Alfalfa
Nutritive tonic remedy. Promotes appetite and weight gain. Favors nutrition and fat production. Useful in wasting diseases, convalescence, nervous indigestion. Increases breast milk. Corrects defective nutrition.
Source
Prepared from the whole fresh plant of Medicago sativa (Fabaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Nutritive tonic — promotes appetite, digestion, assimilation, and weight gain. Corrects malnutrition and wasting. Increases breast milk in nursing mothers. Useful in convalescence, chronic debility, and failure to thrive. Mental symptoms — dull, sleepy, unable to study. Best used as mother tincture for nutritive support. Phosphaturia.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Dull, sluggish, cannot study. Stupid feeling. Depressed from debility.
General Symptoms
Nutritive. Better from eating, rest, sleep. Worse from motion, fasting.
Physical Symptoms
Stomach
Promotes appetite. Digestive tonic. Nervous indigestion. Favors nutrition.
Female Genitalia
Increases breast milk in nursing mothers — galactagogue.
Urinary
Phosphaturia — phosphates in urine. Frequent, profuse urination.
Extremities
Weakness from malnutrition. Wasting. Weight gain with use.
Modalities
Better From
Eating, rest, sleep
Worse From
Motion, fasting, mental exertion
Constitutional Type
Malnourished, wasting individuals. Convalescents. Children who fail to thrive. Nursing mothers with low milk.
Clinical Indications
Wasting diseases, malnutrition, failure to thrive, convalescence tonic, low breast milk, nervous indigestion, weight gain, phosphaturia
Comparative Materia Medica
Avena sativa is a nerve tonic; Alfalfa is a nutritive tonic. China has debility from fluid loss. Calcarea phosphorica promotes growth in children.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Alfalfa is widely consumed as a food (sprouts) and animal feed. Non-toxic. Rich in vitamins, minerals, and protein. People with lupus should avoid due to L-canavanine content. Safe in all potencies and mother tincture.
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