Origin Plant · Melanthaceae (Melanthiaceae) · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of the root. Triturations of the resinoid Helonin.
Sources 12 entries across 10 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Allen, Nash …
Dose Boericke
6X, Ø
Tincture, to sixth attenuation
By regionHering
Mind ► Dull, inactive. ► Restless, wants to be continually moving about. ► Desire to be let alone ; conversation is unpleasant. ► Dull, gloomy. ► Irritable ; cannot endure the least contradiction or receive any suggestions in relation to any subject. ► Fault finding. ► Always better when doing something, when the mind is engaged.
Inner Head ► Fulness and pressure in the forehead or vertex ; worse or renewed, when thinking thereof. ► Passing pain in one or both temples (in small spot). ► Burning in front and top of head, better motion and mental exertion, worse when either is desisted from.
Stomach ► Cramp-like pain in the stomach. ► Burning in stomach ; burning and aching in spine ; eructations. ► Irritable stomach, with general dropsy.
Female Sexual Organs ► Loss of sexual desire and power with or without sterility. ► Profound melancholy, deep, undefined depression, with a sensation of soreness and weight in the womb ; "a consciousness of a womb". ► Dragging weakness in sacral region, with prolapsus ; also at climaxis, with marked debility ; profound mental gloom. ► Prolapsus uteri and ulceration of the cervix ; discharge constant, dark, badly-smelling ; flooding on lifting a weight, and on least exertion ; face sallow, having an expression of suffering ; great vaginal irritation ; pain in small of back. ► Prolapsus uteri, leucorrhoea ; the os protrudes externally. ► Uterus low down, fundus tilted forwards ; the finger passes with difficulty between the os and the rectum. ► Menses too frequent and profuse in women who are feeble from loss of blood. ► Flow passive ; dark, coagulated, offensive. ► Amenia, arising from or accompanied by disordered digestive apparatus and anaemia. ► Scanty menstrual flow, with heaviness, languor, drowsiness and albuminous urine. ► Great uterine hemorrhage all through the proving ; pain in back, through to the uterus. ► Profuse flooding, with serous leucorrhoea, much uterine and ovarian pain ; climaxis. ► Leucorrhoea, with atony and anaemia. ► Labia and pudendum hot, red, swollen, burning and itching and terribly ; epidermis every morning falls of in thin, transparent exfoliations. …
Neck And Back ► Burning and heat in the dorsal region, mostly between the lower half of the scapulae ; while sitting reading, at night. ► Back aches across the lumbar region ; feels tired and weak ; burning and tired aching in lumbar and sacral region on sitting down. ► Pain about the upper part of the sacrum and pelvis ; more severe at night. ► Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus ; piercing drawing. ► Aching pain in sacrum, also down into each buttock.
Lower Limbs ► Severe pains in the right hip-joint, worse during motion. ► Numbness in feet, going off by motion, only felt when sitting still.
Sleep ► Drowsy, heavy. ► Sleep during the day.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill, seemingly radiating from solar plexus all over body, caused by motion of arms. ► Flushed of heat pass over him with every movement while in a room.
Books*
Antidoted by Lilium Tigrinum
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Aletris Farinosa, Ferrum, Stannum +22
* 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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