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Hypericum Perforatum

30C / 200CHypericum

St. John's Wort · "The Arnica of the Nerves"

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🎯 A primary remedy for injuries to nerve-rich areas, preventing nerve damage and relieving intense, shooting pain.

📖 Boericke writes:

St. John's-wort

(HYPERICUM)

The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth). Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; haemorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious expectoration. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus. Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Constant drowsiness.

👤 Constitution

•Often indicated for individuals who have suffered physical trauma, particularly involving nerves, or those experiencing nerve-related pain and anxiety following an injury.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Coccydynia.

introduction

Pressure over sacrum.

back

Crawling in hand and feet.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for mental distress, anxiety, or confusion following physical trauma or shock.

Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights.

Mistakes in writing.

Effects of shock.

Melancholy.

🔑 Modalities

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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

Primary Dosage

Decimal

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Arsenicum Album →Chamomilla →

🔄 Compare With

Ledum Palustre →Ruta Graveolens →Coffea Cruda →Staphysagria →Calendula Officinalis →Arnica Montana →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Hypericum Perforatum is listed in 130 rubrics across 15 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 36 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System33 Nervous System27 Generalities16 Head15 Abdomen8 Skin7 Mind4 Face4 Modalities3 Urinary System3 Female Sexual System3 Male Sexual System3 Respiratory System2 Fever1 Stomach1

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