Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Animal · Insecta · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture or trituration of living insects.
Sources 13 entries across 11 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Nash, Hering …
Dose Boericke
1X, 2X
Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema, 1x and 2x, in water, or as cerate
By regionHering
Mind ► Sudden loss of consciousness, face red. θ Dentition. ► Forgetfulness. ► Confusion of head and pulsation in forehead, in morning. ► Confusion ; distraction of mind ; inability to concentrate thought. ► Furious delirium. ► Irritable, dissatisfied with every one and everything. ► Whining, and complaining, with anxious restlessness, worse on motion, better lying quiet. ► Paroxysms of rage, with crying, barking and beating ; renewed by the sight of dazzling, bright objects ; when touching the larynx, or when trying to drink water. ► Despondent and low-spirited, says she must die. ► Insolent and contradictory mood in the afternoon. ► Anxious restlessness.
Inner Head ► Headache in the forehead. ► Burning in the sides of the head, ascending from the neck, with soreness and giddiness ; worse morning and afternoon ; when standing or sitting ; better while walking or lying down. ► Heaviness in the occiput, with drowsiness and incapacity to think ; heaviness of the head. ► Inflammation of brain. ► Pains deep in the brain, with constant expression of anguish on the face resembling a sullen scowl or frown, with eyes closed ; or without expression, if open. ► Painful tearing on the vertex, with sensation as if some one were pulling a lock of hair upwards. ► Stitching, tearing or drawing pains in bones of skull. ► Headache from washing or bathing.
Eyes ► Objects look yellow. ► Eyes look yellow. ► Dimness of sight. ► Inflammation of the eyes ; from a burn. ► Smarting in the eyes. ► Eyes protruding ; fiery, sparkling, staring look. ► Eyes sunken, surrounded by blue rings. ► Lachrymation in the open air ; must close the eyes ; on opening lids, the margins pain as if sore, like raw flesh.
Stomach ► Acute pain in region of stomach and bladder, with such exquisite sensibility that the slightest pressure produces convulsions. ► Violent burning pain in stomach ; also in pyloric region. ► Patient tosses about, as if in despair, with pains in stomach. ► Stomach feels as if it were screwed together. ► Sensation of fulness extending to chest and abdomen, after taking coffee.
Female Sexual Organs ► Ovarian region ; stitches, arresting the breathing ; violent pinching pains, with bearing down towards the genitals ; great burning pain. ► Inflammation of the ovaries, with cutting or burning. ► Swelling of neck of uterus. ► Uterine hemorrhage, with great irritation in neck of the bladder. ► Menses : too early, too profuse, blood black or scanty breasts painful. ► Amenorrhoea, with fulness and pain in the head. ► Violent itching in the vagina. ► Swelling and irritation of the vulva. ► Pruritus, with strong sexual desire.
Lungs ► Stitches : in chest, more on right side, or first left then right ; in the lower right chest, extending toward the middle of the sternum and axilla. ► Burning in the chest. ► Exudation within the pleura ; dyspnoea, palpitation ; scanty urine ; tendency to syncope. …
Neck And Back ► Burning, boring, stitching or lancinating pains in the back, either between or in the scapulae, or in the small of the back ; sometimes the skin over these parts burns as if a fly-blister were there. ► Stiffness in the neck, with tensive pain on stooping. ► Drawing, tearing or lancinating pain in the neck sometimes with burning of the skin over the parts. ► Tearing pain in the back, especially morning. ► Pains in the loins, kidneys and abdomen, with such pain on urinating that he could not pass a single drop without moaning or screaming. ► Pain in the loins, with incessant desire to urinate. ► Lancinations and tearing in the os coccygis, causing him to start.
Limbs In General ► Weakness and trembling of the limbs. ► Violent pains of various kinds in the upper and lower extremities, first of one leg then of the other. ► Tearing in limbs, relieved by rubbing.
Sleep ► Light sleep ; full of wakeful illusions. ► Sleeplessness ; anxious dreams.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill in evening not relieved by external warmth. ► Chill, succeeded by thirst without heat. ► Chill running up the back. ► Cold extremities. ► Burning heat at night, which she does not feel. ► Burning in the palms and soles. ► Heat with thirst. ► Sweat from every movement. ► Cold sweat especially on hands and feet. ► Sweat on the genitals. ► Sweat smells like urine. ► Intermittent fever, every paroxysms being characterized by the Cantharis dysuria.
Skin ► Erythema, from exposure to the rays of the sum. ► Burning, itching pains. ► Erysipelatous inflammation of the skin ; forming blisters. ► Eczema rubrum. ► Ulcerative pain when touched. ► Gangrenous ulcers with itching and tearing pains. ► Pemphigus. ► Itching, as from lice, changing place. ► Tearing pain in ulcers. ► Burns, before blisters form.
Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 3, Aconitum Napellus 2, Pulsatilla Pratensis 2 +9
Complementary Camphora
Follows well —
Compare Arsenicum Album, Apis Mellifica, Mercurius Corrosivus +21
* 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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