Oleander
By Adolph von Lippe — Keynotes and Red Line Symptoms of the Materia Medica
Common name: rose laurel.
Dull pressing in the limbs (Nux-V.).
Great pressing, as from spasms, in many places.
Want of sensation in the whole body (Op.).
Tension through the whole body.
Want of animal heat in the limbs.
Faintish debility (Kali-P.).
Memory weak; slow perception (Sil.) (Br.).
Headache relieved by looking sideways (worse from looking sideways - Acon., Dig., Sil.) (D.).
When standing, trembling of the limbs; when writing, trembling of the hands.
Great sensitiveness of the skin to rubbing; it becomes red and sore.
An eruption on the back of the scalp and ears, oozing a sticky fluid and breeding vermin (Graph., Mezer., Petr.) (D.).
Itching, relieved on first scratching, but it soon becomes sore (Sulph.) (D.).
Eruptions at the margin of the hair (Rhus-T.) (Bl.).
Chapping of the skin (G.).
Useful in paralytic conditions (hemiplegia, paraplegia, etc.) (Bl.).
Painless stiffness and paralysis of the limbs.
Painless paralysis with swelling, burning and stiffness of the fingers (Bl.).
Diarrhœa of a watery, painless and undigested character.
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA; PASSES STOOL WITH THE LEAST EMISSION OF FLATUS (Aloe, Nat-S.) (N.).
Thin, undigested stools, the patient passing undigested food that was eaten a day or two before (Podo.) (D.).
Morning diarrhœa (Aloe, Bry., Calc-P., Dios., Nux-V., Podo., Sulph., Thuj.).
Burning pain in the anus (Aloe) (Br.).
Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen (Sep.) and chest (Phos.).
Ravenous appetite with diarrhœa (Aloe, Asaf., Calc., Fluor-Ac., Iod., Lyc., Petr., Stram., Sulph., Verat., Zinc., preceding diarrhœa- Psor.) (K.).
Much thirst, especially for cold water (Phos.) (C.).
Empty belching (Ars., Bism., Carb-V., Dios., Iod., Kali-B., Lyc., Puls., Sulph.) (Br.).
Borborygmus, with profuse fœtid flatus (Aloe, Carb-V., Lyc., Nat-S.) (Br.).
Vertigo when looking down, or when looking fixedly at an object (Br.).
Heat from mental exertion (B.).
Double vision (Bell., Gels., Stram.) (Br.).
Momentary loss of sight (Cycl., Kali-B., Phos., Sep.) (G.).
AGGRAVATION: From rubbing; in the morning; from undressing; after eating; looking fixedly; on rising in bed; looking downwards; and when passing flatus.
AMELIORATION: From scratching; from looking sidewise; and while lying.
RELATIONSHIP: Antidotes: Camph. and Sulph.
Compare: Aloe, Asaf., Carb-V., Con., Dios., Graph., Kali-P., Kali-S., Lathy., Lyc., Merc., Nat-S., Nux-V., Op., Petr., Phos., Podo., Rhus-T., Sep., Staph., Sulph.