Heracleum Sphondylium

Heracl. has been proved. It was found to exercise a pronounced action on the

digestion, producing hunger, with inability to eat, nausea, vomiting; colic, diarrhoea, and pains in

the spleen. It also affected the sexual organs and the skin. A characteristic is "Headache with

drowsiness; < on moving in open air; > tying up the head with a cloth." Exhaustion, indolence,

and weakness were complained of.

Prostration of strength, indolence, moral depression; fits of hypochondriasis.—Ill-

humour, capriciousness.

• ▸Aches, with drowsiness, worse moving in open air, better tying up head with cloth.
• ▸Much fatty perspiration on head and violent itching.
• ▸Seborrhoea capitis.
• ▸Sick headache.

Vertigo, on reading while seated —Cephalalgia, esp. in the sinciput and occiput, with

inclination to vomit, and drowsiness, esp. < on walking in open air; > by wrapping up the

head.—Violent itching on the scalp, on scratching which, the fingers become greasy; much fatty

perspiration on the head.

Pressure in the throat, as from mucus, which it is impossible to detach; accumulation

of mucus, tickling roughness and scraping in the throat.

• ▸Pain with inclination to vomit.
• ▸Bitter risings and taste.
• ▸Hungry but unable to eat.
• ▸Abdominal and spleenic pain.

Bitter taste; sweet bitter risings, with regurgitation of bitter liquid; craving, with

loathing and horror of all kinds of food; increased thirst; nausea; vomiting, bitter, bilious, with

pains in the stomach, and much congestion in the head.—Pressure at the stomach, with nausea, or

else in the scrobiculus, as from a stone (after a meal); the pains in the stomach are always

accompanied by an inclination to vomit.

Lancinating and pinching colics, which force the patient to writhe; pulsation and

pains in region of spleen; flatus and colic, with nausea and disgusting risings.—Frequent

sneezing, with lancination in the region of the spleen.

Drawing pain in the penis; shootings in the glans.—Itching and

smarting in the scrotum; pollutions.

Oppression of the chest, with chilliness, or else with palpitation of the heart;

difficulty of respiration on ascending a staircase.—Stitches in chest during inspiration; dry

eruption on chest, burning after scratching.

• ▸Debility.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Seborrhcea capitis.
• ▸Skin, affections of.
• ▸Spleen,

pain in.

• ▸Compare: Con.
• ▸, Abies n.
• ▸, Cean.
• ▸; in headache with drowsiness, Brucea, Ginseng,

• ▸Gels.
• ▸, Nat.
• ▸s.
• ▸, Nux mos.
• ▸, Sul.

Third potency.