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Limulus Cyclops

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Horseshoe Crab · King Crab · "The Bilious Cholera Crab Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the gastro-enteric system and is indicated for states of profound physical and mental exhaustion.

📖 Boericke writes:

Horse-foot-King-crab

(LIMULUS - XIPHOSURA)

Limulus was introduced by C. Hering and partially proved by him and Lippe. Hering was surprised to see the blood of the King-crab that he dissected, blue, which on investigation, was found to contain copper as he had surmised and which he thought would prove to be another medicine for Cholera. Further provings are necessary to establish this, though symptoms so far observed make this probable. Hering's fertile mind always lead him to pioneer paths into practical therapeutics.

Bodily and mental exhaustion; drowsiness after sea bathing. Gastro-enteric symptoms. Painful fullness of whole right side of body.

👤 Constitution

•The typical person needing this remedy experiences significant physical and mental fatigue, often with a tendency toward congestion in the face and head.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Itching spots and vesicles on face and hands.

skin

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for mental confusion and congestion in the head triggered by deep thought.

Mental depression.

Difficult to remember names, confused with heat of face, rush of blood to face, worse when meditating.

Pain behind left eye-ball.

🔑 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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Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Homarus →Cuprum Metallicum →Asterias Rubens →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Limulus Cyclops is listed in 20 rubrics across 6 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 5 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System9 Abdomen6 Skin2 Modalities1 Face1 Nervous System1

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