Indigo
By Adolph von Lippe тАФ Text Book of Materia Medica
Mind and Disposition
Melancholy, sadness.
Head
Flushes of heat from the abdomen to the head.
Sensation as if the head were tightly bandaged around the forehead.
Tearing in the vertex.
Sensation as if a cluster of hair were pulled out from the vertex.
Eyes
Violent jerking and twitching in the lids.
Pressure in the ball of the eye.
Inflammation of the Meibomian glands on the lower lids.
Nose
Excessive continued sneezing, succeeded by violent bleeding of the nose.
Face
Pricking in the right malar bone.
Pain in the submaxillary glands, extending to the teeth.
Mouth and Throat
Vesicles on the tip of the tongue.
Numbness of the inner mouth.
Stomach and Abdomen
Retching and vomiting of watery fluid.
Vomiting of glue-like mucus.
Tingling pain in the pit of the stomach.
Stool and Anus
Emission of an excessive quantity of flatulence.
Diarrh┼Уa; stool liquid, with flatulence; creeping over the skin and cold hands and colic.
Urinary Organs
Renal colic.
Frequent desire to urinate, with burning in the fundus of the bladder; painful emissions of small quantities of turbid urine.
Increased emission of turbid urine, containing much mucus, without thirst, with violent contraction of the urethra and pain in the bladder.
Sexual Organs
Men. Depressed sexual desire.
Itching of the urethra, glans and scrotum.
Women. Menstruation too early.
Stinging in the mamma, going of momentarily by rubbing.
Respiratory Organs
Violent cough, inducing vomiting; bleeding of the nose.
Suffocative cough in the evening and after going to bed.
Back
Stitch between the scapula.
Stitch in the small of the back, going off after an evacuation.
Generalities
Excessive nervous irritation.
Subsultus tendinum.
Illusory sensations.
Fever
Chilliness, with cold hands and violent headache, with constant desire to urinate; urine turbid.
Great heat particularly in the face, with increased secretion of urine.
Conditions
Aggravation, in the afternoon and evening, during rest and when sitting.
Amelioration of pain by rubbing, pressure, motion.