Primula veris
Plant · Primulaceae
Primula Veris suits patients with cerebral congestion manifesting as a tight band around the head with violent vertigo and neuralgia. Rheumatic and gouty pains, weak voice, and a peculiar violet odor of the urine are characteristic features.
Key symptoms
- Sensation of a band around the head; cannot keep hat on
- Violent vertigo as if everything turned around
- Migraine and frontal neuralgia
- Cough with burning and pricking in respiratory tracts; weak voice
- Urine smells strongly of violets
- Weight and lassitude in limbs especially the shoulders
- Buzzing in ears
Better (amelioration)
- In open air — vertigo and buzzing in ears better
Cowslip
Cerebral congestion, with neuralgia; migraine; rheumatic and gouty pains.
Head
Sensation of a band around head; cannot keen hat on (Carbol ac). Skin of forehead tense. Fear of falling when standing up. Violent vertigo, as if everything turned around. Buzzing in ears; better in open air.
Respiratory
Cough, with burning and pricking in respiratory tracts. Weak voice.
Urinary
Urine smells strongly of violets (Terebinth).
Extremities
Right axillary muscles painful. Weight and lassitude in limbs, especially the shoulders. Burning in hollow of right hand. Drawing pain in thumb and big toe.
Relationship
Compare: Cyclamen; Ranunc; Œnothera--Evening Primrose--(exhausting, watery diarrhœa; cholera infantum; hydrocephaloid); Primula farinosa-the wild Primrose--(dermatitis, especially on index fingers and thumbs).
Dose
Third potency.
Cowslip. N. O. Primulaceæ. Tincture of entire fresh plant.
Clinical
Apoplexy, threatened. Eczema. Fevers. Migraine. Neuralgia. Vertigo. Voice, affections of.
Characteristics
The flowers of Prim. veris are said to be narcotic (Treas. of Bot.). "Cowslip wine" is a favourite remedy in the country for many small disorders. Cooper cured with P. ver. Ø a case of eczema of the hands after P. obc. had failed. He also cured with it eczema palmaris of years' duration in a man æt. 70. Schier, of Mentz (Univ. Hom. Ann., p. 99), proved a tincture of fresh plant including root. The duration of action is only a few days in healthy persons. The conditions in which Schier commends it, and which are borne out by the symptoms, are: Threatened apoplexy, arising apart from psychic depression; as an external application when there is no skin lesion, "as this remedy has a certain relation with the skin. Prudence is necessary here, especially for persons with sensitive and easily vulnerable skin." The symptoms are < by bent position; stooping; movement; in room; in closed carriage; travelling by rail. < In open air.
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