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Salix Nigra

Q / 30CSalix Nig
Black Willow · "The Sexual Excess Gonorrhoea Willow"
sal-n.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 It acts as a sedative on the sexual organs, specifically controlling genital irritability and excessive sexual desire.
📖 Boericke writes:
Has a positive action on the generative organs of both sexes and nervousness. Libidinous thoughts and lascivious . Controls genital irritability. Moderates sexual passion. and . In acute , with much erotic trouble; . After masturbation; .
👤 Constitution
Individuals who are highly nervous, prone to , and suffering from intense sexual preoccupation or genital irritability.
🩺 Systems & Indications
😶FACE
Indicated for facial congestion and soreness, particularly involving the nose and eyes.
Red, swollen, especially the end of nose-eyes blood-shot and sore to touch and on motion.
Roots of hair hurt.
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🔑 Modalities
Worse from
💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒thirty drops
📝Material doses
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Cantharis VesicatoriaYohimbin

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Salix Nigra is listed in 14 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 6 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Male Sexual System8Female Sexual System4Nose1Mind1