Ononis
Ononis spinosa · Plant · Fabaceae
Ononis is indicated in epilepsy with an occipital aura, grimacing, sudden unconsciousness, and cyanosis of the face followed by severe headache, giddiness, and insomnia. The remedy cured a case of daily epileptic attacks in a labourer with a history of sunstroke in childhood, acting slowly over nine months with single doses at rare intervals.
Key symptoms
- Epileptic attacks with aura spreading from the occiput over the head
- Frightful grimaces without screaming; sudden unconsciousness with deathlike bluish face
- Violent headache, giddiness, and sleeplessness after epileptic attacks
- Epistaxis three or four times in one day, worse when washing the face
- Chronic nephritis (Ononis spinosa)
Worse (aggravation)
- Washing the face (epistaxis)
Ononis arvensis. Rest-harrow. Cammock, N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of fresh plant.
Clinical
Epilepsy. Epistaxis. Headache.
Characteristics
Ononis arv. is indigenous to Britain, growing on barren pastures and on the borders of ill-cultivated fields. It owes its name, "Rest-harrow," to its tough underground roots, which cause stoppages to harrow and plough. In some parts it is called "Cammock," and the country people, having the idea that it communicates its nauseous, goatlike odour to cheese made from the milk of cows who have eaten it, call the cheese so tainted "cammocky" (Treas. of Bot.). Cooper records (H. W., xxxv. 538) the case of a brickfield labourer, 45, who at 13 was prostrated for a week, apparently with sunstroke; "something seemed to catch the back of his head." At 25, had attacks similar to present. In March, 1900, began to have daily attacks. An aura seems to spread over the head from the occiput; he makes frightful grimaces, but does not scream out; becomes unconscious, turns deathlike and …
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