(Scabwort)
A mucous membrane medicine. Bearing-down sensations in pelvic organs and bronchial symptoms are most marked. Substernal pain. Diabetes.
Head
Vertigo on stooping; throbbing after eating, pressure in temples and forehead.
Respiratory
Dry cough; worse at night and lying down; larynx painful. Chronic bronchitis; cough, with much thick expectoration, with languor and weak digestion. Stitches behind sternum. Teasing cough with much and free expectoration. Palliative in tubercular laryngitis.
Female
Menses too early and painful. Labor-like pains; urging to stool; dragging in genitals, with violent backache. Itching of legs during menses, chattering of teeth from cold during menstruation. Moving about in abdomen, stitches in genitals. Chronic metritis.
Rectum
Pressing toward rectum as of something extruding.
Urinary
Frequent urging to urinate; passes only in drops. Violet odor. (TEREB.)
Extremities
Pain in right shoulder and wrist; tearing in left palm, unable to double fingers; pain in lower limbs, feet and ankles.
Relationship
Compare: CROCUS; IGNATIA; ARUM DRACONTIUM (loose cough worse at night on .lying down).
Dose
First to third potency.