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Lactuca Virosa

Q / 30CLactuca

Wild Lettuce · Bitter Lettuce · "The Sedative Impotence Remedy"

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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 a true 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.

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for mental confusion, extreme restlessness, and delirium tremens.

Stupefaction of sense.

Great restlessness.

🔑 Modalities

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💊 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.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Aceticum Acidum →Coffea Cruda →

⏭️ Similar

Kalium Carbonicum →Spiranthes Autumnalis →Lachesis Mutus →

🔄 Compare With

Kali Carbonicum →Spiranthes →Lachesis Mutus →Nabalus

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Lactuca Virosa is listed in 26 rubrics across 7 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 5 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System10 Locomotor System5 Generalities3 Stomach3 Head2 Nervous System2 Female Sexual System1

See all 26 rubrics for Lactuca Virosa →