Aphis chenopodii glauci
Animal
The Aphis Chenopodii Glauci patient is sad and suffers from severe head pain aggravated by the slightest motion as if the brain were shaken. Distinctive toothache relieved by warm perspiration, right orbital neuralgia, and morning diarrhoea with burning characterize this remedy. Fever with shuddering and hot sweat in bed completes the picture.
Key symptoms
- Sadness with aching headache worse from motion; brain feels swashed hither and thither
- Toothache relieved by general warm sweat
- Toothache extending to ear, temple, and cheek-bone
- Right orbital neuralgia with profuse lachrymation
- Colic with much rumbling and ineffectual urging to stool
- Diarrhoea in morning with painful urging and burning in anus
- Shuddering with burning in palms and hot sweat in bed
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse from motion (headache)
Better (amelioration)
- Better from general warm sweat (toothache)
Plant-lice from Chenopodium (CHENOPODI GLAUCI APHIS)
Partakes largely of the properties of the plant upon which the insect lives.
Head
Sad; aching, worse from motion. Brain seems swashed hither and thither. Coryza, with burning or biting in nostrils. Noise in ears, as of cannon. Yellow face. Orbital right neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation. Toothache, relieved by general warm sweat (Cham). Toothache extends to ear, temple, and cheek-bone (Plantago).
Stomach
No appetite for meat and bread. Vesicles at end of tongue. Much mucus. Colic with much rumbling and ineffectual urging to stool.
Stools
Hard and knotty. Diarrhœa in morning, with painful urging and burning in anus, and pressure in rectum and bladder.
Urine
Voluptuous feeling in glans. Burning in urethra. Urination frequent, copious, frothy.
Back
Severe pains in region of lower inner angle of left shoulder-blade, running into chest.
Fever
Shuddering all over; burning in palms; hot sweat in bed.
Relationship
Compare: Nat sulph; Nux.
Dose
Sixth to thirtieth potency.
N. O. Insecta. A tincture is made of the aphides grown on the Chenopodium glaucum.
Clinical
Colic. Coryza. Cough. Diarrhœa. Headache. Tenesmus Toothache.
Characteristics
Some of the most notable symptoms of Aphis are: Coryza with burning and biting on margins of nostrils, especially of septum. Increase of most violent toothache in bed, only relieved if after awhile a general warm sweat breaks out. Cutting in abdomen and rumbling of flatus. Ineffectual urging in bladder and rectum. In the morning urging after rising, several mush-like stools with pinching, burning in anus with urging. Flatus accompanies stool. Thin stools with slime and spots of dark blood. The insect partakes of the properties of the plant it lives on, Chenopodium glaucum being a popular colic remedy, and allied to the Polygonaceæ Rheum and Rumex. Aphis is peculiar in being the only remedy which has toothache > by sweat; though Cham. has general > by sweat.
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