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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 forwhooping-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
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1X to 3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Should be given in lower dilutions for full success. · short action
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Sticta Pulmonaria →Corallium Rubrum →Drosera Rotundifolia →
📚 Sources & References

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