Anagallis arvensis
Lysimachia arvensis · Plant · Primulaceae
Anagallis Arvensis is characterized by marked skin action with intense itching, tingling, and bran-like eruptions particularly on the hands and fingers. It suits patients with rheumatic and gouty tendencies, urinary irritation, and is reputed to aid in expelling splinters and destroying warts.
Key symptoms
- Great itching and tingling of the skin everywhere
- Dry, bran-like eruption especially on hands and fingers; palms chiefly affected
- Vesicles in groups; ulcers and swellings on joints
- Rheumatic and gouty pains with cramp in thumbs and fingers
- Burning pain on urinating with agglutination of orifice; urine passes in several streams
- Headache over supra-orbital ridges with rumbling in bowels and eructations
- Favors expulsion of splinters; possesses power of softening flesh
Better (amelioration)
- Coffee (headache better from coffee)
Scarlet Pimpernel (ANAGALLIS)
Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy. Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.
Head
Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; better from coffee. Sick headache. Pain in facial muscles.
Extremities
Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.
Urine
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.
Skin
Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers. Palms especially affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers and swellings on joints.
Relationship
Anagallis contains Saponin, q. v.
Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obcon.
Dose
First to third potency.
Scarlet Pimpernel. Weather-glass. Red Chickweed. N. O. Primulaceæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Amblyopia. Cataract. Constipation. Dropsy. Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Gonorrhœa. Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Hypochondriasis. Hysteria. Mania. Neuralgia. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Skin, unhealthy. Snake-bites. Syphilis. Tetters. Ulcers, ill-conditioned. Wounds.
Characteristics
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. …
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