🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Boletus Laricis. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲GENERAL
Burt proved the crude substance and the third triturationGrinding raw substance into powderThe process of grinding an insoluble dry substance with milk sugar (lactose) in a mortar to prepare the base of a remedy..
The gastro enteric irritation
common to the fungus was very well marked.
Motion will aggrava te the headache.
Disposition to yawn and
stretch when chillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets..
Great resdessness after midnight.
Faintness after stool.
Aching distress in all joints
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Compare: (1) Boletus luridus. Boletus satanus. Cocc. (head hollow). (2) Agaricin, active
constituent of Polyporus officinale - tubercular and other enervating
night-sweats 1-4 to 1 -2 grains doses, also in chorea in dilatation of heart with pulmonary emphysema, fatty
degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema.
▲MIND
Very gloomy and despondent.
Irritated at the least trifle.
Absent-minded.
▲HEAD
Head feeling very light and hollow with deep frontal headache and great faintness.
Liver - Heavy dragging pains in liver, more in right lobe.
Dull, burning distress, drawing, aching in right lobe of
liver with frontal headache.
Sharp cutting pains in right lobe of liver and whole dorsal region on full inspiration.
Sharp cutting pains near gallbladder.
Burning distress in region of gallbladder all afternoon with sharp pains in
stomach and heavy aching in liver.
▲EYES
Agglutination of eyelids morning with dull, aching pains in eyeballs
▲FACE
Hot and flushed with severe frontal headache.
Hands hot and dry
▲MOUTH
Teeth and gums very sore.
Perspiration - Profuse perspiration at night with hectic chills and fever.
Sweat is light and without relief.
Night-sweat in tuberculosis
▲ABDOMEN
Constant nausea and vomiting.
Feeling in fauces as if would vomit.
Great faintness at epigastrium.
Severe cutting pains in stomach.
Temperature - Quotidian intermittent fever.
Chilliness along spine with frequent, hot flashes.
Y awns and
stretches when chilly.
Severe aching in shoulders andjoints and small of back.
Waking at midnight in a profuse
perspiration.
Tongue - White coat, thick yellow coat showing marks of teeth.
Taste is flat, cop pery, unnatural of all food,
lost.
COMMENTS - Anshutz noted two cases.
The first consisted of a case of fever.
“Intermit tent fever: Type
Quotidian Duplex.
In a large lymphatic woman, weight about 180 lbs., aged thirty-nine.
November 4th.
For the
last five weeks has had the ague.
At first it was simple quotidian.
Took quinine, which broke it for four days,
when it returned took quinine in massive doses, which checked it for one week.
“It returned two weeks since in the form of a double quotidian.
The chill comes on every day at 10 a.m and 5
p.m.
The chill lasts from one to two hours each time, hands and feet get icy cold, chills run up and down the
spine with severe pains in the head, back a nd limbs, followed by high fever for three hours and then profuse
sweat.
“Tongue furred whitish yellow with large fissures in the tongue, flat, bitter taste, has had no appetite for five
weeks, craves cold water all the time, bowels rather costive, has nau sea during every chill, but no vomiting,
very weak, can only sit up about one hour in the morning.
Great depression, cried during the whole examination, face very much jaundiced.
It produced constant nausea and lessened the chills, but
aggravated the fever.
I then determined to try the Boletus 1c, two grains every two hours .Took two doses
when the chills came on, she then ceased to take the medicine until 5 p.m.
Took three doses and then fell asleep.
8th.
She says she is feeling a little Better continued treatment, 10 a.m.,
commenced to have a severe diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., an effect of the medicine, discontinued the powders until 5 p.m.
“The fever did not come on until 3 p.m., had no chill, fever lasted three hours, perspired profusely all night,
slept well for the first time in a number of weeks.
9th.
Feeling much better.
Fever came on at 4 p.m., had no
chill, fever lasted four hours, nausea all the evening, sweat all night.
10th.
Feeling quiet well.
Had no more
fever, but had night sweats for a week after.
Convalescence was very slow, she had no more fever it was three
weeks before she felt perfectly well.
“This case demonstrated the fact to us that the Boletus is superior to our greatest remedial agents in the case
of intermittent fevers.
I believe if I had not been acquainted with the therapeutic properties of the Bol etus I
would have been compelled to treat this lady every few weeks for two or three months with our usual remedies.”
His second case, “Intermitt ent fever: Type quotidian.
November first, Mrs.
B., aged fifty -six.
Temperament
nervous.
Three weeks since had an abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. in left ear, which made her quite sick for a week.
“Since then has had fever every afternoon and night.
Feels chilly whenever she move s.
Walking produces
nausea.
Does not perspire any.
Tongue coated white.
Loss of appetite, bowels loose.
Very restless at night,
cannot sleep any, getting very weak, keeps to her bed most of the time.
Gave Boletus laricis.
She had the
fever but one day after.” Aching in liver and umbilicus.
Severe cutting pains in abdomen every few minutes.
Dull, aching
distress in umbilicus and loud rumbling in bowels all night.
Severe, aching pain just below stomach, causing
great faintness
▲BACK AND NECK
Chilliness along spine with frequent hot flashes of fever.
Dull, aching distress in back and legs
▲SKIN
Hot and dry, especially in palms.
Itching more between scapulae and on forearms
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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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