Xanthoxylum Fraxineum

▲   GENERAL

General

Its specific action is on the nervous system and mucous membranes. Paralysis, especially Hemiplegia. Painful hemorrhages, after-pains, Neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, and rheumatic affections, offer a therapeutic field for Xanthoxylum Fraxineum, especially in patients of spare habit and nervous, delicate organization. Indigestion from over-eating or from too much fluid. Sluggish capillary circulation. Neurasthenia, poor assimilation, insomnia, occipital headache. Increases mucous secretion of mouth and stimulates the secretion from all glands with ducts opening in the mouth.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships

Compare: Gnaphalium ^Gnaph.; Cimicifuga Racemosa ^Cimicif.; Staphysagria ^Staph.; Mezereum ^Mezer.; Piscida Erythrina ^Piscidia - White dogwood - (a nerve sedative. Insomnia due to worry, nervous excitement, spasmodic coughs; pains of irregular menstruation; regulates the flow. Neuralgic and spasmodic affections. Use tincture in rather material doses.)

▲   MIND

Mind

Nervous, frightened

Mental depression.

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

anguish; during period

indifference, apathy, etc.

unhappy; sadness, mental depression

morning; on waking

before period

Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; confusion

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; about future

fear; of death; before period

fear; something will happen

fear; before period

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Sick headache with dizziness and flatulence.

During headache

▲   HEAD

Head

Feels full

Brain

brain feels loose

brain feels loose; when shaking the head

Congestion (see pulsation); fullness

fullness; during period

Hot

flashes of heat

Movements in head

by moving the head

quivering sensation; on shaking head

Swollen, and feeling swollen; blood vessels

Headache

Weight and pain on vertex

Pain over eyes, throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in forehead; head seems divided; ringing in ears

Occipital headache

Pain, headache

in women

before period

in women; during period

pulsating

in forehead

above eyebrows

above eyebrows; right

above eyes; above right

above eyes; before period

above root of nose

back of head (occiput)

sides; left

temples

top of head (vertex)

bursting; top of head (vertex)

cutting, darting, stabbing; temples

pressing (see bursting, pulling)

top of head (vertex)

▲   EYES

Eyes

Discoloration; redness

Pain

lids

aching

grinding

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear

ringing

right

Pain

extending to other parts

extending to teeth

behind ear

stitching, sudden, sharp; behind the ear

stitching, sudden, sharp; below the ear

▲   FACE

Face

Neuralgia of lower jaw

Dryness of mouth and fauces

Pharyngitis ( Wyethia.)

Heat

Lips; discoloration; pale

Skin

discoloration; red; during painful menstruation

discoloration; red; during period

Swelling; fluid accumulation

▲   NOSE

Nose

Discharge from nose

crusts, scabs, inside

crusts, scabs, inside; right

hard, dry

Dryness; inside

Discharge

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked; one-sided; right

running, wet

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Pain; burning, raw and smarting

Tongue

Discoloration

tongue; pale

tongue; yellow

Pain; burning, raw and smarting; tongue

Tongue; flabby

Taste

Taste; peppery

▲   THROAT

Throat

Hawks often

Inflammation; right

Pain

sore

sore; right

Pulsating

Swelling

Voice; hoarseness

▲   CHEST

Chest

Constriction, tension

Pain

sides; right

sides; left

cutting (sudden sharp pain)

Respiration

Aphonia

Constant desire to take a long breath; oppression of chest

Dry cough, day and night.

Deep; desire to breathe deeply

▲   COUGH

Cough

Hacking cough

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Mucous

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back and neck

Pain

sore, bruised, beaten; lumbar (lower half of back); coccyx (bottom tip of spine)

Back

in women; during period

dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades; left; under

lumbar (lower half of back); during period

sacrum (base of spine)

coccyx (bottom tip of spine)

pressure

while sitting

when touched

spine

aching; coccyx (bottom tip of spine)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Griping and diarrhoea

Dysentery, with Tympanites, tenesmus; inodorous discharges.

Pain

morning; on waking

in women; during period

lower part of abdomen; during period

cramping, griping; morning

on waking

cramping, griping; late morning

pressing; on waking

dragging, bearing down

Stomach

sensation of movement in stomach; trembling

Eating

nausea; on looking at food

Nausea

nausea; after chilliness

Vomiting

vomiting; during headache

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea; morning; 7 a.m.

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

Stool

Odourless

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Alkaline

Colour; dark

Scanty

with amenorrhoea (suppression or absence of period)

Genitals

Ovarian neuralgia, with pain in loins and lower abdomen; worse, Left side, extending down the thigh, along genitocrural nerves

Neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, with neuralgic headaches; pain in Back and down legs

Neurasthenic patients who are thin, emaciated; poor assimilation with insomnia and occipital headache.

Female

after-birth; copious

contractions; spasmodic, during labour

menopause

pain; ovaries

right; to left

during pregnancy

extending to other parts; back

extending to other parts; down knee region

extending to other parts; groin; and lower part of abdomen

extending to other parts; hips

extending to other parts; limbs; down limbs

extending to other parts; thighs

extending to other parts; thighs; front surface

extending to other parts; thighs; over hip

pain; pains after giving birth

pain; cutting; ovaries

pain; labour-like

pain; sharp; ovaries

pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; ovaries

Menses

Menses too early and painful

Menses thick, almost black

After pains ( Arnica ^Arnica; CUP.; Chamomilla ^Cham.) Leucorrhoea at time of menses

Female

period; amenorrhoea (suppression or absence of period)

period; black

period; clotted

period; copious

period; frequent

period; irregular

period; late

period; painful; and difficult (dysmenorrhea)

period; scanty

period; suppressed

pain; ovaries; during period

pain; womb (see abdomen, pain); during period

makes her cry out

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Paralysis of left side following spinal disorders

Numbness of left side; impairment of nerve of motion

Hemiplegia

Pain in nape, extending down back

Sciatica; worse, hot weather

Anterior, crural neuralgia ( Staphysagria ^Staph.) Left arm numb

Neuralgic shooting pain, as from electricity, all over limbs.

Heaviness

lower limbs

foot

Numbness (see tingling)

upper limbs

left

Pain

during chill

upper limbs

right

shoulder; during cough

upper arm

elbow

wrist

thumb; ball

lower limbs

sciatica (pain radiating from back along back of thigh)

hip

left

extending to other parts; knee

thigh

during period

extending to other parts; downward; during period

nerves from knee to foot

knee

lower leg

calf

calf; flashes of

ankle

foot; back of foot

foot; heel

left

aching; elbow

extending to forearm

aching; lower limbs; knee

aching; foot; back of

shooting (see stitching, sudden, sharp)

leg; upwards

ankle

foot

foot; extending to knees

stitching, sudden, sharp

fingers

leg; extending upwards

leg; calf; extending upward

ankle

foot

foot; extending upward

foot; extending to knee

Pulsation, throbbing

upper limbs; left

fingers

Swollen

fluid in tissues

lower limbs; fluid in tissues

ankle

Weakness

lower limbs

leg

foot

Wetting feet

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Hard and unrefreshing; dreams of flying

Sleeplessness in neurasthenics.

Dreams; flying

Heavy

Sleepiness, tiredness

morning

evening

Yawning

Generalities

Blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood)

Eating and food; sight of all food

Pain; pressing; internally

Electric-like shocks

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); hot feeling; flushes of heat

hot feeling

flushes of heat; with perspiration

warmth; warm air

Warmth; warm air

From getting wet; feet

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

morning

on waking

on waking

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