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Lecithinum

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Lecithin · Phosphatidylcholine · "The Brain Nerve Tonic Remedy"
lec.SarcodeUncommonPsoric
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🎯 A nutritional tonic 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 anaemia and convalescence, neurasthenia and insomnia. 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. Tuberculosis, 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.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
General physical breakdown with weight loss and shortness of breath.
Boericke
Increases red blood cell count and hemoglobin levels.
Boericke
Excellent galactagogue (increases milk quantity and quality).
Boericke
Immediate decrease in the excretion of phosphates.
Boericke
Mental exhaustion and sexual weakness.
Boericke
Improves nutrition in tuberculosis patients.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for states of mental exhaustion and confusion.
Forgetful, dull, confused.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Evening
heart palpitation
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1/2 to 2 grains
Other
🕒As directed
📝Crude form
Primary Dosage
12X
Decimal
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Phosphorus
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaKent's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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