Indigo Tinctoria

Indigo--Dye-stuff

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

(INDIGO)

Marked action on the nervous system, and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. Excited mood and desire to be busy. Neurasthenia and hysteria. Pure powdered Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison ( Kali permang; Golondrina; Cedron ). Stricture of œsophagus; blue color ( Cupr ).

Head

Vertigo with nausea. Convulsions. Sensation of a band around forehead. Undulating sensation through whole head. Sensation as if brain were frozen. Gloomy; cries at night. Hair feels pulled from vertex. Head feels frozen.

Nose

Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.

Ears

Pressure and roaring.

Stomach

Metallic taste. Eructations . Bloating. Anorexia. Flushes of heat rising from stomach to head.

Rectum

Falling of rectum. Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus.

Urinary

Constant desire to urinate. Urine turbid. Catarrh of bladder.

Extremities

Sciatica . Pain from middle of thigh to knee. Boring pain in knee-joint; better, walking. Pain in limbs worse after every meal .

Nerves

Hysterical symptoms where pain predominates Excessive nervous irritation. Epilepsy; flashes of heat from abdomen to head; fit begins with dizziness. Aura from a painful spot between shoulders. Reflex spasms from worms.

Modalities

Worse , during rest and sitting. Better , pressure, rubbing, motion.

Relationship

Compare: Cuprum; Œstrus cameli , an Indian medicine for epilepsy.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Indigo Tinctoria across the other classic books

Indigo Tinctoria appears in 5 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“An oxidation product, from the juices of several plants, chiefly Indigofera tinctoria, Linn. Natural order , Leguminosæ. Preparation , Triturations. Authorities.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“An oxidation product from the juices of several plants, chiefly Indigofera tinctoria. N. O. Leguminosæ. Trituration. Acne / Amenorrhœa / Anus, prolapse of / Brachial neuralgia / Constipation / Cough / Diarrhœa / Epilepsy / Epistaxis / Face, pimples on / Headache / Hysteria / Renal colic / Sciatica / Skin, affections…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Indigo. Leguminosæ. Proved extensively by German provers. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 92 . CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. Prolapsus ani , Schüssler, Raue's Rec., 1871, p. 123 ; Sciatica , Preston, T. H. M. Soc. Pa., 1872, p. 120 ; Epilepsy , four cases, Kenyon, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 254-255. Melancholy, sadness. Sad…”
Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Melancholy, sadness. 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. Violent jerking and twitching in the lids. Pressure in the ball of the eye. Inflammation of…”

Indigo Tinctoria in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Indigo Tinctoria in 622 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (153), EXTREMITIES (139), STOMACH (35), EAR (30), COUGH (25).

GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - fright,from
EXTERNAL THROAT - PAIN - drawing, - lancinating
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - eating, - after
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - abdomen to head,with
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower Limbs - eating,after
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper Limbs - eating,while - after
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Sternum - sitting, - while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - eating, - after
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - periodic - every - 7 days
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - sneezing,when
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - sore,bruised - Thigh - posterior part
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - extending - downward
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Knee - walking, - amel.
NOSE - SNEEZING - constant
STOMACH - EPILEPTIC aura
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh - walking - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Leg - sitting,while
GENERALITIES - CONVULSIONS - epileptic - aura - solar plexus,from
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - walking - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh - middle of

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