Origin Plant · Cucurbitaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of pulp of fruit.
Sources 17 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Allen, Nash …
Dose Boericke
6X–30X
Sixth to thirtieth potency
By regionHering
Mind ► Confusion in the left side of head, with pressing burning pain in the left orbit, temple and nose, on dorsum nasi and in the upper teeth. ► Greatly affected by the misfortunes of others as well see as her own. ► Depressed, joyless ; disinclined to talk, to answer, to see friends. ► Extreme irritability ; nothing seems right to him ; extremely impatient ; every word provokes him. ► Anger with indignation ; also bad effects therefrom particularly vomiting and diarrhoea.
Inner Head ► Pressive frontal headache, worse while stooping, or lying on the back. ► Painful tearing through the whole brain, becoming unbearable when moving the upper eyelid. ► Severe burning pain, on right side of forehead. ► Tearing in the left side of forehead. ► Pressure in both temples. ► Boring stitches in the right temple, disappearing on touch. ► Pressing and dull throbbing in left temple, growing gradually more acute and cutting.
Eyes ► Vision obscured. ► Painful pressure in the eyeballs, especially on stooping. ► Sharp cutting in the right eyeball, with pain in the eyes. ► Smarting in the eyes. ► Discharge of acrid fluid from the eyes.
Stomach ► Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. ► Burning pain in the stomach. ► Feeling of fulness in the epigastric region. ► Griping in the epigastrium, after each meal, worse toward evening. ► Cramp in the stomach at night, relieved by belching. ► Pit of stomach very sensitive to touch. ► Violent cutting, tearing pains, which from different parts of chest and abdomen, concentrate in the pit of stomach, better from hard pressure and bending double ; brought on by vexation and indignation.
Female Sexual Organs ► Cramp-like pain in the left ovarian region, as though the parts were squeezed in a vice. ► Intense boring or tensive pain in ovary, causing her to draw up double, with great restlessness. ► Deep stitches, worse in left ovary. ► Suppression of the menses, caused by chagrin. ► Dysmenorrhoea, cramping pains, must bend double, sometimes worse after eating or drinking. ► Swelling of labia, with dragging pain and heat to vagina. ► Metritis, from indigestion, colicky pains bend her double ; cutting, as from knives, in the bowels, great distress, distention of the abdomen ; feeling as if the intestines were being squeezed between stones. ► May be indicated in some cases of very painful cancer.
Lungs ► Stitching pains in right or left side of chest.
Neck And Back ► Feeling of stiffness in the muscles of the nape, when moving the head. ► Drawing in the nape. ► Violent tensive drawing in the left cervical muscles, worse on motion. ► Pressure in left side of nape, worse from turning. ► Drawing pain, internally, in region of right scapula, as if the nerves and vessel were made tense. ► Tensive stitches in the right loin, felt only during inspiration, and most violent when lying on the back. ► Painful lassitude in small of back and lower extremities, in the evening. ► Pain in the small of the back.
Limbs In General ► Tearing or drawing pains in all limbs.
Sleep ► Yawning and sleepiness. ► Sleeplessness and restlessness, with the pains. ► Dreams : disturbing sleep ; vivid ; anxious.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill and coldness of the whole body, frequently with heat of the face. ► Coldness of hands, of soles, of the feet, rest of body warm. ► Chill and shivering, with the pains. ► External dry heat. ► Internal sensation of heat, with external flushes. ► Sweat at night, smelling like urine, causing itching of the skin. ► Sweat principally of the head and extremities.
Skin ► Itching ; prickling ; crawling ; formication. ► Desquamation over the whole body.
Books*
Antidoted by Coffea Cruda 3, Staphysagria 3, Camphora 2 +9
Complementary Mercurius Solubilis
Follows well —
Compare Staphisagria, Mercurius Solubilis, Chamomilla +26
* 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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