Spigelia anthelmia

Common name: pink root.

Heaviness and soreness of the whole body (Bry, Gels., Nux-V.).

Painful sensitiveness of the whole body to contact, with shivering of those parts that have been touched, or with formication through the whole body.

Stinging, tearing pains in association with twitchings of the affected areas.

Tearing near the joints, as from scraping of a knife.

Spasmodic pains in the limbs, especially the joints.

LEFT-SIDED NEURALGIAS (OF THE HEAD, FACE AND EYES); PAINS INCREASE AND DECREASE WITH THE RISING AND SETTING SUN; WATERING OF THE EYE, ON THE AFFECTED SIDE (N.).

Intolerable pressive pain in the eye-balls; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body; worse especially on making a false step (A.).

Prosopalgia, left-sided; tearing, shooting, burning pains, especially in cheek bones, lower jaw, about eye-brows and in the eye-ball; periodical from morning until sunset; worse at noon, from noise or motion (N.).

Rheumatic sclerotitis; pains are sharp and tearing with pressure in the eye-balls (Bt.).

Disposition to squint (Apis, Bell., Cic., Cycl., Gels., Hyos., Kali-I., Lyc., Mag-P., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Puls., Spig., Stram., Sulph., Tab., Verat., Zinc.).

Eyes hurt on motion, as if too large for the orbit (N.).

Ciliary neuralgia; pains radiate; cold feeling in the eye (D.).

JERKING, TWITCHING, OR SPASMODIC MOVEMENTS OF THE EYE-LIDS (Agar., Ars., Bell., Cic., Cupr., Ign., Mag-P., Nux-V., Phys., Puls., Rheum, Sulph.).

Intense pressing pains in the eye-balls, especially on turning them (N.).

Hemicrania; pain increased by motion, noise, and especially by stooping; one or both eyes are involved (N.).

The headaches are generally onesided, beginning in the occiput and extending forward, and settling over the left eye (right eye- Sang., Sil.). They are aggravated by the least noise or jar.

THEY INCREASE WITH THE RISING OF THE SUN AND DECREASE WITH ITS GOING DOWN (Nat-M., Tab.) (N.).

Sensation as if the head was open along the vertex (D.).

Sensation as of a band around the head (Cact., Carb-Ac., Sulph.) (A.).

Paleness of the face (Cina, Ferr., Nat-M., Puls., Sep.) (D.).

Blue rings around the eyes (Cina, Staph.) (D.).

Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc. (A.).

Heart disease, when the same are characterized by violent and visible and audible palpitations (Ars., Iod., Thuj.).

PALPITATION OF THE HEART, WORSE WHEN BENDING THE CHEST FORWARD (Kalm.) (N.).

Violent beating of the heart, especially at night; visible and audible, with anguish (N.).

Stitch or darting-like pain in the heart (Apis, Bry., Caust., Kalm., Lach., Mag-M., Naja, Petr., Psor., Spong., Staph., Sulph.).

Valvular affections with loud, blowing sounds and attacks of violent palpitation. The patient can only lie on the right side (Nat-M., Phos.), or with the head very high; least motion aggravates (Naja) (N.).

Aneurism (Bar-C., Cact., Calc., Carb-V., Lyc., Lycps., Ran-S.) (A.).

Sharp, stitching pains in the left chest, shooting into arm and neck, worse by motion; pulse not synchronous with heart-beat (D.).

On placing hand over the cardiac region there is a purring feeling, as when stroking a cat's back (D.).

Dyspnœa: Can lie only on the right side, with trunk raised; the least motion produces great suffocation; with anxiety and palpitation of the heart (G.).

Rheumatic pericarditis, with violent palpitation of the heart and anxiety (Bt.).

Trembling carotids (Ra.).

Rheumatic affections of the heart (Kali-C., Led., Naja, Phos., Rhus-T.); systolic blowing at the apex (A.).

Faint, nauseated feeling (Ant-T., Ipec., Lob., Tab., Verat.) (D.).

Colic around the navel (Aloe, Bell., Coloc., Dios., Ipec., Merc., Nat-S., Nux-V., Plb., Rhus-T., Stann., Sulph., Thuj., Verat.) (D.).

Nausea every morning before breakfast (Alum., Alumn., Anac., Bar-C., Berb., Bov., Calc., Fago., Lyc., Petr., Sep., Tub.) (Bt.).

Desire for alcoholic drinks (Lach., Led., Lyc., Med., Merc., Mur-Ac., Naja, Nux-V., Op., Phos., Puls., Sel., Sep.) (A.).

Ravenous hunger with nausea and thirst (Sulph.) (A.).

Scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici (Calc., Merc., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Itching and tickling in the anus and rectum (C.).

Scirrhus of the sigmoid flexure or rectum, with atrocious unbearable pain (Alumen) (A.).

Copious, offensive mucus from the posterior nares drops into the throat, causing choking at night (Hydr.) (A.).

Stammering; repeats the first syllable three or four times; with abdominal ailments; with helminthiasis (A.).

Masked intermittents, appearing as periodical; face and head aches.

Chill spreads from the chest (Apis, Carb-An., Sep.) (A.).

Least movement of the body causes chilliness (Apis, Bry., Caps., Coff., Merc-C., Nux-V., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Squil.) (A.).

Heat in back, hands, abdomen, gradually increasing until he becomes hot all over (A.).

Night-sweat, putrid smelling (A.).

Toothache from tobacco-smoking; ameliorated only on lying down and while eating (Plant); worse from cold air and water; returns from thinking about it (A.).

AGGRAVATION: When stooping; from touch; while moving; after sexual excitability; from inspiration; from noise; from moving eyes; in cold, damp, and rainy weather; from rising sun; from tea; and from cold water.

AMELIORATION: From quiet; in dry air; from setting sun; and from lying on the right side with the head high.

RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Acon., Ars., Bell., Cact., Calc., Dig., Euphr., Gels., Hep., Ipec., Kali-B., Kali-C., Kalm., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Naja, Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Spong., Stann., Sulph., Thuj., Verat., Zinc.

It follows Acon. well.

Complementary: Spong.

Antidotes: Aur., Camph., Cocc., and Puls.

Spigel. antidotes Merc.