[H] FIND THE REMEDY'S NAME (131)

[Dr. Binoy.S.Vallabhassery]

Dear All,

Pharmacy
N. O. Apocynaceae. South Europe, North Africa, West Asia. Thrives best
in moist ground. Tincture of the leaves.
Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, third to thirtieth potency.

History
..........., which is one of the remedies proved by Hahnemann, has been
recognized as a powerful poison from antiquity. In the Cap de Verde
Islands the petals of ,,,,,,..... blossoms are used with dried
orange-peel in all kinds of fevers to promote perspiration and drive out
the rash. In animals poisoned by it, the heart becomes paralyzed, first
the auricles, then the entire heart.
Goullon refers to poisoning cases in which «anguish inflammation of the
stomach, diarrhea, swoons,» and even death had occurred. «Palpitations
of the heart, anxiety insomnia and unconsciousness,» were observed by
Petrus de Alvano and Morgagni has noted «vomiting, thirst, slumbering,
speechlessness and death.» Goullon also quotes instances of suffering
from exhalations of the flowers and even from the plants when not in
flower.
Planets: Moon.
Homeopathic
.............. has a marked action on the skin, heart and nervous system
producing and curing paralytic conditions with cramp-like contractions
of upper limbs. Hemiplegia. Difficult articulation.
Paralytic conditions with cramp like contractions of upper limbs.
Paresis after infantile paralysis. General crampings. Numbness. Weakness
with trembling in nursing women. Sense of vibrations.
Emptiness in stomach and chest after eating, better brandy. Hemiplegia.
Paralytic rigidity. Sopor. Unable to speak or speaks with difficulty.
Discharges involuntary.
Clinical
Brain disorders. Eczema. Fainting. Headache. Hyperesthesia. Lienteria.
Memory, weakened. Numbness. Nursing women disorders. Palpitations.
Paralysis. Perichondritis. Rheumatism. Scalp, eruptions. Spasms. Spine
disorders. Strabismus. Tongue, coated, parched. Vertigo.
Modalities
Better from looking sideways. Better brandy. Squinting helps headache.
Worse in open air, by draft of air. Worse rest, undressing after
nursing. Worse by scratching, by rubbing. Worse looking sideways,
friction of clothes. Rising up aggravates headache, vertigo. Stooping
causes pain over heart.
Symptoms
Mind
Memory weak, slow perception. Melancholy with obstinate constipation.
Sadness with lack of confidence and power. Morose. Peevish. Slow
comprehension.
Abdomen
Borborygmus with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing around navel.
Chest
Oppression as from a weight, asthmatic when lying down. Obtuse stitches
in chest.
Eyes
Can see objects only when looking at them sideways. Eyes water on
reading. Double vision. Sensation as if eyes were drawn back into the
head. Lachrymation, when reading.
Face
Pale, sunken with blue rings around eyes. (Ph-ac.) Numb upper lip.
Lower jaw trembles when yawning.
Female
Tremors after nursing, so weak she can scarcely walk across the room.
Food
Desires cold water. There is thirst for cold water. Aversion to cheese.

Head
Headache better by looking crossways, sideways or squinting. Pain in
brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think.
Indolence. Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair, worse heat.
Eruption on scalp.
Humid, fetid spots behind ears. (Graph., Petr.) and occiput with red,
rough, herpetic spots in front.
Heart
Palpitations with weakness and empty feeling in chest. Better brandy.
Pains on stooping.
Kidneys
Involuntary urination.
Limbs
Weakness of lower limbs. Crampy contraction of upper limbs in
paralysis. Limbs stiff and cold. Stiffness of joints. Cold feet.
Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins on
hands swollen. Trembling knees when standing. Edema. Paralysis of legs
and feet. Painless paralysis.
Lungs
Dyspnea.
Mouth
Toothache only when masticating. Tongue numb. Loss of speech.
Rectum
Ineffectual urging. Burning pain in anus. Passes food undigested in the
morning which he ate the day before. Stools, passes when emitting
flatus. Stools, thin involuntary, escape with flatus in children.
Sensations
Peculiar sensations suggestive of paralysis, are: Buzzing and humming
sensations in the body. Numb or painless paralyzed feeling as if inner
parts were distended. Pulsations in outer parts. Gnawing itching, biting
or pungent pain after scratching. Numbness of skin or itching numbness.
Skin
Very sensitive skin, slightest friction causes soreness and chapping.
Itching, scurfy pimples, herpes, sensitive and numb. Nocturnal burning.
Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing, want of perspiration.
Itching, especially of scalp, which is sensitive. Eruptions with
itching, biting as of lice. Skin numb.
Sleep
Sopor. Yawning with trembling of lower jaw.
Stomach
Extreme debility of digestive power. Canine hunger with hurried eating
without appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food, greenish
water. Throbbing in pit. Empty feeling even after eating, better brandy.

Temperature
Heat from mental exertion.
Throat
As if a cool wind blowing on throat (left).
Vertigo
Vertigo for a long time before paralysis. Vertigo, worse looking
fixedly at an object or looking down, turning to either side in bed with
diplopia.
Comments
A young man, 18, fell sick, had attacks of vertigo, suffered from great
weakness of the muscles, headache better in evening.
Worse every morning after waking, which was a difficult process. In
addition: pale face, white-coated tongue, slow pulse. On leaving for
change of air he soon got quite well, but ill again as soon as he
returned.
Some ........... in his bedroom were then suspected by his doctor and
on their removal all the trouble vanished. The doctor then recalled that
when a student he had some .............. before his windows and in
autumn, when the nights were cold, he took them into his bedroom with
this result:
On waking in the morning heavy head and sensation of weariness, could
only leave his bed by great exertion. As soon as be put his foot to the
ground was seized with vertigo and reeled. Having traced this to the
oleanders, he purposely repeated the experiment and always with the same
result.
Olean. is in the front rank of remedies affecting the scalp, more
particularly the back part of the scalp or commencing there.
«Desquamation of the epidermis of the scalp,» «violent gnawing itching
on the scalp, as from lice after scratching, a smarting as if scratched
raw» are symptoms which have been repeatedly verified by cures and
Clarke has confirmed
Cooper's experience in one very bad case in a schoolboy, that a single
dose of the tincture may give the best possible result in such cases.
The condition was: Head very sore and irritable, covered with crusts,
sore to touch. Glands in neck swollen and sore to touch.
.............. two drops in a powder at bedtime on November 14th. On
November 27th an aggravation was reported and the eruption had spread
from the head to the back.
From this time rapid improvement set in. The skin generally of
......... is very sensitive and easily chafed and chapped and this
occurring concomitantly with other .......... conditions.
The digestion is paralyzed and the food passes completely undigested.
Gastro-enteritis, forms a strong indication. Infants soil their diapers
every time they pass flatus.
Momentary loss of sight. The paralytic symptoms of ......... are in
constant evidence. Involuntary evacuation of feces and urine.
.......... corresponds to «trembling after nursing» in nursing women to
weak memory and slow perception to functional paralysis. The headaches
are mostly pressive and stupefying. Pressure as if a hundredweight were
pressing brain forward and as if everything would come out at forehead.
A curious feature in connection with some of the headaches is that they
are better by looking cross-eyed or by looking sideways. This is a
clinical observation well verified. There is also cloudiness of vision,
worse by looking sideways. Eyes distorted. ,............... should cure
some cases of strabismus. The left side is most affected, violent
contraction of muscles, worse left side. Numbness of upper and lower
limbs has been frequently confirmed.
Compare
(1) Con., Nat-m., Rhus-t., Caust., Lathyr.
(2) ..........contains .............. and also Nerein which latter is
said to be closely related if not identical with Digitalin.
(3) In irritability, Staph., Hyos., Nux-v.
(4) In fits of passion followed by quick repentance, Croc.
(5) disorders of nursing women, Carb-an.
(7) In lienteria, Ferr., Ars. has diarrhea from chilling stomach
indigestion of cold things, stool yellow with stool great pain, burning,
worse after midnight, great thirst.
(8) Arg-n. - bowels act as soon as patient drinks.
(9) Chin. - watery stool containing undigested food, very debilitating,
stools may escape involuntarily after a meal, caused or worse by eating
fruits.
(10) Apis, Phos. and Ph-ac. - wide-open anus.
Relations
Antidoted by: Camph. - acute effects, Sulph. - the chronic effects.
Compatible: Con., Lyc., Nat-m., Puls., Rhus-t., Sep., Spig.
Sources
Boericke. Clarke. Phatak.

Beast Wishes,
Dr. Binoy Vallabhassery
INDIA
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