Ferula glauca
Plant · Apiaceae
Ferula Glauca is suited to women with violent sexual excitement, nymphomania, and pruritus vulvae. The remedy is marked by a mixture of burning sensations and icy coldness in different parts, with aversion to society, sadness, and prominent digestive and haemorrhoidal symptoms.
Key symptoms
- Violent sexual excitement in women; nymphomania
- Burning in head with icy coldness in occiput
- Aphthae with heat in mouth and tongue sensation as if burnt
- Diarrhoea worse by day with smarting and burning at anus
- Haemorrhoids with itching, burning, and lancinating pains
- Cough worse in damp or cold weather
- Sadness, inclination to weep, aversion to society and work
Worse (aggravation)
- After eating aggravates stomach heat and cutting pains
- Damp or cold weather worsens cough
- Diarrhoea worse during the day
Ferula Neapolitana. Bounafa. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of plant.
Clinical
Aphthæ. Diarrhœa. Digestion, slow. Hæmorrhoids. Nymphomania. Pruritus vulvæ.
Characteristics
Ferula has been proved, but I am not aware of any clinical experience with it. Heat and burning are produced in most parts, and sensations of coldness in others. Stiffness and constriction were also prominent. Violent sexual excitement in women. A cough was complained of, < in damp or cold weather.
Relations
Compare: Other Umbelliferæ; tongue as if burnt, Sang. c.
1. Mind
Aversion to society; to work.─Sadness; inclination to weep.─Impatience; anger.
2. Head
Burning in head.─Icy coldness in occiput during day.─Lancinations, pricking, pulling pains in occiput.
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