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Spigelia
Spigelia anthelmia
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Origin Plant · Loganiaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of dried herb.
Sources 11 entries across 9 books: Clarke, Hering, Farrington, Hahnemann, T. F. Allen …

Dose
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No dose stated in the library’s books

By regionHering
Mind ► Weak memory. ► Disinclined to mental work. ► Restless and anxious ; solicitude about the future. ► Gloomy, suicidal mood. ► Afraid of pointed things, as pins ; easily irritated or offended.
Inner Head ► Nervous headache, worse from thinking, from noise or anything jarring ; face pale ; anxious palpitation ; nausea and vomiting. ► Tearing in forehead, paroxysmal, with fixed eyes. ► Boring from within outward, in the forehead, vertex or cerebellum. ► Pulsating stitches in frontal protuberances. ► Stitches in left side of head and out of left eye. ► Pressing headache, mostly in right temple ; worse from least motion or noise ; better on rest, and lying with head high. ► Headache beginning at cerebellum (in morning), spreading over left side of head, causing violent and pulsating pain in left temple and over left eye ; periodical. ► Dull stitches from within outward, on top of head ; worse from touch and after washing, but better while washing it. ► Feels as if the head would burst. ► Painfulness of cerebellum, with stiff neck. ► Headache when stooping, as from a band around the head.
Eyes ► Feels as if feathers were on the lashes ; worse wiping them. ► Foresighted. ► Photophobia ; oversensitive retina. ► Asthenopia (accommodative), slight retinitis ; neuralgia ; or with anaemia of the optic nerve from excessive tea drinking. ► Dilated pupils. ► Sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eye ball back into head, or radiating ; worse from moving eyes and at night. ► Eyeballs feel too large. ► Boring pains, supraorbital and temporal. ► Superciliary ridge pains ; worse from any change in the weather. ► Bluish ring around the cornea ; iris discolored. ► Rheumatic ophthalmia, profuse lachrymation with or without pain ; ptosis. ► Strabismus, with worms. ► Upper lids feel hard and immovable ; stabbing pain in eyes. ► Lids inflamed and ulcerated. ► Chronic twitching of eyelids. ► Great inclination to wink.
Stomach ► Pit of stomach sensitive to touch. ► Pressure in stomach as from a hard lump.
Lungs ► Constriction in chest, with anxiety and difficult breathing. ► Stitches in chest, worse from least movement, or when breathing. ► Sensation of tearing in chest. ► Trembling feeling, worse from any movement. ► Can lie only on right side, with head high. θ Hydrothorax.
Neck And Back ► Rheumatism of nape of neck, with painful numbness ; worse lying on back. ► Stitches in back, also when breathing.
Limbs In General ► Stinging or stitches in joints. ► Hard nodosities on hands and toes.
Sleep ► Sleepy by day, even mornings ; goes to sleep late. ► Sleep restless, unrefreshing.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chill : often recurs at the same hour each morning ; alternates with heat or sweat ; on some parts, other being hot ; from least movement ; spreads from chest. ► Heat especially in back ; in flushes, at night, with thirst for beer ; on face and hands, with chill in back ; with desire to uncover. ► Offensive-smelling night-sweat, with heat at the same time. ► Clammy sweat on hands. ► Cold sweat.
Skin ► Pale, wrinkled, yellow, earthy.

Books*
Antidoted by Pulsatilla Pratensis 2, Aurum, Aurum Metallicum +3
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Mezereum, Aconitum Napellus, Actaea Racemosa +40

* 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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