Senecio aureus

Lack of reaction in genito-urinary sphere. Passive congestion, with irritation, profuse catarrhs, debilitating or vicarious discharges. Muscles draw into knots. Tightness, in nose, throat, etc. Globus. .................... Nervous, pale, weak, and sleepless women. Whining and irritable. Self- centered. Elated and sad alternately. Sharp pain backward over l. eye. Burning in nostrils. Sneezing. Itching; caused by tears; in Eustachian tube. Twitching about mouth. Averse to sweets. Nausea or vomiting of renal origin. Uræmia. Griping at navel. Bloody stool or urine. Heat in neck of bladder; with renal pain. Dysuria; with dysmenorrhœa. Pains from ovaries into breasts. Functional amenorrhœa. Sexual irritations; excite discharges. Thick, yellow leucorrhœa; flows down thighs. Feels as if menses would come. Cough; tickling; with blood-streaked sputum; > menstruation. Burning in l. nipple. Lumbar backache, as if to break; < amenorrhœa, renal disease, etc. Periodical, wandering rheumatism. Many dreams; erotic. Feet cold in bed. Brittle nails. Hay fever, with anorexia. Sleepless with amenia.

Puberty. Sexual excitement. Dampness. Cold. Open air.

Menstruation.

FEMALE: GENITO-URINARY ORGANS. Bladder. MUCOUS GLANDS. Nose. Lungs. Lumbar spine.

Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Despondent. Nervous and irritable.

Golden Ragwort Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified. Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backaches of congested kidneys. Early cirrhosis of liver.

Dull, stupefying headache. Wavelike dizziness from occiput to sinciput. Sharp pains over left eye, and through left temple. Fullness of nasal passages; burning; sneezing; profuse flow.

Teeth very sensitive. Sharp, cutting pain left side. Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth.

Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx, raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.

Sour eructations; nausea.

Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen; better, stool. Thin, watery stool, intermingled with hard lumps of feces (Ant crud). Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with tenesmus.

Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much mucus and tenesmus. Great heat and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic (Pareira; Ocim; Berb).

Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions. Prostate enlarged. Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, extending to testicles.

Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhœa of young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these improve. Anæmic dysmenorrhœa with urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc; Erig).

Acute inflammatory conditions of upper respiratory tract. Hoarseness. Cough loose, with labored inspiration. Chest sore and raw. Dyspnœa on ascending (Calc). Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.

Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness and sleeplessness.

Compare: Senecio Jacobæa (cerebro-spinal irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in cancer); Aletris; Caulop; Sep.

Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.

Senecio Aureus

In some parts of the country where it grows it is called Golden Ragwort, in others Huckleroot. It is an old domestic remedy and one only proved in a fragmentary way. Many of these medicines that have become household remedies should be properly proved. Only in this way can their power and influence be known, i. e., they can be used properly only when indicated by the symptoms they can produce.

Women: Senecio, is to be studied in relation to young girls with menstrual irregularities. Those who have suppression of the menstrual flow from getting wet, from getting the feet wet, those who have menorrhagia, a copious menstrual flow which continues until they are anemic; and those also who suffer from dysmenorrhúa, the pains being most violent. In this remedy, with these general features, the young girl gradually tends toward catarrhal phthisis.

The menstrual flow is suppressed sometimes many months, she begins to look pale, has a dry, hacking cough, with bleeding from the lungs instead of the menstrual flow, a vicarious spitting of blood.

There is a catarrhal state throughout the chest. They are pallid and weakly girls. They tell you they have lost their menstrual flow, and have a chronic cough, are sensitive to every draft of air, are always taking cold and finally expectorate profusely.

The phthisis may go on as catarrh of the chest for years, but at last a miliary tuberculosis sets in and takes the patient off with what is known as acute consumption. Especially is this condition associated with disorder of the menstrual flow and a general catarrhal state.

"Phthisis, with obstructed menstruation." When the symptoms agree in this kind of a case Senecio is a most useful medicine for establishing the menstrual flow. You will know that it is acting well by the fact that the cough gradually diminishes. Of course a great many medicines will be suited to such general states, but this one has an unusually marked and special relation to these cases. In certain regions, Senecio has been used as a domestic medicine, an old woman's remedy for bringing on the menstrual flow.

You will be struck on reading over this remedy with the tendency to hemorrhage from all the mucous membranes of the body. There is coryza with nose-bleed; spitting of blood from the throat and chest; hemorrhage from the lungs; a catarrhal condition of all the mucous membranes with a tendency to haemorrhage: congestion and inflammation of the kidneys with haemorrhage. You know how commonly these cases end in dropsy. These waxy, anaemic, chlorotic girls, who have lost their menstrual flow, become dropsical after slow hemorrhage from the uterus, kidneys and bladder.

"Dropsy from anaemia."

It is a medicine of the highest order for hemorrhages in catarrhal conditions.

Urinary: It has also in its proving many distressing symptoms of the urinary organs. Painful urination. Uncomfortable heat in the neck of the bladder. Renal colic, the pains being so great that they produce nausea.

Renal dropsy. Intense pain over right kidney, etc. The whole urinary tract is painful and subject to bleeding. But bleeding especially in the absence of the menstrual flow is the feature of this remedy.

Wherever there is an inflammatory spot or catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane it will bleed in case the menstrual flow does not appear.

We have other medicines having the symptoms of vicarious haemorrhage, such as Hamamelis, Phosphorus and Bryonia, but Senecio has this condition strikingly and is one of the newer remedies for such condition.

"Dysmenorrhoea with urinary symptoms; cutting in sacral and hypogastric regions."

"Hacking cough at night."

"Amenorrhoea from a cold; nervous irritability; lassitude; dropsy."

"Menstrual irregularities in consumptive patients."

"Mucous rattling with suppressed cough." Leucorrhoea especially in chlorotic girls. It is a marked remedy in chlorosis, in the anemic state with a green hue, called "green sickness" by the laity.