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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.

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Indicated for dizziness and visual disturbances.

Dizzy, contents of head feel lighter; mist before eyes.

💊 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.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

📝Used also externally as a liniment and poultice for burns, chapped hands, etc.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

⏭️ Similar

Elaterium Officinarum →Croton Tiglium →Momordica Charantia →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Momordica Balsamica is listed in 2 rubrics across 1 chapter — italicised by Boericke in 1 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

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