Homeopathy Remedy Hypericum


Hypericum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Hypericum…


      A tincture is made of the whole plant of Hypericum perforatum. L. Allies.- Arnica, Calendula.

Generalities

      Starting as from fright, with rising of heat into neck. Active. Fugitive, laming pains in face, shoulders, and limbs and fingers. Dull; in morning, and languid. Sensitive to cold. Disinclined to mental and physical labor. Weak; in morning on waking, and thirsty; in morning, (>) towards noon; in afternoon after a short walk, and distracted; at night; when walking, must walk slowly; and heavy; even to falling. Whole body affected as after recovery from disease. Feeling on waking at 4 A.M., as if she were not lying in bed, at another times as if lying very heavy in bed.

Clinical Tetanus. Tetanus of neck and jaw, (<) r. side, involving thorax and abdomen, from getting pins in the foot. The results of penetrating wounds from pointed instruments. Effects of gunshot wounds. Concussion of the brain and spine in railroad accident, followed by a large number of symptoms, (<) between scapulae, stiffness of extremities, nervous cough, chilliness, (<) damp weather, diarrhoea from slight excitement, etc., all cured by Hypericum In a general way it is indicated for the effects following injuries of nerves. In general, excessive painfulness and soreness of the affected part indicate the drug; the attacks are generally brought on by change of weather. Many cases of subacute and chronic neuritis have been apparently cured by its use.,

Mind

      Talks wildly in sleep after 4 A.M., eyes distorted, red and staring, head hot, carotids throbbing, face red, puffy, pupils dilated pulse rapid, hair of head moist, with dry heat over the rest of body, apprehensive, once she sang, then wept, screamed and gasped, after a few magnetic passes she came to herself, applying the hand to head had a soothing effect. Excited as by tea; at night. Irritable. Apprehensive. Easily frightened. Sober. Sad; at 5 P.M., in evening, and inclined to weep, which she tried to suppress. Religious thoughts, hopeful. Weakness; of memory; memory defective, can hardly arrange ideas and cannot execute her intentions, forgets what she wanted to do. Forgets people’s names. Omits letters in writing. Mistakes in writing in evening.

Head

      Tearing stitches internally in morning. Pain, (<) dinner; (P. waking at night); as from hammering, in morning, (<) on vertex; P. of weight, generally on passage of a heavy storm-cloud. Pressing asunder sensation at 6 P.M., (<) vertex, a roaring sensation. Brain seems compressed; in evening. Feeling on something alive in brain at night in bed, or a tickling. Dullness; in morning in bed. Fulness; on rising, (>) breakfast; in morning, with low spirits, then stiffness in eyes as after tears, and strained pain in forehead. Confusion; in morning on waking. Feeling as if longer than natural; suddenly. Heaviness; in morning, with general weakness; in morning (>) towards evening; in afternoon. Weak feeling; in evening. Vertigo; in morning; in morning on waking, with nausea; at 9 A.M.

Forehead.- Aching over brows after breakfast; A. as if smashed, (<) night and lying down, (<) next day, but more towards vertex. Pressure on anterior and upper part of l. bone after breakfast. Tension as if drawn up. Feeling as if touched by cold hands in evening, then extending towards r. eye. Head heavy, tense between temples.

Temples-Sticking in r.; in l. in evening; now r., now l. in evening; suddenly in l. when walking. Tearing in r. at 4 P.M., with general chill. Aching; in l. after breakfast. Tension. Throbbing.

Sticking in vertex at 7 P.M. Tearing in vertex in evening. Pain in V. in morning on waking, with roaring in ears, (<) l. Throbbing in V. in afternoon, with heat in head. Fulness in vertex before waking, with pain and heat in it; fugitive F. in l. half of head in morning in bed. Sticking in r. side of head on exerting eyes and head.

Shooting up l. occipital nerve in forenoon. Tearing in occiput in evening. Pain in O. on motion. Feeling in l. side of O. in evening as if violent pain, with pressure, would come on. Feeling in O. in forenoon as if bothered. Creeping feeling in r. side of O. after dinner. Falling of hair. Pain in scalp on l. side of occiput after breakfast, sometimes sharp; weakening, drawing P. in scalp over upper and anterior part of l. parietal bone. Formication on vertex. Itching at night.

Clinical Severe headache on vertex, as if the whole brain would burst, extending into cheeks and chin, with cramp in chin, etc.

Eyes

      Sticking through r. Tearing in r. in evening. Aching. Tension. Weariness. Pupils dilated; at 6 P.M. Lids agglutinated and tense. R. lids spasmodically closed in evening. Smarting of lids. Burning stinging in tarsi of l. lids at 9 P.M. Burning in canthi. Focal distance of vision lengthened in evening. Vision weak.

Ears

      Sticking through r. in evening. Pain at entrance to r. meatus. Drawing pain in l. towards zygoma, on touching zygoma it feels swollen. Pressure in r. in evening, with excoriated feeling in r. side of pharynx. Itching in r. meatus, (>) touch, but returning.

Nose

      Pain in bridge on rising. Dryness; with sneezing; of l. nostril, with crusts in it. Sneezing in morning; in a sharp fit after breakfast, with free nasal secretion. Smell very acute.

Face

      Jerking in l. zygoma in morning, with crawling. Jerking pain in cheeks. Aching; in afternoon and evening; in afternoon after eating a mulberry tart, with disturbed sleep at night, next day A. (<) l. side; (>) diet and abstinence from artificial stimulus; in brows and face, (<) night to distressing aching in r. half of face, (<) an old tooth. Pressure on malar prominence after breakfast; on malar-bone in evening. Seems puffy in evening. Tension in cheeks; in afternoon. Contraction in l. zygoma. Aching in articulations of jaws. Lips dry. Lips hot.

Clinical Neuralgia of the face, which had lasted for two years, following the shaving off of a cold sore, was entirely cured.

Mouth

      Toothache in forenoon; in a stump of a r. upper molar at night, keeping me awake and restless, (>) lying on r. cheek and keeping quiet, aching next day after a glass of beer, (<) night; tearing, here and there; tearing in r. at 3 A.M. on waking; drawing, in all lower after midnight; jerking pain in teeth and cheeks in afternoon. Tension in teeth in forenoon. Tongue coated white; coated dirty yellow; T. whitish-gray, (<) at base; foul T. on rising. Much mucus after eating. Dryness. Dry heat at 5 P.M. Taste bad, eructations. Taste of blood in throat after stool, on hawking bright red bloody expectoration.

Clinical Terribly inflamed tongue; resulting from a bite during an epileptic fit, inability to speak; cured in forty-eight hours.

Throat

      Hawking of tenacious mucus. Lancinations from r. submaxillary gland down neck, at 10 P.M. Raw soreness after sneezing. Feeling as if a worm were squirming in it. Rising of heat in afternoon.

Stomach

      Appetite great in morning; at noon; in evening; for pickles in evening; not great for breakfast; lost in evening; lost, with nausea and pressure as from an overloaded stomach, though he had fasted; no relish for breakfast. Aversion to eating. Speedy satiety without pressure in stomach. Tobacco is not relished. Thirst; in morning; on waking, but inability to drink on account of choking in throat and heat; with heat in mouth; for wine in afternoon.

Eructations; after breakfast; on drinking water; with pressure on chest; empty at 5 P.M. without having eaten anything; bitter; of mucus in morning, with burning and pressure in stomach. Nausea; so that he could hardly rise in morning, with pressure in praecordial region; at noon, with weakness; in evening, with constant eructations of wind or mucus; in evening, with distress in stomach, retching and collection of water in mouth; on waking in night; during dinner, with sleepiness and feeling as if stomach and bowels were hot and swollen; two hours after eating, with pressure and weakness; (>) drinking water, with retching. Retching.

Dyspepsia after plums and pickles, with bilious diarrhoea. Indigestion at night, with flatulence, woke with distention and cracking pain in hypogastrium, (>) morning by diarrhoea. Distention after tea-time, with flatulence. Sticking alternately in epigastric region and r. hypochondrium. Pressure after milk; P. after a small meal; after breakfast, extending towards back; P., with burning, waking, feeling as if disordered by sour wine. Weight after meat at breakfast. Oppression in evening after a little rice. Crawling in morning, with yawning, like hunger, but without appetite on account of nausea. Feeling contracted and hot in evening. Heat in morning after rising, (>) drinking cold water, with discomfort; H. in epigastrium and chest. Apprehension and crawling in pit and in praecordial region in evening.

Abdomen

      Distention; flatulent, also in evening; with cracking pain, waking at night; griping D., then soft stool. Hardness, with tension in r. hypochondrium. Emission of flatus. Flatulence through the day with pressure and dragging. Cramp. Cutting and griping as from incarcerated flatus. Griping as from flatulence, then soft stool. After tea pinching in bowels, which became relaxed. Pain n evening after coffee, with diarrhoea. Feeling as if flatus would pass.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.