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Saccharum Officinale

30C / 200CSaccharum
Cane Sugar · Saccharose · "The Sweet Craving Child Remedy"
sacch.PlantCommonPsoric
Source
🎯 Acts as a nutrient and tonic for the heart and nervous system while addressing chronic health issues in children and women caused by excessive sugar consumption.
📖 Boericke writes:
(SUCROSE)
According to the great Dr. Hering, a large proportion of chronic diseases of women and children are developed by using too much sugar. Sugar is an antiseptic. Combats infection and putrefaction; has a solvent action on fibrin and stimulates secretion by the intense osmotic changes induced, thus rinsing out the wound with serum from within outward, favoring healing. Leg ulcers.
Sugar must be considered a sustainer and developer of the musculature of the heart and hence useful in failure of compensation and a variety of cardio-vascular troubles. Acts as a nutrient and tonic, in wasting disorders, anaemia, neurasthenia, etc, increasing weight and power.
Opacity of cornea. Dim sight.Acidity and anal itching. Cold expectoration. Myocardial degeneration.
Fat, bloated, large-limbed children, who are cross, peevish, whining; capricious; want dainty things, tidbits, and refuse substantial food. oedema of feet. Headache every seven days
👤 Constitution
Fat, bloated children with large limbs who are irritable, whining, and capricious, preferring sweets over substantial food.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Acidity and anal itching.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for children with difficult, demanding temperaments and poor eating habits.
Irritable, peevish, and whining behavior in children.
Capricious appetite, demanding dainty foods and refusing substantial meals.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
Erect position
dyspnoea
💊 Dosage & Potency
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝Thirtieth potency and higher.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Saccharum LactisSaccharin
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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