Star Grass. Blazing Grass. Colic Root, Unicorn Root. (United States.) *N. O. Haemodoraceae. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Abortion. Anemia. Colic. Constipation. Convulsions. Debility. Dysmenorrhoea. Dysuria. Endometritis. Fever. Haemorrhoids. Hysteric colic. Indigestion. Leucorrhoea. Menorrhagia. Myalgia. Pregnancy, vomiting of. Sterility. Uterus, pain in, prolapse of.
Characteristics
*Alet. *far. is said to be the most bitter of all plants. It is characterized by weariness of body and mind. Want of appetite, especially in connection with uterine disorders. The least food distends the stomach. There are fainting attacks with vertigo. Emaciation is marked in some cases. Disgust for food, nausea, constipation. Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy. Many symptoms appear in the uterine sphere: uterine atony, menses profuse and premature with labour-like pains or amenorrhoea, debility from loss of fluids, protracted illness. Menorrhagia, black clots, Fulness and weight. Leucorrhoea, with debility. Sterility. Habitual tendency to abortion Sensation of weight in uterine region and tendency to prolapse. Sensation of weight in occiput as if it would draw the head back. It is most suited for chlorotic girls and pregnant women. Weak, emaciated people.
Relations.
*Compare: Helonias (“False” Unicorn, not to be confounded with Alet. f.), China, Hydrastis, Sabina, Senec., Pulsatilla, Caulophyllum, Dioscorea (colic worse bending forward); Causticum, Pulsatilla, Ferrum, (discharge of urine during cough); Alumina (constipation, grasps the seat tightly, despairs of having a Stool and Anus.. During Stool and Anus. terrible pains as if a passage were being forced, Alet. f.).
Mind
Weariness of body and mind.
Head
Vertigo, with sleepiness, vomiting, purging, even stupefaction. As if head in a vice. Weight in occiput, as if it would draw the head backward.
Eyes
Eyes feel sore and look dim.
Ears
Ears feel as if open through from one to the other. Deaf in left ear with stuffed feeling.
Appetite
Appetite lost, with weakness.
Stomach
Least food distresses the stomach, fainting attacks with vertigo, sleepy, emaciated, disgust for food, nausea, obstinate indigestion. Vomiting during pregnancy. Eructations of food in evening with burning in throat. All-gone feeling in morning on rising, better by eating. Nausea is better by coffee, is better by dinner, but returns with gagging at sight or thought of grease. Nausea, with pressure in forehead.
Abdomen
Cramps. Griping. Pain all through abdomen, settling into lower part, better passing flatus and scanty diarrhoeic Stool and Anus., pain worse bending forward, better bending backward, then the pain increased and it seemed as if all the insides had settled into lower abdomen and were cut with knives, better scanty diarrhoeic Stool and Anus.. Aching in hypogastrium and across back of hips. Hysteric colic.
Stool and Anus.
Scanty diarrhoeic Stool and Anus., tenesmus during and after Stool and Anus., with feeling as if lower part of rectum closed. Fearful pains in rectum and anus, during a movement terrible pain as if forcing a passage. Inveterate constipation as from rectal atony. Frequent ineffectual urgings. Stool and Anus.: loose, painful, offensive, frequent, thin with hard lumps in it, hard, delayed, small, scanty, difficult. Haemorrhoids.
Urinary Organs
Micturition rare. Incontinence, worse walking fast or sneezing. Urine scanty, phosphatic.
Female Sexual Organs
Premature profuse menses with labour-like pains. Amenorrhoea or delayed menses from atony, weariness of mind and body, abdomen distended, bearing-down. Menses too soon with colic, light- coloured. Menorrhagia, profuse, black with coagula, Fulness and weight. Leucorrhoea. White stringy. Prolapsus. Sterility. Habitual tendency to abort, sensation of weight in uterine region, tendency to prolapse. Myalgic pains like “false pains.” Before menses: cough.
Respiratory Organs
Raise a good deal of froth, feels as if wanted to cough and could not. Tickling, short, dry, hard cough on waking, becoming spasmodic, worse by talking, discharge of urine. Later, cough incessant, like whooping-cough, loses breath, cyanotic, better suddenly on occurrence of menses eight days too soon.
Chest
Pain in left breast as if a knife ran into it. Pain in left breast, then extending through into back to left of lower part of right scapula. Pulse irregular and intermittent.
Neck and Back
Pain in center of nape, running into left shoulder, then pain in nape moved up to occiput, and remained there all evening. Sharp pain from point of left scapula through to left breast. Sensation as if back would break just above waist, afterwards same pain higher up. Backache with dragging in sacral regions, and stringy, colourless leucorrhoea, beginning when walking.
Limbs.
Sharp pain in right shoulder joint, streaked down arm, then into left chest, settling above nipple. Knees painful sitting. R. leg feels paralysed below knee, numb, could not bear weight on it.
Skin
Itching papillary eruption across chest and back, worse by scratching, better by rubbing.
Sleep
Restless fore part of night.
Fever
Chilly, face flushed. Limbs cold, head and face hot and flushed.
