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Oreodaphne Californica

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California Laurel · Oregon Myrtle · "The Severe Headache Laurel"

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Source

🎯 It acts primarily on the nervous system to relieve intense neuralgic headaches and cerebro-spinal congestion.

📖 Boericke writes:

(OREODAPHNE)

Neuralgic headache, cervico-occipital pain, cerebro-spinal meningitis, atonic diarrhoea, and intestinal colic.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals suffering from intense, congestive headaches that radiate from the eyes to the back of the head and neck.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Intense aching, with pressure at inner angle of either orbit, generally left, extending through brain and across scalp to the base of the occiput; worse light, noise; better, closing eyes and perfect quiet.

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Constant, dull ache in cervical and occipital region, extending to scapula down spine, into the head; pain into the ears.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Useful for severe neuralgic headaches and cerebro-spinal meningitis symptoms involving the neck and occiput.

Dizziness; worse on stopping or moving.

Head heavy, eyelids heavy, twitching.

Constant, dull ache in cervical and occipital region, extending to scapula down spine, into the head; pain into the ears.

Great heaviness of head, with constant desire to move the head, which does not relieve.

Drooping eyelids.

Twitching.

Atonic diarrhoea.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

↑Better from

💊 Dosage & Potency

First to Third potency

Decimal

🕒As directed

Primary Dosage

Olfaction of the tincture

Mother Tincture

🕒As directed

📚 Sources & References

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

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