Habitat The resin, leaves, seeds, seed-vessels, powdered root, and expressed juice have also been used

ClarkePreparation Tincture of fresh root.

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

Inner Head ► Periodical sick headache ; begins in morning, increases during day, lasts until evening ; head feels as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pressed out ; or, throbbing, lancinating pains through brain, worse on right side, and especially in forehead and vertex ; followed by chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile ; must lie down and remain quiet ; relieved by sleep. ► Headache begins in occiput, spreads upward and settles over the right eye. ► Severe headache, only relieved by pressing back up against something hard. ► Headache, rheumatic running up posterior auricular region.

Eyes ► Diminished power of vision. ► Dimness of eyes, with sensation as if hairs were in them. ► Pupils dilated. ► Neuralgia in and over right eye. ► Yellowness of sclerotica, with icterus. ► Catarrhal ophthalmia, granular lids. ► Ophthalmia, followed by ulceration of cornea. ► Copious lachrymation : following the burning and dryness ; tears hot ; with coryza.

Stomach ► Soreness and pressure in epigastrium, aggravated by eating. ► Burning in stomach, with headache. ► Gastritis, with burning, vomiting, headache. ► Jerking in stomach, as if from something alive. ► Goneness, with sick headache. ► Sudden attacks of constriction in pit of stomach, as if suffocating.

Female Sexual Organs ► Climacteric disorders, especially flushes of heat and leucorrhoea. ► Menses : at right time, offensive smelling, bright red flow ; clots, like lumps of flesh ; later, blood darker, and less offensive ; scanty, headache, from occiput to frontal region, head as if bursting ; face red and hot. ► Os uteri ulcerated ; fetid, corrosive leucorrhoea. ► Uteri polypi. ► Flatus from uterus : 19.

Lungs ► Sharp piercing midway between sternum and right nipple. ► Pain in right chest to shoulder, can only with difficulty place hand on top of head. ► Stitches on lower part of left breast to shoulder. ► Cramps in chest. ► Burning in chest, also stitching ; he lies on the back ; sputum is tough, rust-colored and difficult ; pulse quick and small ; face and limbs cold, or hands and feet burning hot, and cheeks circumscribed red and burning, worse in afternoon ; extreme dyspnoea. ► Pneumonia. ► Breath and sputa smell badly, even to the patient ; belches before and after cough ; after cough heat ; then gaping ; circumscribed red cheeks ; diarrhoea ; night-sweats ; pains in legs.

Neck And Back ► Pain in nape of neck. ► Dull pain along inner edge of left scapula, worse from breathing. ► Rheumatic pains in neck, shoulders and arms, worse at night. ► Pain in sacrum, from lifting. ► Lumbago, from lifting ; or, myalgia of great muscles of back. ► Soreness down muscles of back ; pains shift about ; feels pain more when drawing long breath.

Limbs In General ► Burning of hands and feet, worse at night. ► Rheumatic pains, worse in those places least covered with flesh, but not in joints ; on touching the painful part, pain vanishes and appears on some other part. ► Rheumatism in all joints, with swelling and spasmodic pains.

Sleep ► Sleepless at night, wakes with fright, as if he would fall. ► Dreams : of sailing on sea ; of business matters ; frightful. ► Drowsiness, causing mental and bodily indolence.

Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill, with headache, nausea, pain under scapula on motion ; shivering in back, worse evening in bed. ► Slight flushes of heat, followed by chills, then face flushed, hands hot, qualmish feeling all over ; lassitude. ► Heat flying from head to stomach. ► Burning heat, rapidly alternating with chill and shivering. ► Afternoon fever, with circumscribed red cheeks. ► Fever 2 to 3 P.M. daily. ► Flushes of heat. ► Fever and delirium. ► Slight chill, violent fever, headache and delirium. ► Copious sweat ; cold sweat. ► Typhus, with the characteristic headache.

Skin ► Heat and dryness. ► Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea. ► Old, indolent ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge ; dirty granulations, dry, sharp-cut edges. ► Icterus, during prevalent intermittent fever. ► Prickling sensation of warmth, spreading over body. ► Eruption on face of young women, with menstrual troubles, especially deficiency.

Complementary Tartaricum Acidum

Follows well —

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