Habitat Fields and roadsides from Canada to Southern U.S.A

ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh plant when in flower and seed. Trituration of dried leaves.

Sources 13 entries across 11 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Allen, Lippe …

Inner Head ► Headache, with slight giddiness. ► Dull, heavy pain passing around forehead, from one temple to the other, just above the eyebrows. ► Pressing outwards in both temples. ► Pains through the head in sudden shocks.

Eyes ► Hemiopia. ► Pressure on the upper half of eyeballs.

Stomach ► Heat or burning in the stomach. ► Sensation in stomach : of weight ; of a lump ; as from undigested food. ► Feeling of weakness of stomach, or in the pit of stomach, extending through the whole chest and lower down to umbilicus. ► Bruised soreness from pit of stomach through to back, after cramp in stomach. ► Sensation of oppression at epigastrium, as if the stomach was too full ; worse on pressure.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too early, too profuse. ► Violent pain in sacrum ; sense of great weight in genitals.

Lungs ► Pressure on the chest ; left chest above the nipple. ► Spasmodic contraction of diaphragm. ► Pain in chest, with the breathing, while sitting after dinner ; disappears when moving about. ► Pain in lower chest, mostly left side. ► Burning feeling in chest, passing upward.

Neck And Back ► Swelling and pain on left side of neck. ► Rheumatic pain between the scapulae. ► Dull pressure between the shoulder-blades. ► Pain under the right shoulder-blade, worse when bending forward. ► About noon a burning pain in back, as if in posterior wall of stomach. ► Extreme tenderness over sacrum ; cannot bear slightest touch ; cries out if any attempt is made to touch the part ; sits up in bed, leaning forward.

Limbs In General ► Shooting pain through whole body, down into tips of fingers and toes.

Sleep ► Gaping, followed by crawling in the nose and sneezing ; then gaping and belching of wind. ► Wakened early by very impressive dreams ; arm amputated, wounded by a shot, etc.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chills down the back, with heat in stomach ; general shivering. ► Thirst before chill ; shaking chill and coldness increased after drinking. ► Heat, with thirst and sweat. ► Flushes of heat. ► Heat, with inclination to sweat, particularly in the face. ► Sweat, with heat, or after heat has lasted for some time. ► Sweat, after heat, with sleep. ► Copious night-sweats. ► Cold sweat.

Skin ► Prickling-itching of the skin all over the body.

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Follows well —

Compare Arsenicum Album, Tabacum, Veratrum Album +17