Echinacea Angustifolia

Proved by Mure, it produced lancinations, burning, bruised and throbbing

pains. Notable symptoms of leprosy and of scleroderma appear in the provings: an¢sthesia;

swelling and hardening of skin. Among other symptoms are: sensation as if a peg stuck in false

ribs. Swelling of parts. The greatest number of symptoms appeared on the lower extremities and

skin. < From cold drinks (colic); from descending stairs (lancinations); from breathing. > Rest.

Confused, depressed. Aches with a peculiar periodical flushing of the face, even to the neck; dizziness and profound prostration.

Vertigo when changing position of head.—Dull headache, felt as if brain was too large,

• ▸with every beat of heart.
• ▸—Dull pain in brain, full feeling—Dull frontal headache, esp.
• ▸over I.
• ▸eye,

which was relieved in open air.—Severe headache in vertex, > by rest in bed.—Dull headache

• ▸above eyes.
• ▸—Dull, throbbing headache, worse through temples.
• ▸—Head feels too large.
• ▸—Dull

• ▸headache, < in evening.
• ▸—Dull headache, worse in r.
• ▸temple, with sharp pain.
• ▸—Full feeling in

• ▸temples.
• ▸—Sudden pain in 1.
• ▸temple.
• ▸—Sudden pain in |.
• ▸head above coronal suture —Brain weary,

• ▸felt most in 1.
• ▸hemisphere.
• ▸—Dull pain in occiput—Chilly sensation in 1.
• ▸occiput.
• ▸—Dull headache,

with dizziness Constant dull pressing pain in both temples.—Shooting pains through

temples.—Dull occipital headache —Constant dull pain in temples, > at rest and by

pressure.—Head feels as big as a windmill, with mental depression.

Swelling of eyes.—Sight weak; confused vision by candle-light.—He makes letters

much too large——Unable to look steadily at an object.

• ▸Foul-smelling discharge, membranous formations protruding.
• ▸Post-nasal catarrh with ulceration and fetor.
• ▸Nose feels stuffed up.
• ▸Right nostril raw, bleeding.

Stuffiness of nostrils, with mucus in nares and pharynx.—Full feeling in nose as if it

would close up.—Full feeling of nose, obliged to blow nose, but it does not >.—Nostrils

• ▸sore.
• ▸—Mucous discharge from r.
• ▸nostril.
• ▸—Rawness of r.
• ▸nostril, sensitive to cold, which causes a

• ▸flow of mucus.
• ▸—Bleeding from r.
• ▸nostril—R.
• ▸nostril sore, when picking causes

haemorrhage.—Headache over eyes, with sneezing.

Paleness of face when head aches.—Face flushed.—Fine eruptions on forehead and

cheeks.—Neuralgic pain in |. upper branch of fifth nerve-—Vomiting with pale face —Biting

tingling on lips.

• ▸Canker; gums recede and bleed easily; corners of mouth and lips crack; tongue dry and swollen; sores; dirty brownish.
• ▸Tongue, lips, and fauces tingle, with sense of fear about heart (Acon).
• ▸White coating of tongue, with red edges.
• ▸Promotes the flow of saliva.

Darting pains in the teeth, worse on r. side.—Neuralgic pains in superior and inferior

maxilla.—Dull aching of the teeth.

Tonsils purple or black, gray exudation extending to posterior nares and air-passages. Ulcerated sore throat.

Sour belching and heartburn. Nausea; better lying down.

Desire for frequent urination.—Involuntary urination "in spite of

• ▸myself.
• ▸".
• ▸—Sense of heat while passing urine.
• ▸—Pain and burning on urination.
• ▸—Urine

increased.—Urine pale and copious.—Urine scanty and dark in colour.

Albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary.

Puerperal septicaemia; discharges suppressed; abdomen sensitive and tympanitic; offensive, excoriating leucorrhoea.

Mucus from vagina in evening.—Pain in r. iliac region, which

seems deep, lasting but a short time.

Soreness in perineum.—Pain across perineum.—Perineum seems

• ▸stretched.
• ▸—Pain in r.
• ▸spermatic cord.
• ▸—Testicles drawn up and sore.
• ▸—Pain in meatus while

urinating.

Breathing embarrassed.—Pricking in larynx on breathing.—Cough

with lancination in sides.—Pain in middle of chest as if pricked by needles.—Lancinations every

five minutes in r. chest.

Pain as of a lump in chest and under sternum. Pain in pectoral muscles (Aristolochia).

Full feeling in upper part of lungs.—Pain in region of diaphragm.—Pain in r.

• ▸lung.
• ▸—Pain in pectoral muscles.
• ▸—Sore feeling in the chest.
• ▸—Feels like lump in chest.
• ▸—Feeling of

a lump under sternum.—Sharp burning pain under sternum.

• ▸Slight pain over heart.
• ▸—Stitching pain in |.
• ▸chest (apex of heart).
• ▸—Rapid beating of

heart.—Heart's action increased.—Pulse 80, full and strong, later decreased and again

increased.—Heart's action decreased.—Anxiety about the heart.

Pain in back of neck.—Pain in small of back over kidneys.—Dull pain in

small of back.—Pain in lumbar region, < from stooping.

• ▸Swelling of |.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Beating in 1.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Insensibility of hand to fire-heat

when approached to fire, but an hour after he feels it badly.

Staggering gait——Weakness of legs —Swelling of r. leg —Sharp pain lower

part of I. leg as if a pen-knife were stuck in—Throbbing in calves—Hammering in tibia, nape of

neck, and r. foot—Soreness of soles of feet when walking and when touched.

Aching in limbs and general lassitude.

• ▸Recurring boils.
• ▸Carbuncles.
• ▸Irritations from insect bites and poisonous plants.
• ▸Lymphatics enlarged.
• ▸Old tibial ulcers.
• ▸Gangrene.

Skin seems thicker —On each side of epigastrium skin seems thickened, with pain in

last false ribs as if a peg were stuck in them.—Swelling, roughness, and itching of skin of 1.

• ▸leg.
• ▸—Small vesicles appear on swollen r.
• ▸leg; and 1.
• ▸arm; and on other parts without

swelling.—Itching all over, preventing sleep.

General languor, sleepy.—Sleep disturbed, wakes often.—Sleep full of

dreams.—Dreams about exciting things all night—Dreams of dead relations.

Chilliness, with nausea. Cold flashes all over back. Malarial fever.

Chills up the back.—General chilliness with nausea.—Cold flashes all over the

back.—Temperature raised a degree, with flushed face and fulness of head, accelerated full

pulse.—Sweat chiefly on upper part of body.

Echinacea Purpurea.

• ▸Echinacea purpurea.
• ▸Black Sampson.
• ▸(Eastern States of America.
• ▸) N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Composité.

Tincture of fresh root.

• ▸DiarrhSa.
• ▸Elephantiasis arabum.
• ▸Gastric affections.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Leprosy.
• ▸Scleriasis.

• ▸Scleroderma.
• ▸Sight, defective.
• ▸Skin, affections of.
• ▸Sore throat.

Compare: Cenchris contortrix; Bothrops; Ars; Laches; Baptis; Rhus; Cistus; Hepar; Calendula.

Tincture, one to ten drops, every two hours, and larger doses.

Locally, as a cleansing and antiseptic wash.

General weakness of limbs.—Pain between shoulders, which extends to axilla and

down the arms.