Scutellaria Lateriflora

Scutel., says Hale, who introduced it into homceopathy, is in the domestic

practice of North America what Valerian is in that of Europe. "Its calming effects on the nervous

• ▸system have been known ever since the settlement of New England.
• ▸" Provings by G.
• ▸W.
• ▸Gordon

• ▸(Allen) and G.
• ▸H.
• ▸Royal (New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies) give the homceopathic data.
• ▸Royal

• ▸(A.
• ▸H.
• ▸, xxiii.
• ▸269) had this indication for Scut.
• ▸given him by a friend: "Nervo-bilious headache

with the nervous symptoms uppermost, and nothing the matter with her." He relates this case:

Miss M., 32, head of a large school, complained of being used up; unable to sleep or think. Pain

in head almost constant, sometimes frontal, mostly at base of brain. Whenever called upon to

overdo herself cannot sleep that night, and then there is either a nervous explosion the following

day or a nervous sick headache, either being followed by complete collapse. This was in May.

• ▸Pic.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, and later Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, gave relief, and in September patient resumed work.
• ▸Late in

• ▸December there was another breakdown, and Stych.
• ▸Pho.
• ▸was given.
• ▸A week later, after a very

long and fatiguing day's work, Royal was summoned at 2 a.m. He found the patient screaming.

Every few minutes she had to urinate, and passed only a few drops. Stools frequent, loose,

• ▸watery.
• ▸Pulse irregular.
• ▸Scut.
• ▸@ was given, ten drops every half-hour.
• ▸Patient was better after the

second dose, slept after the fourth. Since then she has kept the medicine by her, has only taken it

when overworked, and has never had a nerve explosion or a headache since. In this case there

was "nothing the matter with her"—i.e., no organic defect to which the sufferings could be

attributed. Royal's provers took 3x and 30x. Gordon took repeated doses of 10 to 50 drops of @.

Hale quotes many eclectic writers who give these indications: (/) Depression of nervous and

vital powers after long sickness, over-exercise, over-study, long-continued and exhausting

labours. It controls nervous agitation (King). [It was Burnett's chief remedy in the nervous

debility after influenza.] (2) Scudder mentions chorea; delirium tremens; and hydrophobia (as its

popular name suggests). Rafinesque cites cases of prevention of hydrophobia; and Hale observed

it produce in a patient taking 1x, after each dose—"Spasmodic or constrictive closing of jaws, and

• ▸a tightness of the muscles of the face.
• ▸" [A writer, quoted NV.
• ▸Y.
• ▸Med.
• ▸Times, xxiv.
• ▸318, says Scut.

in delirium tremens has the remarkable effect of calming fear.] (3) Paine adds these indications:

Subsultus tendinum following fevers, in delirium tremens, epilepsy, catalepsy, hysteria. (4) Coe

(who uses Scutellarin, the concentrated preparation) mentions sunstroke; tenesmus; tetanus;

cramps. Hale has used it with success in sleeplessness, night-terrors, hysteria, nervous agitation

from pain or exciting emotions, cerebral irritation of children from dentition or intestinal

irritation. Like its relation, Lycopus., it caused weak and irregular action of the heart and

protrusion of the eyes. It has been found useful in weak heart resulting from cigarette smoking

• ▸(M.
• ▸Cent.
• ▸, iii.
• ▸463).
• ▸Churton (B.
• ▸M.
• ▸J.
• ▸, quoted H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, i.
• ▸78) gave 60 drops of the tincture every

two hours in a case of "severe and rapid hiccough" which Chloroform, Morphia, and Pilocarpine

had failed to relieve permanently. After the eighth dose the patient slept, and the spasms

gradually diminished, and stopped for good by the fourth day. The hemicrania is > moving about

• ▸in open air.
• ▸(But there is also headache < from motion.
• ▸) All symptoms are > by sleep.
• ▸< By

overwork or over-exertion.

• ▸Excitement.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Overwork (mental or physical).
• ▸Tobacco (heart).
• ▸Pain

(causes nervous agitation).

Fear of some calamity. Inability to fix attention (Aethus). Confusion.

Mind confused on attempting to study; cannot concentrate attention.—Feeling of

• ▸stupor on rising.
• ▸—Apathy.
• ▸—Irritability.
• ▸—(Fear.
• ▸)

• ▸Dull, frontal headache.
• ▸Eyes feel pressed outwards.
• ▸Flushed face.
• ▸Restless sleep and frightful dreams.
• ▸Must move about.
• ▸Night terrors.
• ▸Migraine; worse, over right eye; aching in eyeballs.
• ▸Explosive headaches of school teachers with frequent urination; headaches in front and base of brain.
• ▸Nervous sick headaches, worse noise, odor light, better night; rest, 5 drops of tincture.

Vertigo: soon after breakfast; with photophobia.—Dull, oppressive headache; on

rising; < by study.—Full, throbbing sensation in head.—Sensation as if cranial contents were

confined in too small a space.—Before rising, hemicrania, most severe over r. eye; > moving

about in open air.—Pain in occiput—Headache < by eating; > by motion.

Eyes feel as if protruding; as if pressed from within outwards.—Aching in

eyeballs.—Eyeballs painful to touch.

Face flushed towards evening.—Spasmodic, constrictive closing of jaws and tightness

of muscles of face (Hale, from 1x).

Nausea; sour eructations; hiccough; pain and distress.

• ▸Poor appetite.
• ▸—Sour eructation.
• ▸—Nausea.
• ▸—Vomiting of sour ingesta, hiccoughs,

pain and distress in stomach.

Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and uneasiness. Light colored diarrhoea.

Bowels regular with white stools.—Diarrhcea, light-coloured; stools preceded by

colic.

On attempting to urinate, slight difficulty, as if muscles of urethra

• ▸partially paralysed.
• ▸—Urine rather scanty.
• ▸—Bile in urine.
• ▸—Frequent micturition but quantity small.

Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never being better.

Sticking in heart region.—Sensation of throbbing about heart, evening.—Pulse: very

variable in force; intermitting.

Sharp pains occasionally felt in lumbar region, proceeding mostly from 1. kidney

region.

• ▸Twitchings of muscles; must be moving.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Tremors.
• ▸Sharp stinging pains in upper extremities.
• ▸Nightly restlessness.
• ▸Weakness and aching.

Night-terrors; sleeplessness; sudden wakefulness; frightful dreams.

Frightful dreams.—Sudden wakefulness.—Sleeps late in morning and wakes with

severe headache.—Frequent sudden starting from sleep.

• ▸Ardor urine.
• ▸Brain, irritation of.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Delirium tremens.
• ▸Dentition.
• ▸Exophthalmos.

• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Headache, nervous.
• ▸Hiccough.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Hysteria.
• ▸Night-terrors.
• ▸Sleeplessness.

Tobacco-heart.

Compare: Heart, Grave's disease, and botan., Lcpus. Nervous exhaustion, Cypr.

• ▸(Cypr.
• ▸, according to Hale, acts more on brain, Scut.
• ▸on spinal cord).
• ▸Trismus, Nux.
• ▸Hydrophobia,

• ▸Agar.
• ▸, Fagus, Lach.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Hdfb.
• ▸"Overworked women," Mag.
• ▸c.

Compare: Cyprip; Lycopus.

Tincture and lower potencies.

Skullcap

• ▸This is a nervous sedative, where nervous fear predominates.
• ▸Cardiac irritability. Chorea.
• ▸Nervous irritation and spasms of children, during dentition.
• ▸Twitching of muscles.
• ▸Nervous weakness after influenza.

Occasional twitchings in muscles of arms and legs.

24. Generalities—Languor on rising in morning.—Tremulousness and twitching of

muscles.—Restless uneasiness; must move about.—Sticking in various parts.