Origin Plant · Hypericaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Sources 15 entries across 13 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose
3X, Ø
Tincture, to third potency.
Reason for useBoericke
The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth). Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; haemorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious expectoration. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus. Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Constant drowsiness.
▲ Worse in cold; dampness; in a fog; in close room; least exposure; touch
▼ Better bending head backward
By regionBoericke
Mind Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock. Melancholy.
Head Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Brain seems compressed. Right side of face aches. …
Stomach Craving for wine. Thirst; Nausea. Tongue coated white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach (Abies nig; Bry).
Back Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion. Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs. …
Extremities Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar side of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. …
Respiratory Asthma worse foggy weather and relieved by profuse perspiration.
Skin Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of hands and face, intense itching, eruption seems to be under the skin. …
Books*
Antidoted by Arsenicum Album 2, Chamomilla 2, Sulphur 2 +6
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Arnica Montana, Ruta Graveolens, Aconitum Napellus +23
* 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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