Inula helenium
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Scabwort
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General
A mucous membrane medicine. Bearing-down sensations in pelvic organs and bronchial symptoms are most marked. Substernal pain. Diabetes.
Head
Vertigo on stooping; throbbing after eating, pressure in temples and forehead.
Rectum
Pressing toward rectum as of something extruding.
Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate; passes only in drops. Violet odor (Tereb).
Female
Menses too early and painful. Labor-like pains; urging to stool; dragging in genitals, with violent backache. Itching of legs during menses, chattering of teeth from cold during menstruation. Moving about in abdomen, stitches in genitals. Chronic metritis.
Respiratory
Dry cough; worse at night and lying down; larynx painful. Chronic bronchitis; cough, with much thick expectoration, with languor and weak digestion. Stitches behind sternum. Teasing cough with much and free expectoration. Palliative in tubercular laryngitis.
Extremities
Pain in right shoulder and wrist; tearing in left palm, unable to double fingers; pain in lower limbs, feet and ankles.
Relationships
Compare: Crocus; Ignatia; Arum dracontium (loose cough worse at night on lying down).
Dose
First to third potency.
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