Brassica napus
Plant · Brassicaceae
Brassica Napus suits patients with severely impoverished blood showing scorbutic symptoms, dropsical swellings, and voracious appetite. The characteristic burn-like skin blotches, shedding nails, and gangrenous tendency indicate a profound nutritional deficiency state.
Key symptoms
- Dropsical swellings throughout the body
- Scorbutic mouth with inflamed, ulcerated mucous membranes and spongy gums
- Voracious appetite; bulimia
- Tympanitic abdomen
- Burn-like blotches on nose, forehead, hands, and feet
- Dropping off and shedding of nails; gangrene
- Growth of downy, colourless hair; impoverished blood
- Deficient, irritating urine
Cole Seed, Rape Seed, Wild Corn Kale. N. O. Cruciferæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant.
Clinical
Bulimia. Dropsy. Gangrene. Nails, shedding of. Scurvy. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Our knowledge of the pathogenetic effects of Brassica napus is derived from the experience of the Irish famine, during which the people ate it freely. Dropsical swellings, scorbutic mouth, voracious appetite, tympanitic abdomen, blotches like burns, dropping off of nails, and gangrene. All the symptoms of impoverished blood appear, such as growth of downy, colourless hair.
Relations
Compare: Raphanus, Armoracea, Sinapis, Secale.
2. Head
Very distressing frontal headache and tension.
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