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Momordica Balsamica

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Bitter Apple · Balsam Pear · Momordica · "The Renal Colic Shooting Pain Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the gastrointestinal tract and female reproductive system to relieve griping pains and menstrual distress.
📖 Boericke writes:
Griping, colic, pain in back and hypogastrium with painful and excessive menses. Accumulation of flatus in splenic flexure of colon. Dropsy.
👤 Constitution
No specific constitutional type is defined, but it is indicated for those suffering from acute abdominal griping or menstrual pain.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Griping, colicky abdominal pain starting from the back.
Boericke
Painful and profuse menses with labor-like pains.
Boericke
Gushes of blood during menstruation.
Boericke
Gas accumulation in the splenic flexure of the colon.
Boericke
Pain in the small of the back radiating to the front of the pelvis.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🔵INTRODUCTION
Useful for abdominal pain, gas accumulation, and fluid retention.
Rumbling, griping, colicky pains, starting from back, spreading over abdomen.
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝Used also externally as a liniment and poultice for burns, chapped hands, etc.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
⏭️ Similar
Elaterium OfficinarumCroton TigliumMomordica Charantia
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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