Picric Acid Homeopathy: Uses for Exhaustion & Brain-Fag

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About

Picric Acid is a profound remedy for profound exhaustion, both mental and physical. It is a key medicine for conditions of brain-fag, neurasthenia, and paralytic weakness, often following over-study or sexual excesses.

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Keynotes

Everything is heavy and weak. Profound prostration of mind and body. Aversion to mental work. Paralysis from over-exertion. Burning along the spine.

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Constitution

Intellectuals, students, overworked professionals, individuals prone to nervous exhaustion and sexual debility. Often thin, sallow, and weak.

🤒Symptoms Profile

● General Symptoms

Profound prostration, brain-fag, aversion to mental work, heaviness and weakness, spinal irritation, sexual debility, easy fatigue, burning pains along spine

● Mental Symptoms

Mental exhaustion, brain-fag, aversion to mental work, dread of failure, indifference, apathy, suicidal thoughts from overwork, memory weak

● Physical Symptoms

Heaviness and weakness in all limbs, burning along spine, prostration, seminal emissions with weakness, occipital headache, alopecia, yellow discharges

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Uses

Neurasthenia, mental exhaustion from over-study, sexual debility, prostatitis, acute myelitis, low-grade fevers, alopecia, headaches from mental strain

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Modalities

Worse: From mental exertion, from slightest exertion, from sexual excess, from thinking of symptoms. Better: From lying down, from rest, from cold applications.

💊Dosage Information

Available Potencies

6C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M

Recommended Dosage

Typically 30C to 200C potency, repeated infrequently based on the depth of exhaustion. Lower potencies (6C, 30C) may be used for more frequent dosing in acute states.

🔗Relationships & Affinities

🫀 Organ Affinity

Nervous system, brain, spinal cord, male sexual organs (prostate, testes), hair

🤝 Complementary

Phosphoric Acid, Kali Phos, Argentum Nitricum

🛡️ Antidotes

Camphor, Nux Vomica

⚠️Important Cautions

Should not be used in low potency for prolonged periods without professional supervision. Not for simple tiredness; reserved for true neurasthenic states.