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Oleander

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Nerium Oleander · Rose Laurel · "The Skin Hair Loss Remedy"
olnd.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system, heart, and skin, specifically addressing conditions and skin eruptions.
📖 Boericke writes:
(NERIUM ODORUM)
Has a marked action on the skin, heart and nervous system, producing and curing conditions with cramp-like contractions of upper extremities. . Difficult articulation.
👤 Constitution
Typically presents with a pale, sunken face, blue rings around the eyes, and a general sense of weakness or paralysis in the limbs.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Eruption on scalp.
head
itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat.
head
Sensation as if eyes were drawn back into the head.
eyes
Canine hunger, with hurried eating, without appetite.
stomach
Undigested .
abdomen
Stool passes when emitting .
abdomen
Weakness of lower limbs.
extremities
Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing; want of perspiration.
skin
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for mental sluggishness and depression linked to digestive issues.
Memory weak; slow perception.
, with obstinate .
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
💊 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.

3rd to 30th
Centesimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
CamphoraSulphur
🔄 Compare With
Rhus ToxicodendronCausticumConium MaculatumLathyrus SativusNatrium Muriaticum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Oleander is listed in 89 rubrics across 17 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 23 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Skin16Head14Abdomen14Locomotor System12Circulatory System5Stomach5Eyes4Mind4Modalities3Nervous System3Generalities2Throat2Respiratory System1Male Sexual System1Teeth1Ears1Tongue1

See all 89 rubrics for Oleander