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Scutellaria Laterifolia

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Skullcap · Helmet Flower · "The Nervous Exhaustion Skullcap"
scut.PlantUncommonPsoric
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🎯 A nervous sedative primarily indicated for conditions involving nervous fear, twitching, and irritability.
📖 Boericke writes:
This is a nervous sedative, wherenervous fear predominates.Cardiac irritability. Chorea. Nervous irritation and spasms of children, during dentition.Twitching of muscles. Nervous weakness after influenza.
👤 Constitution
Individuals who are nervous, restless, and prone to twitching, often suffering from a sense of impending calamity or inability to focus.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Cardiac irritability.
introduction
Chorea.
introduction
Twitching of muscles.
introduction
Fear of some calamity.
mental
Dull, frontal headache.
head
Must move about.
head
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mental
Useful for anxiety states characterized by a persistent fear of calamity and mental fog.
Fear of some calamity.
Inability to fix attention (Aethus).
Confusion.
🔑 Modalities
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝5 drops of tincture for nervous sick headaches
Primary Dosage
lower potencies
Other
🕒As directed
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Lycopus VirginicusCypripedium Pubescens
📚 Sources & References

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