Hand Book of Materia Medica and Homœopathic Therapeutics
Anagallis Arvensis anag.
General
The scarlet pimpernel (poor man's weather-glass) is a small weed belonging to the Primulæceæ. A tincture is prepared from the fresh plant.
Trembling, like shivering, in evening; trembling of heart, evening in bed, before and during a dull pain in a hollow tooth, with trembling and shivering in whole body and anxiety in chest. ▶ Liveliness. ▶ Pleasure in everything. ▶ Inability to collect his thoughts during a sermon on account of joy, without thinking of anything in particular. ▶ Thinking about everything, and vigor of mind. ▶ Aching in sinciput after a draft of cold air. ▶ Spasmodic stitches in temples, extending to eyes, with pressure in middle of eyes. ▶ Twinges in right ear.
Dry feeling and scraping in throat, in evening. ▶ Itching in rectum, with pressure in loins, as in hæmorrhoidal troubles. ▶ Desire for stool. ▶ Burning pain on urinating, agg. morning, with agglutination of orifice, requiring violent pressure before urine passes, which it does in several streams; burning tensive pain, during the erection before coition, amel. coition. ▶ Tickling pricking, half painful, especially at orifice, inclining to coition. ▶ Desire for coition.
Sudden feeling internally in chest as if struck with a cushion full of pins. ▶ Anxiety in chest in evening. ▶ Tensive drawing from left shoulder to nape, renewed on raising left arm violently and extending it forcibly downward. ▶ Dull drawing pain in metacarpal bone of thumb, agg. right, sometimes like a tearing, returning at uncertain intervals. ▶ Cramp in ball of thumb on cutting with shears in evening, becoming a dull drawing, when it leaves this place it appears in left thumb. ▶ Sleep bad, restless, falls asleep late, wakes early and has not slept enough in the morning. ▶ Heat rising to head, and sensation of sweat on forehead, then sticking in eye-balls and tickling prickling in urethra, which inclines to coition.