Senecio Aureus


Senecio Aureus signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Senecio Aureus is used…


      Senecio aureus (Variety, Gracilis). Golden Rag wort. Squaw-weed. (United States, North and West, found in swamps.) *N. O. Compositae. Tincture of fresh plant in flower.

Clinical

Amenorrhoea. Ascites. Coryza. cough. dropsy. Dysmenorrhoea. Dysuria. Epistaxis. Fainting. Gleet. Gonorrhoea. Haemorrhages. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Kidneys, inflammation of. Lumbago. Mania. Menorrhagia. *Menstruation, delayed, early, and profuse, obstructed, vicarious. Nails, brittle. Nervousness. Neurasthenia. Phthisis. Prostatitis. Puerperal mania. Renal colic. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Wounds.

Characteristics

The Golden Ragwort had a reputation in domestic and eclectic practice as a regulator of menstrual functions when Hale introduced it into homoeopathic practice. ***A. E. Small and others proved it, and clinical additions have filled out the picture. Like many other Compositae, the Rag worts, or Groundsels, have power over haemorrhagic conditions, whether arising from disease or from wounds. The haemorrhagic function of menstruation comes particularly under the influence of *Senec. A very definite relation has been traced between the nose and the female sexual organs, and *Senec. is indicated when epistaxis or nasal catarrh takes the place of menses when suppressed from any cause. The menses may be profuse and early, or they may be retarded or absent. *Senec. may be required in a great variety of conditions traceable to non-appearing menses. ***C.M.Foss (*A. H., xxii. 12) reports the case of Miss L., 18, who had seen no period for fifteen months. She was chlorotic, had a dry, hacking cough, with frequent pulse, made still more frequent by any excitement, headache, poor sleep, constipation. The abdomen had been gradually enlarging for six months, and tapping had been decided upon when *Senec. Ix was given. All symptoms rapidly cleared up, and the menses returned within a short time. *Senec. Ix also cured a girl, 21, who had suppression of urine in addition to chlorosis, ascites, and suppressed menses (*M. A., xxiii. 77). S. H. Talcott (quoted *A. M., xxiv. 188) reports an important case bearing on the same point. Mrs. X., 26, mother of two children. Before confinement the patient was haunted with the idea that her child would be stillborn. Nine days after its birth, strong and healthy, she was admitted to hospital in a state of violent acute mania, which continued, with high temperature, for three months. with great physical activity, the mental state was that of a wild, violent, and almost uncontrollable person. There was severe pain in the head, great nervous irritability and sleeplessness and hysterical erethism. These symptoms, coupled with the fact (now first ascertained) that the lochia had ceased suddenly after confinement, and the menses had not come on, led to the choice of *Senec., which was given in drop doses of the 3x every two hours. Steady improvement resulted, and after a few weeks the patient was allowed out on parole. A relapse followed, and *Belladonna did no good. *Senec. was again given with good effect, and complete recovery took place. Talcott regards *Senec. as midway between the pugilistic state of *Belladonna and the tearful state of *Pulsatilla He remarks that recovery from puerperal mania seldom occurs unless menstruation is re- established. Hale notes that the country people call *Senec. “Wild Valerian,” and use it for nervousness, hysteria, low spirits, sleeplessness, especially in women, and he refers to this “globus” symptom of the pathogenesis: “About the middle of the afternoon, sensation as if a ball was in the stomach, rising up into the throat, lasting for about an hour, sensation of tightness in the throat, with a disposition to attempt to relieve it by swallowing. Talcott’s case becomes more significant in the light of Cooper’s observation of the brain action of *Sen. *jacoboea. Small, who proved *Senec., records this case: Women, 30, had been ill six weeks, the symptoms steadily increasing till the following picture was presented: Face bloated, abdomen enlarged, feet oedematous, urine alternately profuse and watery, or dark and scanty, frequent desire to urinate day and night. *Senec., O gtt. x, three times a day, cured quickly. Small remarks that he has found *Senec. useful in the dysuria of women and children when evidently of catarrhal origin, and in dysuria with uterine displacement. Mucous sediment in the urine is an indication. But the benefits of *Senec. are not confined to the female sex. Small relates this case: Man, 50, nervi-sanguine, subject of renal inflammation affecting right kidney generally, causing intense pain, febrile disturbance, prostration. On one occasion the pain was particularly intense, and the bladder seemed implicated. Every time he passed water he cried out in agony. Urine reddish, very hot and acrid. Bowels constipated. Dull headache, mouth and throat dry, chilly, fever, and perspiration. *Senec., O gtt. xx, in half a tumbler of water, a dessert spoonful every hour. There was relief from the first dose, and the pain soon subsided entirely, leaving the patient freed from recurrence of the attacks. *Senec. has caused: “Dull, heavy pain in left spermatic cord, moving along cord to testicle. Prostatic gland enlarged, feels hard and swelled to touch. Lascivious dreams, with pollutions.” Hale says he has found *Senec. useful in advanced stages of gonorrhoea, and in prostatic disorders. Hale reports the following case of dysmenorrhoea: Mrs. X., mother of one child, had an abortion three years before, and another (at the second month of pregnancy) four months before Hale saw her. Since the last abortion she had suffered from painful menstruation, which had not been the case previously. Menses every three weeks, profuse, lasting eight or nine days, accompanied by much cutting pain in sacrum, hypogastrium, and groins. Pale, weak, nervous, slight cough, generally at night. *Senec., O gtt. v, was given three times a day till the next period, which came on at the twenty-ninth day, and was perfectly normal in quantity and without pain. *Senec. has a place in coughs and even in phthisis. “It is especially serviceable in mucous coughs,” says Hale. “In chronic coughs, catarrhal affections, haemoptysis, incipient phthisis attended with troublesome cough, *the result of obstructed menstruation,” it has a well-established reputation. *Peculiar Sensations of Senec. are: As of a wave from occiput to sinciput. As if he would pitch forward. As of a ball rising from stomach to throat. Respiration as if greatly fatigued. Pains are radiating, shifting, lancinating. Symptoms alternate. *Senec. is specially *Suited to: women and little girls of nervous temperament. Lyman Watkins (quoted *H. W., xxxiv. 300) says, “Females taking *Senec. generally improve in health and strength, accumulate flesh, become light-headed and cheerful. This may be due to some tonic influence.” The symptoms are worse at night (cough, sweat, sleeplessness, frequent micturition). worse In afternoon (general). worse In open air. Very sensitive to open air, tendency to catarrhs. Colic is better bending forward, and better by stool. Better at onset of menses. Worse sitting, must keep moving about (mind).

Relationships

*Compare: Botanical, Sen. Jac. Arnica, Calendula, Bels. Uterine, chest, and bladder symptoms, Pulsatilla, Helonias Vicarious menstruation, Bryonia (Senec. especially bloody expectoration). Homesickness, Caps., Ph. ac. Worse 4 p.m., Lycopodium Prostatitis and gonorrhoea, Sabal ser., Solidag., Pulsatilla, Pip-n., Copaiva, Thuja Nervousness, Coffea, Chamomilla, Val., Ambr. Fidgety feet, Causticum, Zn.

Causation

Venesection. Suppressed menstruation. Wounds. Symptoms.

Mind

Very irritable, worried, undecided, dissatisfied, depressed, nervous, worse sitting still, must move about.-Low spirits alternating with cheerful mood, sleepless, sensation of a ball rising from stomach to throat. Inability to fix mind on one subject for any length of time.- A feeling like homesickness.- (Puerperal mania, wild, violent, with high temperature, nervousness, sleeplessness, suddenly suppressed lochia, non- appearance of menses.).

Head

Dizzy feeling while walking in open air, like a wave from occiput to sinciput, he feels as if he would pitch forward, nausea.- Dull, stupefying headache, with fullness of head, as from catarrh.- Sharp lancinating in left temple, upper part of left eye and inside of left lower jaw.- Dull occipital pain in morning.- Dull frontal pain extending to occiput. Sharp shooting pains from within outward in forehead, sharp shooting pains over and in eyes, catarrh, suppressed secretion.-Headache preceding leucorrhoea and irritation of bladder.- Forehead hot, sweaty in evening.

Eyes

Dark rings round eyes.- Sharp pains from within outward, left eye, lachrymation in open air.-Catarrhal ophthalmia from suppressed secretions. Eyes and lids burn.- Yellow streak from inner canthus to iris.

Nose

Coryza, at first dull headache, dryness of nose and sneezing, burning and fullness in nostrils, later secretion of copious mucus.- Coryza with nose-bleed.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica