Habitat Greece, Italy, Britain

ClarkePreparation Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.

Sources 20 entries across 18 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Feeling in brain like the swashing of water. ► Cold sensation in the brain at the middle of the forehead. ► Headache as if a stone were pressing the forehead. ► Fulness and pressure at temples and forehead, with pain making him restless and uneasy. ► Pain in head and eyeballs, eyes felt as if starting from their sockets. ► Pressive frontal headache so severe, when walking, that the eyes were drawn shut ; better when sitting, ceases when lying down, worse rising again or going into open air. ► Pressure in head, now here now there, which occupies each time large areas. ► Frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from the violence of the pain in forehead ; at every step it seemed as if the brain rose and fell in forehead ; pain ameliorated by strong pressure on forehead. ► Strong pulsation of blood-vessels of forehead, and pain as if the bones were lifted up. ► Violent throbbing in brain from behind forward and towards both sides ; the throbbing ends on the surface in painful shootings. ► Dull shooting in left temple, from in out. ► Severe shooting in right frontal eminence, worse from bending forward, ameliorated by pressure. ► Stabbing as if with a knife, from temple to temple. ► Jerking headache, extremely violent on walking quickly, or ascending stairs rapidly ; at every step a jolt as if a weight were in the occiput. ► Boring, tearing, cutting, shooting pains in various parts of head, generally worse on right side and in forehead, less in occiput. ► Pains come on suddenly, last indefinitely, but cease suddenly. ► Headache from the heat of the sun.

Eyes ► Photophobia ; worse from artificial light. ► Far-sightedness. ► Objects appear : double, and seem to revolve and run backwards ; inverted. ► Bright sparks before the eyes. ► Flashes of light before the eyes. ► Halo around the light particolored, red predominating ; at times light seems broken into rays. ► Vision obscured as from a white vapor ; pupils dilated. ► Deep-seated dull pain in the back of the eyes. ► Eyes dry ; feel stiff ; feeling of sand in eyes. ► Heat and burning in eyes. ► Shooting in the eyes, from within outwards. ► Lachrymation. ► Spasmodic motion of eyes. ► Eyeballs red and prominent. ► Conjunctiva covered with red vessels, shooting pains ; eyes water. ► Yellowness of sclerotica. ► Swelling and suppurative inflammation of left caruncula lachrymalis. ► Ophthalmia ; suddenly appearing, worse right eye ; intense photophobia. ► Pain in orbits : often feels as if the eyes had been torn out, sometimes as if pressed into the head. ► Trembling and quivering of right upper eyelid. ► Heaviness of lids. ► Lids feel sore, congested and swollen.

Stomach ► Painless throbbing and beating at pit of stomach. ► Feeling of emptiness in stomach. ► Cutting pain in the stomach, worse from motion or pressure. ► Hard pressure in stomach after eating. ► Distention of epigastrium, with tensive pain in stomach. ► Gnawing, pressing, crampy, drawing and wrenching pain in stomach, compels patient to bend backwards, worse after drinking. ► Spasms in the stomach like cramp. ► Shooting pains in stomach. ► Burning in stomach. ► Painful pressure in pit of stomach only when walking ; compels him to walk slowly. ► Haematemesis ; ringing in ears ; red cheeks ; feeling of fulness and warmth in stomach.

Female Sexual Organs ► Pressure downwards, as if all the contents of abdomen would issue through the vulva ; worse morning. ► Violent pressing and urging towards the genitals, as if everything would fall out there ; worse sitting bent, and in walking ; better standing, and sitting erect. ► Right ovary much enlarged ; stitching, throbbing pains ; pains come suddenly and go suddenly. ► Clutching or clawing pains, or transient stitches in the uterine region, parts sensitive, cannot bear least jar. ► Profuse discharge of hot, bright red blood, sometimes dark, clotted, and of a bad smell ; flow of blood between the periods. ► Painful menstruation. ► Amenorrhoea. ► Leucorrhoea, of white mucus ; with colic. ► Great heat and dryness of vagina. ► Climaxis : congestion ; axillary glands hard ; sudden hot flushes.

Lungs ► Noise and rattling in the bronchial tubes. ► Pressive pain in chest, with shortness of breath, and at same time between shoulders, when walking or sitting. ► Pressure in right chest, causes anxiety. ► Constriction across chest, as if pressed inwards from both sides. ► Burning in right chest. ► Stitches in apex of right lung.

Neck And Back ► Pressive pain externally in neck, when bending head backwards, and when touching the part. ► Swelling of glands in nape of neck, with cloudiness of head. ► Pressive pain under left scapula, more towards outer side. ► Drawing pressure between right scapula and spinal column. ► Shooting and gnawing pain in the spinal column. ► Stabbing as if with a knife, from without inwards, in the vertebrae. ► Drawing, burning and throbbing pain in the spine. ► Soreness of last dorsal and first lumber vertebrae. ► Back aches, as if broken. ► Cramp-like sensation in left lumbar region. ► Curvature of the lumber vertebrae. ► Bearing down on to sacrum.

Limbs In General ► Loss of co-ordination of the muscles of both upper and lower limbs, very like the heaviness and helplessness of movement observed in first stage of progressive paralysis of the insane.

Sleep ► Frequent yawning. ► Towards evening drowsiness, with yawning ; in the morning feels as if he had not slept enough. ► Sleeps much, yet not refreshed. ► Sleeps prevented by anxiety. ► Sleepy, yet cannot sleep. ► Starts as if affright, during sleep and on awaking. ► During sleep ; singing and talking loud ; moaning. ► Vivid dreams : about murder ; street robbers ; of danger from fire.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill in the evening, mostly on arms, with heat of head. ► Internal chill, with external burning heat. ► Chill and heat alternating. ► Coldness of the limbs, with heat of the head. ► Shivering running down the back. ► Continuous dry, burning heat, with sweat only on the head. ► Internal heat with anxiety and restlessness. ► Heat of forehead, with cold cheeks ; of head, with redness of face and delirium. ► Heat predominating ; averse to uncovering. ► Sweat on the covered parts ; with or immediately after the heat, mostly in face ; staining the clothing and of empyreumatic smell ; during sleep, day or night ; ascending from feet to head. ► Entire want of sweat. ► General sweat suddenly occurring and disappears quickly.

Skin ► Painful sensitiveness of skin to contact. ► Eruptions resembling measles. ► Heat over whole body, with bluish redness of whole surface. ► Skin imparts a burning sensation to the examining hands. ► Intense erysipelatous fever, accompanied with inflamed swellings, passing even into gangrene. ► Pustules on nape of neck, arms and back. ► Red scaly eruption on lower part of body, as far as the abdomen. ► Skin scarlet and smooth. ► Urticaria during profuse menstruation. ► Jaundice after abuse of peruvian bark or mercury ; in complication with stones in gall-bladder.

Complementary Calcarea Carbonica, Hyoscyamus Niger, Opium +10

Follows well Arsenicum Album, Chamomilla, Cinchona Officinalis +14

Compare Arsenicum Album, Bryonia Alba, Hyoscyamus Niger +28