Armoracea sativa
Armoracia rusticana · Plant · Brassicaceae
Armoracea Sativa is indicated in patients with scorbutic tendencies, colic with backache, and mucous membrane affections. The remedy suits those with wandering rheumatism, dental abnormalities suggesting scurvy, and profuse diarrhoea accompanied by a craving for food.
Key symptoms
- Colic with backache; tearing pains from belly through to sacrum
- Scurvy from salt-eating; dull soft sensation in teeth as if bent in sockets
- Profuse painless diarrhoea with unnatural craving for food
- Pituitous asthma and mucous conditions of respiratory tract
- Wandering chronic rheumatism with joint pains
- Burning and strangury in urinary tract; albuminuria; gravel
- Violent headache with nausea worse on sitting up
Worse (aggravation)
- Touch or slight pressure (many symptoms worse)
- Sitting up (headache worse)
- Lying on side (joint pains worse toward morning)
- Checked foot-sweat
- Nervous excitement
- Cold
Better (amelioration)
- Bending forward (crampy epigastric pain relieved)
- Motion and getting up (joint pains relieved)
Cochlearia armoracea. Horse-radish. N. O. Cruciferæ. Tincture of root.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Aphonia. Asthma. Cataract. Colic. Cornea, spots on. Eruptions. Eyes, affections of. Gonorrhœa. Gravel. Headache. Leucorrhœa. Lungs, œdema of. Rheumatism. Scurvy. Strangury. Toothache. Ulcers. Urinary disorders.
Characteristics
Armor. sat., and also Cochlear. officin., are old-world anti-scorbutics, and homœopathic provings have confirmed the old experience. Armor. has the anti-scorbutic properties of the other Cruciferæ, and is specially efficacious in scurvy from eating salt. The essential oil is said to be identical with that of Sinapis. The mucous membranes are affected: mucous stools; gonorrhœa; leucorrhœa; pituitous asthma and pituitous phthisis have been benefited by it. There are peculiar symptoms in connection with the teeth. Some violent abdominal pains were experienced. Tearing pains from the belly through to back, down the back, and settling in sacrum. "Colic with backache" appears to be a leading indication. Wandering chronic rheumatism. Touch or slight pressure < many symptoms. Bending forward >.
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