Carduus Marianus
St. Mary’s Thistle
Guiding symptoms
William Boericke 1922
The actitni of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Flas specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility.
Head
William Boericke 1922
Contractive feeling above eyebrows. Dull heavy, stupid, with foul
Mind
William Boericke 1922
Despondency ; forgetful, apathetic.
Stomach
William Boericke 1922
Taste bitter Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small ; tongue furred ; nausea ; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen. [Ceanoth.]
Tongue
William Boericke 1922
Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Burning and pressure in
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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