Habitat Sunny, sandy pastures in Central and Northern Europe and parts of South of England

ClarkePreparation Tincture of entire fresh plant when in flower (it flowers in spring and again in autumn).

Sources 21 entries across 19 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Stupefying headache, running chills, with humming in the head ; worse when lying or sitting quietly or in the cold. ► Soreness, as from subcutaneous ulceration in one or both temples ; worse evening at rest, in warm room ; better when walking in open air. ► Twitching-tearing in temple lain on ; goes to other side when turning on to it ; worse evenings, and on raising eyes upward. ► Headache, as if it would burst ; worse from moving eyes. ► Stinging-pulsating in brain ; worse when stooping. ► Pulsating in evening, and from mental exertion ; throbbing, with catamenia. ► Semilateral headache, also sometimes with nausea and vomiting. ► Violent pain behind, on one side, as if a nail was driven in. ► Beating, jerking, lacerating pains, or as if in a vise. ► Headache from overloaded stomach, from pastry, fats, ice-cream. ► Acute pains in temples, with giddiness. ► Pain as if brain was lacerated, on or soon after awaking. ► Headache worse from abuse of mercury ; in warm room ; better walking slowly in open air and from compression.

Eyes ► Oversensitive to light. ► Flashing of fire, as if slapped in face. ► Like a veil before eyes, better rubbing or wiping them. ► Amblyopia : from suppression of any bloody discharge ; from metastasis of gout or rheumatism ; from gastric derangements ; with heart disease ; with co-existing diminished hearing. ► Dim sight, especially on getting warm from exercise. ► Dryness of eyes and lids, with sensation as if darkened by mucus, which ought to be wiped away. ► Stitches, especially from light and in sunshine. ► Child frequently rubs its eye. ► Pustular conjunctivitis, lachrymation more in open air or wind ; discharge thick yellow, bland, profuse. ► Ophthalmia, with amenorrhoea. ► Lids swollen, itch, burn, not excoriated, better from rubbing ; subject to styes, especially on upper lid. ► Granular lids, dry, or with excessive bland secretion ; better in open air, but not in wind ; granulations very fine. ► Stinging, tearing pains, worse in the evening ; rheumatic ophthalmia. ► Fistula lachrymalis, discharging pus when pressed. ► Ophthalmia neonatorum ; profuse yellow, purulent discharge, gluing the lids. ► Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia ; discharge suddenly suppressed.

Stomach ► Pain in pit of stomach, during an inspiration ; also, on pressure. ► Weight as from a stone, early morning on waking ; also an hour after eating, better by eating again. ► Pressure in pit of stomach after every meal, vomiting of food. ► Stitching pains, worse when walking or making misstep. ► Crampy pains before breakfast or after meals. ► Gnawing, distress when stomach is empty ; pressure and pinching after eating. ► Stomach bloated, hard ; flatulency. ► Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach. ► Gastric catarrh, from ice-cream, fruit and pastry ; pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. ► Tension from stomach to chest.

Female Sexual Organs ► Tensive, cutting pain in uterus, which is very sensitive to touch and during coitus. ► Pains in uterus, with amenorrhoea. ► Prolapsus uteri, with pressure in abdomen and small of back, as from a stone ; limbs tend to go to sleep ; ineffectual urging to stool. ► Metrorrhagia, blood changeable, stops and flows ; profuse at times, at others intermittent, mixed with clots ; at climaxis ; in chlorosis ; after abuse of quinine and iron. ► First menses delayed. ► Menstruation, too late, scanty and short duration ; flow thick, black, clotted, or thin, watery ; or changeable in appearance ; flows more during day while walking. ► Menses suppressed or flow intermittently ; after getting feet wet ; in chlorosis ; from nervous debility ; with throbbing headache ; pressure in stomach ; pain in uterus ; dysuria ; ophthalmia ; morning nausea ; or bad taste in mouth. ► Crampy constriction of vagina ; indurations ; fistula ; polypus. ► Leucorrhoea : milky, thick, with swollen vulva ; acrid, burning, painless, or with cutting in abdomen.

Lungs ► Phthisis florida, suppurative stage ; chlorotic girls. ► Soreness in chest ; under clavicles. ► Pain in chest, as if ulcerated. ► Stitches in side only when lying, particularly at night. ► Sticking in chest, worse from deep breath, or coughing. ► Paroxysms of burning in chest. ► Obstinate bronchial catarrh. ► Congestion to chest and heart at night ; with anxious dreams.

Neck And Back ► Swelling of cervical glands. ► Interscapular pain, worse by inspiration. ► Curvature of upper part of spine. ► Like cold water poured down back. ► Stitches in small of back. ► Pain in back and small of back, as from stooping long, or as if weary.

Limbs In General ► Redness and swelling of joints, with stinging pains. ► Jerking, tearing, drawing in muscles, shifting rapidly from place to place ; worse at night, from warmth ; better from uncovering ; towards evening pains more fixed with swelling of parts, when pains abate some. ► Rheumatism : caused by getting wet, especially the feet ; from protracted wet weather.

Sleep ► Yawning ; drowsy by day ; feverish somnolence. ► Sleepless : after late supper, or eating too much ; from ideas crowding on the mind ; first part of night, sleeps late in morning. ► Starts, talks, weeps, cries out in sleep. ► Dreams : confused, frightful ; anxious. ► Talking, whining and screaming during sleep.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Cold chills all over ; chilly all the time, even in a warm room ; chilly with the pains. ► Chilly at lower abdomen and small of back ; sleepy but no sleep. ► One-sided coldness, with numbness. ► Flitting chilliness ; chills in spots, now here, now there ; worse evening. ► Chill 4 P.M., no thirst ; anxiety, dyspnoea ; vomiting of mucus when the chill comes on. ► Heat, with red face, or one cheek red and one pale. ► Internal dry heat, evening or night, without external heat. ► Heat of right side or on upper part of body ; lessened by moving or washing. ► Heat of face or of one hand, with coldness of the other ; body hot, limbs cold. ► Attacks of anxious heat, as if water was poured over him. ► Sweat : one-sided ; only on face and head ; more at night and in morning ; soon ceasing when waking ; sour, musty, at times cold ; sweetish acid odor to sweat ; at night, with stupid slumber. ► Pains during sweat. ► During apyrexia ; headache ; mucous diarrhoea, nausea and loss of appetite ; enlarged spleen.

Skin ► Pale ; burning-itching here and there. ► Urticaria, with diarrhoea ; also in the summer ; itching worse at night ; from pastry or pork ; from delayed menses ; worse undressing, cool bath, etc. ► Moles or freckles on young girls. ► Erysipelas bluish, spreads rapidly ; especially about buttocks and thighs ; smooth skin. ► Intertrigo, chafing, after abuse of chamomile tea. ► Rhagades. ► Chaps. ► Bleeding tumors ; changeable blood, most while walking during the day. ► Measles even with typhoid symptoms ; catarrh prominent ; eruption tardy ; earache ; ophthalmia ; short, dry cough, with pain in chest ; or, rattling loose cough, which is prone to remain as a sequelae. ► Ulcers : bleed easily, with burning, stinging or itching around them ; with hard or red areolae ; better from cold. ► Wound suppurate ; pus thick, bland, too profuse.

Complementary Lycopodium Clavatum, Sulphur, Ailanthus Glandulosa +8

Follows well —

Compare Sulphur, Cocculus Indicus, Cyclamen Europaeum +36