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Plumbago

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Plumbago (Leadwort) · "The Leadwort Remedy (Not Lead-Related)"

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🎯 It acts as a powerful irritant and caustic agent, producing localized ulcerations and systemic symptoms of prostration and heat.

📖 Clarke writes:

Plumbago littoralis (Mure.-Allen says P. scandens corresponds to Mure's figure, and grows in Brazil. Mure says P. lit. is "a creeper inhabiting the shores in the bay of Rio Janeiro"). N. O. Plumbaginaceae. Tincture of leaves.

👤 Characteristics

Sphere of Action & Core States

•Acrid and caustic in the highest degree

•Energetic blistering agent when fresh

•Effectual emetic (comparable to Ipecacuanha)

•Capable of raising ulcers on the body

Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms

•Saliva profuse, milky

•Ulceration of commissures of lips

•Costiveness with red urine

•Vertigo after eating

•Pain in humerus on lifting anything

•Hot arms with cold hands

Leading Mental & Emotional Indicators

•Aversion to everything

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Profuse, milky saliva.

Clarke

Ulceration of the corners of the lips.

Clarke

Vertigo occurring after eating.

Clarke

Pain in the humerus when lifting objects.

Clarke

Hot arms with cold hands.

Clarke

Costiveness associated with red urine.

Clarke

Aversion to everything.

Clarke

Violent sexual desire.

Clarke

Dreams of dead bodies.

Clarke

Internal heat that comes and goes.

Clarke

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Consider for states of taciturnity and a general aversion to everything.

Taciturn.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

Eating

vertigo

📚 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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