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Common Chickweed · "The Rheumatic Psoriasis Remedy"
stel.PlantUncommonPsoric
Source
🎯 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
Worse from
Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒As directed
📝externally
Primary Dosage
2x
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝internally
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
⏭️ Similar
Pulsatilla Pratensis
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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