Joanesia asoca
Saraca asoca · Plant · Fabaceae
Joanesia asoca suits women with irregular, suppressed, or excessive menstruation accompanied by congestive headaches, pelvic pain, and leucorrhoea. The headache is characteristically unilateral, of reflex uterine origin, and relieved by open air and the onset of free menstrual flow.
Key symptoms
- Delayed and irregular menses; amenorrhoea with pain in ovaries before flow
- Menorrhagia with irritable bladder and leucorrhoea
- Menstrual colic with unilateral congestive headache
- Congestive headache better in open air and by free menstrual flow
- Pain in eyeballs, supraorbital pains, photophobia
- Nasal catarrh with profuse watery discharge and loss of sense of smell
- Obstinate constipation and haemorrhoids with excessive nausea
- Pain along spine radiating to abdomen and thighs
Better (amelioration)
- Open air (headache)
- Free menstrual flow (headache)
Bark of an Indian Tree, introduced by Dr. ND Ray, Calcutta (JONOSIA ASOCA)
Has extensive sphere of action on female organs. Amenorrhœa and metrorrhagia.
Head
Unilateral headache; reflex uterine, congestive headache, better open air and by free flow. Pain in eyeballs; supraorbital pains, photophobia. Nasal catarrh, profuse, watery discharge. Loss of sense of smell.
Gastric
Desire for sweets, also acid things. Thirsty, excessive nausea; obstinate constipation, hæmorrhoids.
Female
Delayed and irregular menses; menstrual colic; amenorrhœa, pain in ovaries before flow; menorrhagia, irritable bladder; leucorrhœa.
Sleep
Disturbed. Dreams of travelling.
Back
Pain along spine radiating to abdomen and thighs.
Dose
Tincture.
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