Heracleum

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

Clinical

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

Characteristics

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.

Relations

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

1. Mind

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

2. Head

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.

3. Eyes

Lachrymation and fatigue of the eyes while reading.

5. Nose

Frequent sneezing, with stitches in region of spleen.

9. Throat

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

11. Stomach

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.

12. Abdomen

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.

13. Stool and Anus

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

15. Male Sexual Organs

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

16. Female Sexual Organs

Transient sticking in the labiæ.

17. Respiratory Organs

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

18. Chest

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.

21. Limbs

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

25. Skin

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

27. Fever

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