Apium graveolens
Plant · Apiaceae
The Apium Graveolens patient presents with urinary retention, throbbing headache, and rheumatic neck and sacral pains. Women suffer dysmenorrhoea and ovarian pains relieved by flexing the legs. There is a craving for apples, and sleeplessness with waking between 1 and 3 am is characteristic.
Key symptoms
- Obstinate retention of urine
- Throbbing headache better from eating
- Rheumatic pain in muscles of neck and sacrum; growing pains
- Dysmenorrhoea with sharp short pains better from flexing legs
- Sharp sticking ovarian pains better bending over or lying on left side with legs flexed
- Urticaria with shuddering
- Sleeplessness waking from 1 to 3 am
- Swelling of throat, face, and hands
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse between 1 and 3 am (sleeplessness)
Better (amelioration)
- Better from eating (headache)
- Better from flexing legs (dysmenorrhoea and ovarian pains)
- Better from bending over (ovarian pains)
- Better lying on left side with legs flexed
Common Celery
Contains a soporific active principle. Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Rheumatic pain in muscles of neck also in sacrum. Growing pains. Hungry for apples. Dysmenorrhœa, with sharp, short pains, better flexing legs.
Head
Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking. Headache; better eating. Eyeballs feel sunken. Itching in eyes. Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye.
Abdomen
Sore; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on; diarrhœa, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right. Nausea increases with pains.
Female
Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left, better bending over, by lying on left side, with legs flexed; nipples tender.
Respiratory
Tickling, dry cough. Intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down. Throat swollen, dyspnœa.
Skin
Itching blotches; burning, creeping sensation. Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers. Urticaria with shuddering.
Sleep
Unrefreshed; sleepless. Wakes from 1 to 3 am.Eating does not help sleep. Not fatigued from loss of sleep.
Dose
First to thirtieth potency.
Celery. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of seeds. Tincture of sticks.
Clinical
Fidgets. Headache. Heartburn. Otorrhœa. Post-nasal catarrh. Rumination. Toothache. Urine, retention of. Urticaria.
Characteristics
A proving of tincture of seeds produced the following symptoms: Unpleasant feeling at stomach, with belchings tasting of celery. Heartburn. Spitting up of food. Gone feeling at pit of stomach lasting for hours and partially relieved by eating.─Effects of eating the root: during the following day and night, most obstinate retention of urine, which could only be relieved by the catheter. On another person this was observed: Inability to sit still or lie still in bed from feeling of "fidgets"; cannot keep mind from I thinking. In a proving under the direction of W. P. Wesselhœft (Med. Advance, April, 1886) a remarkable symptom was: a dull ache in sacrum < when lying down, > when moving about. Another symptom was "sensation as if both eyes were sunken back into their sockets." Throbbing headaches, < by slightest …
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