Origin Plant · Compositae (Asteraceae) · Simple
Habitat commonly called "seeds"
ClarkePreparation Tincture.
Sources 18 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
3X
Third attenuation. For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two-hundredth preferable. Santonin in first (with care) and third trituration
By regionHering
Mind ► Pitiful weeping when awake. ► As if frightened, jumps out of bed, sees imaginary objects, screams, trembles, talks hurriedly, anxious ; evening and before midnight. ► Child doses not want to be touched ; cannot bear you to come near it ; desires many things which it refuses when offered ; is not pleased or satisfied with anything ; uneasy and distressed all the time.
Inner Head ► Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, then also in occiput ; when walking in open air. ► Headache, pain in chest and back, caused by fixing eyes steadily upon some object, as when sewing ; worse from pressure. ► Dull headache, with sensitiveness of the eyes, in morning. ► Intermittent pressure, as from a heavy weight, as if the brain were pressed down on the middle of the vertex ; pressure increases and renews the pain. ► Drawing from the left frontal eminence to the root of nose, causing confusion of head. ► Headaches are anaemic, hence better stooping, though they are worse from mental exertion.
Eyes ► Can see more clearly for a while after rubbing the eyes. ► On rising from bed, black before the eyes, with dizziness in the head and faintness, totters to and fro ; better on lying down ; dull headache, with affection of the eyes. ► Optical illusions in bright colors. ► Pupils dilated.
Stomach ► Constant pressure in the stomach at night, causing restlessness. ► Gnawing sensation in the stomach, as from hunger.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too early and profuse.
Lungs ► Stitches in the left side ; burning stitches in chest. ► Rattling in throat and chest ; catarrh, when excessive nervous irritability co-exists.
Neck And Back ► Drawing-tearing pain down along the whole spine. ► Paralytic feeling in nape of neck. ► Tearing-jerking pains in the middle of the spine. ► Fatigued pain in the loins, as if he had stood a long time. ► Bruised pain in small of back, not aggravated by motion.
Lower Limbs ► Paralytic pain in left thigh, near the knee.
Sleep ► Sudden distressing cries in sleep ; tossing about in sleep. ► Cannot sleep ; when falling asleep, starts, screams, turns over, kicks off the bedclothes.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill, with shivering and shaking, even near a warm stove ; chill ascends from the upper part of the body to the head. ► Chill, face pale and cold ; hands warm. ► Chill not relieved by external warmth, mostly in the evening and with great paleness of the face. ► Chill in evening and fever all night. θ Nursing children. ► Burning heat over the whole face, with redness of the cheeks and thirst for cold drink. ► Fever daily at the same hour. ► Heat most severe over the head and face, face pale. ► Nightly heat ; with thirst, with anxiety. ► Sweat generally cold, on the forehead, around the nose and on the hands. ► After the sweat (frequently also before the chill) vomiting of food, with canine hunger at the same time.
Skin ► Itching unchanged or lessened by scratching. ► Furuncles. ► Ulcers with scanty discharge.
Books*
Antidoted by Cinchona Officinalis 3, Camphora 2, Capsicum Annuum 2 +5
Complementary Ferrum
Follows well Antimonium Tartaricum, Calcarea Phosphorica, Drosera Rotundifolia
Compare Antimonium Crudum, Antimonium Tartaricum, Chamomilla +35
* 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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