Aristolochia serpentaria
Endodeca serpentaria · Plant · Aristolochiaceae
Aristolochia Serpentaria suits patients with prominent gastro-enteric disturbances, marked flatulence, and urinary irritation. There is characteristic peevishness and disinclination for work accompanying digestive symptoms, with heat of the head and disturbed sleep.
Key symptoms
- Nausea and vomiting until stomach is entirely emptied
- Abdominal distension with flatulence, rumbling, and cutting pains
- Colic in umbilical region with flatus and eructations
- Frequent desire for stool with scanty, hard, tenacious faeces
- Violent desire to urinate with great increase in quantity of urine
- Increased warmth of head; peevish mood and disinclination for work
- Heaviness of stomach relieved by emission of flatus
Better (amelioration)
- Emission of flatus (heaviness of stomach relieved)
Serpentary. Virginia Snake-root. N. O. Aristolochiaceæ. Trituration of dried roots.
Clinical
Dyspepsia. Flatulence.
Characteristics
Serpentary was proved by Jörg's provers and others. Its chief effects were noticed in the gastro-enteric organs, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, flatulence, and urging to stool. Increased and afterwards lost appetite. Irritation of the urinary and genital organs with frequent desire to micturate. As with A. milhomens, there was disturbed rest; also heat of the head.
1. Mind
Peevish mood.─Disinclination for work.
2. Head
Sticking in forehead extending to base of brain.─Increased warmth of head.
8. Mouth
Copious salivation with frequent spitting.
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