Hypericum Perforatum

General

HYPERICUM. [Hyper.] St. John's Wort. C. Hering. Hypericaceae.

Mind

► Makes mistakes in writing ; omits letters ; forgets what she wanted to say. ► Confused. ► Increase of intellectual power. ► Erotic ideas ; brain excited, as after tea. ► Sees spirits, spectres. ► Delirium. ► Singing followed by weeping and loud screaming, with gasping for breath. ► Great anxiety ; also in meningitis. ► Melancholy. ► Irritable, inclined to speak sharply ; slept badly, languid on waking. ► Consequences of fright. ► Removes effects of shock.

Sensorium

► Buzzing sensation in vertex at night, as if something living were in the brain. ► Sensation as if being lifted up high into the air ; tormented by anxiety that slightest touch or motion would make her fall down from this height ; with headache. θ After a fall on occiput. ► Heaviness and dizziness in the head. ► Vertigo at night, with urging to urinate. ► Asphyxia after a fall ; when jerking or shooting pains appear.

Inner Head

► Dull headache, head heavy ; morning. ► Burning in the vertex, heat, pulsation (afternoon). ► Tearing stitches in brain ; breathing, mostly on vertex. θ Meningitis. ► Sensation as if the head became elongated. ► Headache, with sore eyes, after a fall.

Outer Head

► Sensation in forehead, as if touched by an icy-cold hand, in afternoon, after which a spasmodic contraction is felt in right eye. ► Head hot, carotids throbbing. ► Hair moist, rest of body burning hot. ► Pressure in left temple, after breakfast. ► Fractured skull ; bone splintered.

Eyes

► Disturbed look, stares at people, eyes fixed ; pupils dilated. ► Stitches in right eye. ► Stye on lower left lid.

Ears

► Sensitiveness of hearing ; during catamenia. ► Shooting through the ear. ► Relieves pains of synechia. See 45. ► Ears hot ; scurf on the ear.

Nose

► Exceedingly fine sense of smell. ► Nose dry, very annoying. ► Sneezing, leaving a raw, sore feeling in the throat. ► Sore inside the nose, itching ; all the time picking nose. ► Dryness of left nostril ; crusts in it.

Face

► Expression of suffering. ► Face hot, bloated. θ Meningitis. ► Cheeks red ; erysipelatous redness. ► Dull faceache, aching in brows ; afternoon, evening ; worse at night, disturbing sleep. ► Headache extending into zygoma or cheek. ► Red eruption on both cheeks ; chin and nose ; sometimes dry, with thin crusts ; sometimes fiery red, oozing yellow drops.

Lower Face

► Eruption around the mouth and on right ear. ► Yellowish-greenish scabs, with cracking and moisture. ► Lips, dry, feel hot.

Teeth

► Severe aching in decayed tooth at night ; restless, wakeful ; better lying on affected side, and keeping quiet.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste : insipid ; of blood. ► Tongue coated white or yellow ; great thirst. θ Meningitis.

Mouth

► Dry, burning heat in the mouth and on the lips.

Throat

► Expansion of throat and abdomen. ► Sensation as if a worm was moving in the throat. ► Hot risings in oesophagus after a fright, or with anxious feelings. ► With hemming, some bright, red blood comes up.

Desires And Aversions

► Desire for warm drinks. θ Meningitis. ► Great thirst, white tongue ; in morning after heat and delirium. ► Desire for wine ; for pickles. ► Appetite increased morning and evening.

Eating And Drinking

► Tasteless. ► Belching, when drinking water. ► Smoking tobacco does not taste well. ► After breakfast, headache, eructations, gastric symptoms, pressure in stomach, towards the back ; pains in limbs. ► After supper, flatulence and diarrhoea. ► After eating : 17.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Eructations : tasteless ; bitter ; preventing sleep at night. ► Nausea, weakness every morning. ► Nausea, abdomen distended, cracking pains in bowels awaking in the night.

Stomach

► Pain in stomach, nausea and diarrhoea, chill ; after eating.

Hypochondria

► Sticking or dragging in the right hypochondrium.

Abdomen

► Tympanitic distention of abdomen ; relieved by a stool. ► Cutting in belly, in region of navel. ► Pinching pains, diarrhoea ; with catamenia.

Stool, Etc

► Loose, bilious, yellow stools evening or morning. ► Cholera morbus, slimy stools. ► Summer diarrhoea, with eruption of the skin. ► Diarrhoea driving out of bed in the morning. ► Constipation ; violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball. ► Awakes with distended abdomen, relieved by stool. ► Rectum feels dry, morning.

Urine

► Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo. ► Urine : much diminished ; bloody ; turbid ; of peculiar odor. ► Swelling and hardness of the female urethra, with burning, soreness and sensitiveness ; especially if caused by instruments for uterine prolapsus.

Male Sexual Organs

► Sexual functions excited. ► Tearing in the genital organs, with the desire to urinate.

Female Sexual Organs

► Menses : too late, with tension in the uterine region, as from a tight bandage ; increased in quantity ; three days before their appearance, pinching in the abdomen, diarrhoea, cold feet ; headache, wrenching pain over eyes, better in motion ; severe backache. ► Attended by sickening pain in belly, sensitiveness of hearing. ► Leucorrhoea, with delayed menses, palpitation, pressure in the small of the back, and heaviness in lower bowels. ► Leucorrhoea in a child, milky, but corroding.

Pregnancy

► Labor-pains tardy. ► After-pains violent, in sacrum and hips, with severe headache ; after instrumental delivery.

Larynx

► Hoarseness, scraping and roughness in the larynx, upper part of pharynx and nares, in a foggy atmosphere.

Breathing

► Spasmodic asthmatic attacks, with changes of the weather from clear to damp, or before storms ; after lesion of the spinal cord, by a fall, years before.

Cough

► Spells of short, barking cough. θ Meningitis. ► Hacking cough, from an irritation in throat, much increased by the heat and cold air. ► Dry cough and prostration in the morning. ► Whooping-cough, worse from 6 to 10 P.M. ► Nervous system much affected.

Lungs

► Anxiety in the chest, in the forenoon, with short breath, dizziness and bitter belching. ► Stinging left chest, worse when moving. ► Cutting in the upper right chest, then in lower left.

Heart And Pulse

► Hard beating of the heart. ► Pulse : quick and hard ; frequent.

Outer Chest

► Stitches under the mammae. ► Stinging, burning pain on one edge of left pectoral muscle. ► Dull pressure, right chest, from seventh rib down, after breakfast.

Neck And Back

► Cutting between scapulae. ► Lies on the back, jerking head backward. ► After a fall, slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries ; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch. ► Entire spine tender ; paroxysms of pain in different joints, with mania. ► Consequences of spinal concussion. ► Stinging near edge of right scapula near spine ; morning. ► Stitches in the small of the back. ► Aching pain and sensation of lameness in the small of back. ► Violent pain and inability to walk or stoop, after a fall on the coccyx.

Upper Limbs

► Flying pains, right shoulder. ► Cutting under left scapulae. ► Stitches on the top of the shoulder at every inspiration. ► Tension in both arms and in the hands. ► Pressure at insertion at of right deltoid. ► Numbness in left arm ; better from rubbing. ► Hard pain running down left median nerve. ► Cutting in fleshy ends of fingers.

Lower Limbs

► Weakening drawing, over the front of legs ; shooting pain, as if in the periosteum. ► Left leg numb, cold, while sitting. ► Articular rheumatism (knees), with great effusion around the joint, with muddy urine looking like the settlings of beer. ► Fearful pains in knees, sharp, could hardly touch them. ► The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles. ► Sensation as if the left foot was strained or dislocated. ► Lying in bed the feet tingle. ► Excruciating pain in bunions (external applications).

Limbs In General

► Crawling in hands and feet, as if they were numb. ► Feeling of weakness and trembling of all the limbs. ► Sensation of lameness of the left arm and right foot. ► Cannot walk, spine affected.

Position, Etc

► Great dread of motion, would not walk, screamed when it proposed to lift her to another place. ► Slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries. ► Rest : 10. Motion : 2, 23, 28, 31. Walking : 31, 34. Lying down : 33. Lying on painful side : 10. Sitting : 33.

Nerves

► Prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles, fingers or palms of hands. ► Convulsions from blows upon the head. ► Convulsions after every, slight hurt or concussion. ► Epileptiform spasms after knocking the body against anything. ► Jerks in the limbs. ► Weariness on awaking ; goes off by noon.

Sleep

► Constant drowsiness. ► Spasmodic jerks of the arms or legs on going to sleep ; twitchings. ► On awaking : weary, better by noon ; feels refreshed ; bowels distended. ► Dreams : with activity, travelling ; vivid ; distressing.

Time

► Morning : 3, 14, 16, 20, 27, 31. Forenoon : 28. Noon : 36, 37. Afternoon : 3, 8. Evening : 8, 14, 20, 27. Night : 2, 8, 10, 16.

Temperature And Weather

► Foggy weather : 25. Changes from clear to damp : 26. Before storms : 26. Cold air : 27.

Chill, Fever And Sweat

► Shuddering over the whole body, with desire to urinate. ► Heat, with delirium, wild staring look, hot head, throbbing of carotids, bright red, bloated face, hair on head moist, burning heat of skin, great oppression and anguish. ► Chill followed by heat, with sweat on hands and feet.

Sides

► Right : 4, 5, 9, 18, 30, 31, 32. Left : 4, 5, 7, 28, 30, 32, 33. Before backward : 15. Upper right to lower left : 28. Left upper and right lower : 34. Above downward : 32.

Sensations

► Flesh sore all over, bruised.

Tissues

► Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves ; especially fingers, toes, matrices of nails. ► Lacerations when the intolerable pain shows nerves are severely involved. ► Local congestions : nervous erethism, with or without hemorrhage ; great nervous depression following wounds. ► Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing. ► Next to the nervous tissues, the joints are affected ; all articulations feel bruised.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Punctured wounds feel very sore ; from treading on nails ; rat-bites, etc. ; prevents lockjaw. ► Wounds from crushing, as mashed fingers, especially tips. ► Nerves lacerated pains excruciating. ► Relieves pains in old cicatrices. (See 6.) ► Painful wounds before suppuration. ► Rheumatism, bunions, corns, etc., when the pains are so disproportionately severe as to show nerves are attacked. ► After a fall, asphyxia. ► After a knock or blow on the head, spasms. ► Touch : 31, 33. Rubbing : 32.

Skin

► Great itching when undressing, most in sacral region. ► Skin rough, as if full of small knots. ► Pimples on forehead, throat, back, hips. ► Tetters, beginning with sore places, and forming hard, yellow crusts, with violent itching. ► Smarting eruption, like nettle-rash, on the hands.

Relationship

► Antidotes to Hyper. : Arsen. against weakness or sickness in the morning ; Chamom. for pain in face ; mesmerism ; Sulphur. ► Cures where formerly, Acon. and Arnic. were given in alternation in wounds.