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Podophyllinum

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May Apple · Podophyllum Peltatum · "The Liver and Bowel Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the liver, gallbladder, and digestive tract, causing bilious disturbances and watery, painless diarrhea.

📖 Boericke writes:

(PODOPHYLLUM)

Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament. It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum The Podophyllum disease is a gastro-enteritis with colicky pain and bilious vomiting. Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus, painless, profuse. Gushing and offensive. Many troubles during pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus uteri; painless cholera morbus. Torpidity of the liver; portal engorgement with a tendency to haemorrhoids, hypogastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.

👤 Constitution

•Persons of a bilious temperament who are prone to liver sluggishness, portal congestion, and digestive weakness.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together (Phytol).

mouth

Tongue broad, large, moist.

mouth

Burning sensation of tongue.

mouth

Sensation of weakness or sinking.

abdomen

Diarrhoea of long standing; early in morning; during teething, with hot, glowing cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid fruits.

rectum

Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon.

female

🩺 Systems & Indications

🧠Mind

Used for mental states involving talkativeness or depression, often linked to digestive triggers.

Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits.

Depression of spirits.

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💊 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.

Tincture to sixth potency

Other

📝The 200th and 1000th seem to do good work in cholera infantum, when indicated.

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Sulphur →Chelidonium Majus →Mercurius Solubilis →Nux Vomica →Aloe Socotrina →Mandragora

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Podophyllinum is listed in 217 rubrics across 22 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 80 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Abdomen106 Female Sexual System18 Stomach15 Head15 Fever13 Modalities8 Mind6 Nervous System6 Teeth5 Tongue4 Taste4 Locomotor System3 Mouth2 Respiratory System2 Urinary System2 Generalities2 Gums1 Throat1 Eyes1 Circulatory System1 Face1 Skin1

See all 217 rubrics for Podophyllinum →