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Stellaria Media

Q / 30CStellaria

Common Chickweed · "The Rheumatic Psoriasis Remedy"

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🎯 It acts primarily on the liver and joints, inducing a state of sluggishness, congestion, and sharp, shifting rheumatic pains.

📖 Boericke writes:

Induces a condition of stasis, congestion, and sluggishness of all functions. Morning aggravation.

Sharp, shifting, rheumatic pains in all parts very pronounced. Rheumatism; darting pains in almost every part; stiffness of joints; parts sore to touch; worse, motion. Chronic rheumatism. Shifting pains (Puls; Kali sulph). Psoriasis. Enlarged and inflamed gouty finger joints.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who feel sluggish, irritable, and prone to rheumatic stiffness, often with a tendency toward liver congestion and joint inflammation.

⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See

Chronic rheumatism.

introduction

Liver engorged, swollen, with stitching pain and sensitive to pressure.

abdomen

Synovitis.

extremities

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤HEAD

Useful for headaches associated with eye strain or congestion and neck stiffness.

General irritability.

Lassitude, indisposition to work.

Smarting and burning in eyes, feel protruded.

Dull, frontal headache; worse in morning and left side with sleepiness.

Neck muscles stiff and sore.

Eyes feel protruded.

🔑 Modalities

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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.

Tincture

Mother Tincture

📝externally

Decimal

📝internally

🌿 Remedy Relationships

⏭️ Similar

Pulsatilla Pratensis →

🔄 Compare With

Pulsatilla Pratensis →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Stellaria Media is listed in 46 rubrics across 8 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 16 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Locomotor System24 Abdomen7 Modalities6 Head4 Circulatory System2 Eyes1 Urinary System1 Skin1

See all 46 rubrics for Stellaria Media →