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Juniperus Virginianus
Q to 6XJunip-vJuniperus Virginianus · Eastern Red Cedar · "The Red Cedar Diuretic"
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🎯 It acts as a powerful toxic agent primarily affecting the nervous system, causing violent convulsions, uterine hemorrhage, and profound circulatory collapse.
📖 Clarke writes:
Red Cedar. N. O. Gymnospermae of the Coniferae. Tincture of fresh twigs. Tincture of twigs and berries. Tincture of the oil.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Effects largely observed on women who have taken it to procure abortion or bring on the menses
•Violent convulsions
•Apoplectic condition
•Insensibility
•Collapse
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Violent, rigid convulsions followed by deep coma or apoplectic state.
Clarke
Uterine hemorrhage accompanied by labor-like pains.
Clarke
Face and head appear swollen, livid, and deeply congested with distended veins.
Clarke
Vomiting of black or green matter smelling strongly of cedar oil.
Clarke
Pulse becomes extremely slow, fluttering, and irregular, eventually leading to collapse.
Clarke
Sensation as if the head were enclosed in an iron band.
Clarke
Eyes feel as if bursting from their sockets, with dilated pupils.
Clarke
Difficulty in speaking, articulating like one suffering from hemiplegia.
Clarke
Violent purging continuing until death.
Clarke
Respiratory distress characterized by unsuccessful heaving of the chest.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
States of extreme terror, incoherent raving during fever, and profound stupor or coma.
During paroxysm (of fever) raved incoherently.
Moaned most piteously.
Fright.
During the morning of her death lay in a stupid state
answered no questions and did not appear to be sensible.
As the convulsions continued the stupor became more and more profound
when they ceased coma ensued.
She lay apparently in a deep comatose sleep until about nine o'clock next day., when she woke to perfect consciousness, with no recollection of what had occurred since swallowing the oil.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Inspiration
prostration
exhaustion
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Sabina →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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