- Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Pinkroot. (Loganiaceae.) Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis; to scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici (Cina, Stan.). Persons with light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin. Body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly ; touch…”
- Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Spigelia, anthelmia, L. Natural order , Loganiaceæ. Preparation , Tincture prepared from the powdered plant. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 21 , from Hahnemann, Mat. Med., 5).”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Pinkroot (SPIGELIA) Spigelia is an important remedy in pericarditis and other diseases of the heart, because the provings were conducted with the greatest regard for objective symptoms and the subjective symptoms are by innumerable confirmations proved to be correct (C. Hering). Has marked elective affinity for the…”
- Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ANGINA PECTORIS BLOWS, shocks, thrusts, crash, explosions, etc. (Comp. Shattered): BORING, grinding, etc. BREATHING, DEEPLY, Agg. BURSTING, splitting, etc.(Comp. Shattered) CHEST, backward in CHEST, internal CHEST, left COLDNESS, Partial DIRECTION of sensations, Backward DIRECTION OF SENSATIONS, FORWARD DIRECTION of…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“anthelmia. Demerara Pink-root. N. O. Loganiaceæ. Tincture of dried herb. Adenoids / Amaurosis / Angina pectoris / Ciliary neuralgia / Cold / Constipation / Depression of spirits / Diaphragm, stitches in / Exophthalmic goître / Eyes, pains in / Gastric catarrh / Glaucoma / Headache / Heart, affections of / Hernia…”
- Farrington — The differential diagnosis — remedy families narrowed through direct clinical comparison.
“Spigelia is a member of the order Loganiaceae. To understand it as a remedy is not a difficult thing to do, if we start with the idea that it acts on the nerves as a neuralgic remedy, having as a grand characteristic, neuralgia. Associated with these neuralgic symptoms we almost always find symptoms sympathetic from…”
- Guernsey — The leading characteristics — a compact bridge from repertory result to remedy study.
“Eyes.--Neuralgia of the eyes, especially where there is great soreness, and can scarcely bear a touch; affections of the eyeball; eyelids; optic nerve; dilated pupils; ocular illusions--sees strange things, fiery, etc. (Cyclamen, when with any trouble as headache, sick stomach etc., one always sees countless stars)…”
- Hahnemann (MMP) — The proving record — numbered observations closest to Hahnemann's primary materia medica.
“(The tincture is made by macerating for a week, without heat and with a daily shaking, fifty grains of the powder of the whole plant of Spigelia anthelmia in 500 drops of alcohol.) From vol. v, 2nd edit., 1826. This annual plant, which was first used in South America as a domestic remedy for round worms, became known…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Pinkroot. Loganiaceæ. An annual, growing in the West Indies and South America. The alcoholic tincture is prepared from the dried herb. Provings by Hahnemann, Becher, Franz, Gross, Gutmann, Hartmann, Herrmann, Hornburg, Kummer, Langhammer, Meyer, Stapf, Walther, Wislicenus and others, Hahnemann's Mat. Med., vol. 5…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — how Kent organizes the remedy’s historical symptom portrait.
“Spigelia Anthelmintica Pains : Spigelia is especially known by its pains. It is indicated in persons who are debilitated from taking cold and who have become rheumatic, run down, victims of pain. Hardly a nerve in the body escapes; shooting, burning, tearing, neuralgic pains; they are most marked about the eyes and…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Restlessness, with anxiety and great solicitude for the future. Difficulty of thinking and disinclination to mental exertion. Weakness of memory. Giddiness when looking downwards. Vertigo, with nausea. Boring headache, from within to without, in the forehead, vertex, or cerebellum. Pressing headache, principally in…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“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…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Violent beating of the heart, shakes the chest; sometimes audible several inches away. Left-sided neuralgias of head, face and eyes; pains increase and decrease with the rising and setting sun; watering of the eye, on affected side. Modalities: quiet; dry air, setting sun. In this we have another valuable heart…”
- Roberts — Location, sensation, and modality — the three-fold basis Roberts used to separate remedies.
“Spigelia is especially indicated in rheumatic troubles located in the left chest; in rheumatic inflammations of heart, both præcordial and endocardial, with violent irregular heart action and severe pain; in pericarditis with profuse sweat, sticking or stabbing pains, palpitation, dyspnœa from lying on back; these…”
