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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
↓Worse from
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Arsenicum Album →Chamomilla →
🔄 Compare With
Ledum Palustre →Ruta Graveolens →Coffea Cruda →Staphysagria →Calendula Officinalis →Arnica Montana →
📚 Sources & References

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