# Taraxacum Officinale

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
The first provings were done by Hahnemann and his pupils. Hahnemann’s provings brought 
out the leading symptoms “painless urging to urinate,” and “frequent urging to urinate with co pious discharge 
of urine.” 
Hahnemann pointed out that the urging to urinate with thirst may indicate Tarax. in some cases of diabetes. 
Hahnemann’s dosage was a single drop of the tincture. 
Langhammer noted the “mapped tongue.” The tongue is coated white and clears off in patches, leaving dark 
red, very sensitive spots. 
Affinity for the liver and bladder. A bilious remedy. Pains in both splenic and liver regions. Heaviness in the 
liver region. Gastric headaches, bilious attacks with mapped tongue and jaundic ed skin. Jaundice with 
enlarged, indurated liver. Disorders of the liver, sour taste, darting pains in outer parts. Hysterical tympanites. 
Flatulence. Cancer of bladder. 
Hands and nose cold at 8 p.m. Cold fingertips. Feeling of sickness and exhaustion, inclined to sit or lie down. 
Muscular pains with shuddering and muscular prickling. Stitching pains. Affections in left upper side, right lower 
side, back of foot, sole of foot. Almost all symptoms appear while the patient is seated and are dissipated by 
walking.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from touch. Better moving, walking, open air. Burning in throat is better by drinking. Worse 
while lying down, resting, at night. Worse from fat food.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Depressive, morose, sad condition.
- Memory weak.
- Apathy, lack of reactions.
- Dislike for labor, but after 
beginning works well.
- Impatient and irritable.
- Anxiety while sitting.
- Restlessness on waking.
- Irresolution.
- Constant muttering to himself.
- Inclined to talk, laugh and be merry.
- Loquacity during perspiration.
- Unconsciousness.
- Depressive, morose, sad condition.
- Memory weak.
- Apathy, lack of reactions.
- Dislike for labor, but after 
beginning works well.
- Impatient and irritable.
- Anxiety while sitting.
- Restlessness on waking.
- Irresolution.
- Constant muttering to himself.
- Inclined to talk, laugh and be merry.
- Loquacity during perspiration.
- Unconsciousness.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo with giddiness and staggering when walking in the open air.
- Vertigo with unsteady gait, falls 
to either side.
- COMMENTS - The Treasury of Botany noted that “the bright-yellow flowers of Taraxacum open in the morning 
between 5 a.m.
- and 6 a.m.
- and close in the evening between 8 p.m.
- and 9 p.m.
- Hence this was one of the 
plants selected by Linneus to form his floral clock.” 
Cooper noted the case of an old Indian officer who, when in India, suffered from gallstones and was advised 
to take dandelion infusion every day.
- He did so and soon the symptoms left him and he remained free from 
them for over twenty years.
- Gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches.
- The headaches art: generally pressive.
- Pains in both 
splenic and liver regions.
- Jaundice with enlarged, indurated liver.
- Pressure in lower occiput after lying down.
- Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, especiall y when 
convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever.
- Restlessness of limbs in typhoid.
- Sweat between toes.

### Head
- Heavy and numbing headache.
- Stinging pains in the head and face.
- Neuralgic headaches.
- Headaches 
due to liver disturbances.
- Headaches, as from contraction orexpansion of brain.
- Violent headache, felt only 
when standing or walking.
- Sensation of great heat in vertex.
- Drawing pain in left temple while sitting, ceasing 
when walking or standing.
- Tearing pain in occiput.
- Lancinations in forehead and temples.
- Tension of scalp.
- Kidneys - Bladder weakness.
- Frequent desire to urinate with copious urine.
- Urination with painless urging.
- Bedwetting during sleep.
- Heavy and numbing headache.
- Stinging pains in the head and face.
- Neuralgic headaches.
- Headaches 
due to liver disturbances.
- Headaches, as from contraction orexpansion of brain.
- Violent headache, felt only 
when standing or walking.
- Sensation of great heat in vertex.
- Drawing pain in left temple while sitting, ceasing 
when walking or standing.
- Tearing pain in occiput.
- Lancinations in forehead and temples.
- Tension of scalp.
- Kidneys - Bladder weakness.
- Frequent desire to urinate with copious urine.
- Urination with painless urging.
- Bedwetting during sleep.

### Eyes
- Pain in eyes, as if a grain of sand were in internal canthus.
- Burning and stinging pains in the eyes.
- Inflammation of eyes.
- Lachrymation and photophobia.
- Nocturnal agglutination of lids.
- Aversion to light.

### Ears
- Shootings in ears.
- Drawing pain in external ear.
- Stinging, rending pains in the ears.

### Face
- Hot and red face.
- Sensation of heat and redness in face.
- Shootings and pres sure in cheeks.
- Upper ftp 
cracked.
- Pusa/e in right corner of lips.
- Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alae nasi and lips.

### Mouth
- Sour, bitter taste.
- Acid saliva in mouth.
- Salivation with sensation as if larynx was pressed shut 
Biller laste,  rising from pharynx into mouth.
- Smarting, burning and rawness in mouth and fauces.
- Accumulation of sour water in mouth.
- Tough, ropy, sour-tasting saliva.
- Nose - Cold nose.
- Nosebleeds.
- Perspiration - Very debilitating perspiration, causing biting on the skin.
- Sweat on falling asleep.
- Profuse night 
sweats, mostly before midnight, when just going to sleep.

### Throat
- Hawking up of acid mucus.
- Sore throat with pressive pain, as from internal swelling.
- Dryness, 
shootings and bitter mucus in the throat.
- Burning in throat 
from smoking, better drinking.
- Tongue - Tongue, coated, mapped.
- Tongue covered with a white film.
- Tongue feels raw, comes  off in 
patches, leaving red.
- sensitive spots.
- Tongue dry, loaded with a brown coating on waking in morning.

### Chest
- Pressure at chest.
- Shootings in chest and sides of chest.
- Jerkings in muscles.
- Cough after eating.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Gastric bilious attacks.
- Bitter taste, risings, belchings and hiccough.
- Empty belching after drinking.
- Nausea, as after an excess of greasy food.
- Nausea with inclination to vomit or vomiting from very fat food, with 
anxiety and pressive headache, better in open air.
- Nausea, with headache, anxiety, after fat food.
- Teeth - Toothache with drawing pain in cari ous teeth, extending to eyebrows.
- Pressive pains in teeth.
- Teeth 
set on edge as from acids.
- Flow of acid blood from decayed teeth.
- Blunt teeth.
- Hawking up of sour mucus, 
causing teeth to feel dull.
- Temperature - Chill in open air.
- Chilliness after eating and drinking.
- Chilliness, shiv erings, all over with 
pressive headache.
- Fingertips cold.
- Heat at night on waking, especially on face and hands.
- Heat without 
thirst, in face or toes.
- Stinging abdominal pains.
- Sharp stitches in left side.
- Grumbling and move ments in abdomen.
- Sensation of bubbles bursting in bowels.
- Hysterical tympanites.
- Pinc hing in abdomen.
- Pressive shootings in 
abdomen and sides of abdomen, in left side of the hypogastrium.
- Loss of appetite.
- Food tastes sour.
- Salt or acid taste of food.
- Butter and meat taste salty.
- Bitter taste 
after eating.
- Tobacco smoke is very disagreeable, causes heartburn and interrupts respirati on.
- Great 
Taraxacum officinale chilliness after drinking creating.
- No thirst during fever.
- Thirst during sweat.

### Urinary & Genital
- Pain in testes.
- Permanent erections.
- Frequent pollutions, on alternate nights.
- Suppressed menses.

### Extremities
- Muscular pains with shuddering and prickling in the muscles.
- Restless limbs.
- Limbs p ainful, 
tenderness of all limbs when touched.
- Tearing pains in limbs.
- Dull, joint pains.
- Fingertips cold.
- Pressive pains 
in loins.
- Heaviness of the legs, ame liorated by walking.
- Neuralgia of knee, better pressure.
- Jerking pain in 
calf (right) better on touch.
- Toes burning.
- Liver - Pain in the region of liver and spleen.
- Liver enlarged and indurated.
- Sensation of heaviness in the liver 
region.
- Deficiency of the liver.
- Liver weakness.
- Chronic cho lecystitis.
- Gallstones.
- Jaundice.
- Hepatitis with 
jaundice.

### Neck & Back
- Tearing pain from ear down to neck.
- Sternomastoid muscle very painful to touch.
- Pressive jerkings 
and shootings in muscles of neck, throat and nap e.
- Pressive and tensive shootings in back and loins, when 
lying down with obstructed respiration.
- Pressing, stinging in spine and sacrum with dyspnea.
- Vibration and 
quivering in right scapula.

### Skin
- Stinging on skin.
- Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skin.
- Eruptions over body and limbs, itching severely and 
appears to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria.
- Profuse night sweats, biting in skin with sweat.

### Sleep
- Irresistible drowsiness after  meals.
- Sleepiness in daytime and yawning while sitting.
- Sleepiness and 
going to sleep while listening to a scientific discourse.
- Vivid, unremembered dreams, frequent waking and 
tossing.

### Generalities
- As if brain was constricted.
- As if teeth were set on edge.
- As if larynx were compressed.
- As if 
bubbles were forming and bursting in abdomen.
- As of rolling and gurgling in right scapula.
- As if limbs were 
bound or powerless.