Habitat Hilly pastures and heaths in Central and Northern Europe, Russian Asia, and North America. Common in Great Britain, especially the North

ClarkePreparation Trituration of spores. Tincture of spores. Tincture of fresh plant.

Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Stitches in the temples, mostly the right, from within outward. ► Pain in temples, as if screwed together ; worse during menses. ► Pressing headache on the vertex ; worse from 4 to 8 P.M., and from stooping ; followed by great weakness. ► Tearing in the forehead or right side of the head, extending down to the neck with tearing in the face, eyes and teeth ; worse on raising one's self, better on lying down. ► Tension in the head. ► Headache after breakfast. ► Headache worse from warmth of bed, getting warm while walking and from mental exertion ; better from the open, cold air, and uncovering the head.

Eyes ► Sparks before the eyes in the dark. ► Photophobia. ► Night blindness, with black spots before the eyes. ► Sees only the left half of an object distinctly. ► Arrested cataract (with chronic dyspepsia). ► Eyes hot, dim, wide open fixed and insensible to light. ► Obscuration of sight, as from feathers before the eyes. ► Conjunctiva looks like a piece of raw flesh ; copious discharge of pus ; lids puffed out by the pus. ► Stitches and soreness in eyes evening when looking at light. ► Eyes inflamed, canthi itch, lids red and swollen ; troublesome pain if they get dry. ► Granular eyelids, dry, with smarting. ► Pustules and styes on the lids, more towards inner canthi. ► Much mucus in the eyes, with smarting pain.

Stomach ► Pressure in scrobiculum. ► Sensation of twisting, crawling an emptiness in the stomach with yawning. ► Fulness in stomach and bowels ; pit of stomach sensitive to contact or tight clothing. ► Gnawing, griping in the region of the stomach. ► Perforating ulcer ; worse sitting bent, better walking about and when warm in bed.

Female Sexual Organs ► Nymphomania. ► Cutting across the hypogastrium right to left ; ovaries diseased, right to left ; ovarian tumors, ovarian dropsy. ► Sensation of pressure through the vagina when stooping. ► Physometra ; wind discharged from the vagina. ► Dropsy of the uterus. ► Menses profuse, protracted ; flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum with labor-like pains, followed by swooning. ► Before the menses, sad, chilly, abdomen bloated. ► Menses suppressed, also from fright -delay of first menses. ► Leucorrhoea : in starts milky ; blood-red worse before the full moon ; corroding. ► Increased discharge of blood from the genitals during every passages of hard or soft stool. ► Vagina dry ; burning in vagina during and after coition. ► Occasional sharp pains running around the labia. ► Varices of the genitals. ► Erectile tumors. ► Polypi. ► Dry pediculated, painless condylomata. ► Inflammation of the external genitals.

Lungs ► Continuous pressure on the chest ; raw feeling internally ; tearing under clavicles, tension. ► Catarrh on the chest, of infants ; rattling on the chest, which seems full of mucus. ► Pneumonia, with raising of mouthfuls of mucus at a time of a light rust color, stringy and easily separated. ► Neglected pneumonia ; especially with continuing hepatization and purulent sputum. ► Typhoid pneumonia. ► Stitches in the left chest, also during inspirations. ► Paralysis of the lungs. ► Hydrothorax.

Neck And Back ► One side of the neck stiff and swollen. ► Large clusters of red pimples around the neck with violent itching ; cervical glands swollen. ► Burning as from hot coals between the scapulae. ► Pain and stiffness in the small of the back (at night). ► Stitches in the small of the back, especially when rising from stooping. ► Pain in small of back as if it would break ; with hard stool and colic as if intestines would burst. ► Pain in the small of the back, extending into the thighs. ► Pain in back and right side from congestion of liver : 18. ► Pain in sacral region, worse rising from a seat.

Limbs In General ► Drawing, tearing in limbs at night and on alternate days ; worse at rest ; muscles and joints rigid, painful, with numbness ; finger-joints inflamed ; also with arthritic nodes ; swelling of the dorsa of feet ; rheumatism ; worse in wet weather ; better in warmth. ► Fissure on the hands ; also on the heels.

Sleep ► Sleepy during day, wakeful at night, mind too active. ► Comatose state ; often with fever and exanthemata. ► Child sleeps with half open eyes and throws its head from side to side, with moaning. ► Soporous in typhoid and exanthematous fevers ; impending paralysis of the brain. ► Sleep restless ; at ease in no position ; cries out, starts, has anxious dreams ; jerks of the limbs. ► Sleep uneasy ; wakes often, quite awake at 4 A.M. ; anxious, awakes often and cannot soon sleep again. ► On awaking : cross, kicks, scolds ; or awakes terrified, as if dreaming ; feels unrefreshed ; hungry when awaking at night.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill from 4 to 8 P.M., with numb hands and feet, icy-cold at 7 P.M. ; feels as if lying on ice ; on awaking from a dreamy sleep, covered with sweat ; afterward violent thirst ; one sided (left) ; chilly all over at 9 P.M. even heat of stove won't warm. ► Nausea and vomiting then chill, followed by sweat without intervening heat ; or sour vomiting between chill and heat ; chill followed by bloated face and hands. ► Flushes of heat over the whole body, mostly toward evening ; with frequent drinking of small quantities at a time ; constipation and increased micturition. ► Heat, with red cheeks, alternating with chilliness ; hectic fever (with suppuration of the lungs). ► Heat, with inclination to uncover. ► Sweat : from the least exertion ; cold, sour, bloody, or offensive smelling like onions ; clammy at night, often with coldness of the face. ► Old, broken-down cases of malaria ; chill ; sweat greasy. ► Typhus : with stupefaction ; murmuring, delirium, subsultus tendinum ; meteorism ; constipation.

Skin ► Skin dry and hot, especially that of the hands. ► Biting-itching when becoming warm through the day. ► Dark red blotches here and there. ► Flesh in ridges, as if struck with a stick. ► Urticaria, chronic cases. ► Eruptions : humid suppurating ; full of deep rhagades ; breeding lice ; itching violently ; intertrigo raw places readily bleeding. ► Vascular tumours. ► Naevus maternus. ► Blood-boils. ► Boils which do not mature, but remain blue. ► Ulcers : bleed and burn when dressed ; tearing and itching at night, burning when touched, fistulous, with hard, red, shining, everted edges and inflammatory swelling of the affected parts ; bleeding easily.

Complementary Chelidonium Majus, Graphites, Iodium +27

Follows well Calcarea Carbonica, Lachesis, Graphites +7

Compare Natrum Muriaticum, Nux Vomica, Arsenicum Album +32