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Heliotropium

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Heliotropium Peruvianum · Cherry Pie / Heliotrope · "The Heliotrope Remedy"
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🎯 Acts primarily on the throat and voice, and provides structural support for uterine displacements.
📖 Clarke writes:
Heliotropium peruvianum. Heliotrope. Cherry-pie. N. O. Boraginaceae. Tincture of whole fresh plant when in flower.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Symptoms of pressure and tension in many parts
Pressure on the sternum impeding breathing
Pressure on the head
Pressure on the mons veneris
Pain as if beaten in leg muscles
Action resembling that of Natrum hyperchlorinosum in uterine displacement, leucorrhoea, and backache
Active bearing down (as opposed to the passive bearing down of Natrum hyperchlorinosum)
Sensation of being 'braced up' internally
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Tendency to loss of voice
Hoarseness
Thick voice
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Clergyman's sore throat
Membranous dysmenorrhoea
Head symptoms BETTER on walking in the open air
Symptoms WORSE after resting
Symptoms WORSE on inspiration
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Active bearing-down sensation in the uterus, feeling as if braced up.
Clarke
Clergyman's sore throat with a thick voice or loss of voice.
Clarke
Headache in the forehead characterized by pressure and drawing.
Clarke
Epigastric region is sore to the touch.
Clarke
Sensation of pressure and tension in many parts of the body.
Clarke
Membranous dysmenorrhea.
Clarke
Pain in leg muscles as if beaten.
Clarke
Pressure on the mons veneris while sitting.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Frontal headache with pressure and drawing sensations.
Headache in forehead, like a pressure and drawing pressing, BETTER walking in open air.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Inspiration
pressure in stomach
sternal pressure
Better from
Walking in open air
headache
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Borax VenetaSymphytum
📚 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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