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RAPHANUS SATIVUS

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RAPHANUS SATIVUS
Black Garden Radish
(RAPHANUS)

Produces pain and stitches in liver and spleen. Increases of bile and
salivary secretion. Symptoms will not appear if salt is used with the Radish. Great
accumulation and incarceration of flatulence. “Globus” symptoms. Seborrhśa, with
greasy skin. Pemphigus. Hysteria; chilliness in back and arms. Sexual insomnia (Kali brom). Nymphomania. Post-operative
gas pains
.


Head.–

Sadness, aversion to children, especially girls.
Headache, brain feels tender and sore. Śdema of lower eyelids. Mucus in posterior nares.

Throat.–

Hot-ball feeling from uterus to throat, stopping
there. Heat and burning in throat.

Stomach.–

Putrid eructations. Burning in epigastrium, followed
by hot eructation.

Abdomen.–

Retching and vomiting, loss of appetite. Distended, tympanitic, hard. No flatus emitted upward or downward.
Griping about navel. Stool liquid, frothy, profuse, brown, with colic, and pad-like swelling
of intestines. Vomiting of fecal matter.

Female.–

Nervous irritation of genitals. Menses very profuse
and long-lasting. Nymphomania, with aversion to her own
sex and to children, and sexual insomnia.

Urine.–

Turbid, with yeast-like sediment. Urine more copious,
thick like milk.

Chest.–

Pain in chest extends to back and to throat. Heavy
lump and coldness in center of chest.

Relationship.–

Compare: Momordica
(worse, near splenic flexure); Carbo; Anarc; Arg nit; Brassica.

Dose.–

Third to thirtieth potency.

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