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Lactuca Virosa

Q / 30CLactuca
Wild Lettuce · Bitter Lettuce · "The Sedative Impotence Remedy"
lact-v.PlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 This remedy acts primarily on the brain, circulatory system, and respiratory organs, often used for conditions involving fluid retention and nervous system disturbances.
📖 Boericke writes:
This remedy acts principally upon the brain and circulatory system. Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor. Hydrothorax and ascites. Impotence. Sense of lightness and tightness affecting whole body, especially chest. Seems to be atrue galactogogue. Marked action on extremities.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are prone to fluid retention, nervous tremors, and respiratory congestion, often feeling a sense of physical tightness or lightness.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Incessant, spasmodic cough as if the chest would fly to pieces.
Boericke
Acts as a galactogogue to increase milk in nursing mothers.
Boericke
Suffocative breathing due to dropsy (fluid) of the chest.
Boericke
Delirium tremens with sleeplessness, coldness, and tremor.
Boericke
Sensation of lightness and tightness affecting the whole body.
Boericke
Hydrothorax and ascites (fluid accumulation).
Boericke
Impotence.
Boericke
Cramps in shin bones extending to toes.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental confusion, extreme restlessness, and delirium tremens.
Stupefaction of sense.
Great restlessness.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Aceticum Acidum →Coffea Cruda →
⏭️ Similar
Kalium Carbonicum →Spiranthes Autumnalis →Lachesis Mutus →
🔄 Compare With
Kali Carbonicum →Spiranthes →Lachesis Mutus →Nabalus →
📚 Sources & References

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