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Pecten

6XPect

Pecten · Scallop · "The Scallop Remedy"

AnimalRare✨ 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.

🎯 Acts primarily on the respiratory system to relieve severe, suffocating asthma and associated catarrhal symptoms.

📖 Clarke writes:

Scallop. N. O. Pectinidae. Trituration or tincture of the animal.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Severe asthma triggered by the presence of scallops

•Humid asthma

•Constriction of chest, especially right side

•Burning sensation in throat and chest

•Fulness of head

•Quick, laboured breathing

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Feeling of suffocation

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Cannot lie flat

•Cannot lie on left side

•Attacks preceded for two or three days by sneezing and excessive coryza

•Pulse very quick and wiry

•Copious expectoration of tough, stringy, and frothy mucus

•Cough WORSE after 6 p.m.

•Symptoms WORSE at night

•Arsenicum did not relieve θ

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Severe asthma attacks triggered by the presence of scallops

Clarke

Humid asthma with quick, labored breathing

Clarke

Copious expectoration of tough, stringy, and frothy mucus

Clarke

Constriction of the chest, especially on the right side

Clarke

Asthma attacks preceded by sneezing and excessive coryza

Clarke

Burning sensation in the throat and chest

Clarke

Fullness of the head

Clarke

Pulse is very quick and wiry

Clarke

📋 Clinical Indications

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

Asthmahumid

Open in Clarke ↗

🔑 Modalities

✨ Clarke Exclusive

↓Worse from

Lying flat

asthma

📚 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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