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Liatris Spicata

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🎯 A vascular stimulant that increases the functional activity of the skin and mucous membranes.

📖 Boericke writes:

(LIATRIS SPICATA - SERRATULA)

A vascular stimulant. Increases functional activity of the skin, mucous membranes.

Of use in dropsy due to liver and spleen diseases, also renal dropsy. Here the suppressed urination is most favorably influenced. General anasarca due to heart and kidney disease. Diarrhoea with violent urging and pain in lower part of back. Colic. Locally, applied to ulcers and unhealthy wounds.

A prompt diuretic.

💊 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 to 4 drams

Mother Tincture

📝tincture of infusion

Primary Dosage

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Liatris Spicata is listed in 8 rubrics across 2 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 3 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Generalities6 Abdomen2