Heracleum herac.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Hogweed (HERACLEUM - BRANCA URSINA)

Recommended as a spinal stimulant; in epilepsy with flatulency, gouty and skin symptoms.

Aches, with drowsiness, worse moving in open air, better tying up head with cloth. Much fatty perspiration on head and violent itching. Seborrhœa capitis. Sick headache.

Pain with inclination to vomit. Bitter risings and taste. Hungry but unable to eat. Abdominal and spleenic pain.

Third potency.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1902

Heracleum sphondylium. "Branca ursina." N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of whole plant.

Debility. Dyspepsia. Gout. Headache. Seborrhœa capitis. Skin, affections of. Spleen, pain in.

Heracl . has been proved. It was found to exercise a pronounced action on the digestion, producing hunger, with inability to eat, nausea, vomiting; colic, diarrhœa, and pains in the spleen. It also affected the sexual organs and the skin. A characteristic is "Headache with drowsiness; < on moving in open air; > tying up the head with a cloth." Exhaustion, indolence, and weakness were complained of.

Compare: Con., Abies n., Cean.; in headache with drowsiness, Brucea, Ginseng, Gels., Nat. s., Nux mos., Sul.

Prostration of strength, indolence, moral depression; fits of hypochondriasis. ─ Ill-humour, capriciousness.

Vertigo, on reading while seated. ─ Cephalalgia, esp. in the sinciput and occiput, with inclination to vomit, and drowsiness, esp. < on walking in open air; > by wrapping up the head. ─ Violent itching on the scalp, on scratching which, the fingers become greasy; much fatty perspiration on the head.

Lachrymation and fatigue of the eyes while reading.

Frequent sneezing, with stitches in region of spleen.

Pressure in the throat, as from mucus, which it is impossible to detach; accumulation of mucus, tickling roughness and scraping in the throat.

Bitter taste; sweet bitter risings, with regurgitation of bitter liquid; craving, with loathing and horror of all kinds of food; increased thirst; nausea; vomiting, bitter, bilious, with pains in the stomach, and much congestion in the head. ─ Pressure at the stomach, with nausea, or else in the scrobiculus, as from a stone (after a meal); the pains in the stomach are always accompanied by an inclination to vomit.

Lancinating and pinching colics, which force the patient to writhe; pulsation and pains in region of spleen; flatus and colic, with nausea and disgusting risings. ─ Frequent sneezing, with lancination in the region of the spleen.

Stools tardy, with pressure and pain in the anus. ─ Slimy, fetid stools.

Drawing pain in the penis; shootings in the glans. ─ Itching and smarting in the scrotum; pollutions.

Transient sticking in the labiæ.

Dry, hacking cough, with feeling of soreness in the chest and shooting pains.

Oppression of the chest, with chilliness, or else with palpitation of the heart; difficulty of respiration on ascending a staircase. ─ Stitches in chest during inspiration; dry eruption on chest, burning after scratching.

Gouty tearing in the limbs. ─ Shooting and burning pains in the feet.

Violent itching in the skin and moist itch-like eruption.

Chilliness, with frequent yawning and inclination to sleep in afternoon.