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Luna · Moonlight · "The Lunar Remedy"
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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for conditions influenced by lunar cycles, particularly nervous, skin, and menstrual disturbances.
📖 Clarke writes:
Moon's Rays. Sugar of milk is exposed on a glass plate to the moon's rays and stirred with a glass rod meanwhile. The sugar of milk so charged is dynamised in the usual way (Fincke). Higgins made a preparation by exposing pure water to the moon's rays for three or four hours in South America and then dynamising the water so charged.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Influence of the moon on the human organism
Nervous system acts as a delicate instrument
Somnambulism as a lunar effect
Nervous affections, especially in subjects of sycosis, influenced by the moon
Generative sphere, head, and lower limbs are primary sites of action
Temperament & Physical Profile
Weakly persons
Subjects of sycosis
Individuals with nervous system sensitivity
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Worm affections WORSE at full moon
Goître diminishes during the waning moon
Spongia WORSE at full moon
Epilepsy WORSE at full moon (generally needs Silic.)
Skin diseases influenced by the moon
Scabies WORSE at full moon
Excitability most pronounced at new moon and full moon
Pains BETTER in open air
Pains BETTER by cold-application
Pains BETTER by eructations
Pains BETTER by passing flatus from vagina
Symptoms WORSE after sleep
Symptoms WORSE from milk
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Symptoms significantly influenced by the phases of the moon, especially the full moon.
Clarke
Somnambulism and nightly restlessness.
Clarke
Cyclical swelling or edema of the face, neck, and hands.
Clarke
Intense itching of the labia majora extending into the vagina.
Clarke
Sensation of heart stopping on retching, relieved by eructations.
Clarke
Headache relieved by magnetic passes.
Clarke
Urgent desire for stool relieved by passing flatus.
Clarke
Burning pain in the stomach aggravated by drinking milk.
Clarke
Horrible dreams of death and murder.
Clarke
Symptoms generally worse upon waking.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
Clarke Exclusive
🧠Mind
Irritability, desire to be alone, and mental sluggishness; especially affected by full moon rays.
Irritability on being spoken to.
Wants to be let alone.
Mind not clear.
Disinclined for mental or physical labour.
Sad, depressed.
Mental faculties, esp. ability to receive, retain, and express ideas, are most powerfully affected by the full rays of the moon in tropical countries
the influences being most felt the day before the full moon.
🔑 Modalities
Clarke Exclusive
Worse from
Full moon
somnambulism
epilepsy
scabies
worm affections
Better from
Eating
burning scraping pain in frontal bone
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Calcarea CarbonicaGraphitesLycopodium ClavatumSulphurCausticumSilicea TerraBufo RanaSepia OfficinalisClematis ErectaSpongia Tosta
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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