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ClarkePreparation Tincture of the bulb dug in spring.
Sources 15 entries across 14 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …
Dose Boericke
3X–30X
Third to thirtieth attenuation
By regionHering
Mind ► Perception entirely lost, unconscious. ► Memory weakened. ► Can read, but cannot understand even a short sentence. ► Intellect beclouded, though he gives correct answers. ► Confusion of the head. ► Indisposition for exertion of any kind. ► Mood usually cheerful ; or sad ; rarely irritable. ► External impressions such as bright light, strong odors, contact, misdeeds of others make him quite beside himself. ► Surly, ill-humored, not satisfied with anything. ► Pains worse by mental exertion or by emotions.
Inner Head ► Boring headache, especially over the eyes. ► Pressure in the head ; especially in the occiput, also deep in cerebellum, excited by mental exertion. ► Pressive heaviness deep in the cerebellum, especially on moving or stooping. ► Painful rending in left side of head, from eyeball to occiput. ► Creeping sensation in the forehead.
Eyes ► Violent, sharp tearing pain in and around eyeball. ► Drawing-digging pain deep in the orbit, like in sclerotitis. ► Inflammation of the eyes, dimsightedness, watering of the eyes, white spot on the cornea. ► Soft cataract. ► Pupils much dilated, only slightly sensitive to light, or immovable and slightly dilated. ► Eyes : half open ; sunken, staring. ► Pressure and biting in the canthi, with moderate lachrymation.
Stomach ► Epigastrium extremely sensitive to touch or pressure. ► Stomach icy-cold, with colic. ► Colic : aggravated by eating ; after flatulent food ; with great distention of belly ; better when bending double.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too early.
Lungs ► Dull stitches in posterior part of the thorax, during expiration. ► Violent cutting pain in the chest, interrupting breathing. ► Stinging in the region of the heart, with oppression. ► Spitting blood, after injuries.
Neck And Back ► Stitching and tension between the scapulae. ► Rheumatic pains in neck and back. ► Drawing, tension and stitches occurring, or much aggravated, on motion. ► Sudden tearing and shooting in the loins. ► Spot on the sacrum feels sore, as if ulcerated ; very sensitive to touch.
Limbs In General ► Numbness of the hands and feet, with pricking, as if asleep. ► Pains in the shoulder and hip-joints ; and in all the bones, with difficulty of moving the head and the tongue. ► Tearing pains in the muscles and joints.
Sleep ► Comatose state. ► Great sleepiness during the day, falls asleep while reading. ► At night, sleep disturbed or driven away by pains. ► Wakened from sleep by frightful dreams. ► Starting, jerking in sleep. ► Lying on the back.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill and shivering, running through all the limbs ; even in the warm room. ► Frequent shivering, running down the back. ► Chilliness even near the warm stove, intermingled with short flushes of heat. ► External dry heat the whole night, with violent, unquenchable thirst. ► Body hot and limbs cold. θ In typhus. ► Sweat wanting. θ In intermittents. ► Copious sour sweat, suddenly coming and going. θ In rheumatism.
Skin ► Skin dry sweat suppressed, or profuse sweating. ► Stitches in the skin. ► Tingling here and there, as after being frosted.
Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 3, Pulsatilla Pratensis 3, Camphora 2 +12
Complementary —
Follows well Lycopodium Clavatum, Carbo Vegetabilis, Nux Vomica
Compare Arnica Montana, Arsenicum Album, Bryonia Alba +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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