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Taxus Baccata

30CTaxus

Yew Tree · "The Toxic Skin Eruption Yew"

tax.PlantUncommonPsoric

🎯 Acts primarily on the skin, joints, and digestive system, particularly for pustular eruptions and rheumatic conditions.

📖 Boericke writes:

In pustular diseases of skin and night-sweats. Also in gout and chronic rheumatism.

👤 Constitution

•Individuals who may suffer from chronic rheumatic or gouty conditions, often presenting with pale, puffy facial features.

🩺 Systems & Indications

👤Head

Useful for right-sided headaches associated with eye tearing and facial puffiness.

Supra-orbital and temporal pain on right side, with lachrymation.

Pupils dilated.

Face puffy and pale.

🔑 Modalities

↓Worse from

💊 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, to third potency

Mother Tincture

Primary Dosage

🌿 Remedy Relationships

🔄 Compare With

Coniferae

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

About the repertory →

Taxus Baccata is listed in 18 rubrics across 13 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 1 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Head2 Respiratory System2 Skin2 Locomotor System2 Generalities2 Stomach1 Mouth1 Face1 Fever1 Eyes1 Female Sexual System1 Abdomen1 Urinary System1