Anagallis Arvensis

Like the Primula obconca, Anagallis has a marked action on the skin. Skin

itches all over; becomes dry and rough; has bran-like tetters in rings; ulcers and swellings on

• ▸joints.
• ▸Ill-conditioned ulcers.
• ▸It favours expulsion of splinters.
• ▸Has been used for snake-bites and

hydrophobia. It produces great exhilaration and activity of mind: thinks of everything. Great

hilarity. (The Greek name of the plant means to laugh out loud.) Tickling and itching in left ear.

Bran-like, ring-shaped tetters on face. Dull pains in gums accompanied by very hard stools.

Sensation on tongue as if something cold were placed on it. Dryness and scraping in throat.

Scraping, scratching of larynx and trachea with hoarseness; < after eating. Tickling prickling

along urethra; orifice agglutinated. Tearing in spermatic cord. Syphilis with nose-bleed, deranged

mind, pain in small of back, and itching skin. Soreness on chest with pain. Eruption on chest.

Tensive drawing ascending from left shoulder to nape of neck (Eupat. perf). Skin of hands dry,

• ▸sticky, and dirty-looking.
• ▸Tetters.
• ▸Vesicles in groups.
• ▸Pain and tightness in bend of left knee.
• ▸It is

a vulnerary of some importance. Symptoms are < by touch; < after eating.

Exhilarated, mind active, thinks of everything.—Cannot collect his thoughts whilst

listening to sermon on account of jovial feelings.—Great hilarity for several days; everything

gives him pleasure—Despondency.—After mental exertion great prostration.

Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; better from coffee. Sick headache. Pain in facial muscles.

Heat rising to head, slight sweat on forehead, followed by pressing stitching in

eyeballs, and a tickling, pricking in urethra, inclining him to coition—Headache just over supra-

orbital ridges with eructations and rumbling in the bowels——Spasmodic lancinations in both

temples, extending to eyes.—Pressive aching in forehead and occiput from a current of air

blowing on him.—Intense headache and nausea with pains throughout the body.—Occiput: dull or

tearing pains and inclination to vomit; violent headache, with hard, knotty stools; knocking pain

• ▸in |.
• ▸side; dull pain all night.
• ▸—Headache > by coffee.
• ▸—Skin of forehead feels too tight.

Things seem to float to and fro, he cannot write —Glittering before 1. eye.—Pressing in

eyes after headache.—Stitches in temples extending into eyes —Pain in r. eyeball < on touching

lids.—Itching of lids.

Obstruction and pain in r. ear following the pressure in eyes.—Stitches in r.

ear.—Tickling and itching in I. ear.

Nose-bleed (syphilis).—Unpleasant tickling on top of nose, with violent

sneezing.—Copious secretion of yellow mucus.

Neuralgic pains in r. cheek-bone, extending to supra-orbital region; during the

• ▸night.
• ▸—Pains in facial muscles.
• ▸—Bran-like, ring-shaped tetters on face.
• ▸—Itching on

cheekbones.—Itching and tickling stitches on 1. corner of mouth and lower lip, just under the

border.

Sensation on tongue as if something cold were placed upon it; also near

freenum.—Viscid saliva in mouth, raised by coughing.—Collection of water in mouth, with slight

tearing in molars.

Dull pain in a hollow tooth with trembling of the heart—Dull pain in upper molars

and tearing pain in r. cheek-bone.—Teeth pain as from cold; < from touch; chilly sensation in

teeth.—Dull pain in gums accompanied by very hard stools.

Sensation of dryness in throat with scraping —Tickling at soft palate at night, as

from touch of something cold.

Eructations, nausea, inclination to vomit, and rumbling in bowels with

headache.—Causes inflammation of the stomach in horses.

Hepatitis and induration of liver—Abdomen distended with wind.—Visceral

obstructions.

Inflammation of rectum in horses.—Itching in rectum; pressure in sacrum;

• ▸piles.
• ▸—Passes offensive flatus.
• ▸—Stools: watery; soft and pappy; hard like stones; knotty.
• ▸—Itching

at anus after stool.

Burning in urethra when urinating, mostly in the morning.—Orifice

agglutinated; presses to urinate; stream divided —Tickling prickling along urethra inclining to

coitus.

More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition. Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination of orifice. Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes.

The burning in urethra before and during erection ceases during

• ▸coitus.
• ▸—Drawing pains in r.
• ▸testicle and cord.
• ▸—Tearing pains in spermatic cords.
• ▸—Tickling in

symphysis pubis.

Scratching and scraping in throat, esp. after meals.—Hoarseness

proceeding from the trachea.—Cough dry, with a scratching sensation when reading aloud; with

yellow phlegm from the nose; with spitting of saliva.

A kind of restlessness in chest—Soreness on the chest with fever.—Pressure in r.

lung after a meal or when walking fast.—Suddenly a feeling internally in chest as if struck with a

• ▸cushion full of pins.
• ▸—Itching on I.
• ▸side of chest, principally on nipple.
• ▸—Eruption on chest.

Violent trembling of heart, with general trembling and weakness, preceded by

aching in a carious tooth and anxiety in chest in evening in bed.—Palpitation.

Tensive drawing from |. shoulder up to neck; returns when lifting or stretching the

arm.—Trembling of muscles of neck (horses).

Pains in muscles of upper arm, outside, near shoulder.—Pains in forearm; in

carpal and metacarpal bones.—Gouty swellings on joints of fingers.—Skin of hands and fingers

very dry, sticky and dirty-looking.—Tetter on hands; moist or dry and hairlike.

• ▸Pain in hip.
• ▸—Tickling pains in r.
• ▸leg and at the os ilium.
• ▸—Drawing pains in

• ▸muscles of |.
• ▸leg; tearing during night.
• ▸—Weakness and lameness in r.
• ▸leg, as if it was too

• ▸short.
• ▸—Pains in bend of 1.
• ▸knee; sensation of tightness as if something swollen or sore.
• ▸—Pains in

shin bones; < when extending the leg —Cramps.—Pains in metatarsus and sole (1.), in concave

part of 1. sole and near toes.

Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.

• ▸Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers.
• ▸Palms especially affected.
• ▸Vesicles in groups.
• ▸Ulcers and swellings on joints.

Itches all over; rough, dry.—Dry bran-like tetters in rings Ulcers and swellings on

joints.—Ill-conditioned ulcers.—Promotes expulsion of splinters.

• ▸Amblyopia.
• ▸Cataract.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Dropsy.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Gonorrhoea.
• ▸Gout.

• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hypochondriasis.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Rheumatism.

• ▸Ringworm.
• ▸Skin, unhealthy.
• ▸Snake-bites.
• ▸Syphilis.
• ▸Tetters.
• ▸Ulcers, ill-conditioned.
• ▸Wounds.

• ▸Compare: Prim.
• ▸obc.
• ▸and Cyclamen.
• ▸(bot.
• ▸); Coff.
• ▸(joyous; excited); Lith.
• ▸c.
• ▸(rough

• ▸skin, ringworm); Sep.
• ▸, Tellur.
• ▸(ringworm); Puls.
• ▸(chilly, catarrh); Rhus t.

Anagallis contains Saponin, q. v.

Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obcon.

First to third potency.