Indigo tinctoria
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Indigo
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General
Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. Excited mood and desire to be busy. Neurasthenia and hysteria. Pure powdered Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison (Kali permang; Golondrina; Cedron). Stricture of œsophagus; blue color (Cupr).
Modalities
Worse, during rest and sitting. Better, pressure, rubbing, motion.
Head
Vertigo with nausea. Convulsions. Sensation of a band around forehead. Undulating sensation through whole head. Sensation as if brain were frozen. Gloomy; cries at night. Hair feels pulled from vertex. Head feels frozen.
Ears
Pressure and roaring.
Nose
Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.
Stomach
Metallic taste. Eructations. Bloating. Anorexia. Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head.
Rectum
Falling of rectum. Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus.
Urinary
Constant desire to urinate. Urine turbid. Catarrh of bladder.
Extremities
Sciatica. Pain from middle of thigh to knee. Boring pain in knee- joint; better, walking. Pain in limbs worse after every meal. Nerves.––Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates Excessive nervous irritation. Epilepsy; flashes of heat from abdomen to head; fit begins with dizziness. Aura from a painful spot between shoulders. Reflex spasms from worms.
Relationships
Compare: Cuprum; Œstrus cameli, an Indian medicine for epilepsy.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
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