Heliotropium
Heliotropium peruvianum · Plant · Boraginaceae
Suited to women with uterine displacement, leucorrhoea, and backache who also have a tendency toward hoarseness or loss of voice. The remedy produces sensations of pressure and tension in multiple parts. Dr. Cooper found it especially indicated when there is a bearing-down that feels active combined with vocal symptoms, and patients describe a sensation of being braced up after taking the remedy.
Key symptoms
- Hoarseness and thick voice; clergyman's sore throat
- Uterine displacement with active bearing-down sensation
- Leucorrhoea with backache resembling Natrum hyperchlorinosum action
- Tendency to loss of voice accompanying pelvic symptoms
- Membranous dysmenorrhoea
- Pressure on sternum impeding breathing
- Symptoms worse after resting and on inspiration
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse after resting
- Worse on inspiration
Better (amelioration)
- Head symptoms better on walking in open air
Heliotropium peruvianum. Heliotrope. Cherry-pie. N. O. Boraginaceæ. Tincture of whole fresh plant when in flower.
Clinical
Clergyman's sore throat. Dysmenorrhœa, membranous. Hoarseness. Leucorrhœa. Uterus, misplacement of.
Characteristics
Heliotrope has been slightly proved. Symptoms of pressure and tension were produced in many parts: pressure on the sternum impeding breathing; pressure on the head; on mons veneris; pain as if beaten in leg muscles. Cooper has used this remedy clinically and considers hoarseness and "thick voice" a great indication. He has cured with it clergyman's sore throat. It has also an action resembling that of Natrum hyperchlorinosum in uterine displacement, leucorrhœa, backache. With Nat. hyper. there is passive bearing down from heavy, water-logged condition of uterus. With Heliot. the bearing down is active. The effect of Heliot. given by Cooper to a lady who had been advised by several surgeons to have various organs either braced up surgically, or removed, was described …
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