COMMON NAME:
SOW BREAD.
Symptoms
It has many things in common with Pulsatilla (Bl.).
Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with anaemic or chlorotic conditions (A.).
Easily fatigued, and in consequence not inclined to any kind of labour (A.).
Pale, chlorotic, with deranged menses, and accompanied by vertigo, headache and dim vision (A.).
Satiety after a few mouthful (Lycopodium); food then becomes repugnant, causes nausea in throat and palate (A.).
THIRSTLESSNESS (Ant-T., Apis, Chin, Colchicum, Gelsemium, Helleborus, Ipecac., Meny., Nux-M., Acid phosphoricum., Pulsatilla, Sabad.).
BAD EFFECTS FROM EATING MUCH FAT FOOD (PORK) (Pulsatilla).
Saliva and all food has a salty taste (A.).
Desire for lemonade (Belladonna, Calcarea, Eup-Per) (K.).
Hiccough during pregnancy (Opium) (B.).
Aversion to bread and butter (Magnesia carb.) (C.).
Chilly all over (Nux vomica, Pulsatilla) (B.).
CATAMENIA TOO PROFUSE (Bovista, Calcarea, China, Cocc., Erig., Ferrum, Helonias, Ipecac., Millefolium, Murx., Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sabin.).
MENSES: TOO EARLY; TOO PROFUSE; BLACK AND CLOTTED; MEMBRANOUS; FEELS BETTER DURING THE FLOW (Lachesis, Zincum met.) (A.).
Post-partum haemorrhages, with colicky, bearing-down pains, which are relieved after a gush of blood (Bl.).
Milk in virgin breasts (Asafoetida, Mercurius, Pulsatilla, Tuberculinum, Urt-U.) (B.).
Sensation of something alive in the abdomen (Croc., Hyoscyamus, Sepia, Thuja) (K.).
Inclined to weep (Gelsemium, Ignatia, Pulsatilla) (A.).
Irritable, morose, ill-humoured (A.).
Great sadness and peevishness (Natrum muriaticum) (A.).
Ailments: from suppressed grief and terrors of conscience from duty not done, or bad act committed (A.).
Desire for solitude (Anacardium, Gelsemium, Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica) (A.).
Pressing, drawing and tearing pain, principally in the periosteum.
Chilblains of the feet (Agaricus, Anacardium, Carb-An., Lycopodium, Mercurius, Petroleum, Pulsatilla, Zincum met.).
As long as he walks about, he feels well with the exception of languor, but as soon as he sits down, especially in the evening, he suffers various inconveniences.
Burning, sore pain in the heels, when sitting, standing or walking in open air (Agaricus, Causticum, Phytolacca, Valer.) (A.).
Aversion to open air (reverse of Pulsatilla) (A.).
Acne in young women (Calcarea phos.) (Br.).
Palpitation in the evening (Pulsatilla) (C.).
Headache in anaemic patients (Calcarea phos., Ferrum, Natrum muriaticum) with flickering before eyes or dim vision, on rising in the morning (A.).
Flickering before eyes (Belladonna, Carbon sulph., Graphites, Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Phosphorus, Sepia, Sulphur) (A.).
Sees fiery sparks, as of various colours, and glittering needles (A.).
Dim vision of fog or smoke (Arsenicum, Calcarea, China, Croc., Gelsemium, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Sulphur, Zinc) (A.).
Sees countless stars (Aurum, Calcarea, Conium, Hyoscyamus, Kali carb., Puls) (Br.).
The catarrhal discharges are thick and bland (Kali-M., Pulsatilla, Stann.) (Bl.).
Nasal catarrh, with loss of taste and smell (Pulsatilla) (F.).
Periodical, semilateral headache, with dizziness (Bt.).
Frequent sneezing (Am-M., Arsenicum, Carbon sulph., Coc-C., Mercurius, Nux vomica, Sulphur) (K.).
Spasmodic sneezing (Arsenicum, Gelsemium, Kali-I., Rhus toxicodendron, Sabad.).
AGGRAVATION:
In the evening; while at rest; in open air; from cold water; from cold bathing; before menses; from fat food; when sitting; and when standing.
AMELIORATION:
Whilst walking; during menses; in a warm room; from moving about.
RELATIONSHIP:
Antidote: Camph., Coffea, and Pulsatilla
Compare: Ambr., China, Ferrum, Kali-P., Lachesis, Mercurius, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron, Sepia, Silicea and Sulph.
Compare, especially China, Ferrum, and Pulsatilla in chlorosis, and anaemic affections.
Cinnabaris.
(Continued from P. 280)
Profuse perspiration between the thighs (Aurum, Hepar, Nux vomica), which is offensive and corrosive.
Chest oppressed, feels contracted; relieved by stretching himself.
Salivation (China, Kali-I., Mercurius, Acid nitricum, Pulsatilla, Rhus toxicodendron)
Intense headache; he cannot raise his head from the pillow; relieved by external pressure.
AGGRAVATION:
In the evening; at night (except of the perspiration, which is worse at midday); after sleeping; from lying on the right side; from touch; from light; and from dampness.
AMELIORATION:
In the open air; after dinner; and in Sunshine.
RELATIONSHIP:
Compare: Carb-An., Hepar, Kali bichromicum, Kali-M., Mercurius, Merc-C., Nit- Ac., Sepia and Thuja
ANTIDOTES : Hepar, and Sulph.
complementary: Thuja