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Lathyrus Sativus

30C / 200CLathyrus

Chick Pea · Grass Pea · "The Spastic Paraplegia Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the lateral and anterior columns of the spinal cord, producing spastic paralysis and weakness.

📖 Boericke writes:

(LATHYRUS)

Affects the lateral and anterior columns of the cord. Does not produce pain. Reflexes always increased. Paralytic affections of lower extremities; spastic paralysis; lateral sclerosis; Beri-beri. Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. After influenza and wasting, exhaustive diseases where there is much weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power. Sleepy, constant yawning.

👤 Constitution

•Typically a person suffering from chronic, exhaustive diseases or post-influenza weakness, characterized by a depressed, hypochondriacal temperament.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Reflexes always increased.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for patients experiencing low mood and balance issues related to neurological weakness.

Depressed; hypochondriacal.

Vertigo when standing with eyes closed.

🔑 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.

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🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Oxytropis Lamberti →Secale Cornutum →Agrostema GithagoPetiveria

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Lathyrus Sativus is listed in 42 rubrics across 7 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 10 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System19 Nervous System17 Tongue2 Head1 Fever1 Urinary System1 Modalities1

See all 42 rubrics for Lathyrus Sativus →