Taraxacum officinale
By Adolph von Lippe â Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: dandelion.
The limbs are movable, but it seems to him as if the moving power was obstructed.
Painfulness of all the limbs by touch and a like condition when in an improper position.
Crampy pains in different parts of the body (Cupr., Mag-P., Sec.).
Sensation of weakness through the whole body with a desire to lie around.
More symptoms appear while sitting or standing and disappear when walking.
Perspiration in the evening when going to sleep.
Debility and profuse night-sweats, especially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever (Chin., Lach., Phos.) (A.).
Sensation of great heat on the top of the head (Ars., Lach., Sulph.).
Gastric headache (Ant-C., Kali-M., Nux-V., Puls.) (A.).
Darting pains in the outer parts (G.).
Sterno-cleido mastoid muscle very painful to the touch (Lach.).
Cramp in the left sterno-mastoid muscle.
Tongue covered with a white film with sensation of rawness. This film comes off in patches, leaving dark-red, tender and very sensitive spots (Ran-S.) (A.).
MAPPED TONGUE (Ars., Kali-B., Lach., Nat-M.) (D.).
Salivation (Chin., Kali-B., Merc.) (Bl.).
Hawking up of sour mucus.
Sour blood from decayed teeth during toothache.
Collection of water in the mouth (Colch., Merc., Nit-Ac., Puls., Rhus-T.).
Loss of appetite (Chin., Lyc., Puls.) (A.).
Food tastes sour (Am-C., Ars., Calc., Caps., Chin., Jac-C., Lyc., Nux-V., Podo., Puls., Tab., Tarant.).
Bubbly sensation in the abdomen (Hell., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos-Ac., Puls., Stann., Sulph-Ac.).
Sharp, stitching pains in the hepatic region (Bry., Chel., Kali-C.) (Bl.).
Liver troubles, with soreness in the region of the liver (Chin., Merc.,) (D.).
Difficult evacuation (Alum., Plb., Sep.) (Br.).
Bilious diarrhÅa (Bry., Nat-S., Podo.). (D.).
Tympanites (Carb-V., Lyc., Pids.) (Bl.).
JAUNDICE WITH ENLARGEMENT AND INDURATION OF THE LIVER (Chel., Iod., Lach., Merc., Nat-M., Podo., Sep.) (A.).
Secretion of urine increased (Acet-Ac., Gels., Helon., Lyc., Merc., Phos-Ac.).
Frequent desire to urinate (Nux-V.) (C.).
Restlessness of and pain in the thighs and limbs in typhoid and typho-malarial fever (Rhus-T., Zinc.) (A.).
Great chilliness after eating, and especially after drinking (Bell., Caps., Kali-C.) (A.).
Long-lasting chill (Chin., Nux-V.), when he falls asleep, sweat breaks out, mostly on the head (A).
Nose, hands and tips of fingers are icy cold (Sabad., Stann.) (A.).
Heat in the face, with redness (A.).
Copious sweat at night, with pain in the spleen (Nat-M.) (A.).
Neuralgia of the knees (Bell., Puls.) (Br.).
Yawning and sleepiness during the day (Nux-V.) (C.).
Vivid, unremembered dreams (C.).
Tearing pain in the occiput (C.).
Pustule in the right corner of lips (C.).
AGGRAVATION: When sitting; while standing; from lying down; from fat food; and while resting.
AMELIORATION: When walking; and from moving.
RELATIONSHIP: Compare: Ars., Bry., Chel., Chin., Cupr., Hydr., Kali-M., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Nat-S., Nit-Ac., Nux-V., Podo., Puls., Sep., Sulph., Thuj. and Verat.
Antidote: Camph.