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Therapeutics of Oedema (Dropsy) - Boericke's Materia Medica

Note: Boericke's Materia Medica is not in the medical library database, so this answer is compiled from Boericke's Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica (public domain text), cross-verified against the live materiamedica.info Boericke source.

REMEDIES COVERING ALL THREE CAUSES (Cardiac + Renal + Hepatic)

1. APOCYNUM CANNABINUM (Indian Hemp)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke states: "Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing oedema and dropsy, and on skin causing diaphoresis." It is "one of our most efficient remedies in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles." In Bright's disease (renal oedema) it addresses "the digestive complaints with nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing." Its active principle Cymarin lowers pulse rate and increases blood pressure - directly addressing the haemodynamic failure driving cardiac dropsy. The remedy covers hepatic and renal dropsy through its diuretic action on cellular tissue.

Keynote "A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication." Generalised anasarca, ascites, hydrothorax with scanty urine, thirst and nausea with vomiting of whatever is swallowed. General cyanosis and general dropsy. Great prostration.

Modalities

Worse: cold weather, cold drinks, uncovering
Complementary: Apis, Arsenicum, Digitalis, Helleborus

2. APIS MELLIFICA (Bee Venom)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute inflammation of kidneys and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion - membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion." The remedy acts on the serous membranes regardless of whether the cause is cardiac (pericardial effusion), renal (nephrotic syndrome anasarca), or hepatic (ascites/peritoneal effusion).

Keynote "Swelling or puffing up of various parts, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation." Scanty, dark urine. Bag-like, watery swelling under eyes (especially lower lids). No thirst with anasarca.

Modalities

Worse: heat in any form, touch, pressure, late afternoon, after sleeping, in closed heated rooms, right side
Better: open air, uncovering, cold bathing

3. ARSENICUM ALBUM

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Arsenicum produces profound debility with oedema through its action on tissue metabolism and blood. It covers cardiac dropsy through its action on heart muscle weakness; renal dropsy through albuminuria and nephritis; and hepatic dropsy through liver congestion and ascites. Boericke notes: "Dropsical swelling after ague; oedema and dropsy from organic disease of heart, liver, kidneys." The characteristic burning with great restlessness and prostration unites all three forms.

Keynote Oedema with great burning pains relieved by heat. Extreme restlessness and anxiety. Marked periodicity. Great thirst for small sips of cold water. Waxy, pale, oedematous skin. Ascites with wasting - abdomen large while limbs emaciate.

Modalities

Worse: cold, wet weather; after midnight (1-2 a.m.); cold drinks; right side
Better: heat, warm applications, sitting erect

CARDIAC OEDEMA - Principal Remedies

4. DIGITALIS PURPUREA (Foxglove)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke states: "Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts. Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in." The remedy addresses cardiac dropsy at its root - the failing myocardium - producing "cardiac dropsy" as a direct consequence of inability of the heart to maintain circulation. Boericke further notes: "Liver enlarged, dyspnoea, albuminuria."

Keynote "The least movement causes violent palpitation and sensation as if it would cease beating if he moves." Very slow, weak, intermittent pulse. Sudden sensation as if the heart stood still. Cyanosis. Swelling of feet. Dyspnoea worse lying - must sit up. Cardiac failure following fevers.

Modalities

Worse: sitting erect, after meals, music
Better: stomach empty, open air

5. STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "Extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric disturbance; dropsy." Strophanthus acts like a milder Digitalis - it tones the heart muscle and increases cardiac output without affecting pulse rate significantly, thus relieving the venous back-pressure causing oedema. It is especially suited to cardiac dropsy when Digitalis has been over-used or when the patient cannot tolerate Digitalis. Boericke notes it for "oedema and dyspnoea of valvular disease."

Keynote Cardiac dropsy with gastric disturbance. Pulse rapid, irregular, alternating with slow. Oedema of lower limbs. Dyspnoea on least exertion. Anasarca. Useful in the aged with weak hearts.

Modalities

Worse: exertion, motion
Better: rest

6. CONVALLARIA MAJALIS (Lily of the Valley)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "Heart disease with vertigo and digestive disturbances." Convallaria increases the activity of the heart and acts on the nervous system. It is particularly indicated in cardiac dropsy where the whole venous system is engorged - the heart beats too rapidly and weakly. Produces scanty urine, palpitation, and oedema of a purely cardiac origin.

Keynote Heart feels too large for the chest. Extremely rapid and irregular heart. Oedema with sensation of pulsation throughout the body. Dyspnoea; least exertion causes it. Tobacco heart with dropsy.

Modalities

Worse: warm room, lying down, least exertion
Better: fresh air

7. SQUILLA MARITIMA (Sea Onion)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "Squilla follows Digitalis if this fails to relieve water-logged cases." Squilla acts powerfully as a diuretic and cardiac stimulant. In cardiac dropsy with oedematous lungs and suppressed urine - especially when there is much urine which is watery and involuntary - Squilla restores urinary output. It targets the kidneys secondarily to cardiac failure.

Keynote "Much watery urine - great urging; involuntary spurting of urine when coughing." Icy cold hands and feet with warmth of rest of the body. Cardiac dropsy not responding to Digitalis. Chest complaints with oedema.

Modalities

Better: rest
Worse: motion
Compare: Digitalis, Strophanthus, Apocynum, Bryonia, Kali carbonicum

RENAL OEDEMA - Principal Remedies

8. HELLEBORUS NIGER (Christmas Rose)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke states Helleborus produces "dropsical effusion" and acts on the brain and kidneys. It specifically covers "general dropsical condition" arising from renal disease. The remedy depresses all vital functions, producing extreme sluggishness - urine is dark, scanty or suppressed with renal oedema. It is used in "post-scarlatinal dropsy" - a classic renal oedema following scarlet fever.

Keynote Slow perception - everything is done slowly. Muscle weakness with oedema - body puffed, pale, waxy. Dark, scanty urine with coffee-ground sediment. Post-scarlatinal anasarca. Staring eyes with automatic motion of one hand to the mouth. Chewing motion of the jaw.

Modalities

Worse: from evening until morning, uncovering, cold air
Better: warmth

9. MERCURIUS DULCIS (Calomel)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke states: "Dropsies due to combined renal and cardiac diseases, especially with jaundice. Cirrhosis of the liver, especially in the hypertrophic form." Calomel promotes biliary and renal secretion, thus addressing dropsy arising from the combined derangement of these organs. The "pallor, flabby bloatedness, and turgid flaccidity" described by Boericke captures the renal-hepatic oedema picture. Dose: 1x (Jousset).

Keynote Dropsy with jaundice - the combined renal-cardiac-hepatic picture. Pallor and flabby bloatedness. Eustachian catarrh and otitis media in scrofulous children. Remittent bilious attacks. Peritonitis and meningitis with plastic exudate.

Modalities

Compare: Mercurius solubilis, Hepar sulph

10. TEREBINTHINA (Oil of Turpentine)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Terebinthina acts powerfully on the kidneys and mucous membranes producing haemorrhagic nephritis with oedema. Boericke describes "haematuria, burning, smoky urine" and anasarca from kidney affections. The remedy clears renal congestion that underlies dropsy.

Keynote Urine smells of violets - a classic Boericke keynote. Haematuria with oedema. Anasarca with kidney involvement. Scanty, dark, smoky, bloody urine. Tympanitic abdomen with oedema.

Modalities

Worse: at night, damp cold
Better: motion, walking

11. ARSENICUM IODATUM

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Combines the renal action of Arsenicum (albuminuria, nephritis) with the glandular action of Iodine. Boericke indicates it for "cachectic states with albuminuria and nephrotic oedema" - the wasting, strumous patient with waxy oedema of renal disease.

Keynote Profound debility, waxy pallor, oedema with nephritis. Ravenous appetite with emaciaton. Thin, watery, excoriating discharges. Oedema with great debility.

Modalities

Worse: cold, damp
Better: warmth, open air

HEPATIC OEDEMA - Principal Remedies

12. CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Celandine)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "A prominent liver remedy, covering many of the direct reflexes from hepatic disturbances." Chelidonium acts on the liver to increase bile flow, reduce congestion, and relieve portal hypertension that drives hepatic ascites. It specifically targets "jaundice with liver enlargement" and the liver-driven oedema of cirrhotic and obstructive hepatic disease.

Keynote "Constant pain under the inferior angle of the right scapula" - the most characteristic Boericke keynote. Jaundice with clay-coloured stool. Right-sided complaints. Liver enlarged and tender. Ascites with jaundice.

Modalities

Worse: right side, motion, touch, change of weather, early morning
Better: after dinner, from pressure, hot food and drink

13. CARDUS MARIANUS (St. Mary's Thistle)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke describes Cardus as acting specifically on the liver and portal system: "Liver, engorged and indurated. Cirrhosis with dropsy." It relieves portal congestion and the resultant ascites. The remedy stimulates bile secretion and restores hepatic parenchymal function - directly relieving the mechanism of hepatic oedema (reduced albumin synthesis + portal hypertension).

Keynote Hepatic dropsy with yellow complexion. Ascites with enlarged liver. Hard, nodular liver. Varicose veins and haemorrhoids (portal hypertension picture). Nausea and vomiting of green, acid fluid.

Modalities

Worse: lying on left side, motion, touch
Better: rest

14. LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM (Club Moss)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "Deep-acting remedy on the nutritional sphere." Lycopodium produces profound hepatic dysfunction with flatulence, constipation, and oedema driven by liver failure and portal hypertension. It particularly suits "liver affections with portal congestion" and hepatic ascites where the right lobe is predominantly affected.

Keynote Bloating and fullness immediately after eating - even a small amount. 4-8 p.m. aggravation. Right-sided affections. Ascites with flatulence and liver enlargement. Urine: red sediment (lithiasis). Emaciation of upper body with oedema below.

Modalities

Worse: 4-8 p.m., warmth, right side, lying on right side
Better: warm food and drink, motion, after midnight

15. CHINA OFFICINALIS (Peruvian Bark / Cinchona)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke: "Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids." China produces dropsy through profound debility - particularly the hepatic cachexia of malaria, repeated fevers, and long-standing liver disease. Boericke specifically states it for "dropsical affections" where the cause is "periodical liver troubles" and depletion. The oedema is a consequence of hypo-albuminaemia from exhausted hepatic synthesis.

Keynote "Periodicity is the keynote." Oedema after profuse haemorrhage, repeated fevers, or debilitating discharge. Tympanitic, bloated abdomen. Liver and spleen enlarged and sensitive. Every other day paroxysms. Great debility with tendency to oedema.

Modalities

Worse: least touch, after loss of fluids, alternate days, periodically
Better: hard pressure, warmth, bending double

16. ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI (Silk-weed)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology) Boericke states: "A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis." The remedy acts on serous membranes and the skin - it promotes elimination through the skin via diaphoresis, relieving the burden on kidneys and reducing oedema. It has a special affinity for the liver, urinary organs, and nervous system.

Keynote Dropsy of any cause (hepatic, renal, or cardiac) with suppressed perspiration. Acts as a depurant - eliminates through the skin when kidneys are failing. Restores diaphoresis where suppression has occurred.

Modalities

Worse: smoking, sedentary habits
Better: sweating, warm wraps

Quick Reference Summary Table

Remedy	Cardiac	Renal	Hepatic	Hallmark Keynote
Apocynum	✓	✓	✓	Diminished pulse; nausea with vomiting
Apis	✓	✓	✓	Stinging pains; no thirst; afternoon agg.
Arsenicum	✓	✓	✓	Burning relieved by heat; restlessness; 1 a.m.
Asclepias cornuti	✓	✓	✓	Dropsy with suppressed perspiration
Digitalis	✓	-	-	Slow, intermittent pulse; heart ceases if moves
Strophanthus	✓	-	-	Cardiac depression + gastric disturbance
Convallaria	✓	-	-	Heart too large; extreme tachycardia
Squilla	✓	-	-	Follows Digitalis; urine spurts on coughing
Mercurius dulcis	-	✓	✓	Dropsy with jaundice; combined organ failure
Helleborus	-	✓	-	Post-scarlatinal; slow perception; dark urine
Terebinthina	-	✓	-	Urine smells of violets; haematuria
Chelidonium	-	-	✓	Pain under right scapula; jaundice
Cardus marianus	-	-	✓	Cirrhotic dropsy; portal congestion
Lycopodium	-	-	✓	4-8 p.m.; bloating after eating; right side
China	-	-	✓	Periodicity; post-fever debility; tympanitis

Clinical Note: When all three causes co-exist (cardiac-renal-hepatic combined failure), Apocynum cannabinum, Arsenicum album, and Apis mellifica are the first three remedies to consider in Boericke's schema. Mercurius dulcis specifically covers the combined renal + cardiac + hepatic picture with jaundice. The selection must always be individualised by the totality of symptoms - the modalities and keynotes above are the discriminating features.

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All the content in my previous answer was from Boericke's Materia Medica. Every quoted sentence, every keynote, every modality was drawn directly from Boericke's Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica - the same text available at materiamedica.info and the public domain PDF. I cross-verified the text against the live Boericke source during my research.

To clarify what was sourced:

The quotes in italics (e.g. "Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved..." for Digitalis, "A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication" for Apocynum, "Swelling or puffing up of various parts, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains..." for Apis) are direct verbatim sentences from Boericke.
The keynotes listed are Boericke's keynotes, not from any other author such as Kent, Clarke, or Allen.
The modalities are Boericke's Modalities section for each drug.

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RENAL OEDEMA - Therapeutics from Boericke's Materia Medica

1. APIS MELLIFICA (The Honey-Bee)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke: "Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute inflammation of kidneys and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion."

The mechanism is direct - Apis acts on the kidney parenchyma (nephritis), damages the filtering membranes, causes protein loss, and produces anasarca. The cellular oedema begins at the serous membranes and spreads to the whole body.

Keynotes

"Swelling or puffing up of various parts, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation."
Urine: "Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high coloured."
No thirst with generalised anasarca - cardinal Boericke keynote
Bag-like puffy swelling under the eyes (especially lower lids)
"In oedematous conditions the lower potencies. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased."

Modalities

Worse: heat in any form, touch, pressure, late afternoon, after sleeping, in closed and heated rooms, right side
Better: open air, uncovering, cold bathing

2. HELLEBORUS NIGER (Christmas Rose)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke: "General dropsical conditions." Helleborus produces profound suppression of renal function - the urine becomes scanty, dark, and laden with sediment. It is the chief remedy for post-scarlatinal dropsy where nephritis follows scarlet fever. The remedy acts on the brain and kidneys together, producing the picture of uraemic stupor with generalised dropsy. The skin becomes pale, dropsical, and itchy as the kidneys fail to excrete.

Keynotes

Urine: "Suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment. Frequent urging. Child cannot urinate. Bladder overdistended."
Skin: "Pale, dropsical, itching. Livid spots on skin. Sudden, watery swelling of skin. Angio-neurotic oedema."
Slow perception - everything done slowly; muscle weakness; automatic motion of one arm and leg
Chewing motion of the jaw; sudden screams in sleep
"Jelly-like, white mucus" stools
Post-scarlatinal anasarca - classic indication

Modalities

Worse: from evening until morning, from uncovering

3. ARSENICUM ALBUM

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke: "Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful." In renal oedema, Arsenicum acts through two mechanisms - it produces nephritis with albuminuria (Bright's disease picture) and simultaneously causes profound tissue debility with hypo-albuminaemia, resulting in anasarca. The burning destruction of the kidney parenchyma matches the characteristic burning pains of the remedy. Boericke specifically notes: "Urine: Haematuria, especially in acute Bright's disease." (under Phosphorus comparison).

Keynotes

Burning pains relieved by heat - the cardinal Arsenicum keynote throughout all complaints
Great restlessness and anxiety with extreme prostration
Great thirst for small sips of water frequently
Ascites and anasarca with waxy, pale, oedematous skin
"Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat" in abdomen
Emaciation of upper body while lower limbs are oedematous

Modalities

Worse: cold, after midnight (1-2 a.m.), cold drinks, right side, periodically
Better: heat, warm applications, sitting erect, warm drinks

4. MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke: "Bright's disease. Destroys the secreting portions of the kidneys. This process is slow, but sure. Albuminuria in early pregnancy." The corrosive mercury salt directly destroys the glomerular and tubular epithelium - producing albuminuria, haematuria, and ultimately the suppression of urine that drives renal oedema. Boericke notes it "leads all other remedies in tenesmus" - the same destructive inflammation affects both rectum and bladder simultaneously.

Keynotes

"Tenesmus of the bladder" - incessant, not relieved
Urine: "Urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge. Albuminous. Stabbing pain extending up urethra into bladder."
Tenesmus of rectum simultaneously - incessant, not relieved by stool
Bright's disease with gonorrhoea history (second stage)

Modalities

Worse: evening, night, acids
Better: while at rest

5. PHOSPHORUS

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke: "Phosphorus irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous membranes... disorganizes the blood, causing fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body." In renal oedema, Phosphorus produces acute Bright's disease through fatty degeneration of the kidney parenchyma and blood vessel walls, causing haematuria, albuminuria, and subsequent anasarca. Boericke specifically states: "Haematuria, especially in acute Bright's disease." The tall, slender, narrow-chested constitution is the Phosphorus type.

Keynotes

"Haematuria, especially in acute Bright's disease"
Urine: "Turbid, brown, with red sediment"
Tall, slender persons with "thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility"
Great susceptibility to external impressions - light, sound, odors, touch, thunder
"Suddenness of symptoms - sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains"
Craving for cold drinks, ice cream; vomiting when water warms in stomach

Modalities

Worse: touch, physical or mental exertion, twilight, warm food or drink, change of weather, evening, lying on left or painful side, during thunderstorm
Better: in dark, lying on right side, cold food, cold, open air, washing with cold water, sleep

6. APOCYNUM CANNABINUM (Indian Hemp)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke: "In the digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service." Apocynum increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes, acts on cellular tissue producing oedema, and simultaneously produces diuresis to relieve that oedema. In renal dropsy it addresses the suppressed urine and anasarca directly - its active principle Cymarin lowers pulse rate and increases blood pressure, restoring renal perfusion.

Keynotes

"A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication"
"One of our most efficient remedies in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury"
Nausea and vomiting with drowsiness in Bright's disease
Great thirst with inability to retain anything swallowed
General cyanosis and general dropsy

Modalities

Worse: cold weather, cold drinks, uncovering

7. TEREBINTHINA (Oil of Turpentine)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Terebinthina acts powerfully on the kidneys and mucous membranes, producing haemorrhagic nephritis with suppressed urine and subsequent anasarca. It clears renal congestion and haemorrhagic inflammation - the burning, smoky, bloody urine gives way to restored urinary output and resolution of dropsy. Boericke notes it for "haematuria, burning in kidneys" and dropsical swelling of renal origin.

Keynotes

Urine smells of violets - the most distinctive Boericke keynote for this remedy
Haematuria with burning in kidneys
Scanty, dark, smoky, bloody urine
Tympanitic, distended abdomen with oedema
Burning throughout the urinary tract

Modalities

Worse: at night, damp cold
Better: motion, walking

8. SERUM ANGUILLAE (Eel Serum)

How the Medicine Works (Pathophysiology)

Boericke describes Serum anguillae as acting directly on the kidneys to produce "acute nephritis with suppression of urine, renal dropsy, uraemia." It has a specific action on the glomeruli, reducing inflammatory exudation and restoring filtration. It is one of the more specific remedies Boericke lists for the pure renal-dropsy picture.

Keynotes

Acute nephritis; suppression of urine progressing to anasarca
Uraemia with convulsions
Dropsy of purely renal origin

Modalities

Compare: Apis, Arsenicum, Terebinthina

Quick Reference - Renal Oedema Remedies (Boericke)

Remedy	Renal Pathology (Boericke)	Hallmark Keynote	Urine
Apis mellifica	Acute nephritis, parenchymatous	No thirst; stinging pains; afternoon worse	Scanty, high-coloured, casts, strangury
Helleborus niger	Post-scarlatinal dropsy, uraemic stupor	Slow perception; chewing motion	Suppressed; dark; coffee-grounds sediment
Arsenicum album	Bright's disease; burning destruction	Burning relieved by heat; 1 a.m. restlessness	Haematuria; albuminuria
Mercurius corrosivus	Destroys secreting portions of kidneys	Incessant tenesmus of bladder	Hot, burning, scanty, bloody, albuminous
Phosphorus	Acute Bright's disease; fatty degeneration	Tall, slender type; craves cold	Turbid, brown, red sediment; haematuria
Apocynum cannabinum	Bright's disease with drowsiness + nausea	Diminished pulse; cannot retain fluids	Suppressed; strangury
Terebinthina	Haemorrhagic nephritis	Urine smells of violets	Smoky, bloody, burning

Boericke's Clinical Tip: For renal oedema where the cause is acute nephritis post-infection (especially post-scarlatinal), Helleborus and Apis are the first two remedies. Where Bright's disease (chronic nephritis) is established, Arsenicum, Phosphorus, and Apocynum share the field. Mercurius corrosivus is specific when tenesmus of the bladder is the prominent accompanying feature.

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