Origin Mineral · Simple
Habitat Preparations of the non-rectified oil should also be made
ClarkePreparation Trituration and tincture of the rectified oil.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
30X, ↑
Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better
By regionHering
Mind ► Did not know where she was in the street. ► Delirium ; thinks another person lies alongside of him, or that one limb is double. ► Sadness and despondency, inclination to weep. ► Excited irritable, with inclination to be angry and to scold ; anxious and irresolute. ► Ailments from vexation, with fright.
Inner Head ► Headache in forehead ; every mental exertion causes him to become stupid. ► Headache from anger. ► Frontal headache, at times quite severe, but worse while the nausea remained. ► Occipital headache, with general spasms and screaming ; loss of appetite, constipation. ► Pain from the occiput over the head to the forehead and eyes, with transitory blindness ; he gets stiff ; loses consciousness. ► Pressing-stinging in the cerebellum. ► Dull, pulsating pain in occiput. ► Sensation as if everything in the head were alive. ► Head feels numb, as it made of wood or as if bruised.
Eyes ► Cannot open the eyes mornings ; sight misty. ► Aching in the eyes, worse in the evening and from light. ► Ciliary blepharitis from conjunctivitis granulosa or from small-pox, with sticking and smarting in inner canthus. ► Pannus in scrofulous patients ; discharge from the eye white ; cheeks rough. ► Pains at the root of the nose, lids swollen, purulent discharge from eyes and nose. ► Iritis, with dull pulsating in the occiput. θ Syphilis. ► Fistula lachrymalis (of recent origin).
Stomach ► Pain in pit of stomach, as if something were tearing off. ► Sensation of fulness or swelling of pit of stomach, with soreness when touched. ► Violent pain in stomach, extending up into chest, with sweat and nausea. ► Gastralgia, with pressing, drawing pains, better from eating. ► Sensation of emptiness and weakness in stomach. ► Weakness of digestion.
Female Sexual Organs ► Aversion to an embrace. ► Menses : too late and scanty ; early and profuse ; menstrual blood causes itching. ► Before the menses, throbbing in head ; during menses, singing and roaring in the ears ; lassitude. ► Prolapsus uteri in patients reduced by chronic diarrhoea, occurring during the day. ► Leucorrhoea, like albumen, profuse every day, or with nightly lascivious dreams. ► Soreness and moisture on genitals, with violent itching.
Breathing ► Cold air causes an oppressed feeling on chest. ► Oppression of the chest, at night.
Neck And Back ► Stiff neck ; it cracks when moved. ► Herpes on the neck. ► Furuncles. ► Pain in spine and pain all over body, with sciatica. ► Pain in back, which does not allow him to move. ► Great uneasiness and stiffness in small of back and coccyx in the evening. ► Pain in the coccyx while sitting.
Limbs In General ► The limbs go to sleep and become stiff. ► Rheumatic stiffness of the joints, with cracking when moved. ► Rheumatic stiffness of shoulders and ankles ; syphilis.
Sleep ► With distressing dreams, as if somebody were lying alongside of him in bed.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilliness through the body, followed by violent itching of the skin. ► Chilliness in the open air. ► Chill, with headache, and excessively cold face and hands. ► Shaking chill, 7 P.M., then sweat in the face, and later all over except the legs, which are cold. ► Chill, especially toward evening, often with heat at the same time. ► Heat in the evening after chill, with cold feet. ► Heat after 12 P.M., and in morning in bed. ► Flushes of heat all over, in frequent attacks during day. ► Profuse sweat every night, or immediately after chill.
Skin ► Itching herpes followed by ulcers. ► Herpes : 22, 30, 31, 32, 33. ► Chronic eczema, parts seem excoriated. ► Itching, sore, moist surfaces or deep cracks. ► Brown or yellow spots on the skin. ► Welts and blisters, with raw feeling. ► Unhealthy skin ; small wounds ulcerate and spread. ► Ulcers, with stinging pain and proud flesh ; often deep, ulcers with raised edges.
Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 3, Cocculus Indicus 2, Aconitum Napellus +3
Complementary Sepia Officinalis
Follows well —
Compare Sulphur, Graphites, Tabacum +30
* 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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