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Senna

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Cassia Acutifolia · Cassia Senna · "The Colicky Laxative Child Remedy"

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🎯 Senna acts primarily on the digestive system, specifically addressing infantile colic, constipation with flatulence, and metabolic imbalances involving urea and waste products.

📖 Boericke writes:

Is of much use in infantile colics when the child seems to be full of wind. Oxaluria, with excess of urea; increased specific gravity. Where the system is broken down, bowels constipated, muscular weakness, and waste of nitrogenous materials, Senna will act as a tonic. Ebullitions of blood at night. Acetonaemia, prostration, fainting, constipation with colic a flatulence. Liver enlarged and tender.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for infants with colic or individuals who are physically run down, suffering from constipation, muscular weakness, and metabolic waste accumulation.

🩺 Systems & Indications

⬇️STOOL

Useful for digestive issues characterized by constipation, flatulence, and rectal discomfort.

Fluid yellowish, with pinching pains before.

Greenish mucus; never-get-done sensation (Merc).

Burning in rectum, with strangury of bladder.

Constipation, with colic and flatulence.

Liver enlarged and tender, stools hard and dark, with loss appetite, coated tongue, bad taste, and weakness.

🔑 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.

3X to 6X

Decimal

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🚫 Antidotes

Nux Vomica →Chamomilla →

🔄 Compare With

Kali Carbonicum →Jalapa →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Senna is listed in 18 rubrics across 2 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 4 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

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