Clematis, like other Ranunculi, is a direct irritant of the skin producing inflammation and vesication. It was used by Stoerck before Hahnemann's time in cancerous and other foul ulcers, inveterate skin eruptions, syphilis, and rheumatism. In the provings, the external head (left), eyes, teeth (left), skin, urinary and male sexual organs show the greatest number of symptoms. Inflammation of eyes (< left), smarting, burning, stitches, redness, lachrymation, photophobia. Sensation as if fire were streaming from eyes. There is mucus in the urine, but not pus. Flow of urine by fits and starts; or has to wait a long time before he can urinate, with intense pain along fore part of urethra. Beginning of inflammatory stricture. "Affections of urethra; penis in general; prepuce in particular." Swelling of inguinal glands. Painful, inflamed, swollen testicles. Clematis acts best on light-haired people; torpid, cachectic conditions; swellings and indurations of the glandular system; syphilitic taint. Great debility; twitching of, muscles; vibrating sensation through body. The symptoms are < by touch and generally by motion; headache and toothache < lying down in evening. Eyes < on closing them. Headache < bending head backward. Great debility 3-5 p.m.; nearly all symptoms < night. Weakness after eating. Aversion to be washed. < By cold water; cold air; cold weather; moist poultices. Toothache, temporarily > by drawing in cold air; < from heat of bed. < During increasing, > during waning moon. Giddiness when lifting up head, or when moving head.
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Mind Sadness and apprehension.—Moroseness.—Aversion to conversation.—Indifference.—Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet otherwise agreeable company.—Memory impaired.
Head In the morning, confusion and heaviness of the head.—Giddiness if he lifts his head up, or when moving the head.—Head feels full and heavy, hanging down.—Headache, aggravated by bending the head backwards.—Pressive tension in the forehead and sides of the head, as well as in the bones of the cranium.—Digging pressure on the brain.—Piercing in the temples.—Boring pains in the temple.—Hammering and strokes in the head.—Purulent pimples on the forehead, painful on being touched.—Burning, incisive pains in the skin of the forehead.—Eruptions on the head.—Moist phlyctenae on the occiput and at the nape of the neck; sore, tingling and stinging-itching; often drying up in scales; when getting warm in bed, violently itching; only temporarily relieved by scratching; with soreness and rawness.—Itching on the hairy scalp.
Eyes Pressure on the ball of the eye.—Smarting in the eyes, and in the margins of the eyelids, esp. on closing them.—The closed eye is very sensitive to the air (cold air), and when it is opened very sensitive to the light.—Shootings in the corners of the eyes.—Itching in the canthi.—Burning and heat in the eyes, with dryness, as if fire were streaming from the eyes.—Inflammation of the iris.—The white of the eyes has a yellow tint.—While writing, the letters momentarily run into one another; at times, double vision, with flickering before the eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes, with profuse lachrymation.—Inflammation and ulceration of the margins of the eyelids.—Photophobia.
Stomach Disagreeable sensation of coldness in the stomach.—Tension of the stomach.
Female Sexual Organs Swelling and induration of the mammary glands; cancer of the breast; and womb.—Menses too early.
Respiratory Organs Violent cough, with irregular respiration, at times too slow, at times too rapid; barking cough, with burning pain in the sternum and stitches in both sides of the lungs.
Neck And Back Itching pustules round the neck, with excoriation after scratching.—Humid tetters from the nape of the neck to the occiput.—Eruption of pustules in the lumbar region.
Lower Limbs Tearing in the thighs.—Scaly tetters in the thigh.—Furunculi in the thigh.—Itching of the toes and perspiration between them.
Skin Obstinate miliary eruptions.—Vesicular eruptions on the body.—Scaly tetters, discharging a sanious pus, yellowish and corrosive, and with redness, heat and swelling of the skin.—Obstinate tetters, red and moist, with insupportable itching in the heat of the bed, and after washing.—Itching over the whole body.—Aggravation of all skin symptoms by the heat of the bed and from washing.—The tetters (painful, not itching over the whole body) are red and humid while the moon is increasing, and pale and dry when the moon is waning.—Burning or tingling, and pulsation in the ulcers, with shootings in the edges when touched.—Psoric pustules over the whole body.—Painful swelling and induration of the glands.
Sleep Great drowsiness during the day, even in the morning after rising.—Sleeplessness in the evening and, at night.—Sleep, with frequent dreams, agitation, and tossing; vivid, lascivious dreams; profuse perspiration after midnight.—In the morning, sensation of not having slept enough.
Fever Pulse accelerated.—Quartan fever, characterised by shuddering, followed by sweat.—Sweat on waking, and sensitiveness of the skin, which the patient cannot bear to be uncovered.—Dry heat, with sensation of general heat (at night).
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Antidoted by Bryonia Alba 2, Camphora, Rhus Toxicodendron
* 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. homeopathylibrary.com/remedy/clematis-erecta
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