Habitat Hilly woods over nearly whole of Europe and Russian Asia

ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh bark gathered just before the plant flowers in February and March.

Sources 18 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Headache in temples and sides of head after exertion and from talking much. ► Violent headache with great sensitiveness to the least contact after slight anger. ► Headache with dulness, worse in the open air. ► Headache relieved by stooping. ► Sensation as if the upper part of the head were pithy.

Eyes ► Staring at one spot ; vacant look. ► Inclination to wink. ► Dryness in the eyes, with pressure in them ; they feel too large. ► Annoying twitching of the muscles of left upper lid. ► Lachrymation, with smarting in the eyes. ► Ciliary neuralgia, especially after operations on the eyes.

Stomach ► Burning and uneasiness in stomach ; relieved by eating ; canine hunger at noon and evening.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses : too soon, profuse and long-lasting ; scanty, with leucorrhoea and prosopalgia. ► Uterine ulcer, with smarting, burning, or prickling sensation ; discharge albuminous, sometimes tinged with blood. ► Leucorrhoea, like the white of an egg ; corroding.

Lungs ► Stitches in right side of chest, worse drawing a long breath. ► Cramp-like contraction over both chest and back.

Neck And Back ► Pain from stiffness of nape and external cervical muscles. ► Rheumatic pains in scapular muscles ; they feel tense and swollen, preventing motion.

Lower Limbs ► Twitching pain from hip-joint to the knee. ► Right hip-joint feels sprained on walking. ► Pain in the hip, the leg is shortened. ► Cracking in the right knee, when rising in the morning. ► Drawing pains, sensation of internal heat of limb, surface being cool ; better in open air. ► The legs and feet "go to sleep". ► Stitches in the toes of the right foot. ► Pain in the periosteum of the long bones, especially the tibiae, worse at night in bed, and then the least touch is intolerable ; worse in damp weather. θ Syphilis.

Sleep ► Great inclination to sleep, from debility. ► Sleep disturbed by violent pain in the face. ► Awakens after midnight, from vivid dreams and with nightmare ; worse on awaking.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill from upper arms to back and legs. ► Chill of single parts as if dashed with cold water. ► Chill even in warm room, drowsy ; lessened out-doors ; thirst ; back of the mouth dry ; much saliva in forepart ; cramp in the chest, an asthmatic constriction and oppression. ► Hands and feet cold, nails blue, hot sensation on small spot on top of head. ► External coldness, great thirst, no desire for warmth, no dread of open air, no subsequent heat. ► Chill lessened by heat. ► Heat in bed, mostly in head, one sided (left) heat. ► Burning of internal parts with external chilliness. ► Intense heat, after chill, with sleep. ► Sweat during sleep following the chill. ► Skin dripping with cold sweat.

Skin ► Roughness and scaling here and there ; skin of hands rough and dead. ► Violent itching, worse in bed, from touch ; burning and change of place after scratching. ► Eczema itching intolerably, copious serous exudation. ► Ulcerative eruption on finger-joints, itching most at night. ► Brownish miliary rash on chest, arm and thighs. ► Vesicles form a brownish scab. ► Pruritis senilis, intolerable itching. ► Ulcers, areolae sensitive ; easily bleeding ; painful at night ; pus under scabs ; burning vesicles around ulcers. ► Scabs thick, lamellated, like rupia, bloody secretion beneath ; worse on parts devoid of at. ► Neuralgia and burning after zona. ► Vesicular erysipelas. ► Scurf-like fish-scales on back, chest and thighs and scalp.

Complementary Belladonna

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