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Oenothera

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Oenothera Biennis · Evening Primrose · "The Evening Primrose Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system to induce a state of general paralysis and mental oppression, which is relieved by the rapid, effortless evacuation of the bowels and bladder.
📖 Clarke writes:
Oenothera biennis. Large Evening Primrose. Tree Primrose. (North America.) N. O. Onagraceae. Tincture of fresh plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
General paralysis of mental and bodily forces
Wearisome feeling of mental and physical oppression
Nervous exhaustion
Incipient hydrocephaloid
General numbness
General warm sweat with urgent desire to micturate
Relief of general symptoms after evacuation of bowels and bladder
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
Effortless diarrhoea
Exhausting, watery diarrhoea without effort
Copious and easy evacuations of bowels and bladder
Severe pains in stomach after meals (chronic, over two years) θ
General warm sweat with urgent desire to micturate θ
General numbness θ
Relief of symptoms after evacuation of bowels and bladder θ
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Effortless, watery, exhausting diarrhea.
Clarke
Symptoms relieved by free action of bowels and copious urination.
Clarke
General numbness and prickling sensation over the entire body.
Clarke
Violent vertigo with a swimming sensation.
Clarke
Fluttering sensation about the heart.
Clarke
Mental and physical oppression with a feeling of paralysis.
Clarke
Incipient hydrocephaloid states.
Clarke
Severe stomach pains after meals.
Clarke
Warm perspiration accompanied by an urgent desire to urinate.
Clarke
Cramps in the abdomen and extremities with wringing, twisting pain.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Mental oppression, half-unconscious states, and inability to think or speak.
Half-unconscious
unable to think, raise head, move or speak.
🔑 Modalities
Better from
Evacuation of bowels
general symptoms
dizziness
weakness of limbs
fluttering about heart
numbness
prickling on skin
griping under umbilicus
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
IpecacuanhaGnaphalium PolycephalumIgnatia AmaraBryonia AlbaColchicum AutumnaleRhus ToxicodendronGelsemium Sempervirens
📚 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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