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Stigmata Maydis

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Corn Silk · Zea Mays · "The Burning Urinary Corn Silk"
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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.
Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Urinary retention and suppression.
Boericke
Scanty urination with heart disease and leg swelling.
Boericke
Enlarged prostate with difficulty urinating.
Boericke
Kidney stones with blood and red sand in urine.
Boericke
Chronic bladder inflammation.
Boericke
🩺 Systems & Indications
Boericke Exclusive
💧INTRODUCTION
Used for urinary retention, prostate enlargement, and urinary symptoms linked to heart-related fluid retention.
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
Tincture
Mother Tincture
🕒ten-to fifty-drop doses
Primary Dosage
📚 Sources & References
Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM

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