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Lecithinum

30CLecithinum
Lecithin · Phosphatidylcholine · "The Brain Nerve Tonic Remedy"
lec.SarcodeUncommonPsoric
🎯 A nutritional that improves blood quality, supports metabolism, and aids recovery from exhaustion and weakness.
📖 Boericke writes:
A Phosphorus-containing Complex Organic Body prepared from the yolk of egg and animal brains
(LECITHIN)
Lecithin is important in the vital processes of plant and animal organisms. Lecithin has a favorable influence upon the nutritive condition and especially upon the blood hence its use in and convalescence, and . Increasing the number of red corpuscles and amount of hemoglobin. Excellent galactagog, renders milk more nourishing and increases quantity.
Causes an immediate decrease in the excretion of the phosphates. Mental exhaustion and impotency. , causing marked improvement in nutrition and general improvement. Tired, weak, short breath, loss of flesh; symptoms of general break-down. Sexually weak.
👤 Constitution
Individuals who are tired, weak, short of breath, and losing weight, often showing signs of a general physical or mental breakdown.
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for states of mental exhaustion and confusion.
Forgetful, dull, confused.
💊 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.

1/2 to 2 grains
Other
📝Crude form
Primary Dosage
12X
Decimal
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Phosphorus

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Lecithinum is listed in 28 rubrics across 12 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 2 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Stomach6Mind5Urinary System4Nervous System3Face2Male Sexual System2Female Sexual System1Head1Ears1Locomotor System1Generalities1Respiratory System1

See all 28 rubrics for Lecithinum