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Squilla Maritima

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Sea Onion · Urginea Maritima · "The Cough Cardiac Squill Remedy"
squil.PlantUncommonPsoric
🎯 Acts primarily on the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tracts, the heart, and the kidneys.
📖 Boericke writes:
A slow acting remedy. Corresponds to ailments requiring several days to reach their maximum. Persistent, dull, pains permeate the body. A spleen medicine; stitches under left free ribs. Important heart and kidneys medicine. Broncho-pneumonia.
Acts especially on mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tracts, and also upon the kidneys. Valuable in chronic of old people with mucous rales, , and scanty urine.
👤 Constitution
Often indicated for elderly individuals suffering from chronic respiratory conditions, or children with specific irritability and cough symptoms.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Broncho-pneumonia.
introduction
and stitches in chest, and painful contraction of abdominal muscles.
respiratory
with coughing.
respiratory
🩺 Systems & Indications
👁️EYES
Useful for eye irritation in children accompanied by a sensation of coldness.
Feel irritable; child bores into them with fists.
Sensation as if swimming in cold water.
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💊 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.

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Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Bryonia AlbaStrophanthus HispidusApocynum CannabinumDigitalis PurpureaKali Carbonicum

Boericke's Materia Medica