Origin Plant · Zingiberaceae · Simple
ClarkePreparation Tincture of dried rhizome.
Sources 7 entries across 6 books: Boericke, Clarke, Hering, Lippe, T. F. Allen …
Dose Boericke
1X–6X
First to sixth potency
By regionHering
Mind ► Forgetful. ► Not in least anxious in midst of physical suffering from threatened suffocation. ► Good-humored. ► Irritable and chilly ; also during menses.
Inner Head ► Rush of blood worse about temples. ► Pressure into forehead and root of nose when stooping. ► Frontal headache over eyes and root of nose ; also when he exerts himself. ► Headache, worse over left eye ; aching over eyebrows, followed by nausea ; later over right eye and pressing in left occiput, worse in warm room, but continued in cold, damp air, in motion or sitting. ► Heavy pressure, in head from without inward, when walking in cold, damp air.
Eyes ► Weakness of sight : dimness of cornea. ► Eyes sensitive to light, with stinging pain in eyeballs. ► Feeling as from sand in eyes. ► Smarting, burning in eyes.
Stomach ► Weak digestion ; stomach heavy like a stone ; fidgety ; cramps in soles, hoarseness.
Female Sexual Organs ► Menses too early and profuse, dark, clotted ; irritable ; exhausted look before ; drawing pain in sacrum.
Lungs ► Stitches through chest, pains in chest, pleuritic. ► Stinging pains after motion, also stinging-pressing in region of heart.
Neck And Back ► Backache as from weakness ; worse sitting and leaning against something. ► Lower part of back ; as if beaten ; or, lame from walking or standing ; feels stiff.
Limbs In General ► Dull, heavy feeling ; also with dizziness. ► Joints weak ; back lame.
Sleep ► Sleepy, worse afternoons. ► Coma. ► Sleepless in night, awakens 3 A.M. ; falls asleep again late in morning.
Chill, Fever And Sweat ► Chilly in open air ; in evening ; chill goes upward. ► Hot and chilly at the same time.
Skin ► Skin feels relaxed, pliable. ► Itching on scalp, beard, genitals.
Books*
Antidoted by Nux Vomica 2, Caladium Seguinum
Complementary —
Follows well —
Compare Abies Nigra, Caladium Seguinum, Nux Vomica +1
* 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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