Spigelia

General

SPIGELIA. [Spigel.] Pinkroot. Hahnemann. Loganiaceae.

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.

Sensorium

► Vertigo : as if he would fall, worse in morning on rising, with headache, depriving him of his senses ; when looking down or turning the eyes ; with nausea.

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.

Outer Head

► Shaking in brain, worse when moving head or stepping hard. ► Tension on the scalp. ► Scalp feel sore to touch. ► Head feels as if too large.

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.

Ears

► Hearing oversensitive, in neuralgia and headache. ► Periodical deafness ; ears feel as if stuffed. ► Otalgia, with pressing as from a plug.

Nose

► Violent nosebleed ; also with endocarditis. ► Coryza fluent ; with dry heat, no thirst ; eyes water ; headaches, with hoarseness, and anxiety about the heart. ► Copious offensive mucus, flows through posterior nares, causing choking at night. ► Tickling and itching in nose. ► Herpetic eruption on nose.

Face

► Bloated, distorted ; worse morning on awaking ; pale, sickly ; yellow around the eyes ; red ; sweaty. ► Prosopalgia, mostly left-sided, with tearing, shooting, burning into eye, malar bone and teeth, periodical ; from morning until sunset, worse at noon ; worse from motion or noise ; with lachrymation, ciliary neuralgia, palpitation ; cheek dark red.

Lower Face

► Lips dry, pale, cracked. ► Neuralgia radiating to nose, face, temples and neck.

Teeth

► Toothache : throbbing in decayed teeth ; pressing outward, teeth feel cold ; better while eating ; worse after eating ; from cold water ; and at night, driving out of bed.

Tongue, Etc

► Taste like putrid water. ► Stammering ; with abdominal ailments. ► Tongue : coated yellow, burning, with blisters ; cracked.

Mouth

► Breath fetid. ► Mouth dry on awaking mornings, with stinging. ► Mouth feels dry and pricks as from pins, yet filled with tenacious and nauseous saliva. ► White or yellow mucus in mouth and throat.

Throat

► Sensation as of a worm rising in throat. ► Tingling in oesophagus.

Desires And Aversions

► Ravenous hunger with nausea and thirst. ► Loss of appetite with violent thirst. ► Desire for alcoholic drinks.

Eating And Drinking

► Worse before breakfast : 16. ► Better during and generally after eating.

Nausea And Vomiting

► Nausea before breakfast ; with sensation of a worm rising in throat ; better after eating ; sickly, pale face. θ Worms. ► Vomits food, with sour rising like vinegar.

Stomach

► Pit of stomach sensitive to touch. ► Pressure in stomach as from a hard lump.

Hypochondria

► Stitches in region of diaphragm, left side, arresting the breathing. ► Heavy pressure in precordial region causing constriction and anxiety ; with cutting and griping in bowels as from wind.

Abdomen

► Cutting colic at navel. ► Pressure in umbilical region as from a hard lump.

Stool, Etc

► Emission of fetid flatus. ► Stools : of mucus with tenesmus ; large lumps of mucus without feces ; of feces with masses of worms ; hard like sheep's dung and enveloped in mucus. ► Itching and tickling in anus and rectum. θ Ascarides.

Urine

► Copious ; with frequent urging, mostly at night ; drips involuntarily, with burning in orifice of urethra ; with whitish sediment.

Male Sexual Organs

► Erections with voluptuous fancies, but without sexual desire. ► Swelling of one-half of corona glandis. ► Tingling around corona glandis.

Pregnancy

► Stitches under either nipple.

Breathing

► Short-breathed, worse when talking, with red cheeks and lips. ► Dyspnoea and suffocating attacks when moving in bed, or raising arms ; must lie on right side, or with head high. θ Heart disease.

Cough

► At night with catarrh ; dry, hard ; with worm affections ; with dyspnoea, which is worse when bending forward.

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.

Heart And Pulse

► Stitches about heart : sometimes synchronous with pulse ; with anxiety and oppression ; often commencing with valvular disease, endocarditis, etc. ► Purring feeling over heart ; wave-like motion, not synchronous with the pulse. ► Palpitation : violent, worse bending forward ; high fever ; stitching pains ; when he sits down, after rising in the morning ; from deep inspiration or holding the breath ; from worms ; from least motion. ► Systolic blowing at the apex. ► Nervous palpitation, with intermittent pulse. ► Pulse : irregular ; strong, but slow ; trembling.

Outer Chest

► Painful contraction of muscles. ► Shootings under left clavicle, or on a line with the heart.

Neck And Back

► Rheumatism of nape of neck, with painful numbness ; worse lying on back. ► Stitches in back, also when breathing.

Upper Limbs

► Trembling of arms. ► Stitches in bends of elbows and joints of hands and fingers. ► Contraction of flexors of fingers.

Lower Limbs

► Sprain of the foot. ► Lancinating pain on sole of foot, when standing.

Limbs In General

► Stinging or stitches in joints. ► Hard nodosities on hands and toes.

Position, Etc

► Rest : 3. Standing : 33. Sitting : 29. Lying on back : 31 ; with head high : 3, 26, 28 ; only on right side : 26, 28. Rising : 2, 29, 36.

Motion

3, 4, 5, 8, 26, 28, 29, 40. Must move : 36. Stooping : 4. Bending forward : 27, 29. Stepping hard : 4. Raising arms : 26. Jarring : 3. Looking down : 2. Turning eyes : 2.

Nerves

► Restless ; cannot keep limbs still at night. ► Body painfully sensitive to touch ; part touched feels chilly ; or, tingling through body. ► Body feels heavy and sore, when rising from a seat.

Sleep

► Sleepy by day, even mornings ; goes to sleep late. ► Sleep restless, unrefreshing.

Time

► Morning : 2, 3, 8, 12, 40. Morning till sunset : 8. Noon : 8. Night : 5, 7, 10, 21, 27, 36, 40. Day : 37.

Temperature And Weather

► Washing : 3. Change of weather : 5. Cold : 10. Desire to uncover : 40.

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.

Attacks

► Periodical : 3, 8. Same hour every day :40.

Sides

► Right : 3. Left : 3, 8, 18, 29, 30. Before backward : 5. Within outward : 3.

Tissues

► Dropsy of internal parts. ► Painful glandular swellings. ► Rheumatism attacking the heart.

Contact, Injuries, Etc

► Touch : 3, 4, 17, 36. Wiping : 5.

Skin

► Pale, wrinkled, yellow, earthy.

Relationship

► Spigel. follows : Acon. (endocarditis), and is followed well by Arsen., Digit., Kali carb. (heart symptoms), Act. rac., Zincum. ► Spigel. is antidoted by : Aurum (restlessness in limbs), Coccul., Pulsat.