Sabadilla

Cevadilla Seed. Asagræa Officialis

Action on mucous membrane of the nose and the lachrymal glands, producing coryza and symptoms like hay-fever , which have been utilized homeopathically. Chilliness ; sensitive to cold. Ascarides, with reflex symptoms (nymphomania; convulsive symptoms). Children's diarrhœa with constant cutting pains.

Mind

Nervous, timid, easily startled. Has erroneous notions about himself. Imagines that he is very sick; that parts are shrunken; that she is pregnant; that she has cancer; delirium during intermittents.

Head

Vertigo with sensation as though all things were turning around each other, accompanied by blackness before eyes and sensation of fainting. Dullness and oppression. Over-sensitiveness to odors. Thinking produces headache and sleeplessness. Eyelids red, burning. Lachrymation . Difficult hearing.

Nose

Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose. Coryza , with severe frontal pains and redness of eyes and lachrymation. Copious, watery, nasal discharge.

Throat

Sore; begins on left side ( Lach ). Much tough phlegm. Sensation of a skin hanging loosely; must swallow it. Warm food and drink relieve . Empty swallowing most painful. Dry fauces and throat. Sensation of a lump in throat with constant necessity to swallow. Chronic sore throat; worse, from cold air. Tongue as if burnt.

Stomach

Spasmodic pain in stomach with dry cough and difficult breathing. No thirst . Loathing for strong food. Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous food. Pyrosis; copious salivation. Cold, empty feeling in stomach. Desire for hot things. Sweetish taste.

Female

Menses too late; come by fits and starts. Intermit ( Kreos; Puls ). (due to transient and localized congestion of womb alternating with chronic anæmic state).

Fever

Chill predominates ; from below upwards. Heat in head and face; hands and feet icy cold, with chill. Lachrymation during paroxysm. Thirstless.

Extremities

Cracking of skin under and beneath toe; inflammation under toe-nails.

Skin

Dry, like parchment. Horny, deformed, thickened nails . Hot, burning, creeping, crawling sensation. Itching in anus.

Modalities

Worse , cold and cold drinks, full moon. Better , warm food and drink, wrapped up.

Relationship

Complementary: Sepia . Compare: Veratrina (is alkaloid of Sabadilla, not of Veratrum, locally in neuralgias, and for removal of dropsy. Five grains to two drams Lanolin, rubbed on inside of thighs, causes diuresis). Colch; Nux; Arundo and Pollatin . Phleum pratense -Timothy-Hay-fever-Potentized-12-specific to many cases and evidently acts in a desensitizing manner (Rabe). Cumarinum (hay-fever).

Antidotes: Puls; Lycop; Conium; Lach .

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.