ClarkePreparation Trituration and tincture of the bark.
Sources 8 entries across 8 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Lippe, T. F. Allen …
Dose Boericke
6X
Sixth potency
Reason for useClarke
The effects of Angustura are closely allied to those of Nux, Ruta, and Mercurius. The mental condition is one of over-sensitiveness and excitability; the slightest offence, a mere trifle, irritates as with Nux. On the other hand there is pusillanimity, which corresponds more to Ruta. Among the prominent features are: Drawing, tension, stiffness of muscles and joints; bruised, sore feeling as after a blow. Drawing of head to right side, later to left. Shortsighted. Heat in forehead at night. Exostosis of lower jaw. Trismus neonatorum (where much Mercury had been given). Drawing in upper r. molar tooth > application of cold finger. Thirst, constant desire to drink. Irresistible desire to drink coffee. Hiccough after cough. Belching with cough (Ambra). Every evacuation followed by shivering, crawling sensation over face. Tenesmus with soft stool. Haemorrhoids protrude with hard, knotty stool. Seminal emissions. Itching of tip of glans penis (when walking in open air). Violent itching on scrotum. Dry, hacking cough from scratching in throat or irritation behind sternum. Irritation behind sternum through to back. Palpitation < sitting bent and > sitting up. Cutting pain from point of right scapula to breast, near nipple (Chel.). Pain in cervical vertebrae < moving arms. Tearing as if in the bones, < at rest; > cold applications; > extension; < exertion and pressure. Spinal cord and extensor muscles principally affected; cracking in all joints. Caries of long bones. I have verified the power of Angust. over long bones in a case of acute periostitis of the tibia in a scrofulous boy. The 5x trit. speedily arrested inflammation, after the failure of Merc. viv. Symptoms < from exertion; from stooping; sitting bent over (palpitation) moving or lifting arms; drinking warm milk; 3 p.m. (loose cough); > application of cold fingers (toothache); cold application; extension; lying on left side.
By regionClarke
Mind Timidity of character, and tendency to take alarm.—Pusillanimity, and want of self-confidence.—Ill-humour and discontent, with great readiness to take offence.—Extreme excitement and gaiety.—Absence of mind and reveries.—Vivacity of mind, chiefly in the afternoon.
Head Head bewildered, with stupidity, as if after intoxication.—Dizziness in the open air, or on crossing a stream of water.—In the evening, pressive headache, with heat in the face.—One-sided headache, or both sides ache as if about to faint.—Boring pains.—Pain, like that of a bruise, in the brain.—Cramp-like pains in the head.—Piercing in the temples.—The headaches appear mostly at sunset, and continue until the patient goes to sleep.—Sensation of torpor in the temporal muscles, with tension on opening the mouth.
Eyes Tension and pressure in the eyes, as from too strong a light.—Sensation of dryness and pain, as of excoriation, in the eyelids.—Redness, heat, and burning in the eyes, with nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids.—Spasmodic stretching open of the lids.—Eyes fixed, prominent, immovable.—Sight confused, as if by a mist, or as if the cornea were obscured (in the morning).—Objects too far distant, must bring them closer.
Stomach Bilious eructations.—Nausea while dining, or walking in the open air, with uneasy sensation of faintness.—Pain, as of incisive excoriation in the stomach, particularly at the beginning of a meal.—Cramp-like pain in the pit of the stomach.—Acidity, coated tongue, pappy, unpleasant taste and loss of appetite.
Female Sexual Organs Troubles with the r. ovary.—Sensation as if the uterus were beating against the r. ovary and r. hip.
Respiratory Organs Hoarseness from mucus in the aerial passages.—Intermitting spasmodic breathing.—Voice weak and faint.—Dry cough, with rattling and scraping of mucus in the chest.—Violent, deep cough, with expectoration of yellowish mucus.—A sort of whooping-cough with hiccough and belching of wind.—Cough occurring every p.m., at 3 o'clock.
Neck And Back Painful heaviness in the nape of the neck, and between the shoulder-blades, in bed, in the morning.—Opisthotonos.—Violent itching along the back.—Pain in the loins, as if bruised, mostly at night, and particularly towards four o'clock in the morning.
Lower Limbs Pain, as of dislocation, or of cramp in the coxo-femoral joints; also in the leas and in the feet.—Pain, as from fatigue, in the thighs and in the legs, when walking, as if they were going to break.—Pressive drawing in all parts of the lower extremities.—Pain in the joint of the foot on putting it down, producing lameness.—Paralysis of the legs, imminent with trembling of the feet.—Paralysis of the joints of the feet.—Drawing in the limbs, with soreness.—Pain in the inner side of the ankle, when walking, causing limping.
Sleep In the evening, great drowsiness, followed by sleeplessness before midnight.—Sleep disturbed by frequent dreams.
Fever Pulse accelerated, spasmodic, irregular at times, intermitting.—Chill, in the morning and forenoon, preceded by thirst.—Violent chill every afternoon at 3 o'clock.—Heat in the evening after entering a room, after supper, mostly in the face; at 3 a.m., disturbing sleep, followed by chilliness.—Shuddering in the part affected.—Heat, with confusion and pain in the head, in the evening and at night.—Thirst and vomiting of bile begin with hot stage.
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Antidoted by Camphora 2, Coffea Cruda 2, Bryonia Alba +2
* 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. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/angustura-vera
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