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Lepidium Bonariense

30CLepidium
Pepperwort · Buenos Aires Cress · "The Vocal Cord Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the chest and heart, producing sharp, piercing pains and sensations of constriction.
📖 Boericke writes:
Cress-Brazilian Cress
Affections of breast, heart, lancinating pains.
With heart symptoms, numbness and pain in left arm, sensation of sinking in pit of stomach.
Left side of head, face, chest, hip to knee, all have lancinating pain.
A streak of pain from the temple to the chin, as if the face were cut with a razor. Burning in throat, roaring in ears. Sensation of a tight girdle around chest, as of a knife piercing the heart. Pain in neck, back, and extremities. Compare:Arnica; Lachesis.
👤 Constitution
No specific constitutional type is described, but it is indicated for those suffering from acute, sharp, piercing pains in the chest, heart, and left side of the body.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Arnica
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Lachesis.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤Head
Indicated for sharp, neuralgic-like pains on the left side of the head and face.
Sharp, piercing pain on the left side of the head and face.
A streak of pain running from the temple to the chin, feeling as if the face were being cut with a razor.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Stooping
headache
itching in ear
Better from
Pressing on bone
pain in right cheek
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Arnica MontanaLachesis Mutus
📚 Sources & References

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