Echinacea Angustifolia

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

Blood.
Circulation.
Gums.
Lymphatics.
Left side.

WORSE

Eating.
Injury.
Operations.

BETTER

Rest.
Weak, tired and achy. Slow

speech, gait, replies, etc. Weakness, in stomach; in bowels; of heart; in knees; with vertigo. Sepsis. Lymphangitis. Rheumatism. .................... Depressed or cross and out of sorts. Can't exert mind. Sharp pain deep in brain; it seems too large. Throbbing through temples. Hot, burning forehead. Twitching brows. Bluish face. Teeth sensitive to drafts of air. Mucus, frothy in mouth; hawks from throat. Tongue numb. Peppery taste. Aphthæ. Nauseated and chilly. Sour, bloody vomitus; like coffee grounds. As of a load in posterior liver. Blood follows stool. Seminal emissions. As of a lump under sternum. Burning under l. scapula. Hands, numb alternately or restless; on awaking. Dreams of difficulties; laborious or quarrelsome. Irregular chills, heats and sweats. Chill in l. occiput. Sweat on upper parts; on forehead. Increasing, but variable pulse.

Related: Arn. Pyro. Rhus-t.

Echinacea Angustifolia across the other classic books

Echinacea Angustifolia 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.

Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Purple Cone-flower (ECHINACEA - RUDBECKIA) We are indebted to the Eclectic school for this remarkable medicine as a "corrector of blood dyscrasia". Acute auto-infection. Symptoms of blood poisoning, septic conditions generally . Diarrhœa in typhoid. Gonorrhœa. Boils. Erysipelas and foul ulcers. Gangrene . Goitre with…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“(Echinacea angustifolia is the Western species of E.; not to be confounded with E. purpurea , or Black Sampson, the Eastern species.) N. O. Compositæ, allied to Rudbeckia. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Appendicitis / Bites of rabid animals / Blood-poisoning / Carbuncles / Diphtheria / Enteric Fever / Gangrene /…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: purple cone flower. Is indicated in cases of blood-poisoning and septic conditions (Bl.). WEAK, TIRED AND ACHY (Arn., Bapt., Gels., Nux-V., Rhus-T.) (B.). Sharp pain deep in the brain (Apis, Bell., Glon., Nux-V.) (B.). CAN'T EXERT MIND (Kali-P., Phos-Ac., Sil.) (B.). Depressed, or cross and out of sorts…”

Echinacea Angustifolia in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Echinacea Angustifolia in 154 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in HEAD (24), STOMACH (16), ABDOMEN (11), CHEST (9), MOUTH (9).

FEVER - SEPTIC fever
FEVER - ZYMOTIC fevers
FEVER - PUERPERAL fever
FEVER - EXANTHEMATIC fevers - measles - scarlatina
FEVER - CONTINUED fever,typhus - typhoid
GENERALITIES - INFLAMMATION - externally
GENERALITIES - INFLAMMATION - internally
GENERALITIES - WOUNDS - bites of poisonous animals
HEAD - FULLNESS - Temple
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping,griping - flatus,from passing - amel.
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - motion
ABDOMEN - INFLAMMATION (Peritonitis,Enteritis,etc.) - appendicitis
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Ileocaecal region
FACE - DISCOLORATION - pale - headache,with
MIND - THINKING, - aversion to
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - carbuncle
HEAD - PAIN, - dull pain - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN, - Temples - pulsating
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - stooping
THROAT - MEMBRANE,exudation,diphtheria,etc.

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