Scutellaria Laterifolia

Skullcap

by 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.

Scutellaria Laterifolia across the other classic books

Scutellaria Laterifolia appears in 4 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.
“Scutellaria lateriflora, Linn. Natural order , Labiatæ. Common names , Skull-cap, Mad-dog Skull-cap. Preparation , Tincture of the plant. Authorities. (Hales New Remedies, 1867, p. 965). The mind becomes confused on attempting to study (second day), 1b. Considerable inability is experienced in attempting to confine…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“High strung neurotic women. Sleepless from nervous excitement.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“laterifolia. Mad-dog Skull-cap. N. O. Labiatæ. Tincture of fresh plant. Ardor urinæ / Brain, irritation of / Chorea / Delirium tremens / Dentition / Exophthalmos / Flatulence / Headache, nervous / Hiccough / Hydrophobia / Hysteria / Night-terrors / Sleeplessness / Tobacco-heart Scutel., says Hale, who introduced it…”

Scutellaria Laterifolia in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Scutellaria Laterifolia in 18 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (11), MIND (4), FACE (1), KIDNEYS (1), VERTIGO (1).

HEAD - PAIN, - shooting - Forehead - over eyes - upward
HEAD - PAIN, - pressing - Brain, - as if bound up - skull too small,as if
HEAD - PAIN, - Sides, - morning - bed,in
HEAD - PAIN, - joy,from excessive
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - walking in open air, - amel.
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - evening
KIDNEYS - PAIN - aching
HEAD - PAIN, - eating, - after - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - hysterical headache
HEAD - PAIN, - excitement of the emotions,after
VERTIGO - EATING, - after
MIND - RESTLESSNESS,nervousness - evening
HEAD - PAIN, - Forehead,in - morning
HEAD - PAIN, - nervous
MIND - STARTING,startled - sleep, - from sleep
MIND - WORK, - aversion to mental
HEAD - PAIN, - morning
MIND - RESTLESSNESS,nervousness

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