Spigelia Anthelmintica

Where do we obtain the original pathogenesis of Spigelia ?

From Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura .

What is Spigelia ?

A native of the West Indies ; its common name is Pink root , and the tincture is made from the freshly dried herb, having been gathered when bearing flowers and seeds.

What is the general action of Spigelia ?

Acts principally upon the muscular tissue of eye and heart, and hence its value in rheumatic conditions centering in these organs.

It is especially adapted to anaemic, debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis, and scrofulous children affected with worms.

What are the characteristics of Spigelia in headache ?

A neuralgic pain which starts in the occiput, comes up over the head and settles over the left eye, worse from noise, jar or change of weather, commencing in the morning with the sun, reaching its acme at noon ; and declining with the sun ; there is also a sensation as if the head were open along the vertex.

In what affections about the eye is it useful ?

Ciliary neuralgia, pains radiate, cold feeling in the eye.

What other drug has cold feeling in the eye ?

Thuja .

What are the indications for Spigelia in facial neuralgia ?

The pains are severe, sticking and burning, and the parts swell and become very sore.

It occurs more on the left side.

How is it to be distinguished from Colchicum ?

In Spigelia there is great nervous erethism and excitement and intolerance of pain, while in Colchicum there is a remarkable tolerance of pain with a general semi-paralytic condition, instead of nervous excitement.

Differentiate briefly Spigelia, Arsenic, Platina, Chamomilla, Capsicum, and Verbascum in facial neuralgia.

Arsenic : Fine, red-hot, needle-like pains darting from place to place.

Platina : Steady compression, with numbness, wants to rub the part.

Chamomilla : Great impatience and aggravation by heat.

Capsicum : Fine lines of pain ; worse from external pressure.

Verbascum : Pains are crushing, as if parts were between tongs, while under Spigelia the pains are shooting and piercing and the chief seat is about the eye.

What are the heart symptoms of Spigelia ?

Sharp, stitching pains in the left chest, shooting into arm and neck, worse by motion, pulse not synchronous with heart beat. On placing hand over cardiac region there is a purring feeling as when stroking a cat's back. The great remedy for acute carditis and pericarditis. Irregular and tumultuous action of the heart ; neuralgias about the heart.

What indications has the drug in worm affections ?

Strabismus, jerkings with paleness of the face, blue rings around the eyes, faint, nauseated feeling with colic about the navel.

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