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Ricinus Communis

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Castor Oil Plant · "The Breast Milk Cholera Remedy"
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Source
🎯 It acts primarily on the gastro-intestinal tract to cause vomiting and purging, and is used to increase milk production in nursing women.
📖 Boericke writes:
(RICINUS COMMUNIS - BOFAREIRA)
Has marked action on gastro-intestinal tract.Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women. Vomiting and purging. Languor and weakness.
👤 Constitution
Typically indicated for nursing women or individuals suffering from acute gastro-intestinal distress characterized by weakness and languor.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Increase the quantity of milk in nursing women.
introduction
🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Used for congestive headaches accompanied by dizziness and facial twitching.
Vertigo, occipital pain, congestive symptoms, buzzing in ears.
Face pale, twitching of mouth.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Pressure
abdominal pain
💊 Dosage & Potency
3X
Decimal
🕒every four hours
📝for increasing flow of milk; also locally a poultice of the leaves
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Arsenicum AlbumVeratrum AlbumResorcinCholos Terrapina
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM

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