Habitat American Medicinal Plants

ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time. and Rhus Radicans. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time.

Sources 20 entries across 16 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …

Inner Head ► Burning in forehead when walking. ► Feeling as of a strapped board across the forehead. ► Stupefying headache, with buzzing ; worse when sitting or lying ; in the cold, in the morning, from beer ; better from warmth and motion. ► Headache, must lie down ; returns from the least chagrin. ► Rush of blood to head, with humming, formication and throbbing ; face glistening and red ; restless, moving about. ► Brain feels loose, when stepping or shaking the head. ► Stitches extending two ears, root of nose and malar bones, with toothache. ► Aching in occipital protuberance. …

Eyes ► Great photophobia, profuse acrid lachrymation in morning and in open air ; the cheek under the eye is dotted with red pimples ; lids spasmodically closed. ► Iritis : in rheumatic or gouty subjects ; suppurative or where the ciliary body and choroid are involved, especially if of traumatic origin. ► Pustules and superficial ulcers on cornea, with great photophobia conjunctiva quite red, even to chemosis. ► Sac-like swelling of conjunctiva, with yellow, purulent discharge. ► Eyes red and agglutinated in morning. ► Lids much swollen and inflamed. ► Eyelids oedematous or erysipelatous, with scattered watery vesicles ; meibomian glands enlarged, cilia fall out. ► Ptosis, also, paralysis of any of the muscles of eyeball, from getting wet ; in rheumatic patients.

Stomach ► Stinging or pulsation in pit of stomach. ► Fulness or heaviness, as from a stone in stomach ; after eating. ► Pain in stomach and nausea, after ice water. ► Pressure in pit of stomach, as if swollen, or as if drawn together.

Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too early, profuse and protracted ; flow light-colored, acrid, causing biting pain in vulva. ► Amenorrhoea : from getting wet ; with milk in breasts. ► Metrorrhagia ; blood clotted, with labor-like pains. ► Bearing down, when standing or walking, back aches, better lying on something hard ; prolapsus from overexertion or straining. ► Soreness in vagina hindering an embrace. ► External genitals inflamed, erysipelatous.

Lungs ► Stitches in chest, worse when at rest, and while sneezing and breathing ; also when sitting crooked. ► Tingling in chest, with tension in intercostal muscles ; worse at rest. ► Pneumonia : with typhoid symptoms, often from re-absorption of pus ; also with tearing cough and restlessness, because quiet makes pain and dyspnoea worse. ► Haemoptysis : from overexertion, blowing wind-instruments ; blood bright ; pain in lower part of chest ; renewed from least mental excitement.

Neck And Back ► Stiff neck, with painful tension when moving. ► Pains in shoulders and back, with stiffness as from a sprain. ► Curvature of the dorsal vertebrae. ► Spinal membranes inflamed, even myelitis ; from getting wet or sleeping on damp ground. ► Pains in small of back, better lying upon something hard. ► Lumbago.

Limbs In General ► Swelling and stiffness of joints from sprains, over lifting, or overstretching. ► Phlegmonous erysipelas of limbs. ► Rheumatoid pains in limbs ; also with numbness and tingling ; joints weak or stiff, or red shining swelling of joints, stitches when touched ; worse on beginning to move ; after 12 P.M., and in wet, damp weather or places ; better from continued motion. ► Tearing pains in limbs, during rest.

Sleep ► Spasmodic yawning, yet hot sleepy, with stitching and pain as from dislocation of jaw. ► Great sleepiness and lassitude after eating. ► Heavy sleep, as from stupor. ► Sleeplessness : from pain, more before 12 P.M., must turn often to find any ease. ► When intoxicated by beer, sleeps with mouth open and head thrown back. ► Dreams of great exertion ; as rowing, swimming, etc.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Constant chilliness, as if cold water was poured over him, or as if the blood was running cold through the veins, 7 P.M., feels cold when he moves. ► Before the chill : dry cough ; yawning ; stretching ; maxillary joint feels sprained. ► Chills over the back, worse evenings ; chill increased by drinking. ► Chill, with pains in limbs, restlessness ; pale face, or alternating pale and red face. ► Heat after chill, with sweat which relieves. ► General heat, as from hot water or hot blood running through veins. ► General warmth with slight chills during motion ; face livid. ► During fever, nettle-rash ; thirst, drinking little and often. ► Drowsy, weary, with yawning, 1 A.M., excessive heat without thirst. ► Evening fever, with diarrhoea. ► Sweat with pains ; often with violent trembling. ► Sweat : even during heat ; except on face ; with violent itching of the eruption ; sour ; musty, putrid ; with thirst or thirstlessness.

Skin ► Intolerable itching of skin ; red, measly rash all lover. ► Itching all over, worse on hairy parts ; after scratching, burning. ► Urticaria : from getting wet ; during rheumatism ; with chills and fever ; worse in cold air. ► Eruption : herpetic ; with incessant itching, burning and tingling ; alternates with pains in chest and dysenteric stools. ► Eczema : surface raw, excoriated ; thick crusts, oozing and offensive. ► Vesicles upon a red patch or with a spreading, red, erysipelatous base ; internal pruritus followed by pains in the thighs after scratching. ► Pustulous eruption. ► Pemphigus, each bulla with a red areola. ► Erysipelas. ► Erysipelatous inflammations. ► Zona. ► Hardness of the skin, with thickening. ► Carbuncles, bluish, gangrenous. ► Variola, eruption sinks and turns livid ; typhoid symptoms. ► Scarlatina miliaria ; rash dark, fever high ; drowsiness and restlessness. ► Chilblains.

Complementary Bryonia Alba, Agaricus Muscarius, Ammonium Muriaticum +47

Follows well Bryonia Alba, Apis Mellifica, Arsenicum Album +9

Compare Arnica Montana, Anacardium Orientale, Arsenicum Album +41