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Mucuna Urens

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Mucuna Urens · Horse-Eye Bean · "The Horse-Eye Haemorrhoid Remedy"

PlantRarePsoric✨ Clarke only

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Exclusively Documented in Clarke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily as a remedy for hemorrhoidal conditions and associated congestive states of the pelvic organs.

📖 Clarke writes:

Mucuna urens. Horse-Eye. (Hot regions of Venezuela.) N. O. Leguminosae. The pulverised bean is macerated in five times its weight of alcohol.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Acts upon the haemorrhoidal diathesis

•Affections of the liver, uterus, bladder, and testicles when accompanied by haemorrhoids

•Primary action in haemorrhoids

•Stinging hairs of the pod are the most important part of the plant (Dolichos)

•Pulverised bean used for tincture (M. urens)

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Keynote symptom is burning

•Haemorrhoids with or without bleeding

•Considered more reliable than Hamamelis and Aesculus hippocastanum in haemorrhoidal conditions

Botanical & Pharmacological Notes

•Botanical confusion between Dolichos (Cowhage/Cow-itch) and Mucuna

•Mucuna urens is considered by modern botanists to be identical to Cowhage

•Dolichos preparation uses the entire pod

•M. urens preparation uses the pulverised bean

•M. urens grows in the calid regions of Venezuela

•No pathogenesis available

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Burning sensation as a keynote symptom

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Hemorrhoids with or without bleeding

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Congestive states of the liver accompanying hemorrhoids

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Uterine affections associated with hemorrhoidal diathesis

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Bladder complaints linked to hemorrhoidal congestion

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Testicular affections occurring with hemorrhoids

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Used as a tincture or topical ointment

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Considered more reliable than Hamamelis or Aesculus hippocastanum for specific cases

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📋 Clinical Indications

Conditions Clarke associates with this remedy — no detailed symptom-by-system breakdown exists for this entry.

Haemorrhoidal dischargesHaemorrhoids

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📚 Sources & References

✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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