Homeopathy LibraryOrigin Plant · Loganiaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture and Trituration of imported seeds.
Sources 18 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
1X–30X
First to thirtieth potency and higher. Nut is said to act best given in the evening
By regionHering
Mind ► Defective memory ; manner shy and awkward. ► Can't read or calculate, for she looses the connection of ideas ; thinks she will lose her reason. ► Time passes too slowly. ► Delirium tremens, with oversensitiveness, nervous excitability and malicious vehemence. ► Desire to talk about one's condition, with anxious reflections about it. ► Inclined to find fault and scold ; morose ; stubborn ; an insane desire when alone with her husband, whom she adores, to kill him. ► Disinclination to work and great lassitude or weakness in the morning. ► Cannot bear reading or conversation ; irritable and wishes to be alone. ► Anxiety, with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to die. ► Despondent and buoyant alternately. ► Hypochondriac mood of persons of sedentary habits, and of those who dissipate at night, with abdominal suffering and constipation ; also when worse after eating, with sensitiveness. ► Loss of energy. ► Careful, zealous persons, inclined to get excited and angry, or of a spiteful, malicious disposition. ► Irritable, morose, sullen ; apt to become quarrelsome if disturbed. ► Anger with habitual malicious, spiteful disposition. ► Fiery, excited temperament. ► Oversensitiveness to external impressions ; noise ; smells ; light and music ; or the most trifling ailments are unbearable and affect him much. ► Oversensitiveness, every harmless word offends, every little noise frightens, anxious and beside themselves, cannot bear the least, even suitable medicine. ► Ailments after continued mental labor. ► Worse after mental exertion. ► After anger, chilliness alternating with heat, vomiting of bile, and thirst ; great laziness and aversion to occupy oneself.
Inner Head ► Congestion to the head with burning in it, and with heat and redness of the bloated face. ► Burning in the forehead on awaking and after eating. ► Stunning headache in morning after eating and in sunshine. ► Bruised sensation of the brain, generally one (right) sided ; better when lying on the painless side. ► Pressive, boring pains in head, beginning in morning, less by evening ; with dim sight, sour vomiting and palpitation ; worse from mental exertion, light, noise, coffee, after eating. ► Periodical headache in the forehead, sore as from ulceration, with constipation. ► Semilateral headache from excessive use of coffee. ► Pressing on vertex, as from a nail ; as if the skull were pressed asunder. ► Pressing as if something heavy were sinking down into head. ► Tension in the forehead, as if it were pressed in, at night and in the morning, worse on exposing the head to the cold air. ► Intense occipital headache ; dizziness ; pains in the eyes ; stomach deranged. ► Sensation as from bruise in the back part of the head. ► The brain seems to shake when walking or running in open air ; better when wrapping head up, in warm room, and when at rest. ► Head symptoms are worse from mental exertion, exercising open air and after eating ; better after rising in morning (except sick headache) in warm room ; lying down or sitting quietly.
Eyes ► Sight blurred by overheating. ► Vision impaired by dissipation. ► Photophobia, worse in the morning. ► Atrophy of the optic nerve. ► Hyperaesthesia of the retina ; pains to the top of the head ; sleepless ; awakens irritable in the morning. ► Exudation of blood from the eyes. ► Ecchymoses. ► Burning and smarting as from salt ; canthi reddened. ► Eyeballs (lower part) yellow. ► Lids burn and itch, especially their margins ; worse mornings. ► Blepharospasmus. ► Paresis of ocular muscles, worse from stimulants or tobacco.
Stomach ► Region of stomach sensitive to pressure. ► Indigestion after abuse of drugs ; business anxiety ; sedentary habits ; long watching or debauchery, after too high living. ► Burning in the stomach ; at the pylorus. ► Clawing, cramping pains in stomach, with pressure and tension between the scapulae ; pains extend to the chest or down the back to the anus, with urging to stool. θ Gastralgia. ► Gastralgia worse from food, better from hot drinks ; worse in the morning before breakfast. ► Pressure in epigastrium, as from a stone ; worse mornings and after meals.
Female Sexual Organs ► Crampy, stitching pains in pelvis ; soreness across pubes. ► Congestion of blood to the uterus. ► Contractive, uterine spasms, colic, with discharge of coagula. ► Pressure toward the genitals in the morning ; prolapsus uteri, from straining or lifting ; bearing down toward the sacrum, with ineffectual urging to stool, or pressing on the bladder with urging to urinate. ► Burning, heaviness, sticking in the uterus. ► Metrorrhagia, especially at the climaxis, or from high living. ► Hardness and swelling of the os tincae. ► Menses too early and profuse ; flow dark, oversensitiveness to nervous impressions ; faints easily. ► Leucorrhoea fetid, staining yellow. ► Tingling and itching of the vulva, causing onanism.
Lungs ► Roughness and rawness in the chest. ► Pressing in the chest, as from a heavy load. ► Sensation as if something was torn loose in the chest. ► Intercostal neuralgia, better when lying on the well side. ► Congestion to the chest, with heat and burning. ► Haemoptysis ; from anger ; suppressed hemorrhoidal flow ; debauchery ; especially in drunkards.
Neck And Back ► Neck stiff, with heaviness ; from cold. ► Tension, burning, pressing as from a stone between scapulae. ► Cervico-bracial neuralgia, neck stiff, worse in the morning or after eating and from touch. ► Burning or tearing in back. ► Sudden stitches in back when turning, with dull pain while sitting. ► Backache, must sit up to turn over in bed. ► Pains in small of back, if bruised or broken ; worse 3 or 4 A.M. ► Spine affected by sexual excesses.
Limbs In General ► Sick feeling through all the limbs. ► Bruised pains in limbs ; in joints ; worse during motion and at night. ► Rheumatism, attaching mostly the muscles of the trunk, and the large joints ; pale, tensive swellings ; numbness or twitching, worse from the least jar or from cold. ► Fingers and toes red with burning and itching, as if frozen.
Sleep ► Yawning, stretching ; chilliness. ► Sleepy in the early evening, but sleeplessness at night. ► Drowsy all day, worse after meals. ► Stupor, lower jaw dropped ; deep sleep. ► Night seems long ; dreams full of bustle and hurry ; springs up delirious, has frightful visions ; awakens in fright from the least noise. ► During sleep, blowing, snoring expiration. ► Goes to sleep late from crowding of the thoughts. ► Awakens at 3 A.M. …
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill : evening and night in bed till morning ; worse when moving and from drinking ; with hot face ; alternating with heat ; mornings, with constipation (in nursing children) ; not relieved by heat. ► Sleep after sleep. ► Anticipating morning fever : chill with aching in the limbs, gasping ; blue nails ; no thirst ; then thirst ; long-lasting fever with stitches in the temples ; light sweat. ► Apyrexia marked by gastric and bilious symptoms ; legs feel weak, paralytic. ► Heat : at night without thirst ; increase during least exertion or in the open air ; averse to uncovering, or desire, but becomes chilled from uncovering, or is seized with colic ; before the chill. ► Congestive chills, with vertigo, anguish, delirium, vivid visions, distended abdomen ; stitches in the sides and abdomen. ► Sweat : after midnight and in morning ; sour, offensive odor of musty straw ; one sided, or only on upper part of body ; cold, clammy on face ; relieves pains in limbs ; chill and again sweat.
Skin ► Burning-itching all over ; worse in the evening ; itching with icterus. ► Urticaria, with gastric derangements. ► Ecchymoses, blue. ► Boils, especially if several small ones unite. ► Abscesses ; often disperses them.
Books*
Antidoted by Ambra Grisea 4, Chamomilla 3, Cocculus Indicus 3 +38
Complementary Sulphur, Calcarea Carbonica, Sepia Officinalis
Follows well Arsenicum Album, Bryonia Alba, Ipecacuanha +5
Compare Arsenicum Album, Lycopodium Clavatum, Pulsatilla Pratensis +55
* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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