Origin Animal · Cephalopoda · Simple
ClarkePreparation Trituration of dried liquid contained in the ink-bag.
Sources 18 entries across 15 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Allen …
Dose Boericke
1X
Twelfth, 30th and 200th potency. Should not be used too low or be repeated too frequently. On the other hand Dr. Jousset's unique experience is that is should be continued for some time in strong doses. 1x twice a day
By regionHering
Mind ► Weak memory. ► Heavy flow of ideas. ► Inability for mental activity. ► Fits of involuntary weeping and laughter. ► Aversion to one's occupation. ► Sadness about one's health and her domestic affairs. ► Dread of being alone. ► Anxiety : with fear, flushes of heat over the face ; about real or imaginary evils. ► Antagonistic states ; imagines what he does not want to ; uses wrong words knowing them to be so, etc. ► Great indifference even to one's family, to those one loves best. ► Is easily offended and inclined to be vehement. ► Great irritability alternating with indifference. ► Greedy, miserly. ► Great excitability in company. ► Restless, fidgety. ► After overexertion of the mind, as with book keepers, etc.
Inner Head ► Paroxysms of hemicrania, stinging pain from within outward, in one (mostly left) side of head or forehead with nausea, vomiting and contraction of pupils ; worse in-doors and when walking fast ; better in open air, and when lying on painful side. ► Boring headache from within outward, forenoon till evening, feels as if he would die ; worse from motion and stooping ; relieved by rest, when closing eyes, from external pressure, and sleep and when enough has been had. ► Shooting pains in-out, especially over left eye, extorting cries, with vomiturition. ► Pressing or bursting headache as if eyes would fall out, or head burst, worse from stooping, motion, coughing or shaking the head ; continued hard motion relieves headache. ► Pulsating headache in cerebellum, beginning in morning, lasting till noon, or sometimes till evening ; aggravated from least motion, when turning eyes, when lying on back ; better when lying on side when closing eyes when at rest and in dark room. ► Beating : in head ; in occiput. ► Headache, with aversion to all food.
Eyes ► Dulness of sight ; also when writing ; sees only one-half of the object clearly, the other half is obscured. ► Many black spots before eyes. ► Green halo around candle light. ► Great sensitiveness of eyes to light of day. ► Prickling in eyes, evenings from candle-light. ► Yellow color of whites of eyes. ► Lachrymation, morning and evening. ► Burning in eyes in morning. ► Inflammation of eyes, with redness of white ; stitching and pressure in eyes. ► Follicular conjunctivitis, worse in summer ; eyelids will close. ► Redness of eyelids, with styes on them. ► Nightly agglutination of eyes, or dry scurf on the eyelids on waking. ► Pustules on cornea, also fungus haematodes. ► Acne-like pustules on edges of lids ; the latter feel tight. ► Painful heaviness of upper lids on awaking.
Stomach ► Sensitiveness of pit of stomach to touch. ► Painful sensation of emptiness in stomach and abdomen. ► Pressure in stomach, as from a stone ; after eating. ► Pain in stomach after the simplest kind of food. ► Cramp in stomach. ► Stitches, or burning in stomach. ► Beating in pit of the stomach. ► Twisting in stomach and rising in throat, tongue becomes stiff, speechless, afterward the body may become rigid. ► Hardness in pyloric region.
Female Sexual Organs ► Pain in uterus, bearing down comes from back to abdomen, causes oppression of breathing, crosses limbs to prevent protrusion of parts. ► Stitches, or shooting, lancinating pains mostly in neck of uterus, go up to umbilicus and pit of stomach. ► Prolapsus : of the uterus ; of the vagina ; with constipation. ► Induration of neck of uterus. ► Dropsy of uterus. ► Tenderness of female parts to touch. ► Coition painful to women. ► Menses : too early and too profuse even with mania ; too late and too scanty ; suppressed. ► Metrorrhagia during climacteric age ; or, during pregnancy, especially fifth and seventh months. ► Amenorrhoea at the age of puberty or later. ► Redness, swelling and itching eruption on inner labia. ► Leucorrhoea : yellow or greenish water ; like pus ; of bad-smelling fluids, accompanied by much itching in genital organs.
Lungs ► Sensation of emptiness in chest. ► Great pressure on chest, more left side. ► Stitch in left side of chest and scapula, when breathing. ► Sensation of soreness in middle of chest. ► Chest symptoms relieved by pressing on chest with hand.
Neck And Back ► Pain in back and small of back, particularly with stiffness, improved by walking. ► When stooping, sudden pain in back as if struck by a hammer, relieved by pressing back against something hard. ► Weakness in small of back when walking, generally from disease of the uterus. ► Belching relieves pain in back.
Limbs In General ► Stiffness of joints. ► Arthritic pains in joints. ► Jerking and twitching of head and limbs, during the day. ► Limbs go to sleep easily, after manual labor. ► Weakness of joints, especially the knees. ► Patient fears the joints cannot beat the exertion of lifting.
Sleep ► Great sleepiness in daytime or too early in evening. ► Frequent awaking from sleep without cause or because he thinks he has been called. ► Talks aloud during sleep. ► Awakens in morning at 3 o'clock and cannot go to sleep again. ► Wakeful, sleeplessness from rush of thoughts. ► Restless sleep.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Want of natural bodily warmth. ► Shuddering during the day, without chill. ► Chilliness evening in open air, and from every motion. ► More thirst with the chill than with the heat. ► Heat with attacks of chilliness, with thirst. ► Intermittent fever, with thirst during the chill. ► Flushes of heat from least motion ; or, as if hot water was poured over him, then sweat, weakness, faintness. ► Heat ascends. ► Morning-sweat after awaking, profuse. ► Sweat, more when walking and from the least exertion. ► Sweat more after a nervous shock and when sitting quietly after exertion. ► Night-sweat : on chest, back and thighs ; from above downward on the calves, every third night ; smelling sour ; offensive ; or, like elder blossoms.
Skin ► Itching in face, on arms, hands, back, hips, feet, abdomen and genitals. ► Itching often changes to burning, when scratching. ► Soreness of the skin ; humid places in bends of knees. ► Brown ; or, claret-colored, tetter-like spots. ► Humid tetter, with itching and burning. ► Vesicles, itching, followed by abundant desquamation. ► Ringworms ; boils ; pustules ; pemphigus. ► Ulcers : painless, on joints or tips of fingers or toes ; itching, stinging and burning.
Books*
Antidoted by Aconitum Napellus 2, Antimonium Crudum 2, Antimonium Tartaricum 2 +16
Complementary Natrum Muriaticum, Guaiacum, Natrium Carbonicum +2
Follows well Nitricum Acidum, Pulsatilla Pratensis
Compare Murex Purpurea, Sulphur, Arsenicum Album +52
* 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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