Habitat Some of the provings were made with tincture of the pollen alone

ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh stalk, leaves, and flowers.

Sources 15 entries across 13 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Dull frontal headache : worse over left eye, or alternating from side to side. ► Wild feeling in head as though she would be crazy, with pain in right iliac region. ► Heavy feeling in the head, with morning diarrhoea. ► Drawing hot pain through head and eyes, relieved by frequent sneezing, 10 P.M. ► Fulness of the head, with pressure outward as if contents would be forced through every aperture. ► Shooting in right temples passing over to the left, with a dull, heavy sensation in whole front of head ; dim sight ; pain in eyes, extending to head. ► Dull, pressive aching, from the left temple to occiput ; paroxysmal.

Eyes ► Blurred vision : after seminal emission ; with prolapsed uterus. ► Hypermetropia. ► Presbyopia. ► Muscae volitantes. ► Eyes full of water ; face flushed and hot, pricking in skin of forehead. ► Eyes painful ; sensitive to light. ► Intense pain in eyes, extending back into head ; dim sight. ► Sharp pains over the eyes.

Stomach ► Fulness, disturbed feeling, upward pressure, after eating. ► Stomach distended, with frequent eructations and escape of flatus per annum. ► Hollow, empty sensation in stomach and bowels.

Female Sexual Organs ► Sexual desire increased ; obscene. ► Ovaries : Burning, stinging, cutting, grasping in ovaries (left) ; pains extend across hypogastrium, to groin, down leg ; bearing down when standing ; sensitive to pressure ; ovary swollen to nearly size of child's head. ► Bearing down in uterus, pains in left ovary and left mamma. ► Menses : scanty, flow only when moving abut ; dark, thick, smelling like the lochia ; on second day after time to menstruate, cutting in bowels, limbs clammy ; followed by profuse, bright yellow leucorrhoea, excoriating the perineum. ► Severe neuralgic pains in uterus, could not bear touch, not even weigh of bedclothes or slightest jar ; anteversion. ► Aching over the pubes, with pain in knees. ► Bearing down in uterine region as if everything would be pressed out ; relieved by pressure with hand against vulva. ► Bloated feeling in region of uterus ; pelvic organs feel swollen ; aching apparently around, not in, the uterus. ► Intermittent sharp pain across lower bowels. ► Burning from groin to groin, with morning stool. ► Intermittent labor-like pains in lower part of back, with a thin, acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea, leaving a brown stain ; worse afternoon until 12 P.M. ► Pressure on anterior wall of rectum. ► Voluptuous itching in vagina, with feeling of fulness of parts ; stinging in left ovarian region. ► With the bearing down : low-spirited, weeping, apprehensive ; irritable ; opposite and contradictory mental states ; urgent desire for stool ; anorexia ; faint in close room and when standing ; frequent, scanty, burning urine ; pain in sacrum ; bloated feeling in abdomen ; limbs cold, clammy.

Lungs ► Full feeling in chest, with distended abdomen. ► Constricted sensation in left side of chest, extending, to right, with sharp pains running up to throat, clavicle, left axilla and scapula ; better from changing position.

Neck And Back ► Dull pain in nape of neck, with feeling of constriction. ► Pain in back and left scapula, seemingly from left mamma. ► Pain in dorsal vertebrae, if the back would break. ► Cold feeling in back. ► Dull, heavy pain and great weakness in small of back. ► Dull pain in lower back and sacrum. ► Sensation of pulling upward from tip of coccyx.

Limbs In General ► Burning in palms and soles. ► Limbs cold, clammy, more when excited or nervous. ► Whole body feels bruised and sore, even pressure of clothing is painful ; hands and feet as if pounded ; sole sore, worse when stepping.

Sleep ► Sleepy before bedtime. ► Inability to sleep, worse before midnight. ► Restless sleep : with wild feeling in head ; with frightful, laborious dreams ; everything seems too hot ; with seminal emissions, dull headache, palpitation ; with mammary pain.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chills run downwards with violent beating of heart ; with congestion to chest and burning heat all over ; with constriction about heart. ► Chilly when in cool, open air ; yet otherwise better. ► Greater heat and lassitude in afternoon, with throbbing all over.

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