Sarracenia Purpurea

▲   GENERAL

General

A remedy for variola. Visual disorders. Congestion to head, with irregular heart action. Chlorosis. Contains a very active proteolytic enzyme. Sick headache; throbbing in various parts, especially in neck, shoulders and head, which feels full to bursting.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Antimonium Tartaricum ^{Tartar. Em}.; Variol.; Maland.

▲   MIND

Mind

Conscientious about things of little importance

Delirium

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

about self; circumstances; is a criminal

about self; circumstances; is disgraced

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

envy

cheerful, happy

impulsive; capriciousness

laughing

reproaches; himself

suspicious

unhappy; wants to injure self; suicidal disposition

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

morning

noon

weeping, crying, tearful mood (lamenting); in sleep

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating

Insecure, uncertain, scared; frightened easily

Restlessness, nervousness

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Night

With sleepiness; at the same time

▲   HEAD

Head

Hot

Headache

Heaviness (see pain; pressing); forehead; late morning

Pain, headache

back of head (occiput); evening; in bed

sore bruised, sensitive to pressure; forehead

Scalp

Skin and scalp; itching

▲   EYES

Eyes

Photophobia

Eyes feel swollen and sore

Pain in orbits

Black objects move with the eye.

Inflammation; wounds; lids

Swellings

morning

sensation of swelling

Vision

Colours and shapes in front of eyes

colours; black; on turning

colours; yellow; halo around the light

▲   EARS

Ear

Sensation of air; streaming into ear, on pulling jaw to other side

Noises in ear

music

swashing

Pain

stitching, sudden, sharp

▲   FACE

Face

Skin

discoloration; red

discoloration; red; afternoon; 6 p.m.

out-breaks on skin; cold sores, herpes

out-breaks on skin; like millet seeds

out-breaks on skin; red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour)

Swelling; parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed

Discharge from nose

blood

offensive smelling

Odours, imaginary and real; fetid

Pain

root

root; pulsating

pressing; root

Pulsation; root

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness

Smell; lost sense of smell

Swelling

root

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza)

with chilliness

with cough

running, wet

▲   MOUTH

Saliva

Dryness

Tongue

tongue

▲   THROAT

Throat

Pain; larynx

Pressure in throat-pit

Voice; hoarseness

External throat; pain; pressing; throat-pit

▲   CHEST

Chest

Congestion

Heart

palpitations; morning

palpitations; while lying down; side; left

Lungs; haemorrhage (see expectoration)

Oppressed feeling; heart

Pain; sore, bruised; front of chest

Respiration

Difficult (dyspnea)

Interrupted; coughing

Like deep snoring

Shrill grating sound

▲   COUGH

Cough

Dry cough

Exhausting cough

Hard cough

Comes on suddenly

Racking

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage)

Noticeable taste

greasy

putrid

▲   SKIN

Skin

Variola, aborts the disease, arrests pustulation.

Out-breaks on skin; psoriasis (red patches with silvery scales)

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Heat; flushes; neck

Pain; neck

Back

Pains shooting in ZIGZAG course from lumbar region to middle of scapula.

Coldness

dorsal (shoulder level); between shoulder blades

Heat

extending up the back

lumbar (lower half of back)

spine

extending upward

Pain

evening

leaning back against chair

lumbar (lower half of back)

spine

sacrum (base of spine)

spine; irritation; sacrum (base of spine)

aching; evening

aching; lumbar (lower half of back)

Weakness (tired feeling, in spine)

dorsal (at shoulder dorsal level)

between shoulder blades

dorsal (at shoulder dorsal level); leaning on something

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Pain; navel; region of navel

Pulsation; behind lower ribs; right

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); night; 3 a.m.

urination; frequent; before period

Stomach

appetite; ravenous, excessive; eating increases the hunger; soon after eating

Eating

Hungry all the time, even after a meal

Sleepy during meals

Vomiting

Copious, painful vomiting.

Stomach

vomiting; on coughing

vomiting; during headache

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; morning

Flatulence

evening

offensive

Sensation of lump (see weight)

Pain; urge to stool, or urinate, but producing nothing; during diarrhoea

Swelling of anus

Stool

Bloody

Hard

Large

Odour

musty

offensive

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Cloudy

Colourless

Copious

Clear

Scanty

Sediment; phosphates

Urine heavier than usual

Female

Female

vaginal discharge

vaginal discharge; milky

vaginal discharge; offensive smelling

vaginal discharge; thick

vaginal discharge; white

Womb

hot; womb

pulsating; womb

swollen; womb; cervix

Genitals

out-breaks on skin

hot

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Limbs weak; bruised pain in knees and hip-joints

Bones in arm pain

Weak between shoulders.

Coldness

Emaciated, extremely thin; leg

Heat

hand

hand; evening; 9 p.m.

Heaviness

upper limbs

leg

Inflammation; foot; bone

Movements and positions; lameness; thigh

Numbness (see tingling)

upper limbs

hand

fingers

Pain

upper limbs

shoulder; comes on suddenly

upper arm

afternoon; 3 p.m.

bone

bone; afternoon; 3 p.m.

hip; on rising

thigh

knee; knee cap

lower leg

shin bone

as if dislocated; lower limbs

sore, bruised; upper limbs

sore, bruised; shoulder

extending to hand

sore, bruised; upper arm

in bone

sore, bruised; lower limbs; joints

sore, bruised; knee

stitching, sudden, sharp; joints; on movement

Skin

itching; like insects crawling on skin; upper limbs

itching; like insects crawling on skin; shoulder

out-break on skin; hand; pimples

Weakness

upper limbs; afternoon; 2 p.m.

elbow

knee

evening

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Noon

Afternoon

Afternoon; with perspiration; cold

Evening

continuing all night

Night

Beginning in particular area

back

back; between the shoulder blades

feet

Periodic, recurring

recurring daily

recurring every third day

With perspiration; after chill

With fever, but chill predominating

Shaking, shivering, rigors

morning

At certain time of day or night

from 2 a.m.

from 2 p.m.

from 9 p.m.; to 10 p.m.

Morning

Afternoon

Evening; lasting all night

Night

Burning heat

Dry heat; night; as if hot vapours rise up to the brain

Intense heat; with delirium

Chilliness from uncovering

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Dreams

frightful

music

Sleepiness, tiredness

during dinner

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Not refreshing

Yawning

Perspiration

Afternoon; 5 p.m.

Evening

even when resting

Profuse

evening

night

Generalities

Pulse; full

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

during fever

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