Taraxacum appears in 11 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Taraxacum Dens-leonis, Desf. (Leontodon Taraxacum, Linn.) Natural order , Compositæ. Common name , Dandelion; (G.) Löwenzahn. Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant just before the perfection of the flower. Authorities. ( 1 to 5 , from Hahnemann.) Talkativeness and incessant prattling, 4. Religious, pious mood…”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Dandelion For gastric headaches, bilious attacks, with characteristically mapped tongue and jaundiced skin. Cancer of bladder. Flatulence. Hysterical tympanites . Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to touch. Mapped tongue. Tongue covered with a white film; feels raw; comes off…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“DIRECTION of sensations, Diagonally SIDE, left to right”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Liver. Stomach. Rest; sitting; standing. Walking. Touch. Bilious, sick feeling. Stitches. .................... Depression. Coated tongue, with raw patches; mapped. Sour taste or hawks sour mucus. White stools. Bilious diarrhœa. Jaundice. Restless limbs, with tearing pains. Chilly after eating. Cold fingertips. Burning…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Leontodum taraxacum. Taraxacum Dens-leonis. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of whole plant just before the perfection of the flower. Ague / Bilious attacks / Debility / Diabetes / Gall-stones / Headache, gastric / Jaundice / Liver, affections of / Neuralgia / Night-sweats / Rheumatism / Tongue, mapped / Typhoid fever The…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Dandelion. Compositæ. Introduced and proved by Hahnemann, assisted by Franz, Gutmann, Kummer, Langhammer and Rasazemsky. CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Ague , Bartl., Newmann, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 990 ; Typhoid fever , Bœnninghausen, Hom. Cl., vol. 3, p. 54 ; Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 4, p. 790. Constant muttering to himself…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“The limbs are movable, but it seems to him as if the moving power is obstructed. Painfulness of all the limbs by touch and a like condition when in an improper position. Sensation of great heat on top of head. Sterno-mastoid muscle very painful to the touch. Crampy pains in different parts of the body. Cramp in the…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Irresoluteness. Inclined to talk, to laugh, and to be merry. Sensation as if the brain were expanded or constricted. The headache is felt only when standing (or walking). Aversion to light; stinging-burning in the eyes. Red, hot face. Pimples on the cheeks, wings of the now, and corners of the mouth. The upper lip is…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: dandelion. The limbs are movable, but it seems to him as if the moving power was obstructed. Painfulness of all the limbs by touch and a like condition when in an improper position. Crampy pains in different parts of the body (Cupr., Mag-P., Sec.). Sensation of weakness through the whole body with a…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Tongue coated white, which peels off in patches, leaving dark, red, tender, sensitive spots; mapped tongue.”
