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Silphium Lacinatum

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Compass Plant · Prairie Dock · "The Respiratory Secretion Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily as a respiratory remedy for chronic bronchitis and asthma characterized by profuse, stringy mucus.

📖 Boericke writes:

(SILPHIUM)

Is used in various forms of asthma and chronic bronchitis Catarrh of bladder. Catarrhal influenza. Dysentery; attack preceded by constipated stools covered with white mucus.

🩺 Systems & Indications

🫁Respiratory

Useful for chronic bronchitis, asthma, and catarrhal conditions with excessive, stringy mucus production.

Cough with expectoration profuse, stringy, frothy, light-colored.

Excited by sense of mucus rattling in chest and worse by drafts of air.

Constriction of lungs.

Catarrh, with copious, stringy, mucous discharges.

Desire to hawk and scrape throat.

Irritation of posterior nares, involving mucous membranes of nasal passages with constriction of supra-orbital region.

🔑 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.

Decimal

📝Lower triturations preferred by some.

Primary Dosage

3rd potency

Other

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Cubeba Officinalis →Salvia Officinalis →Aralia Racemosa →Arum Dracontium →Silphion CyrenaicumCopaiva Officinalis →Polygonum Aviculare →Terebinthiniae Oleum →Sambucus Nigra →Justicia Adhatoda →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Silphium Lacinatum is listed in 10 rubrics across 4 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 1 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System7 Urinary System1 Abdomen1 Fever1