Pine Bracket Fungus · "The Intermittent Fever Fungus"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the digestive and musculoskeletal systems, specifically targeting bilious fevers and deep-seated rheumatic pains.
📖 Boericke writes:
Useful in intermittent, remittent and bilious fevers, with headache, yellow tongue, constant nausea, faintness at epigastrium, and constipation. Similar to its botanical relative,Polyp officinalis, or Boletus laricis, q.v. Deep dull, severe pain in shin bones, preventing sleep.
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient presents with a congested head, flushed face, and a general sense of weariness, often suffering from rheumatic complaints.
🩺 Systems & Indications
🌡️FEVER
Indicated for fevers with specific headache timing and rheumatic joint pain.
Great lassitude, congestion of head, with vertigo, face hot and flushed, prickling sensation all over; restless at night from pain in wrists and knee; rheumatic pains; profuse perspiration.
Headache about 10 am, with pain in back, ankles and legs increasing until 3 pm, then gradually better.