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Physostigma Venenosum

30CPhysostigma
Calabar Bean · Ordeal Bean · "The Myopic Glaucoma Remedy"
phys.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the spinal cord and nervous system, causing muscular tremors, paralysis, and significant effects on the eyes and heart.
📖 Boericke writes:
This remedy and its active principle, Eserine, form a valuable addition to Materia Medica. Stimulates heart, raises blood pressure, and increases peristalsis. Causes contraction of the pupil and of the muscles. Induces a condition of short-sightedness. Spinal irritation, loss of motility, , with very sensitive Fibrillary tremors. Rigidity of muscles; paralysis. Depresses the motor and reflex activity of the cord and causes loss of sensibility to pain, muscular weakness, followed by complete paralysis, although muscular contractility is not impaired. Paralysis and tremors, . Meningeal irritation, with rigidity of muscles. and . Polymyelitis . Eserine is used locally to produce contraction of pupil.
👤 Constitution
•Individuals who are prone to spinal irritation, muscular tremors, and weakness, often with a sensitive nervous system and tendency toward spastic conditions.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Eserine is used locally to produce contraction of pupil.
introduction
Pain over ; cannot bear to raise eyelids.
head
Night- (Opposite: Bothrops); ; contraction of pupils; twitching of ocular muscles.
eyes
Spasm of muscles, with irritability after using eyes.
eyes
Increasing .
eyes
Tongue feels sore on tip.
mouth
Fluttering of heart felt in throat.
heart
Pain in right popliteal space.
extremities
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Useful for with eye sensitivity and conditions involving stiffness of the head and neck muscles.
Constant pain on top; , with constrictive feeling of head.
Pain over ; cannot bear to raise eyelids.
Cerebro-spinal ; general tetanic rigidity.
Spastic conditions of the face-muscles.
💊 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.

3X
Decimal
📝Internally
Primary Dosage
1/60-1/40 gr
Other
📝Eserin Salicylate hypodermically for post-operative intestinal paralysis
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Atropia
🔄 Compare With
Curare →Gelsemium Sempervirens →MuscarinConium Maculatum →Uricum AcidumPiperazinumThebainumEserinumUrinum

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Physostigma Venenosum is listed in 95 rubrics across 14 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 20 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Nervous System30Eyes29Locomotor System7Generalities6Circulatory System6Abdomen4Head3Stomach2Tongue2Mind2Nose1Modalities1Female Sexual System1Face1

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