Helonias Dioica

General

HELONIAS DIOICA. [Helon. dioic.] Blazing Star. Dr. C. B. Parr. Melanthaceae.

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.

Sensorium

► Pain in the head is increased by stooping, and attended by increased vertigo.

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.

Face

► Pale, earthy.

Tongue, Etc

► Bitter, disagreeable taste, every morning, 5 A.M., on awaking ; tongue and fauces dry. ► Tongue white. θ Diabetes.

Mouth

► Salivation of pregnant women and teething children. ► Mouth gets sore ; stomatitis materna.

Desires And Aversions

► Loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp, and painful congestion of the stomach. ► Appetite poor, food tasteless ; "bilious" sleepy, during the day.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Tasteless eructations ; flatulence, each causing nausea. ► Nausea at supper.

Stomach

► Cramp-like pain in the stomach. ► Burning in stomach ; burning and aching in spine ; eructations. ► Irritable stomach, with general dropsy.

Hypochondria

► Pain in left side, as if in spleen, which feels as if distended, causing a dull ache.

Abdomen

► Motion and rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on ; cramps in the stomach. ► Colic-like pains in hypogastric region, off and on all day. ► Burning in the lower third of abdomen.

Stool, Etc

► Stool : loose, yellow in the morning ; lumps of feces in the evening.

Urine

► Constant aching, extreme tenderness of the kidneys, especially the right. ► Burning sensation at the kidneys ; can trace their outlines by the burning. ► At 2.30 P.M., dull heat, and pressure in the vertex, as if skull were too full. ► Weariness, languor, weight in the region of the kidneys ; mind dull, inactive ; afternoon and evening. ► Burning-scalding when urinating ; desire frequent and urging. ► Strangury. ► Involuntary discharge of urine after the bladder seemed to be emptied. ► Urine : profuse, clear, light-colored ; albuminous ; diabetic.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual desire and power increased. ► Erections unusually strong and frequent. ► Impotence.

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. Mucous surface of labia red, swollen, covered with a curdy deposit, like aphthae.

Pregnancy

► Threatened abortion ; especially in habitual abortion. ► Albuminuria during pregnancy : great weakness, drowsiness. ► Nipples sensitive, painful, breasts swollen ; nipples tender, will not bear the pressure of ordinary dress.

Heart And Pulse

► Palpitations.

Outer Chest

► Chest sensitive to the air. ► Aching, as if the front of chest had been compressed in a vice.

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.

Position, Etc

► Motion : 1, 3, 33, 40. Moving arms : 40. Sitting : 31, 33. Stooping : 2.

Nerves

► Tired, weary, drowsy. ► Languor, unusually tired, yet knows no reason. ► Debility. θ After diphtheria.

Sleep

► Drowsy, heavy. ► Sleep during the day.

Time

► Morning : 11, 20, 23. Afternoon : 21. Evening : 20, 31. Night : 31. Day : 14, 19.

Temperature And Weather

► Oversensitive to air : 30. Room : 40.

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.

Sides

► Right : 21, 33. Left : 8. Below upwards : 33.

Tissues

► Anaemia, atony, from prolonged hemorrhage. ► Dropsy from albuminuria, general debility, uterine atony or after uterine hemorrhage.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Pressure of clothing : 24.

Stages And States

► Women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury ; feel better when the attention is engaged, hence when doctor comes ; worn out with hard work, do not care for sleep ; so tired, and the strained muscles burn and ache so. ► Climaxis.

Relationship

► Relieves the mental depression resulting from abuse of Kali brom. ► Relieved prolapsus, caused by Lilium. ► Collateral relations : Veratr., Sabad., Colchic.