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Carduus marianus

St. mary's thistle

5 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice.
  • Has specific relation to the vascular system.
  • Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer.
  • Varicose veins and ulcers.
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  • Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease.
  • Disturbs sugar metabolism.
  • Influenza when liver is affected.
  • Debility.
  • Haemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.

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Mind & mood

  • Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.

Symptoms by body part

Head

Contractive feeling above eyebrows. Dull heavy, stupid, with foul tongue. Dizziness, with tendency to fall forward. Burning and pressure in eyes. Nose-bleed.

Stomach

Taste bitter. Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen. Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.

Abdomen

Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive. Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhoea. Stools bright yellow. Swelling of gall bladder with painful tenderness. Hyperaemia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with fluid swelling (oedema).

Rectum

10 drops doses (Wapler).

Urine

Cloudy; golden-colored.

Chest

Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc. Asthmatic respiration. Pain in chest, going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate.

Skin

Itching on lying down at night. Varicose ulcers. Rash on lower part of sternum.

Extremities

Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.

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