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Podophyllinum

30CPodophyllum
May Apple · Podophyllum Peltatum · "The Liver and Bowel Remedy"
podo.PolychrestPlantCommonPsoric
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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.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture to sixth potency
Other
🕒As directed
📝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 →Mandragora →Nux Vomica →Aloe Socotrina →
📚 Sources & References

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