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Verbena Hastata
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PlantRarePsoric✨ Clarke only
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Exclusively Documented in Clarke
This remedy is documented exclusively in Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.
🎯 A botanical remedy traditionally used for chronic intermittent fevers, skin irritation from Rhus poisoning, and neurological disturbances.
📖 Clarke writes:
Verbena hastata. Ironweed. N. O. Verbenacae. Tincture of entire fresh plant.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Grows profusely on prairies and low bottom lands all over U.S.
•Popular domestic remedy for ague, especially when chronic
•Root is intensely and disagreeably bitter
•Suggested use as a remedy for Rhus poisoning
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Chronic ague
•Rhus poisoning
•Epilepsy developing during whooping-cough
•Petit mal attacks
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Chronic ague or intermittent fevers.
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Epilepsy developing as a complication of whooping-cough.
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Intensely and disagreeably bitter root.
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Suggested remedy for Rhus poisoning.
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Used in cases of petit mal during recovery from epilepsy.
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Grows profusely on prairies and low bottom lands.
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Clinical improvement noted with 12-drop doses of tincture.
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Permanent improvement observed after six weeks of treatment.
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📋 Clinical Indications
Conditions Clarke associates with this remedy — no detailed symptom-by-system breakdown exists for this entry.
AguechronicEpilepsyRhus poisoning
Open in Clarke ↗📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaAllen's EncyclopediaPhatak's Concise MM
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