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Grindelia Robusta

Q / 30CGrindelia

Gumweed · Rosin Weed · "The Asthma Sleep Remedy"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the respiratory and cardiac systems to relieve difficult breathing, asthma, and chronic bronchitis, while also serving as a topical remedy for skin irritations.

📖 Boericke writes:

(GRINDELIA)

Both Grindelia robusta and Grindelia squarrosa have been used for the symptoms here recorded. There is practically no difference in their action, although the G. Squarrosa is credited with more splenic symptoms, dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium; chronic malaria; gastric pains associated with splenic congestion. Induces paralysis, beginning in extremities Its action is shown on the heart first quickening, then retarding it.

Acts on the cardio-pulmonary distribution of the pneumo-gastric in dry catarrh (Tart Emetic in muco-purulent). Produces a paresis of the pneumo-gastric, interfering with respiration. Smothering after falling asleep. Asthmatic conditions, chronic bronchitis. Bronchorrhoea with tough mucus, difficult to detach. Raises the blood pressure. Nausea and retching of gastric ulcer. Sugar in urine. An effective antidote to Rhus-poisoning, locally and internally; also for burns, blisters, vaginal catarrh and herpes zoster. Hyperchlorhydria when attended with asthmatic and other neurotic symptoms. Hyperaemia of gastric mucous membrane with difficult respiration.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for patients suffering from chronic respiratory issues, heart weakness, or those experiencing specific nervous symptoms related to breathing and sleep.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Smothering after falling asleep.

introduction

Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakes with a star, and gasps for breath.

respiratory

Cannot breathe when lying down.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Indicated for eye pain and inflammatory conditions of the eye accompanied by a sensation of fullness in the head.

Feels full, as from quinine.

Pain in eyeballs, running back to brain; worse, moving eyes.

Pupils dilated.

Purulent ophthalmia and iritis.

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💊 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

Mother Tincture

🕒1 to 15 drop doses

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Eriodyction Californicum →Sanguinaria Canadensis →Antimonium Tartaricum →Lachesis Mutus →Eriodictyon →Eriodictyon Glutinosum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Grindelia Robusta is listed in 53 rubrics across 10 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 14 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System27 Skin5 Eyes4 Generalities3 Abdomen3 Stomach3 Female Sexual System2 Nervous System2 Circulatory System2 Urinary System2

See all 53 rubrics for Grindelia Robusta →