Saponinum
Saponin · Human-made/chemical
Saponinum suits persons with rheumatic and glandular complaints whose symptoms are characteristically worse in warm rooms, despite general chilliness and lowered body temperature. There is a marked affinity for the throat, joints, and female reproductive organs. Menstrual irregularities with pain predominantly before the flow and inflammatory swelling of the tonsils are guiding features.
Key symptoms
- Severe sore throat, worse on the right side, with marked tonsillar swelling
- Nausea felt more in the oesophagus and throat, worse in a warm room
- Menstrual disturbances with severe pain before the flow
- Miliary skin eruption with colic and leucorrhoea before menses
- Lowered body temperature, even down to 96 degrees Fahrenheit
- Articular rheumatism, especially of the left knee
- Constipation alternating with diarrhoea and colic
- Boils and intense local inflammation after injection
Worse (aggravation)
- Warm room
- Warmth in general
- Before menstrual flow
- Right side (throat symptoms)
Better (amelioration)
- When menstrual flow is established (partial relief of pain)
- Cool conditions
Saponin. (A glucoside obtained from Saponaria officinalis, Gypsophila, Struthium, Senega, Quillaja, &c.) C32H54O18. Trituration. Solution. (Watery solutions speedily decompose.)
Clinical
Boils. Constipation. Diarrhœa. Dysmenia. Enuresis, when walking. Exophthalmos. Fever. Headache. Leucorrhœa. Rheumatism. Sleeplessness. Spleen, pains in. Strabismus. Temperature lowered. Tongue, strawberry.
Characteristics
Saponin. has had a somewhat extensive proving (in potencies ranging from 1x to 30th), conducted by A. J. Hills. One prover, who took the 30th, for many years a sufferer from articular rheumatism, had none of his usual pains during the proving, and a great enlargement of the left knee was entirely removed. Two female provers had marked disturbance of the menstrual functions, especially pain and sufferings before the flow. A miliary eruption, and colic and leucorrhœa before the menses, pain better but not removed when the flow was established. Severe sore throat, < right side, was experienced by several …
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