- 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 dyspepsia, 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
