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}.; Variolinum ^Variol.; Malandrinum ^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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