Cyclamen
Plant · Primulaceae
Cyclamen is suited to fair, phlegmatic, leucophlegmatic individuals, often young women, with chlorotic conditions, irregular menses, and dulness of all the senses. Alternating moods (sadness and joy), aversion to open air and motion, and flickering visual disturbances are characteristic. Most complaints improve from walking about.
Key symptoms
- Flickering, glittering, or fiery sparks before the eyes; migraine with scintillations
- Convergent strabismus especially associated with menstrual irregularity or fever
- Scanty, suppressed, or profuse dark clotted menses with labour-like pains
- Vertigo worse in open air, better sitting in a room
- Speedy satiety after eating little, followed by nausea and aversion to food
- Persistent hiccough especially during pregnancy
- Chlorosis with pallor, palpitation, and great lassitude
- Soreness of heel on standing or sitting, better walking
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse in open air (vertigo, headache)
- Worse at rest and sitting
- Worse at night (skin itching, toothache)
- Worse from eating at night
- Worse drawing shoulders forward
Better (amelioration)
- Better from walking about
- Better from cold water applied to head
- Better from bathing or moistening affected parts
- Better sitting in a warm room (vertigo)
Remarks
Aversion to motion, yet motion amelioratesher pain and uneasiness. Aversion to the open air, yet open air ameliorates some symptoms especially the coryza and cough.
The marked dullness of the senses and special senses is a striking part of this picture.
Chlorosis; irregularmenses; and palpitation. Stitching pains.
Weakness and aggravation from exertion. Flabby muscles.
Most symptoms ameliorated by walking. Very restless at night.
Great lassitude.
Weakness in the evening, ameliorated by moving about. Sensitive to cold, and cold air.
Complaints from being overheated.
Alternations of moods is a striking feature of the mental state. Great flow of ideas alternates with weak memory.
Cyclamen Europæum. Sow-bread. N. O. Primulaceæ. Tincture of the root gathered in spring.
Clinical
Anæmia. Bones, pain in. Chlorosis. Climacteric sufferings. Coryza. Diplopia. Dyspepsia. Enteralgia. Eyes, affections of. Headache. Heel, pain in. Hiccough. Menstruation, disorders of. Mental derangement. Pregnancy, sickness of; disorders of. Prostatitis. Rheumatism. Strabismus. Thirst, absence of. Urethritis. Vertigo. Weaning, complaints after. Writer's-spasm.
Characteristics
Cyclamen has a traditional reputation as a remedy for affections of the uterus and appendages. The later provings have demonstrated the correctness of this. It is in many ways analogous to Pulsatilla, from which it differs mainly in having no > from open air; and in not having thirstlessness as so frequent an accompaniment of other conditions.
- Flickering before the eyes, as of various colours, glittering needles, fiery specks and sparks.
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