Scutellaria Laterifolia
Skullcap
di William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory
This is a nervous sedative, where nervous fear predominates. Cardiac irritability. Chorea . Nervous irritation and spasms of children, during dentition. Twitching of muscles . Nervous weakness after influenza.
Mental
Fear of some calamity . Inability to fix attention ( Aethus ). Confusion.
Head
Dull, frontal headache . Eyes feel pressed outwards. Flushed face. Restless sleep and frightful dreams. Must move about . Night terrors. Migraine; worse, over right eye; aching in eyeballs . Explosive headaches of school teachers with frequent urination; headaches in front and base of brain. Nervous sick headaches, worse noise, odor light, better night; rest, 5 drops of tincture.
Stomach
Nausea; sour eructations; hiccough; pain and distress.
Abdomen
Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and uneasiness. Light colored diarrhœa.
Male
Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never being better.
Sleep
Night-terrors; sleeplessness; sudden wakefulness; frightful dreams.
Extremities
Twitchings of muscles; must be moving. Chorea. Tremors. Sharp stinging pains in upper extremities. Nightly restlessness. Weakness and aching.
Relationship
Compare: Cyprip; Lycopus .
Dose
Tincture and lower potencies.