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Prinos Verticillatus

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Prinos Verticillatus · Black Alder (Winterberry) · "The Winterberry Skin-Tonic Remedy"
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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 DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaBoericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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