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Mandragora

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Mandragora Officinarum · Mandrake · "The Historic Anaesthetic Root"

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🎯 It acts as a powerful sedative and hallucinogenic agent with a strong affinity for the nervous system, producing symptoms similar to Belladonna.

📖 Clarke writes:

Mandragora officinarum. Atropa mandragora. Mandrake. N. O. Solanaceae. Tincture of plant without the root.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Botanically closely related to Belladonna

•Symptoms very similar to those of Belladonna

•Restless excitability

•Bodily weariness

•Great desire for sleep

•Exaggeration of sounds

•Enlarged vision

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Nauseating odour like adder's flesh

•Inactive bowels with white, hard stools

•Unpleasant symptoms go off at night in bed

•Unpleasant symptoms succeeded by a gentle perspiration

•Effects removed by free indulgence in wine, coffee, and cigars

•Effects lasted much longer with regular dieting

•Effects removed by Nux, Camph., and Bell.

Historical & Botanical Context

•Name Mandragora signifies injurious to cattle

•Not to be confounded with Podophyllum (also called Mandrake)

•Not to be confounded with Bryonia dioica (also called Mandrake)

•Two varieties: vernal and autumnal

•Dufresne used the Vernalis variety

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Restless excitability and hysterical behavior.

Clarke

Great desire for sleep.

Clarke

Exaggeration of sounds and enlarged, confused vision.

Clarke

Inactive bowels with white, hard stools.

Clarke

Symptoms are relieved by wine, coffee, and cigars.

Clarke

Heaviness and confusion of the head.

Clarke

Dilated pupils.

Clarke

Tongue feels benumbed with a sensation of acidity and dryness.

Clarke

Shivering in the afternoon.

Clarke

Lingering uneasiness and coldness after other symptoms subside.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Consider for states of restless excitability and hysteria.

Restless excitability, hysterical.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Daytime

unpleasant symptoms

↑Better from

Night in bed

unpleasant symptoms

📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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