Taraxacum is the dyspeptic–bilious regulator whose barometer is the tongue: coating lifts in islands and the mouth tastes bitter, while the stomach feels loaded and windy and the right hypochondrium full and sore. The patient is psorically reactive to dietary indiscretion—fats, pastry, coffee, beer—and to inactivity after meals. Relief comes in homely, physiological ways: a warm drink, a good belch, a walk in fresh air, and a regular morning stool. Head and stomach balance each other: as eructations or stool restore the stomach, the frontal/temporal headache melts; if digestion stalls, the head tightens and the tongue becomes more geographic [Clarke], [Farrington], [Hering]. The temperament is restless and peevish while the stomach labours, not deeply anxious; nervous twitchings (lids, facial muscles) flicker in the “nervous dyspeptic” and then subside when the gastric–hepatic axis is calmed [Hering].

In kingdom signature, a bitter Asteraceae: like other bitters it primes secretion and flow, so much of Taraxacum’s action is read through direction of cure—from congestion to discharge: belching, stool, the thinning of tongue coat. Miasmatically psoric–sycotic, it rarely advances to severe destructive pathology; it is the functional deranger and functional corrector. The clinical essence crystallises when four notes sound together: (1) mapped tongue, (2) bitter taste on waking, (3) flatulent dyspepsia worse fats/coffee, (4) right-sided hepatic fullness with bilious headache—all better from warm drinks, gentle motion in open air, and evacuations. Then Taraxacum stands distinct from Chelidonium (deeper, fixed hepatic pains), from Nux (tense, chilly, irritable with ineffectual urging), and from Pulsatilla (mild, thirstless, tearful with fat-worse but without the tongue keynote). Proper regimen—plain diet, regular mealtimes, avoidance of heavy fats and late coffee, and a post-prandial walk—often allies with the remedy to restore a stable digestive rhythm [Clarke], [Boericke], [Farrington].

Teucrium marum verum is a remedy of blocked passages and hyperactive nerves. Its leading indications are nasal polyps, chronic catarrh, and worms—especially in children who are restless, irritable, and hypersensitive. The essence of the remedy is overstimulation with obstruction: sensory overload, crawling skin, obsessive irritability, and blocked airways or rectum. It is suited to neurotic, excitable constitutions and to those whose symptoms worsen with suppression—be it skin eruptions, nasal discharge, or parasites.

The essence is a pendulum between pelvic congestion and collapse: a body that floods easily, expels forcibly, and then sinks, only to be provoked again by the least exertion, warmth, or strain. The sufferer lives by practical management—bandaging, pressure, cool air, rest—until the next wave. Psychologically there is little drama; rather, a quiet, wary prudence, a fear to move that is simply sensible because movement often means another rush. This economy of motion and the self-taught art of pressure mirror the remedy’s affinities and modalities in miniature [Clarke], [Hering]. The uterine field is first and last: too-early and too-profuse periods, fibroid bleedings, expulsive colic with clots; the very image of labour pains without the child, relieved when the offending clot is expelled and the womb rests for a while (explicitly reflecting Better after expulsion of clots) [Hering], [Boericke]. Around this core, a secondary axis links kidney and pelvis: lithic gravel, haematuria, end-stream burn; often the urinary irritation crescendoes around menses, as if the same pelvic vascular tide moved both organs [Allen], [Boger]. The thermal and positional sensitivities complete the portrait: warmth engorges, coolness steadies; rising and moving reopen the floodgates, lying and binding them shut (cross-link to modalities) [Clarke], [Phatak]. In comparative terms, Thlaspi stands between Trillium (bandage-better bright flooding) and Sabina (inflammatory sacral-to-pubic pains) but is marked out by repeated, too-early cycles with characteristic relief after the clots escape, and by the frequent fibroid background. It is less venous-bruised than Hamamelis and less passive-oozing than Secale, more expulsive–colicky than Millefolium, and more uterine than the purely renal gravel remedies such as Sarsaparilla. Prescribers should think of it where the life rhythm is broken by too-frequent losses, each one briefly calmed by the old, simple measures—pressure, cold, repose—until constitutional care can be made to hold (cross-link to Relationships and Clinical Tips).

Thuja is the signature of sycosis—the disease of excess and concealment. In the body it buds and builds: warts, polyps, condylomata, papillae, indurations, infiltrations, stringy secretions that cling and do not resolve. In the mind it hides: secrets, shame, guilt, fixed private rituals that keep the self intact. The person fears being seen through; he feels hollow, brittle, not entirely himself, as if a foreign thing or person were inside. This split—between the outer excrescence and the inner vacancy—is the Thuja polarity.

Thermally and environmentally, Thuja is cold-damp-aggravated: fog, cellars, wetting, washing, night air, and west winds provoke neuralgias and catarrhs. The skin is oily, sallow, greasy, with warts like little secrets rising where skin is rubbed or half-covered; sweat appears paradoxically on uncovered parts only, and it carries a sweetish/fish odour. The genito-urinary tract is Thuja’s home-ground: gonorrhoeal sequelae, urethral strictures, forked stream, gleet, prostatitis, vaginal and peri-anal warts, left-ovarian stitches and cervical polyps. The rectum speaks Thuja’s glass-splinter language, and the nails/hair betray brittleness and splitting—the theme of fragility again.

Thuja’s relationships reveal strategy: in entrenched sycosis, Thuja often leads, shrinking outgrowths and unlocking secrecy; Medorrhinum then clears restless extremes, or Nitric acid treats bleeding fissures; Silicea evacuates suppurative residues. Cure trends from the covert to the overt: warts may redden then soften, catarrh loosens, the urine stream straightens, sleep pushes past 3–4 a.m., and the patient speaks what was previously unsayable—shame gives way to integrity. When the case carries post-vaccinal echoes—recurrent warty skin, viscid catarrh, neuralgias—Thuja frequently restores balance in the constitution, not as dogma but when the full picture converges. Choose Thuja when overgrowth + viscosity + secrecy + cold-damp aggravation + uncovered-sweat + GU/rectal signs align and when the mind whispers, “I am hollow, brittle, and if you look too closely you will see through me.” [Hahnemann], [Hering], [Clarke], [Allen], [Kent], [Boger], [Boericke], [Tyler], [Phatak], [Burnett].

Tilia europaea is a soft nervo-vascular sedative—not soporific by force, but a harmoniser of pulse, head, and skin. Its essence is the hot head and soft, quick pulse in those who are restless yet fatigued, whose palpitations and throbbing temples are worse from heat and closeness and better when a gentle sweat returns and the window is opened. Children embody it perfectly: wakeful, fretful, cheeks warm, head hot on the pillow, little cough or coryza in the heated room, yet calm and sleep as perspiration breaks or after a warm drink [Hering], [Clarke]. Adults show the same polarity: evening tumult with palpitation and congestive head, an intolerance of rooms and stimulants; cool air, quiet, and the natural defervescence of the skin restore balance [Clarke], [Hughes], [Boericke].

The remedy sits upstream of grosser pathology: functional heart hurry rather than failing muscle (Crataeg.), congestive rather than inflammatory brain (Bell.), nervous wakefulness rather than ideational fireworks (Coff.). Its miasmatic hue is psoric in sensitivity and tubercular in love of moving air, with a sycotic drift when capillaries stay tense and sleeplessness becomes chronic [Kent], [Boger], [Sankaran]. Prescribe Til. when three strings sound together: (1) congestive head worse heat and stooping, (2) functional palpitations worse excitement and stimulants, (3) sleepless fretfulness that yields as perspiration and cool air return. Then the case typically turns—pulse softens, head opens, sleep descends—and the patient awakens with a quiet heart and a clear brow [Clarke], [Hughes], [Boericke].

Trifolium pratense is the cool-air key to a tickling, pertussis-like cough in delicate, often scrofulous subjects, with night paroxysms, exhaustion, and a background of eczema/psoriasis and cervical gland enlargement. The modalities are firm: worse in warm, close rooms, worse after first sleep, worse talking or laughing, better in cool fresh air, and better when a little mucus is dislodged. The old-fashioned word “alterative” is useful if taken modestly: when skin and gland signs co-travel with the paroxysmal laryngeal tickle, Trif-p. often completes a convalescence left ragged by more forceful antitussives. It is not the barker of Drosera, the ropy hawker of Coccus-c., the staccato coralline cough of Corallium-r., nor the drowning failure of Ant-t.; rather it is lighter, nervous, air-sensitive, and exhausting, with a constitutional hinterland that shows on the skin and in the lymph nodes. Bedside success comes as much from management—ventilation, humidified coolness, quiet evenings, propped sleep, tiny tepid sips—as from posology. As this regimen pairs with Trif-p., the first improvements are small but trustworthy: longer intervals between paroxysms, a softer cough, a satisfying plug raised, and in the skin/glands a trend toward drier surfaces and less tenderness—a gentle steadying of the whole [Clarke], [Boericke], [Hughes], [Allen], [Boger], [Dewey].

Trillium is the picture of the gushing bright hæmorrhage that starts afresh with the least motion—the patient hardly dare move. She feels the pelvis will fall to pieces unless tightly bound; binding relieves both pain and flow. Post-partum, lochia ceases at rest and returns on rising. With every gush come pallor, faintness, cold sweat, and sinking. This crisp triad—gush-on-motion, pelvic “separation” pains, better tight bandaging & absolute rest—identifies Trillium among hæmostatics and anchors its use in menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, abortion, placenta prævia adjunct care, and climacteric floods, with occasional echo bleedings from nose or lungs. Direction of cure is plain: flow steadies, pelvic pains ease under support, colour returns, and the patient tolerates gentle movement without a gush [Hering], [Clarke], [Boericke], [Boger].