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Petiveria
Q to 6XPetivPetiveria Alliacea · Guinea Hen Weed · "The Guinea Hen Weed"
PlantRarePsoric
Source
🎯 Acts primarily on the nervous system to produce paralytic sensations, numbness, and deep-seated coldness.
📖 Clarke writes:
Petiveria tetrandra (Gom.). Erva de Pipi. N. O. Phytolaccaceae. Trituration of fresh root.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Strongly confirmative symptoms in numbness and paralytic sensations
•Weariness and weight of eyelids
•Cold saliva
•Internal coldness
•Coldness inside bones
•Roots smell strongly of garlic
•Used in warm baths to restore motion to paralysed limbs
Modalities
•Aggravation by movement
•Aggravation in the morning on waking
•Aggravation on rising
•Aggravation after breakfast
•Aggravation during and after dinner
•Aggravation by bending backward
Botanical & Historical Context
•Proved by Mure
•Probably identical with the Mexican and West Indian species, P. alliacea
•Known as 'Guinea-hen Weed' in West Indies
•Known as 'Raiz de Guine' in Brazil
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Internal coldness, especially felt inside the bones.
Clarke
Paralytic numbness and heaviness in the limbs.
Clarke
Headache that is relieved by motion.
Clarke
Burning pain at the margin of the eyelids, worse on closing them.
Clarke
Strained feeling in the spine, better by bending forward.
Clarke
Flow of watery, cold saliva with ashy sediment.
Clarke
Deep-seated, dull pain beneath the sternum.
Clarke
Excessive gaiety followed by sadness and tears.
Clarke
Frequent micturition with heat in the urethra.
Clarke
Weight on eyelids compelling them to close.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for mood swings characterized by excessive laughter followed by sudden sadness.
Excessive gaiety
inclination to sing, laugh, jest
followed by sadness and tears.
Vanishing of thought.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Movement
general symptoms
↑Better from
Motion
headache
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Cistus Canadensis →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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