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Nabalus

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Nabalus (Prenanthes) · Lion's Foot / Rattlesnake Root · "The Historic Rattlesnake Antidote"
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🎯 A remedy primarily indicated for digestive disturbances and nervous sensitivity, particularly involving occipital pain and susceptibility to external influences.
📖 Clarke writes:
Nabalus serpentarius. Prenanthes serpentaria. White Lettuce. Rattlesnake-root. N. O. Compositae (subord. Chicoraceae). Tincture of whole fresh plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
Native American plant
Used in domestic practice for diarrhoea and dysentery
Symptoms resemble those of its botanical relative, Lactuca
Susceptibility to magnetism
Susceptibility to the personal aura of others
Temperament & Physical Profile
Married woman, aged 19 (subject of the only proving)
Somnolence
Constipation
Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators
Irritability of temper
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Occipital pain WORSE evening
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Extreme susceptibility to magnetism and the personal aura of others.
Clarke
Occipital pain with stiffness in the neck, worsening in the evening.
Clarke
Chilliness that is not relieved by the heat of a fire.
Clarke
Throat irritation characterized by tickling and scraping, worse when lying down or swallowing saliva.
Clarke
Constipation with hard, painful stools followed by significant prostration.
Clarke
Irritability of temper.
Clarke
Somnolence and prolonged night sleep.
Clarke
Desire for lemons.
Clarke
Sensation of heaviness as if blood vessels were filled with lead.
Clarke
White, jelly-like vaginal discharge accompanied by weakness.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Consider for irritability, melancholy, and unusual sensitivity to the energy of others.
Depression followed by unusual buoyancy.
Continued melancholy.
Irritable.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Evening
occipital pain
stiffness in nucha
irritability
📚 Sources & References
Clarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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