Helonias Dioica helon.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

FEMALE ORGANS. Kidneys. Mind. Muscles.

Worse

Fatigue: Labor. Abortion. Stooping. Pregnancy. Pressure of clothes.

Better

If busy. Diversion. Holding abdomen.

General

Unduly exhausted females. Uterine reflexes. Heavy, sore, aching-burning; kidneys; in muscles; in back.

Particulars

Deep gloom. Melancholy. Irritable; wants to be let alone. Heat or upward pressure in vertex. Aphthæ. Dull ache and heat in region of kidneys. Excessive urine. Nephritis of pregnancy. Sugar and albumen in urine. Heavy, sore, tender, ulcerated or prolapsed womb. Dark, foul blood from uterus; hæmorrhage from atony. Foul, lumpy or curdled leucorrhœa. Inflamed, itching, aphthous vulva. Heavy dragging in pelvis. Squeezing in chest. Swelled, painful mammæ. Tender nipples. Aching between scapulæ. Sore pain in outer side of thighs. Anæmia. Hot, when tired.

Related

Related: Senec. Sep. Tril.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

For women: with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury; worn out with hard work, mental or physical; overtaxed muscles burn and ache; so tired cannot sleep. Always better when occupied, when not thinking of the ailment (Cal. p., Oxal. ac.). Restless, must be continually moving about. Irritable, fault finding; cannot endure least contradiction or receive least suggestion (Anac.). Profound melancholy; deep, mental depression. Diabetes: first stages; urine profuse, clear saccharine; lips dry, stick together; great thirst; restlessness; emaciation; irritable and melancholy. Albuminuria: acute or chronic; during pregnancy, with great weakness, languor, drowsiness, unusually tired, yet knows no reason. Menses: too early, too profuse, from uterine atony in women enfeebled by loss of blood; when patients lose more blood than is made in intermenstrual period; breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender (Con., Lac c.). Flow passive, dark, clotted, offensive. Sensation of soreness and heaviness in pelvis (Lappa); a consciousness of a womb, feels it move when she moves, it is so sore and tender (Lys.). For the bad effects of abortions and miscarriages.

Relations

Compare: Aletris, Fer., Lil., Phos. ac. Similar: to, Alet., in debility from prolapsus, protracted illness, defective nutrition.

Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica

J. W. Hutchison · Seven Hundred Red Line Symptoms from Materia Medica · rewritten from Hering's and other materia medicas

Red line symptom

Uterine disease with great fatigue and prostration; burning or tired, dragging, aching feeling in the lumbar and sacral regions.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Unicorn-root (HELONIAS - CHAMAELIRIUM)

General

Sensation of weakness, dragging and weight in the sacrum and pelvis, with great languor and prostration, are excellent indications for this remedy. There is a sensitiveness expressed as a consciousness of a womb. Tired, backachy females. The weakness shows itself also in a tendency to prolapse and other malposition of the womb. The menses are often suppressed and the kidneys congested. It seems as if the monthly congestion, instead of venting itself as it should through the uterine vessels, had extended to the kidneys. With it all, there is a profound melancholia. Patient must be doing something to engage the mind. Remember it, for women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury (better when attention is engaged-hence when the doctor comes), or for those worn out with hard work; tired, strained muscles burn and ache; sleepless. Diabetes mellitus, and insipidus. Constant aching and tenderness over kidneys.

Mind

Profound melancholy. Patient is better when kept busy, with mind engaged, when doing something. Irritable; cannot endure the least contradiction.

Head

Burning sensation on top. Headache, better mental exertion.

Back

Pain and weight in back; tired and weak. Aching and burning across the lumbar region; can trace outlines of kidneys by constant burning. Boring pain in lumbar region, extending down legs. Great languor, better exercising.

Female

Dragging in sacral region, with prolapse, especially after a miscarriage. Pruritus vulvæ. Backache after miscarriage (Kali c). Weight and soreness in womb; conscious of womb. Menses too frequent, too profuse. Leucorrhœa. Breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender. Parts hot, red, swollen; burn and itch terribly. Albuminuria during pregnancy. Debility attending the menopause.

Urine

Albuminous, phosphatic; profuse and clear, saccharine. Diabetes.

Extremities

Sensation as if a cool wind streamed up calves of legs. Feet feel numb when sitting.

Modalities

Better, when doing something (mental diversion). Worse, motion, touch.

Relationship

Compare: Agrimonia-Cockleburr--(painful kidneys, impaired digestion and menstrual difficulties; Bronchorrhœa and catarrh of bladder. Cough with profuse expectoration attended with expulsion of urine. Tincture 1-10 gtt). Aletris; Lilium; Puls; Senecio; Stannum.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Anæmic women, with prolapsus; worn out with hard work, mental or physical.

Heaviness in pelvic region, languor, pain or burning in back, with continual consciousness of a womb, sore and tender.

Better when mind is off herself.

I have found this remedy of use in a generally debilitated condition of women, with many and various complaints or symptoms in the region of the uterus, for instance: Prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury; worn out with hard work, mental or physical; muscles burn and ache; so tired cannot sleep (Dr. H. C. Allen).

There is almost always associated with it a more or less anæmic condition. This. anæmia may seem to be consequent upon too profuse menstruation or flooding, or it may exist entirely independent of any such cause. In these cases I have often found albumen present in the urine, sometimes in large quantities especially in pregnant women, and seen rapid improvement and disappearance of the albumen under the action of this remedy.

The fact that these anæmic and debilitated states are found, both under profuse and scanty discharges of the uterine organs, seems to indicate that the local symptoms are secondary, or a consequence of general debility and impoverished blood. Again, the fact that Helonias cures both conditions equally well seems to corroborate it.

What are the symptoms? The leading symptoms are anæmia, great general weakness and languor, and great lowness of spirits or profound melancholy. This condition of mind is temporarily relieved by diversion. She is always better if she can get her mind off herself; dragging weakness in sacral region; various displacements of womb, but more especially prolapses; pain in the back, with lameness, stiffness and weight, and heat or burning in lumbar region; back feels tired and weak; continual consciousness of a womb, it is so sore and tender (Pirogen -distinct consciousness of a heart). Now this condition and these symptoms are often found at the age of puberty, during pregnancy and after labor, and here Helonias is indeed a blessing. I have found it efficacious in the 2d and the 30th, according to susceptibility of the patient. Helonias deserves a thorough proving in the potencies. Compare with Aletris.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Helonias dioica, Pursh; H. lutea, Ait.; Chamœlirium luteum, Gray; C. Carolinianum, Willd.; Veratrum luteum, Linn.; Ophiostachys virginica, Delile. False Unicorn, Devil's Bit, Blazing Star. N. O. Melanthaceæ. Tincture of the root. Triturations of the resinoid Helonin.

Clinical

Albuminuria. Amenorrhœa. Anæmia. Breasts, affections of. Chlorosis. Debility. Diabetes. Dysmenorrhœa. Impotence. Kidneys, pains in. Leucorrhœa. Lochia, prolonged. Menopause. Menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia. Pruritus vulvæ. Rheumatism. Splenalgia. Sterility. Uterus, affections of .

Characteristics

Helonias , like Aletris , to which it is a botanical ally, and with which it has been often confounded (both have been called "Unicorn plant," or "Unicorn root," "Star Grass," and "Blazing Grass," or "Blazing Star"), is a uterine remedy of great power. It has an extensive range of action, as its provings show, but the organ predominantly affected is the uterus. It has been called with justice a "uterine tonic," and one of the keynote indications for its use is a "consciousness of the womb," and relaxation of uterine ligaments, misplacements, and prolapse have been removed by Helon . Marvin A. Custis ( Am. H ., xi. 594) reports a case in point: "Mrs. L. ─ , 28, has two children, both living. Has prolapse of uterus, ulceration of cervix, dark, offensive leucorrhœa. Her system is worn out and her expression one of great distress. Is irritable, finds fault with every one, and cannot bear contradiction. Restless, wants to move around, as she feels better when mind and body are employed." There was severe backache and a sore and heavy feeling in the womb; in fact, as she said, she was always "conscious of her womb." Helon . 30 every three hours for two days, and then every night, was prescribed, with a warm water injection night and morning. At the end of three weeks the leucorrhœa had almost ceased, the womb was in the first position, and she "forgets that she has such an organ." The mental symptoms of Helon . are very marked, and the extreme depression, gloom, and irritability of this case are characteristic of the remedy. One of the provers had a preliminary feeling of wellness before being plunged into a mental hell. It is specially suited to nervously run-down females, easily fatigued by any work, who complain of a tired backache, a tired feeling extending into the limbs. Some of this passes off after commencing to work. This looks rather like the Rhus : " < on commencing to work, > after working a little;" but it is not the same, for in the case of Rhus the relief comes from a limbering up of stiff joints . The backache is in the lumbar region, just over the kidneys, or else in the sacrum. The kidneys themselves, especially the right, are the seat of pain, and then the urine is generally scanty. S. A. Jones found Helonin turned an alkaline urine acid; increased the amount of urea; increased the amount of urine secreted. He considers this to be the result of a condition of debility, venous paresis , the result of previous arterial tonic contraction. Helon . produces irritation in mucous membranes; sore mouth; irritable stomach; burning and scalding when urinating; but the most intense effect is produced in the vaginal mucous membrane. L. L. Danforth treated Mrs. W., who had intense pruritus, vulvar and vaginal, for several weeks: "She could tear the flesh out" it was so intense. There was vulvo-vaginitis, the labia and adjoining skin being red and swollen, and covered with thin, white, curdy deposits. Further examination showed, pouring from a congested cervix, a thin albuminous leucorrhœa, evidently the cause of the pruritus. It coagulated on the vagina, forming small curds covering the mucous membrane of vagina and vulva. Helon . Ø on tablets speedily relieved. The relation of the remedy to the climacteric period is indicated in the provings by alternate sensations of heat and cold. "A sensation as if a cool wind streamed up the back of the legs along the gastrocnemii muscles to the popliteal space" was noticed by one prover who had before had a burning, or warm numbness, in the legs, most marked in the knees, "seeming to begin at the tendo Achillis of each leg, and very marked over the region of each gastrocnemius." "Every movement of the arms occasioned a chill, which seemed to radiate from the solar plexus all over the body." Burning sensations are common. A patient to whom I gave it in the 6th had "burning-sinking at the epigastrium" half an hour after each dose. Motion < almost all symptoms, but > numbness of the feet, and the profound debility. > By mental diversion. The chest is sensitive to the air; toothache is < in a warm room; and warm, moist air < toothache. Touch < : cannot bear the least pressure of the dress (on breasts, nipples, kidneys, &c.)

Relations

Alet. and Lil. t. are closely allied botanically and medically with Helon. Helon. antidotes the prolapse of Lil. t. and the mental depression of Kali brom. In general it is a close analogue of Pulsat., in its local and general symptoms. Compare also: Sep.; Pic. ac. (tired aching and some burning in back and legs); Pallad. (tiredness; soreness; irritability); Plat. (indurated uterus); Nat. m., Agn., and Caust. (aversion to coitus); Eup. purp., Chi., Ferr., Hydrast., Senec.; Act. r. (uterine symptoms and gloom; Nat. hyperchlor. (sodden condition of uterus); Pip. meth. ( > by diverting mind).

Mind

Dull, inactive. ─ Always better when doing something, when the mind is engaged. ─ Desire to be let alone; conversation unpleasant. ─ Depressed mood. ─ Dull, gloomy. ─ Irritable; cannot endure the least contradiction or receive any suggestions in relation to any subject. ─ Fault-finding.

Head

Pain in head is < by stooping, and attended by increased vertigo. ─ Fulness and pressure in the forehead or vertex; < or renewed when thinking thereof. ─ At 2.30 p.m. dull heat and pressure in vertex as if skull were too full.

Face

Pale, earthy. ─ Sallow, having an expression of suffering.

Mouth

Bitter, disagreeable taste, every morning, 5 a.m., on awaking; tongue and fauces dry. ─ Tongue white (diabetes). ─ Salivation of pregnant women and teething children. ─ Mouth gets sore; stomatitis materna.

Appetite

Loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp, and painful congestion of the stomach. ─ Appetite poor, food tasteless bilious sleepy during the day.

Stomach

Cramp-like pain in the stomach. ─ Burning in stomach; burning and aching in spine; eructations. ─ Irritable stomach, with general dropsy.

Abdomen

Pain in l. side, as if in spleen, which feels as if distended, causing a dull ache. ─ Motion and rumbling in abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on; cramps in the stomach. ─ Colic-like pains in hypogastric region, off and on all day. ─ Burning in the lower third of abdomen.

Stool

Stool loose, yellow in the morning; lumps of fæces in the evening.

Urinary Organs

Constant aching, extreme tenderness of kidneys, esp. r. ─ Burning sensation at the kidneys; can trace their outlines by the burning. ─ Pain in the kidneys with albuminous urine. ─ Weariness, languor, weight in region of kidneys; mind dull, inactive; afternoon and evening. ─ Burning scalding when urinating; desire frequent and urging. ─ Strangury. ─ Involuntary discharge of urine after the bladder seemed to be emptied. ─ Urine profuse, clear, light-coloured; albuminous; diabetic.

Male Sexual Organs

Sexual desire and power increased. ─ Erections unusually strong and frequent. ─ Impotence.

Female Sexual Organs

Loss of sexual desire and power with or without sterility. ─ Profound melancholy, deep, undefined depression, with a sensation of soreness and weight in the womb; "a consciousness of a womb.". ─ Aching, dragging weakness in sacral region, with prolapsus; also at climaxis, with marked debility, profound mental gloom. ─ Prolapsus uteri and ulceration of the cervix; discharge constant, dark, badly smelling; flooding on lifting a weight, and on least exertion; face sallow, having an expression of suffering; great vaginal irritation; pain in small of back. ─ Excessive uterine hæmorrhage all through the proving; pain in back through the uterus. ─ Prolapsus uteri, leucorrhœa; the os protrudes externally. ─ Uterus low down, fundus tilted forwards; the finger passes with difficulty between the os and the rectum. ─ Menses too frequent and profuse in women who are feeble from loss of blood. ─ Flow passive: dark, coagulated, offensive. ─ Amenia, arising from or accompanied by disordered digestive apparatus and anæmia. ─ Leucorrhæa, with atony and anæmia. ─ Threatened abortion from atonic conditions. ─ Women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury; feel better when the attention is engaged, hence when doctor comes; worn out with hard work, do not care for sleep; so tired, and the strained muscles burn and ache so. ─ Scanty menstrual flow with heaviness, languor, drowsiness, and albuminous urine. ─ Profuse flooding, with serous leucorrhœa, much uterine and ovarian pain; climaxis. ─ Labia and pudendum hot, red, swollen, burning and itching terribly; epidermis every morning falls off in thin, transparent exfoliations. ─ Mucous surface of labia red, swollen, covered with a curdy deposit, like aphthæ. ─ Threatened abortion; esp. in habitual abortion. ─ Albuminuria during pregnancy; great weakness, drowsiness. ─ Nipples sensitive, painful, breasts swollen; nipples tender, will not bear the pressure of ordinary dress.

Chest

Chest sensitive to the air. ─ Aching, as if the front of chest had been compressed in a vice.

Heart

Palpitation.

Back

Burning and heat in dorsal region, mostly between the lower half of the scapulæ; while sitting reading at night. ─ Back aches across the lumbar region; feels tired and weak; burning and tired aching in lumbar and sacral region on sitting down. ─ Pain about the upper part of sacrum and pelvis; < at night. ─ Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus; piercing, drawing. ─ Aching pain in sacrum, also down into each buttock.

Lower Limbs

Severe pains in r. hip-joint, < during motion. ─ Numbness of feet > by motion, only felt when sitting still.

Generalities

Tired, weary, drowsy. ─ Languor, unusually tired, yet knows no reason. ─ Debility (diphtheria). ─ Over-sensitiveness to air, < from uncovering; > in warm air. ─ Anæmia, atony, from prolonged hæmorrhage. ─ Dropsy from albuminuria, general debility, uterine atony or after uterine hæmorrhage.

Skin

Face pale, earthy; sallow. ─ Epidermis (of labia) falls off thin, transparent exfoliation.

Sleep

Drowsy, heavy. ─ Sleepy during the day.

Fever

Chill, seemingly radiating from solar plexus all over body, caused by motion of arms. ─ Flushes of heat pass over him with every movement while in a room.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

Mind

Great weakness of memory.
Dull, inactive and gloomy.
Restless, wants to be continually moving about.
Desire to be let alone ; conversation is unpleasant.
Irritable ; cannot endure the least contradiction or receive suggestions in relation to any subject.
Fault finding.
Always better when doing something, when the mind is engaged.
Profound melancholy ; deep, undefined depression of mind.

Sensorium

Dizziness ; fretful ; everything turns in a circle : anemia.
Pain in head is < by stooping, and attended by increased vertigo.

Inner head

Fulness and pressure in forehead or vertex ; < or renewed when thinking thereof.
Pain in forehead as if a band about an inch wide were drawn across it from temple to temple.
Pressing pain in one or both temples (in a small spot) ; "a burning sensation" in top and front of head, > by motion and mental exertion, < when either is desisted from.
Pressure from within upwards to vertex, < by looking steadily at any fixed point.
Pain in occiput, with pulsative pain in vertex, vertigo, < stooping.
Uterine and hysterical headache.

Upper face

Expression of suffering.
Pale, earthy face.
Face swollen.

Taste, speech, tongue

Bitter, disagreeable taste, every morning, 5 A. M., on awaking ; lips, tongue and fauces dry.
Tongue white. θ Diabetes.
Tongue red at tip and borders, white in centre.

Inner mouth

Salivation of pregnant women and teething children.
Mouth gets sore ; stomatitis materna.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp, and painful congestion of stomach.
Appetite poor, food tasteless ; "bilious ;" sleepy during day.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Empty eructations.
Tasteless eructations and flatulence, causing nausea.
Nausea at supper.
Vomiting of food. θ Dropsy.
Obstinate vomiting in Bright's disease.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Constricting, pressing pain in stomach.
Cramp-like pain in stomach.
Burning in stomach ; burning and aching in spine ; eructations.
Irritable stomach, with general dropsy.
Idiopathic diseases of stomach, or sympathetic gastric disorders which accompany uterine and renal diseases ; loss of appetite, eructations, fulness, cramp and painful congestion, with depression of spirits.

Hypochondria

Pain in left side, as if in spleen, which feels as if distended, causing a dull ache.

Abdomen and loins

Motion and rumbling in abdomen, as if diarrhœa would come on ; cramps in stomach.
Colic-like pains in hypogastric region, off and on all day.
Burning in lower third of abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Stool : loose ; yellow in morning, lumps of feces in evening.

Urinary organs

Burning sensation at kidneys ; can trace their outlines by burning ; at 2.30 P. M., dull heat and pressure in vertex, as if skull were too full.
Weariness, languor, weight in region of kidneys ; mind dull, inactive ; afternoon and evening.
Pain in kidneys with albuminous urine.
Congestion of kidneys with albuminuria from amenorrhœa.
Right kidney sensitive.
Burning scalding when urinating ; desire frequent and urging.
Strangury.
Involuntary discharge of urine after bladder seemed to be emptied.
Urine : profuse, clear, light colored ; albuminous ; diabetic.
Great emaciation and debility ; can walk but a few steps at a time ; complete loss of appetite ; pale, chlorotic skin ; tongue red at tip and edges, white in centre ; headache in occiput in morning ; immediate vomiting of animal food
unless some acid was taken with it ; constant aching and extreme tenderness in region of kidneys, especially the right ; aching in region of bladder ; intense cutting, tearing pain in urethra when urinating ; very frequent desire to urinate ; urine limpid when first
voided, but depositing after a time, a lead-colored, flocky sediment, adhering to vessel ; the amount of urine reached nearly three quarts a day.
Restlessness, constant "fidgety" desire to be doing something, low spirits, burning aching in lumbar spine, frequent profuse urination, urine pale yellow, sp. gr. 1, 013, reaction faintly acid ; must get up several times at night to urinate ; debility, easily
fatigued, palpitation from going up stairs ; feels her weakness less when she is at work ; in evening, sensation as if cold wind was blowing up limbs from heel to popliteal space ; appetite poor ; bowels relaxed ; sleep difficult and unrefreshing. θ Ante-desquamative
stage of Bright's disease.
Pain in region of kidneys ; painful stiffness of back ; burning, scalding pain when urinating ; frequent and urgent desire to urinate, with emission of large quantities of red urine ; complete impotence.
Scanty menstruation, heaviness, languor, drowsiness, albuminous urine. θ Albuminuria.
Chronic albuminuria.
First stage of diabetes insipidus and nervosus of women, with congestion of lower third of medulla spinalis.
Dull, gloomy and irritable ; melancholy ; complete impotence ; pain and lame feeling in back ; numbness in feet, going off by motion. θ Diabetes.
Lips stick together ; thirst ; restlessness ; emaciation ; urine profuse, clear ; linen coming in contact with urine becomes stiff ; large quantities of sugar in urine.
Saccharine diabetes.

Male sexual organs

Sexual desire and power increased.
Unusually strong and frequent erections at night.
Impotence, complete or partial.

Female sexual organs

Loss of sexual desire with or without sterility.
Profound melancholy, deep, undefined depression, with a sensation of soreness and weight in womb ; a "consciousness" of a womb.
Ovarian pains ; soreness and heaviness in hypogastrium.
Dragging weakness in sacral region, with prolapsus ; also at climaxis, with marked debility ; profound mental gloom.
Uterine displacement in weak patient ; dyspeptic, lethargic, or indisposed to move about ; aches and feels tired all the time ; uterus sensitive ; feels uterus move when she moves, it is so sore and tender ; miscarries easily ; depressed spirits.
Prolapsus, uteri and ulceration of cervix, discharge constant, dark, badly smelling ; flooding on lifting a weight, and on least exertion ; face sallow, having an expression of suffering ; great vaginal irritation ; pain in small of back.
Uterus low down, fundus tilted forwards ; finger passes with difficulty between os and rectum.
Prolapsus uteri, leucorrhœa ; os protrudes externally.
Prolapsus uteri dependent upon want of tonicity.
Feeble women, with prolapsus or other displacements ; aqueous, abundant leucorrhœa.
Prolapsus uteri with tendency to miscarriage.
Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus, piercing, drawing.
Great uterine hemorrhage all through proving ; pain in back, through to uterus.
Profuse flooding, with serous leucorrhœa, much uterine and ovarian pain ; climaxis.
Excessive uterine hemorrhage.
Menorrhagia from active congestion.
Menorrhagia from ulcerated os or cervix, blood dark and bad smelling, and continuing a long while ; very profuse flow at every period, so that her strength is exhausted, and she suffers from debility ; flow increased by least exertion ; complexion pale, sallow,
earthy-looking.
Menstrual flow too profuse ; from atony of uterus ; passive flow ; < from slightest motion ; dark colored, coagulated, of bad odor ; face pale ; face earthy color ; feeble from loss of blood.
Menses too frequent and profuse in women who are feeble from loss of blood ; flow passive, dark, coagulated, offensive.
Frequent and profuse menstruation when patients lose more blood than is made in inter-menstrual period, with pain in back, and frequent palpitation of heart.
Atonic and passive menorrhagia.
Dysmenorrhœa occurring in delicate women, of lax fibre, or who are chlorotic ; sharp cutting and drawing pains during period, passing from back through uterus ; swelling of mamma, with considerable tenderness of mamma and nipples ; painful soreness over the ovaries.
During menses, weakness, weariness, lassitude.
Scanty menstrual flow, with heaviness, languor, drowsiness and albuminous urine.
General weariness and languor ; gloominess and dulness of mind ; amenorrhœa from general atony and torpid condition of whole body.
Amenia, arising from or accompanied by disordered digestive apparatus and anemia.
Atrophic ovarian amenorrhœa, with anemia, considerable impairment of digestion and assimilation, sterility, extinguished sexual impulses, little or no pain in uterus or its appendages, except some congestion at menstrual period, with heaviness, fulness and pressure in hypogastrium.
Pain in back, with irritation of vagina.
Aphthous vaginitis, and erythema of external genitals.
Intense pruritus of vulva and vagina, with curdy secretion from vulva.
Labia and pudendum hot, red, swollen, burning and itching terribly ; epidermis falls off in thin, transparent exfoliations ; mucous surface of labia red, swollen, covered with a curdy deposit, like aphthæ.
Leucorrhœa, with pain in lower part of back ; soreness and tenderness of breasts and nipples, particularly at catamenial period.
Leucorrhœa, with atony and anemia.
Leucorrhœa in old people, atrophied, cancer cachexia.
Breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender, cannot bear least pressure of dress.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Threatened abortion, from atonic conditions ; especially in habitual abortion ; slightest overexertion or irritating emotion tends to cause loss of fetus.
Had been flowing for several days ; severe bearing down pains preventing sleep, great pain in small of back ; walking about excites pains. θ Threatened abortion.
Useful for many of the consequences of miscarriage.
Intense pain in stomach, with burning pains ; vomiting and salivation during pregnancy.
Subacute gastritis and vomiting in pregnancy.
Albuminuria during pregnancy ; great weakness, drowsiness.
Chronic parenchymatous nephritis in connection with pregnancy and symptoms of approaching convulsions.
Pruritus vulva during pregnancy.
Nipples sensitive, painful, breasts swollen ; cannot bear pressure of ordinary dress.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation.

Outer chest

Chest sensitive to air.
Aching as if front of chest had been compressed in a vice.

Neck and back

Burning and heat in dorsal region, mostly between lower half of scapulæ, while sitting reading, at night.
Pains in back, with lameness, stiffness, and weight.
Pains in back, more troublesome during night.
Feeling of weight and uneasiness in region of kidneys.
Pain in lower part of back, through to uterus ; piercing, drawing.
Sharp, spasmodic pain in back running to crest of left ilium.
Pain about upper part of sacrum and pelvis ; more severe at night.
Back aches across lumbar region ; feels tired and weak ; burning and tired aching in lumbar and sacral region on sitting down.
Pains in sacro-lumbar region, with lameness, stiffness.
Dragging, aching pains in sacral region attending prolapsus uteri.
Aching pain in sacrum, also down into each buttock.

Lower limbs

Severe pains in right hip-joint, < during motion.
Numbness in feet, going off by motion, only felt when sitting still.

Rest. position. motion

Stooping : < pain in head ; pain in occiput <.
Sitting down : tired aching in sacral and lumbar region.
Motion : burning sensation in top of head > ; numbness in feet > ; feels uterus move ; menstrual flow < ; pain in hip-joint < ; profound debility > ; of arms causes chills.
Wants to be continually moving about.
Least exertion : causes loss of fetus.
Going up stairs : palpitation.
Can walk but a few steps at a time.
Walking : excites pain during pregnancy.

Nerves

Tired, weary, drowsy.
General feeling of malaise.
Languor, unusually tired, yet knows no reason.
Great weariness, with copious acid urination.
Sense of profound debility is lost upon exercising.
Profound debility, as after severe acute diseases.
Debility after diphtheria.

Sleep

Drowsy, heavy, sleepy during day.

Time

Morning : yellow stools ; headache in occiput.
During day : sleepy ; colic-like pain in hypogastric region.
Afternoon : weariness, languor, weight in region of kidneys ; mind dull, inactive.
At 2.30 P. M. : dull heat and pressure in vertex.
Evening : weariness, languor ; mind inactive ; sensation as if cold wind was blowing up her limbs.
Night : must get up several times to urinate ; frequent erections ; burning and heat in dorsal region ; pain in back < ; in upper part of sacrum and pelvis <.

Temperature and weather

Air : chest sensitive to.
Warm room : < toothache.
Warm moist air : < sore throat.
From being in hot sun : eyes inflamed and burning.

Fever

Chill, seemingly radiating from solar plexus all over body ; caused by motion of arms.
Flushes of heat pass over him on every movement while in a room.

Attacks, periodicity

Every morning, 5 A. M. : bitter taste.

Locality and direction

Right : severe pains in hip-joint.
Left : pain in side ; sharp, spasmodic pain in back running to crest of ilium.
From within upwards : pressure into vertex.

Sensations

As if band about an inch wide were drawn across from temple to temple ; spleen as if distended ; as if diarrhœa would come on ; as if skull was too full ; as if cold wind was blowing up limbs from heel to popliteal space ; as if front of chest had
been compressed in a vice.
Pain : in head ; in occiput ; in left side ; in kidneys ; in back ; in ovaries ; in small of back ; in lower part of back ; about upper part of sacrum and pelvis.
Intense pain : in stomach.
Severe pains : in right hip-joint.
Piercing, tearing pain : in back.
Intense cutting, tearing pain : in urethra when urinating.
Sharp cutting and drawing pains ; during menstrual period.
Sharp spasmodic pain : in back, running to crest of left ilium.
Colic-like pain : in hypogastric region.
Cramp : of stomach.
Bearing down pains : in abdomen.
Burning, scalding : when urinating.
Painful soreness : over ovaries.
Pressing pain : in one or both temples ; in stomach.
Pulsative pain : in vertex.
Painful congestion : of stomach.
Constricting pain : in stomach.
Soreness : in womb ; in hypogastrium ; over ovaries.
Irritation : of vagina.
Burning : in top and front of head ; in kidneys, can trace their outlines by burning ; in dorsal region ; in stomach ; in spine ; in lower third of abdomen ; labia and pudendum.
Burning aching : in lumbar spine.
Aching : in spine ; in kidneys ; in region of bladder ; in chest ; in sacrum also down into each buttock.
Dull ache : in spleen.
Painful stiffness : of back.
Pressure : in hypogastrium.
Dragging weakness : in sacral region.
Lameness : of back.
Fulness : in forehead ; in vertex ; of stomach ; in hypogastrium.
Numbness : in feet.
Pressure : in forehead ; in vertex.
Heaviness : in hypogastrium.
Weight : in region of kidneys ; in womb.
Terrible itching : in labia and pudendum.

Tissues

Chlorosis.
Anemia, atony, from prolonged hemorrhage.
Dropsy from albuminuria, general debility, uterine atony or after uterine hemorrhage.
Rheumatism.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Cannot bear least pressure of dress.
Extreme tenderness : of kidneys ; mamma and nipples.
Sensitiveness : of uterus.
Consciousness of a womb : feels it move when she moves.

Skin

Paleness and icteric color of skin.
Jaundice.

Stage of life, constitution

Women : with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury, > when attention is engaged, hence when doctor comes ; worn out with hard work, do not care for sleep, so tired, and strained muscles burn and ache so.
Climaxis.
Girl, æt. 15 ; albuminuria.
Young woman, after getting feel wet ; threatened abortion.
Man, previously in good health, ill six weeks ; disease of kidneys.
Man, æt. 50, troubled occasionally for several years ; affection of kidneys.
Woman, æt. 65 ; diabetes mellitus.

Relations

It antidotes : Kali brom . (mental depression) ; Lil. tig . (prolapsus uteri).
Compare : Aletris, Ferrum, Phos. ac., Senec., Stannum .