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Lachnanthes Tinctoria

30CLachnanthes
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
3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
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 →
📚 Sources & References

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