Origin Mineral · Simple
ClarkePreparation Trituration.
Sources 16 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …
Dose Boericke
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Sixth to thirtieth and higher. Action slow in developing
By regionHering
Mind ► Mistakes in speaking, using words not intended. ► Must be changed into some one else before he can see or speak. ► Consciousness of his personal identity confused. ► Time passes too slowly. ► Seeing blood on a knife, she has horrid ideas of killing herself, though she abhors the idea. ► Crying, against his will. ► Low-spirited, trifling things appeared insurmountable. ► Apprehensive of losing his reason. ► Dread of death, without thought of suicide. ► Variable mood, at one time confident, at another timid. ► Peevish and whining, with heat of the ear-lobes. ► Sufferings follow anger. ► Mental symptoms worse in the morning on awaking.
Inner Head ► Throbbing frontal pains, worse going up stairs, or stepping. ► Burning, pressive pain, with heat in the forehead, while standing or sitting, better in the open air. ► Severe stitches in the brain, with nausea. ► Headache, with constipation. ► Headache relieved by lying quiet in bed.
Eyes ► White stars before the eyes, with vertigo. ► Dim-sightedness, like looking through a fog. ► Objects appear yellow. ► Burning and pressure in the eyes. ► Eyes inflamed, itching at inner canthus, agglutination at night, and lachrymation by day, yellow halo around candle ; hot or acrid tears. ► Spasmodic closure of the lids at night, and burning in the eyes in the morning and evening. ► Eyelids thickened, dry, burning, smarting. ► Nictitation from large papillae of conjunctiva. ► Inclination to share. ► Strabismus of either eye ; loss of power of internal recti. ► Sensation of coldness in the eyes, in the open air.
Stomach ► Constriction and twisting in the stomach, extending up the oesophagus to the throat. ► Stitches in pit of stomach, extending upwards to chest. ► Drawing or oppressive pain going upward to chest and throat.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses : too early, short, scanty and of pale blood ; too early, preceded by headache ; delay, finally appear, being pale and scanty. ► Leucorrhoea : acrid, corrosive ; acrid, profuse, relieved by cold washing ; transparent, profuse during the day. ► Painful throbbing in left side of vagina. ► Stitches in left side of vulva, extending up to chest.
Lungs ► Violent, oppressive pain in chest, worse at night. ► Chest feels constricted, worse from sitting bent or stooping, better on straightening up or on walking. ► Congestion of blood to chest and head, with redness of face and one ear, caused by suppressed hemorrhoidal flux. ► Shooting stitches right to left in the afternoon, worse on going down stairs. ► Talking increases soreness of chest ; lifting aggravates or produces soreness in left chest. ► Riding in a carriage gives pain in chest.
Neck And Back ► Shooting in right side of neck, posterior portion. ► Pain in the back and small of back as if beaten. ► Pain in back as if a hot iron were thirst through lower vertebrae. ► Violent stitch in the middle of the back. ► Gnawing pain in the back.
Limbs In General ► Arms and legs feel heavy. ► Frequent stretching of limbs when sitting. ► Trembling of the limbs. ► Jerking and twitching of the limbs.
Sleep ► Sleepiness, with inclination to lie down. ► Restless sleep, turns frequently, feels too warm, lies uncovered in unrefreshing slumber, with many dreams and frequent awaking. ► Restless sleep, always awaking with palpitation of heart. ► Dreams : anxious of boat foundering ; of ghosts ; of thieves ; confused.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill, with great thirst. ► Internal chill and shivering, with desire for warmth of stove with stretching and bending of limbs, worse after warm drink. ► Chill during the day, heat at night. ► Heat at night, with anxiety and sweat. ► Heat in the evening, commencing in and spreading from the face, sometimes of only the right side. ► Sweat at night, toward morning most profuse in face, frequently only on right side of face. ► Entire inability to sweat.
Skin ► Intolerable itching of whole body, especially when getting warm and in bed : scratches until the skin bleeds, which is then painful ; itching and formication with flatulence, dry stools or diarrhoea. ► Eruptions humid, scabby, sore, gnawing. ► Ulcerated surface secretes yellow-brown, badly-smelling pus. ► Blood-boils : 8. …
Books*
Antidoted by Bryonia Alba 3, Chamomilla 3, Ipecacuanha 3 +8
Complementary Bryonia Alba, Baryta Carbonica, Chamomilla +3
Follows well Alumen, Argentum Nitricum, Baryta Carbonica +17
Compare Sulphur, Argentum Nitricum, Bryonia Alba +11
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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