– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Rose Laurel
Region
Nutrition of
Digestive tract
Chest
Heart
Nerves:C-S; Motor Solar plexus
Neuro-musculatures
Scalp. Skin
L. side
Worse
Rest. Lying (oppression, teeth)
Looking sideways
Walking (dyspnea)
Exertion
Undressing
Rising (heavy limbs etc.)
Long after eating
After suckling
Touch (mind, skin)
Rubbing
Thinking of it
Fats. Radish. Honey
Coffee
Better
Lying (vertigo, head)
Walking (anxiety)
Diversion
Discharges sweat deflation
Citrus fruits
Brandy
Neurotic. Apprehensive. Congestive. Anaesthetic
Paralytic. Neurasthenic. Pre-ataxic. Senile.Tense
Depression ` Congestion ` Paralysis
A congestive – paralysing depressant. Localized congestions (hyperacidogenic or otherwise) with their ramifications (Chin.,Raph.), with resulting atony and paralyses (or spasms like Phys.). Numbing tensions, congestions, or paralyses.
Weakness and general lassitude, a severe sick feeling; indolence, aversion to do anything, even faint and down-hearted with a general giving way; legs (esp. knees) painfully weak, heavy or tired (on rising) as after a long walk or standing (Led., Nux-v.). Great muscular weakness; weariness in bed in morning; reeling / whirling on rising and tottering while walking (Ambr.). Weakness on rising from stomach or abdomen.Tremulous weakness: hands tremble when writing, when hungry or while eating (Cocc.); after nursing babe, (Voluptuous trembling).
Decline. Loss of vital : irritability (Carb-v.), reaction (Op.), heat (Chin.). Rapid decline and ebbing vitality (Hyd-ac.,Kali- ph.). Faint-like languor, with anxiety, as if life were about to terminate; a little walk is so fatiguing; even syncope; (>) after sweat. Functional torpor (Carb-v.); gastro-intestinal (e.g. lientaria, enuresis); digestive failure (athrepsia); dull mental functions (Alum.). Senile involution (Carb-s.).
Simple paralysis without tissue damage. Painless paralysis (Op.). Paresis after infantile paralysis (Lath.). Post-apoplectic hemiplegia. paraplegia, paralysis of legs, with crampy convulsions in arms, preceded by weakness (of legs) with numbness of soles when walking (Sec.). Paralytic rigidity of limbs. Wrist drop (Plb.). Functional paralysis with bowel incontinence and some heart damage, preceded by vertigo. Spinal congestion and paralysis (Nux-v., Phys.).Paralysis agitans. Momentary paralytic numbness (of arm etc.), on waking (Chel.).
Sensation of vibration and resonance in the whole body, or in legs and feet, but esp. in soles (“strumming’?). Buzzing, whizzing, humming, or surging (“Quivering” in Rep. cp. Lec.,Lyss.); in legs, esp. soles.
Localised emptiness or fullness (due to congestions).
Emptiness in (upper) abdomen and / or chest (Cal-phos., Dios.).
Emptiness in pit of stomach or abdomen with fullness in chest (Puls.).
Emptiness in pit of stomach with fullness in abdomen (Chin.).
Emptiness in chest with oppression / fullness in pit of stomach (Nat-p.),or with tension in abdomen and palpitation.
Pains: burning. Pressing. Cramp-like drawing (in ears, limbs).
Numbness in : skin, head, back of nose, upper lip, arms, feet, soles (Onos.). Whole body anaesthetic. Tingling in : palms, soles.
Cramps in : whole body, head, arms, fingers, legs, feet, (toes). Violent contractions of muscles of l. side. Jerks of limbs during sleep. Tension in whole body.
Convulsions : eyes turned up, lock-jaw, thumb clenched on palm. More of upper part of body.
Dropsy. Oedema of limbs.
Veins of hands stand out; emaciation.
Injuries: bites and stings (external).
Select Particulars
Mind : A neurotic, but not hysterical (unlike Gel., Ign., Raph.). Nervous and anxious; after conversation (Ambr.) with urging to stool (Arg-n., Gel.). Lack of confidence. Restless; feet fidgety (Ars., Caust., Zinc.). Heedless. Ailments from scorn. Cannot bear the slightest handling (interference); angry even at a touch (“touchy”).
Dementia : slow perception (Carb-s.). Weak memory. Absent- minded, distracted. Sopor ; coma.
Head : Vertigo, with anxiety; on rising; walking in open air; looking down or fixedly; while eating. Reeling, whirling (and staggering). Prodromal / prehemiplegic vertigo of apoplexy (a congestive narcotic depression of sensorium, like Op.); or of paralysis.
Headache : Stupefying. Bursting, splitting. () looking cross-eyed (squintingly) or sideways (askance).
Scalp : Gnawing-itching. Itching-numbness. A biting-itching eruption. Crusta lactea oozing a sticky fluid.
Eyes : Feel drawn backward into head (Crot-t.,Lach.). Lachrymation, burning and tension (in lids) when reading.
Dim vision, () rising), standing or walking, causing deep anxious, laboured respiration. Constrictive. Congestive tightness; from flatulence (Raph.). Breathes with great heaving of chest, after palpitation, sans mental anxiety. Chest feels expanded.
Pleurodynia and perichondritis. Pains in chest, sides (esp.l.), sternum. Obtuse stitches in l. chest, sternum, diaphragm, () eructations. Tenderness in r. (or l.) side.
Heart : Constriction. Congestion; sympathizing with chest (Rhus- t., Spig.), or vice versa. Anxiety, even anguish, sans anxious thought; or on thinking of it; distress; palpitation; from flatulence, before stool (Ambr.,Poth.); from sudden exertion (Dig.). Dull, drawing pain, () heat; on first scratching. Desquamation of epidermis.
Thermic States : Cold: chest, hands (with hot face), feet (constantly). Chilliness predominant. Periodical chills.
Heat : flushes on hurrying (also anxiety), from mental work (Lach.) when contradicted. Sweat : dry skin, unable to perspire (a paralysis of function).
Relations : Antidotes : Camph., Sulph.
Contains Hydrocyanic acid. Prun-v is a mild Hyd-ac. (hence collateral). Also collaterals: Am-c., Chin.
Similars : Ambr., Ars., Carb-v., Carls., Conium., Dig., Dios., Gel., Lath., Lyc., Op., Phys., Raph., Rhus., Stry.
Chronics : Arg-n., Lyc., Nat-m., Syph.
Compatible : Bell., Bry., Calc., Con., Lach., Nux-v., Pul., Rhus-t.,Sep.,Sul.
Trios : Olean.-Lach.-Lyc. Olean.-Arg-n.-Nat-m.
Earlier Stage : Carls. Later stage : Phys.
Symbiotic : Kali-i.
Compare : Anac., Carb-s., Caust., Clem., Crot-t., Kre., Nat-m., Plb., Spi., Vinc.