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Persica

Per.PlantRarePsoric

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🎯 Persica acts primarily on the sensory nerves, skin, and sexual organs, often manifesting as localized pain, intense itching, and altered sensory perception.

About: Persica, derived from the peach, is a remedy characterized by deep-seated, often stinging sensations and significant disturbances in sensory function. It is noted for its impact on the skin, causing persistent, intense itching and eruptions, as well as specific sexual symptoms including indifference and involuntary emissions.

👤 Constitution

•The Persica individual may present with heightened sensitivity to touch, particularly in the nasal cartilage and jaw, and a marked susceptibility to the effects of alcohol.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Intense, obstinate itching on various parts of the body, often accompanied by small, clear-fluid-filled pimples that bleed when scratched.

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Persistent loss of smell and taste, where food appears completely devoid of flavor.

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Extreme sensitivity to alcohol, where a single glass is sufficient to cause intoxication.

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Involuntary ejaculation of semen during stool without erection, followed by a feeling of emptiness in the hypogastrium.

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Painful sensitivity to touch in the nasal cartilage and upper jaw, feeling as if bruised by a blow.

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Dazzling before the eyes in the morning with wavering, zigzag vision making reading impossible.

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Stinging, needle-like pains that occur when resisting the urge to scratch itchy skin.

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Long-term indifference to sexual intercourse.

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Sharp, deep-seated prickings above the left nipple.

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Sensation of a foreign body in the eyes, especially in the evening while reading.

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🩺 Systems & Indications

👁️Eyes

Think of Persica for visual disturbances like zigzag wavering, lachrymation, and the sensation of a foreign body.

Pressure and itching in the eyes from reading, in the evening

•it seems as if there were a foreign body in the eyes, [3] ..

Lachrymation, at night, from reading, three days after

•this symptom lasts four days, [2] ..

Dazzling before the eyes, in the morning

•it is impossible to read ;
•objects seem to waver in a zigzag direction ;
•ceases after two hours (after twelve hours), [3] ..

The sight, the same evening, by candlelight, was wholly unfatigued by late reading, nine hours after (a curative effect and a reaction from a previous reverse condition), [1] .

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Evening

pressure and itching in eyes

📚 Sources & References

✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraClarke's DictionaryPhatak's Concise MM

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