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Stigmata Maydis

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Corn Silk · Zea Mays · "The Burning Urinary Corn Silk"

stigm.PlantUncommonPsoric✨ Boericke only

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Exclusively Documented in Boericke

This remedy is documented exclusively in Boericke's Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 It acts primarily on the urinary system to relieve inflammation, retention, and the formation of stones.

📖 Boericke writes:

(ZEA)

Has marked urinary symptoms, and has been used with success in organic heart disease, with much oedema of lower extremities and scanty urination. Enlarged prostate and retention of urine. Uric and phosphatic Gonorrhoea. Cystitis.

👤 Constitution

•Typically indicated for individuals suffering from chronic urinary complaints, often associated with heart weakness or elderly patients with prostate enlargement.

🩺 Systems & Indications

✨ Boericke Exclusive

💧URINARY

Indicated for painful urination, kidney stones, and bladder irritation with sediment.

Suppression and retention.

Dysuria.

Renal lithiasis; nephritic colic; blood and red sand in urine.

Tenesmus after urinating.

Vesical catarrh.

Gonorrhoea.

Cystitis.

Shucks (as a decoction used for chronic malaria, teaspoonful doses freely. Dr. E. C. Lowe, England).

💊 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

🕒ten-to fifty-drop doses

Primary Dosage

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Stigmata Maydis is listed in 23 rubrics across 3 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 6 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Urinary System19 Male Sexual System3 Circulatory System1

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