- Source: Derived from the resinous seed of Anacardium orientale , a tree in the Anacardiaceae family, commonly known as Marking Nut, native to India.
- Traditional Context: Historically used in homeopathy for psychological and neurological disorders, particularly in individuals with internal conflict, low self-esteem, or duality of thought,.
- Often expressed as irritability, indecision, or cruelty alternating with remorse.
- It is noted for physical symptoms like dyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux., skin eruptions, and memory weakness, aggravated by mental exertion or suppressed emotions.
- Modern Context : Indicated for mood disorders (e.g., bipolar tendencies, dysthymia), anxiety with internal conflict , functional gastrointestinal complaints , and neurocognitive dysfunction.
- (e.g., memory lapses, brain fog).
- It suits patients with emotional volatility, self-doubt, or psychosomatic symptoms, often triggered by stress, failure, or suppressed anger, and accompanied by digestive or dermatological issues.
- COMMENTS-Characteristic pressing or penetrating pain as from a plug, which may occur in any locality in connection with neuralgias, ear disorders and hemorrhoids🩺 HemorrhoidsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Alzheimer’s disease (Staph., Hyos.), may be accompanied wit h personality changes.
- Brain fatigue.
- Marked loss of memory.
- Deafness with loss of memory.
- Fear of exams and failure.
- Cough better by eating.
- Whooping cough with a gasping and drowsiness after the cough.
- Morning sickness, better by eating, but returns soon after.
- Symptoms generally better by eating, recur two hours after.
- Intermittent symptoms.
- “The attacks ceased for one or two days and then continued again for a couple of days.” Guided by this indication alone, Custis cured a case of sleeplessness in a pregnant woman with Anacardium 200c.
- “Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights.” Disorders of the palms of the hands.
- There are warts even on the palms.
- Skin eruptions in general (Rhus-t.🌿 Rhus-T.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.).
- Bayes' indications are “brain fatigue before examination ,” “nerve-exhaustion from over-study.” “nervous prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness. from seminal emissions,” or sexual excess.
- Conflicted over sexual desire, intense desire or aversion to sex.
- Paralyzed feeling in knees.
- Sensation as if knees were bandaged.
- Sensation of a hoop or band around the body or about any part is a leading symptom.
- Sensation of a blunt object anywhere.
- It has been used with success in diseases🌿 DiseasesMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. of the spinal cord with this sensation and the feeling of a plug in the spine, worse by any motion which causes a pain as if the plug were sticking still further in Kent noted it for tendonititis.
- Paranoid schizophrenia, multiple person alities (Plat.🌿 Plat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.), manic depression (Lach.), symptoms of Lyc and Nux-v combined and intensified.
- Keynote separation of the will, “delusion” that there's an angel on the right shoulder and a devil on the left shoulder.
- The moral consciousness becomes polarized.
- Keynote that they can hear voices telling them to do evil.
- Moral struggle to fight impulses to hurt people.
- Rubrics are “lack of moral feeling,” “godlessness,” not lack of religious feeling, but a feeling that they can’t be punished.
- Impulses so strong they shake and tremble.
- Misanthropy.
- Deep, suppressed anger and humiliation.
- History of hard-tempered and low confidence.
- Inner antagonism.
- Delusions of sight and smell, fears of spirits, demons, paranoia, hallucinations.
- Hears voices, keynote.
- Irresistible desire to curse and swear, can be used for Tourette's syndrome (close to Plat., but Plat, talks about sex.).
- Religious mania (Verat., Lach.).
- Feels that he is possessed.
- Become frightened of their anger, of their own hardness and uncompassionate nature, moral conflicts, turn to religion to restrain themselves.
- Fear of losing control.
- Dramatic alteration of moods, deep guilt and torment about their soul and salvation alternating with a mania, maliciousness and impulsiveness.
- Clarke cured with it a man who had a smell of burning wood🌿 WoodMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in his nose, remaining after influenza🩺 InfluenzaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Temperature-Easily chilled, better sun shine.
- Chills even in a warm room.
- Chilli ness internal with ext ernal heat.🌿 Heat.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- Chills over back, as if cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. were poured over it, with heat of face.
- Internal chills with hot breath.
- Heat from 4 p.m until evening🌿 EveningMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines., passing off after supper.
- Heat of upper body with cold feet.
- Internal shiverings and hot breath.
- Heat of left side.
- Abdomen full and distended.
- ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants..
- Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines.
- Rumbling, pinching and griping, especially with flatulent colic.
- Pain as if a dull plug were pressed into intestine.
- Hardness of abdom en.
- Loss of appetite with fever and skin symptoms.
- Loss of appetite, alternating with violent hunger.
- Refuses to eat for fear of being poisoned.
- Food tastes flat and offensive.
- Bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. taste in mouth after smoking tobacco.
- Everything tastes like herring-brine.
- Thirst for milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. with sweat all over.
- Thirst during fever.
- Constant thirst, yet drinking takes breath away
