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Wildbad
6XWildbWildbad Aqua · German Spa Water · "The Black Forest Spa Water Remedy"
MineralRarePsoric
Source
🎯 Acts primarily upon the spinal cord and joints, producing sensations of looseness, weakness, and congestive head symptoms.
📖 Clarke writes:
The Springs at Wildbad, in Würtemburg. (The water contains in 16 ounces, Carbonic ac. gr. 0.972, Nat. m. 1.808, Nat. c. 0.837, Nat. sul. 0.291, K. sul. 0.108, Calc. c. 0.738, Silicic acid 0.480, Mag. c. 0.079, Fer. C. 0.002, Alumina 0.004, and traces of Mang.). Dilution.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Produces very distinct effects in a graduated series despite slight mineralisation
•Initial sensation of the bath is delicious
•Succeeded by sensations of slight excitement
•Luminous sparks before the sight
•Sensation as if a finer (plus subtil) blood flows to the brain
•Sensation of something unusual and strange warning the patient to exit the bath
•Chiefly indicated for affections of the spinal cord
•More than half the patients are paraplegic
Key Characteristics & Guiding Symptoms
•Sensation as if the brain were over-filled
•Gnawing, sinking, empty sensation
•Pain as if sprained
•Sensation of looseness in the joints
•Ankles loose
•Knees loose
•Bones seem as if they did not fit
•Teeth seem too long
•Hair, previously greasy, became dry
•Beard became of a darker colour
•Desire to stretch
Modalities
•WORSE On waking at night
•WORSE Lying down (throbbing and heat in occiput)
•WORSE Walking (pain in sciatic nerve; looseness of knees)
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Sensation as if the brain were over-filled, intolerable when lying with head on a pillow.
Clarke
Sensation of looseness in the joints, especially the knees and ankles, as if the bones did not fit.
Clarke
Throbbing and warmth in the occiput, significantly worse when lying down.
Clarke
Teeth feel too long or as if they had taken cold.
Clarke
Fine sticking pain in the eyes and eyebrows without affecting vision.
Clarke
Gnawing, sinking, empty sensation in the stomach and abdomen.
Clarke
Desire to stretch, accompanied by a feeling of comfort and warmth.
Clarke
Hair becomes dry and the beard may darken in color.
Clarke
Pain as if sprained in the joints and nape of the neck.
Clarke
Nails become so soft they are difficult to use.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Use for states of great depression, anxiety, and weak memory.
Great depression with anxiety.
Memory weak.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Waking at night
throbbing headache
heaviness in vertex
painful erections
↑Better from
Sitting erect
headache
sleeplessness
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Sanguinaria Canadensis →
📚 Sources & References
✓ Kent's Materia Medica↗✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraPhatak's Concise MM
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