Habitat Mexico and the West Indies

ClarkePreparation Tincture of youngest and tenderest stems and flowers collected in summer.

Sources 17 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Congestion to the brain, bloodshot eyes, coma, suffocation, flushes in face ; fever, from exposure to sun's rays. ► Heavy pain on the vertex, better by pressure, but worse from talking or strong light. ► Pulsation in temple, as if the skull would burst ; intolerable at night. ► Headache worse right side, caused by excitement, as at opera ; wine ; belated dinner.

Eyes ► Dimness of the sight ; weakness of sight returning periodically.

Stomach ► Constrictive feeling at the scrobiculus cordis, extending to the hypochondria, impeding breathing. ► Burning ; pulsating in the stomach.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too soon ; black, pitch-like. ► Menstruation with constrictive spasm of uterus ; pains agonizing, worse evening ; flow scanty, ceases when lying down. ► Painful constriction around the pelvis, extending gradually towards the stomach, causing a sensation as of a great blow in the region of kidneys, making her cry out. ► Pulsating pain in ovarian regions ; pains extend down thighs, return periodically at the same time each day.

Lungs ► Haemoptysis, with marked arterial excitement (but less fever and restlessness than Acon.) ; convulsive cough. ► Bronchitis, with palpitation of the heart ; bronchial catarrh, from overaction of the heart. ► Continual rattling of mucus ; oppressed breathing ; cannot lie in a horizontal position ; attacks of anxiety and suffocation. ► Prickling pains in chest, bloody sputa ; hard, quick, vibrating pulse ; sharp, wandering pains in chest and scapular region. ► Feeling of constriction in the chest, impeding speech. ► Congestion to the chest, which prevents lying down ; palpitation ; constriction of the chest.

Lower Limbs ► Restlessness of legs, cannot keep them still. ► Oedema of legs, skin shining ; dents remain a long time.

Sleep ► Sleepless without cause ; or from pulsation in pit of stomach or in ears. ► Delirium at night ; on awaking it ceases, but returns in sleep.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Coldness in back and cold hands. ► Chill not relieved by covering ; returns the same hour each day ; regular paroxysms at 11 A.M. and 11 P.M. ► Fever, intermittent, with congestion to head, flushes in face, suppressed urine, pains in bladder, lancinating in heart, violent vomiting ; sweat does not appear ; after exposure to sun. ► Heat after chill, with dyspnoea, headache and thirst ; with insensibility till midnight, then shortness of breath and inability to remain lying ; followed by profuse sweat, with great thirst.

Skin ► Dry, scaly herpes without itching ; appeared first on left inner malleolus, next on outer side of right elbow ; then on right inner malleolus, last on outer side of left elbow.

Complementary —

Follows well Aconitum Napellus, Arnica Montana, Arsenicum Album +8

Compare Digitalis Purpurea, Kalmia Latifolia, Aconitum Napellus +53