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Prinos Verticillatus
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🎯 Acts primarily as a tonic and emetic with a specific affinity for the gastrointestinal tract, causing profuse greenish diarrhea.
📖 Clarke writes:
Black Alder. N. O. Aquifoliaceae. Tincture of the berries. Tincture of fresh bark.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Bitter bark used in the treatment of fever
•Lotion of bark used as an application in cases of gangrene
•Berries are tonic and emetic
•Causes vomiting
•Causes extremely profuse greenish diarrhoea
•Increased appetite
•Tense feeling of well-being
•Great loss of weight
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Genus Prinos is very closely allied to the hollies
•Effects of swallowing twenty berries: vomiting, profuse greenish diarrhoea, increased appetite, and a tense feeling of well-being despite great loss of weight
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Natural stool provides relief from all other sensations.
Clarke
Profuse, greenish liquid diarrhea without pain or uneasiness.
Clarke
Remarkable sense of well-being despite significant weight loss.
Clarke
Increased appetite and digestion following liquid stools.
Clarke
Sensation of commotion in the stomach without nausea.
Clarke
Vomiting of bile precipitated by walking.
Clarke
Acrimony in the throat.
Clarke
Inclination to stool.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🫁Throat
Use for irritation or acrimony in the throat.
Acrimony in fauces.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Walking
vomiting of bile
↑Better from
Natural stool
all sensations
📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM
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