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Mephitis Putorius

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Skunk · Mephitis Mephitis · "The Whooping Cough Suffocation Remedy"

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🎯 A specialized remedy primarily indicated for violent, suffocative spasmodic coughs and whooping-cough.

📖 Boericke writes:

(MEPHITIS)

A great medicine for whooping-cough. In order to insure its full success, it should be given in the lower dilutions from 1x to 3x. Suffocative feeling, asthmatic paroxysms, spasmodic cough; cough so violent, seems as if each spell would terminate life. Child must be raised up, gets blue in face, cannot exhale, Mucous rales through upper part of chest. Patient wants to bathe in ice-cold water.

👤 Constitution

•Generally indicated for individuals suffering from acute, violent respiratory spasms, often children who become cyanotic during coughing fits.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Food goes down wrong way.

respiratory

Spasmodic and whooping-cough.

respiratory

Violent spasmodic cough; worse at night.

respiratory

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Useful for states of mental over-excitement and restlessness.

Excited, full of fancies.

Can neither sleep nor work.

🔑 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.

1X to 3X

Decimal

📝Should be given in lower dilutions for full success. · short action

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Sticta Pulmonaria →Corallium Rubrum →Drosera Rotundifolia →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Mephitis Putorius is listed in 31 rubrics across 7 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 4 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System23 Teeth2 Nervous System2 Throat1 Head1 Modalities1 Eyes1

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