Clematis Erecta

General

CLEMATIS ERECTA. [Clemat.] Waldrebe. Stapf. Ranunculaceae.

Mind

► Difficulty in thinking. ► Fear of being alone, but disinclined to meet even agreeable company. ► Low-spirited and fear of approaching misfortune. ► Irritable, taciturn, does not want to go out. ► Ailment from homesickness or contrition of spirit.

Sensorium

► Dulness and cloudiness in the head, with tendency to vertigo.

Inner Head

► Boring pain in the left temple. ► Pressive, tensive pain in the forepart of the brain, worse walking than when sitting ; with heaviness of the head.

Outer Head

► Eruption on occiput, extending down the neck ; moist, sore, with crawling and stinging-itching ; often drying up in scales ; itching worse when getting warm in bed ; only slight, and but temporary relief by scratching.

Eyes

► Smarting of the eyes worse when closing them ; on reopening them, great sensitiveness to light. ► Eyes smart, as if raw, capillaries enlarged, lachrymation ; smarting worse when closing the eyes ; sensitive to open air, fears to open them ; "gets black" before the eyes. ► Inflammation of the iris. ► Burning, and inflammation of inner canthus. ► Pustular conjunctivitis, with agglutination of lids in the morning. ► Complaints from bright sunlight.

Ears

► Ringing in the ears, as from bells. ► Burning pain on the auricles, with heat.

Nose

► Violent coryza, with sneezing. ► Discharges streaked with blood. ► Dryness of nose, with heat.

Face

► Pale and sickly countenance. ► Aching in the right side of face, which is tender to tough ; better from smoking, worse when lying on painful side. ► Shooting, upward, right side of face to eye, ear and temple.

Lower Face

► Burning-cutting through the lower lip. ► Cancer on the lip ; pain in periphery of ulcer. ► Vesicular eruption on the lip. ► Suppurative pimples on the chin.

Teeth

► Toothache : stitching and drawing worse at night, better for a short time from cold water ; better when drawing in the air, better in open air ; worse from warmth of bed, relieved by cold water ; crumb of bread starts aching ; worse from smoking tobacco ; from syphilitic affections, when mercurialized. ► Decayed teeth feel to long ; contact extremely painful ; free flow of saliva. ► Gums of left lower molars pain, as if sore, worse while eating.

Tongue, Etc

► Tongue dry, in the morning, on awaking.

Mouth

► Breath offensive to others.

Desires And Aversions

► Long-lasting satiety ; can eat, and with relish, yet immediately feels it is too much. ► Aversion to beer.

Eating And Drinking

► After eating, weakness in all the limbs, with pulsation in the arteries.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea, with weakness in the legs, from smoking tobacco.

Hypochondria

► Bruised pain in the hepatic region, when touched or bending.

Abdomen

► Lancinating pains, from belly to chest, aggravated by breathing, also during micturition. ► Increased sensitiveness of both inguinal regions. ► Swelling and indurating of the inguinal gland, with jerking pains.

Stool, Etc

► Frequent stools becoming more and more loose, without abdominal pain. ► Constipation.

Urine

► Vesical neuralgia ; the urethra or seminal cord most affected. ► Urine frequent but scanty. ► Interrupted flow of urine, with burning during, but most at the beginning of micturition, or during the interruptions. ► Sharp stitches in the urethra. ► Urinary deposit pus-like. ► Involuntary flow, by drops, after micturition. ► Long-lasting contraction and constriction of the urethra, urine emitted by drops, as in spasmodic stricture.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire weak. ► Burning in the penis during seminal discharge in coitus. ► Right spermatic cord sensitive, testicle drawn up. ► Pain in the testicles, drawing to the spermatic cord. ► Induration of the testicles. ► Swelling of the right half of the scrotum ; testicle relaxed, hanging down. ► Involuntary erections by day.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses too early. ► Softened scirrhus, with corrosive leucorrhoea and lancinating pains.

Pregnancy

► Scirrhus of (left) mamma, with stitches in the shoulder or gland, or into the arm, very painful, worse during cold weather, during the night, during increasing moon ; edges of ulcer sting.

Larynx

► Dryness and burning in throat.

Breathing

► Respiration impeded when ascending a hill, or walking over an uneven road.

Cough

► Cough usually dry.

Lungs

► Oppression of the chest. ► Aching in the chest. ► Left side of chest seems most affected. ► Stitching pains in the chest.

Heart And Pulse

► Sharp stitches in region of heart, from within outwards. ► Pulse : unchanged ; excited, with throbbing in the veins.

Neck And Back

► Small of back : burning ; pressure in ; bruised pain.

Upper Limbs

► Swelling of the axillary glands. ► Pressing or drawing in the muscles of the arms and hands. ► Rheumatic pains in the hands. ► Arthritic nodes on the finger-joints.

Lower Limbs

► Scaly herpes on the thighs. ► Burrowing, boring or pressive pains on the tibiae. ► Rheumatic pains in the lower limbs. ► Violent itching of the toes, evenings, after lying down ; sweat between the toes.

Limbs In General

► Weakness, heaviness, weariness and bruised sensation.

Position, Etc

► Walking : 3, 26. Ascending : 26. Closing the eyes : 5. Bending : 18. Sitting : 3. Lying : 33, 36 ; on painful side : 8.

Nerves

► Great debility. ► Twitching of the muscles. ► Vibratory sensation through whole body after lying down.

Sleep

► Sleepiness, great desire to sleep during the day, even morning, early. ► Sleeplessness, evening and night. ► Uneasy sleep, dreaming and tossing about. ► Unrefreshed from sleep, mornings.

Time

► Morning : 5, 11, 37, 40. Evening : 33, 37. Night : 10, 24, 37, 40. Day : 22, 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Sunshine : 5. Warmth of bed : 4, 10, 46. Uncovering : 40. Open air : 5, 10. Cold weather : 24. Cold water : 10, 46. Wet poultice : 46.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Chill, with shivering, followed by sweat, without intervening heat. ► Shivering from uncovering. ► Dry heat, with general hot sensation only at night. ► Heat of one side. ► Profuse sweat at night, most toward morning, with aversion to uncovering.

Attacks

► Increase of moon : 24, 46. Decrease of moon : 46.

Sides

► Right : 8, 22, 28. Left : 3, 6, 10, 24, 28. Above downward : 4. Below up : 8, 21. Within outward : 29.

Tissues

► Skin and muscles lax. ► Hot, painful swelling of glands.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 8, 10, 18, 22. Scratching : 4.

Skin

► Eruption looks inflamed during the increasing and dry during the decreasing moon ; moist eczema, itching terribly ; worse from washing in cold water, from warmth of bed, from wet poultices. ► Dark, burning, miliary eruption, with violent itching. ► Eruption on neck and occiput.

Stages And States

► Light hair. ► Torpid, cachectic conditions.

Relationship

► Has the same impetigo on the neck and occiput as Petrol. ► Clemat. follows Silic. well. ► Antidote to Clemat. : Bryon. for the toothache. ► Clematis vitalba is preferable to the Clem. erecta for varices, varicose ulcers.