– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Region
Gastro-intestinal
Genito-urinary
Veins
Rhino-sinuses
Central nerv. system
Joints
Skin
Worse Better
Cold. Snow.Freezing.food
Morning, on rising
headache, coryza)
2-4 am (cough, sleep)
Before menses
Climaxis
Bending forward
Trauma
Company
Better
Heat (face,teeth
Cold air, applic.
( headache,
coryza etc.)
Open air
Humid compresses
Motion (pains)
Discharges
Menses (depression)
Congestive. Torpid. Festering. Hysterical
A promising polychrest;imbibing features of Agar. (freezing), Rhus-t. (inflammations), Lach. (unexuding; but more hysterical and depressive), Pul. (generally; but with morning agg.), Alum. (depressed functions), Ham. (venosity and trauma), Sul. (gouty, tubercular and venous. It contains some sulphur) and Merc. (dysentery).
Toxically it is capable of causing : menorrhagia, abortion, hemorrhagic nephritis, gastro-enteritis, fatty degeneration of the liver and massive capillary hemorrhages. Also affects the C. N. system producing dizziness, nausea, convulsions. Coldness, chilliness.
Inflammations : Throat. G-I. G-U. Respiratory. Joints. Skin. Poor circulation and local congestions (Aven.). Venosity; tense feeling in veins. Congestion and varicosities of pregnancy (Bellis). A venous constitution. Phlebitis.
Secondly depressed functions: mental, digestive, menstrual.Late puberty and early climaxis, slow healing of wounds, indolent ulcers. Torpidity. Atony.
A vulnerary. External injuries from friction, pressure, contusions, crushing, abrasions (e.g. horse- riding), muscular strain (of running, lifting, riding). Infected, festering wounds; prevents infection of fresh wounds and promotes granulation. Gas gangrene (in wounds). Blisters from mechanical causes-rowing, riding, marching etc. Bites of : rabid dogs, snakes. Egyptian jugglers use it to stupefy snakes. External use also on wounds. Burns.
Select Particulars
Mind: Unstrung, hysterical : averse to company, yet may feel forsaken too; cyclothymic; sways between melancholia and exhileration with workaholic vivacity, between introversion and extraversion, between fatigue and energy, even (physically) between anorexia and bulimy; yet always consonant with offset or onset of natural discharges.The negative states therefore finalize after climaxis, when the depression is deep enough and comforting makes no impression.
Head: Dizziness, with nausea, faintness, exhaustion and chilliness. Precoryza or premenstrual headache worse stooping, better open air and cold applic. Eczema capitis.
Eyes: Troubles after snow- exposure (burning etc.).
Ears: Acute otitis media. Otalgia with (headache and) tinnitus. “To promote epitheliazation of grafts after (radical) operation of M.E., mastoid or nasal.
Nose: Coryza stuffy, worse morning, with sneezing; cool open air releases watery discharge and relieves. Hay fever. Polypus, with congestion; locally on stump after excision.
Face: Neuralgias. Cracked commisseurs. Acne. Herpes labialis.
Mouth: Toothache. Sore throat. Tonsillitis, with fever; yellow coated. Stomach: Gastritis. Dyspepsia, with great hunger. Qualmish- faintlike-nausea with chilliness or heat. Vomiting; after sauerkrant,amel. milk.
Abdomen: Neuro-spastic intestinal states. Emotional, anticipatory enteritis and colitis (spastic colon syndrome); with much chilliness, esp. after freezing. Diarrhea or dysentery with tenesmus, constant urging and unfinished feeling (like Merc.). Flatulence and diarrhea after milk. Eczema around navel.
Rectum: Bleeding hemorrhoids (from abdominal plethora). Mucous piles. Constant urging after eating. Severe tenesmus causes prolapse. Inertia, with much distension.
Urinary: Sudden pain in kidney region; nephritis. Freezing, cold, climaxis or trauma affects urinary tract; (purulent) cystitis with dribbling or incontinence, dysuria, frequent (worse night); prostatitis; pyelitis, of soldiers, from cold exposure. Albumin and white sediment. Gonorrheal complaints; epididymitis, worse from cold.
Female: Leucorrhea (bland) brown, slimy; relieves arthralgia or pruritus; before menses. Depressed menstrual function- late, weak, short; suppressed. Amenorrhea; of refugees or prisoners; Lager A. Colic before.Voluptuous itching; eczema. Sterility. Pregnancy: poor blood circulation or varicosis; difficult parturition; retention of dead foetus (use crude) (Aristolochia means best child birth. Also called birth-wort). Climacteric problems : flushes: arthropathies (Grap.). Pain and induration of l. mamma. Vies with Pul. Troubles after hysterectomy.
Respiratory : Bronchial asthma. Bronchitis; cough worse 2-4 am.
Locomotor: Frostbite. Chilblains.Cold. Swelling of feet and ankles, before menses. Arms tender. Joints: pain, before menses or leucorrhea, from sewing or knitting; trauma; arthroses; arthritis.
Skin: Dry, cracked. Dermatitis: suppurating. Pimples before menses. Boils. Eczema (dry or weeping); of me nopause; of bakers (from wetting).Easy abrasion. Pustules. Blisters (after burn). Chronic indolent ulcers. Bunions (after frostbite).
Sleep: Wakeful 2-4 am.
Thermic: Great and predominent chilliness; after freezing or trauma; with intestinal complaints or menses; (not) amel. warmth; with flushes of heat.
Excessive flushes of heat with perspiration (Amyl.); during climaxis.
Relations: Is a blend of Agar., Alum., Merc., Pul., Sul., also Arn. and Sep.
Is an intensified Pul.
Starts as Agar., progresses as Merc. and ends as Lach. Like Agar., but cold amel.
Like Lach. but sleep does not agg. Like Pul. but has morning agg. and consolation does not amel. Like Merc. (but is not salivating and no nightly agg.). Like Sep. but without loss of affection.
Midway between Puls. and Sep. A chimera of Puls. body and Sep. mind.
Complementary: Sul.
Antidote: (Pul.).
Aristolochia milhomens: Flatulence causes stitching pains in various parts. Anemia during lactation. Head congested, hot.
Aristolochia serpentaria: Symptoms like poison-oak. Flatulent dyspepsia and colic, with heat and congestion of brain. Gastro- enteritis. Epigastric distress.