Origin Plant · Compositae (Asteraceae) · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of whole fresh plant. Tincture of root.
Sources 20 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
3X–30X, Ø
Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present
By regionHering
Mind ► Unconscious ; when spoken to answer correctly, but unconsciousness and delirium at once return. ► Stupefaction, loss of sight and hearing. θ Concussion of brain. ► Stupor, with involuntary discharge of feces. θ Typhus. ► Forgetful ; what he reads quickly escapes his memory, even the word he is about speaking. θ Typhus. ► Absent-minded, thoughts wonder from their object and dwell on images and fancies. ► Confusion of head, changing to pressive right-sided headache. ► Delirium, low murmuring. ► Delirium tremens. ► Sheds tears and makes exclamations. θ After rage. ► Picks the bedclothes. ► She does not speak a word ; declines answering questions, dislikes sympathy. ► Indisposed to think ; after a walk in the open air. ► Fears being touched or struck by persons coming toward him. θ Gout. ► Fears of public places ; agoraphobia. ► Hypochondriacal anxiety. ► Hopelessness ; indifference. θ After concussion. ► Oversensitive mood, peevish, quarrelsome. ► Frightened ; unexpected trifles cause him to start. ► Ailments from fright or anger. ► Violent attacks of anguish. θ Angina pectoris.
Inner Head ► Pressive pain in forehead when walking, ascending stairs, reflecting or reading. ► Pressive headache over the eyes and towards the temples, with sensation as if the tissues of the forehead were spasmodically contracted. ► Pressive headache as if the head were being distended. ► Pains over one eye, with compression in forehead and greenish vomiting. ► Stitching, tearing pain in the left temple. ► Headache as from a nail thrust into the temple, with general sweat about 12 P.M., followed by faintness. ► Pain as if a knife was drawn through the head transversely from the left side, followed by internal coldness of the head. ► Feels like a heavy weight, pressing-shooting in temples. ► Burning in the brain, with natural heat of the body, night and morning ; worse from motion, better at rest. ► Heaviness in the middle of the brain. ► Apoplexy, loss of consciousness, with involuntary evacuations from bowels and bladder, paralysis (left-sided) ; pulse full, strong ; starter ; sighing, muttering. ► Exudations in brain and spine. ► Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries. ► Bad effects from falls or blows on the head.
Eyes ► Flickering before eyes, worse when reading or writing. ► Dilated pupils ; sensitiveness to light. ► Diplopia after injuring the eye. ► Loss of sight after a violent blow. ► Traumatic ulceration, with much hemorrhage into the anterior chamber. ► Retinal hemorrhage expedites absorption of clots. ► Margin of upper lids painful when lids are moved, as if they were dry and slightly sore. ► Oedema of dry, hot, inflamed lids, with much subconjunctival suggillation. ► Congestion to the eyes ; balls bloodshot. ► Inflammation of eyes ; with suggillations after mechanical injuries. ► Severe ciliary neuralgia ; head hot, body cool.
Stomach ► Pinching, spasmodic griping in stomach, also with pulmonary and cardiac constriction, and with dysenteric stools. ► Pressive, cutting pains in epigastrium ; nausea and retching. ► Stomach feels full with nausea and satiety. ► Stomach distended with wind ; pressure on praecordia, oppression of chest. ► Haematemesis from injuries ; sore all over. ► Heaviness in the stomach.
Female Sexual Organs ► Metrorrhagia after coition. ► Menses generally too soon ; nausea in epigastrium. ► Ulcers of uterus with a tendency to bleed. ► Labia painfully swollen. ► Prolapsus, caused by concussion.
Lungs ► Hemorrhage after mechanical injuries ; slight spitting of black, thick, viscid blood, or bright red, forty blood, mixed with mucus and coagula. ► Burning or rawness in the chest. ► Chest sore when coughing, sputum blood-streaked ; cannot raise the loosened mucus. ► Pressive pain in (right) chest, at a small spot, not increased by motion, touch or inspiration. ► Stitches in chest (left side), worse from a dry cough ; worse from motion ; from external pressure. ► Pleurisy after mechanical injuries ; must continually change position, bed feels so hard. ► Pneumothorax from external injuries.
Neck And Back ► Weakness of cervical muscles ; they do not support the head steadily. ► Great sensibility of cervical vertebrae to pressure. ► Violent spinal pain, as from sudden rising after long stooping. ► Right scapula and small of the back painful, as if beaten. ► Bruised pain at inner portion of right scapula. ► Sacrum pains, as if beaten.
Limbs In General ► Heaviness. ► Paralytic pain in all joints during motion, as if bruised. ► Limbs as if bruised at rest or in motion ; painful concussion from jolting of carriage or stepping firmly. ► Limbs ache as if beaten. ► Tearing, with soreness, numbness, swelling or tingling.
Sleep ► Sleepiness ; too sleepy early in the evening. ► Languor, drowsiness. ► While answering, falls into a deep sleep before finishing. ► Unrefreshing sleep, loud, blowing breathing. ► Is often kept awake until 2 to 3 A.M. from heat, restlessness and constant desire to change position ; or from pricking, stinging, biting, now here, now there, on the body. ► On falling asleep : starts as in fright ; is aroused by heat. ► Lies preferably with head low, or horizontally. ► Worse after a long sleep, or on awaking. ► Dreams : vivid, frightful, of graves, black dogs, struck by lightning, etc. ; unrefreshing ; anxious.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill felt worse in pit of stomach. ► Chill most in evening, with much thirst already before chill. ► Chill after every sleep. ► Chilly internally, with external heat. ► Chilly, with heat and redness of one cheek. ► Chilly morning or forenoon ; before chill yawning, thirst for large quantities of water ; drawing in periosteum. ► Head alone, or face alone hot, body cold. ► Dry general heat after walking ; early morning, violent thirst ; uncovering makes him chilly ; chilly even when moving in bed. ► Heat, with in difference, stupor, drinks less. ► Continuous heat, with such weakness, that when attempting to sit up he faints. ► Flushes of heat ; with thirst. ► Great internal heat ; hands and feet being cold. ► Sweat : sour or offensive ; sometimes cold ; nightly sour. ► Several transitory sweats all over at night, with anguish. ► Hectic fever, emaciation ; after a blow on stomach. ► During apyrexia in intermittent fever, headache, yellow face, bitter taste, aversion to meat. ► Fevers : intermittent : typhoid ; traumatic.
Skin ► Hot, red, oedematous. ► Hot, hard, shining swelling, from insect sting. ► Petechiae, ecchymoses. ► Many small, painful boils, one after another ; extremely sore. ► Red spots first on limb, then upon the trunk. ► Bed-sores ; especially sacral region and hips. ► Erysipelatous inflammation, left hand dark blue. ► Phlegmonous erysipelas. ► Varicose ulcers : torpid ; dirty, bluish bottom ; no pus, but watery, fetid secretion, half transparent crusts, like thick glue, fetid. ► Painful ulcers. ► Corns (part them and apply externally).
Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 5, Ipecacuanha 3, Aceticum Acidum +13
Complementary Aconitum Napellus, Baptisia Tinctoria, Cinchona Officinalis +27
Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Apis Mellifica, Ipecacuanha +10
Compare Hypericum Perforatum, Rhus Toxicodendron, Abrotanum +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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