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Rhamnus Catharticus
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🎯 It acts primarily as a powerful gastrointestinal irritant causing violent abdominal pain and watery stools.
📖 Clarke writes:
Rhamnus catharticus. Buckthorn. N. O. Rhamnaceae. Tincture or fluid extract of ripe berries.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Produces copious watery stools
•Occasions a good deal of nausea
•Causes severe tormina
•Ileo-caecal symptoms
•Possible remedy in cases of appendicitis
•Useful palliative in cases of constipation
Physical Profile & Source
•Common Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
•Produces black, shiny, four-sided berries
•Berries have an acrid taste
•Source of Rhamni succus of the old school
•Formerly used in dropsy, but now little used due to severity of the drug
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Violent cutting pains in the ileo-caecal region and transverse colon.
Clarke
Extremely bitter taste in the mouth with a coated tongue.
Clarke
Abdomen becomes hard and tympanitic (distended with gas).
Clarke
Copious, liquid, watery stools accompanied by nausea.
Clarke
General weakness and prostration so severe the patient is unable to rise.
Clarke
Eyes appear glistening and injected.
Clarke
Trembling of the lips and signs of commencing trismus.
Clarke
Respiration is short and anxious.
Clarke
Violent chilliness with alternating skin temperatures.
Clarke
Desire to press the head against a wall.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
👁️Eyes
Consider when eyes appear glistening and injected.
Eyes glistening and injected.
📚 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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