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Lachnanthes Tinctoria

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Spirit Weed · Red Root · "The Stiff Neck Remedy"

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🎯 Acts primarily on the head, chest, and circulation, with a specific affinity for rheumatic conditions of the neck and early-stage respiratory issues.

📖 Boericke writes:

(LACHNANTHES)

Head, chest and circulation are affected. Bridge of nose as if pinched. A remedy for torticollis, rheumatic symptoms about neck. Tuberculosis-light-complexioned people. Early stages, and established chest cases, with much coldness. Produces a desire to talk-a flow of language and the courage to make a speech.

👤 Constitution

•Light-complexioned people, often with a tendency toward respiratory weakness or rheumatic stiffness.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Chilliness between the shoulder-blades; pain and stiffness in back.

back

Drawn over to one side in sore throat.

neck

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Useful for right-sided headaches with a sensation of enlargement and scalp sensitivity.

Right-sided pain, extending down to jaw; head feels enlarged; worse, least noise.

Scalp painful.

Sleepless.

Circumscribed red cheeks; scalp feels sore, as if hair was standing on end; burning in palms and soles.

Bridge of nose feels as if pinched.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 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.

Decimal

Primary Dosage

Tincture

Mother Tincture

🕒once or twice a week, or three drops every four hours

📝in phthisis, unit doses

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Dulcamara →Bryonia Alba →Pulsatilla Pratensis →Fel Tauri →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Lachnanthes Tinctoria is listed in 21 rubrics across 7 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 7 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System9 Head4 Throat3 Respiratory System2 Fever1 Face1 Nose1

See all 21 rubrics for Lachnanthes Tinctoria →