Sempervivum tectorum
Plant · Crassulaceae
Sempervivum tectorum is suited to patients with malignant or scirrhous conditions of the tongue, mouth, and breasts. It is also useful in suppressed menses and climacteric complaints in women. The remedy has a notable action on skin conditions including herpes zoster, warts, ring-worm, and erysipelas.
Key symptoms
- Malignant ulcers of the mouth and cancer of the tongue with scirrhous induration
- Tongue ulcers bleeding easily especially at night, with stabbing pains
- Whole mouth very tender
- Erysipelatous skin affections with flushed surface and stinging pains
- Warts and corns
- Hemorrhoids
- Mammary carcinoma; ring-worm; herpes zoster
- Suppressed menses and climacteric complaints
Worse (aggravation)
- Night (tongue ulcers bleed more at night)
Houseleek
Is recommended for herpes, zoster and cancerous tumors. Scirrhous induration of tongue. Mammary carcinoma. Ring-worm. Hæmorrhoids.
Mouth
Malignant ulcers of mouth. Cancer of tongue (Galium). Tongue has ulcers; bleed easily, especially at night; much soreness of tongue with stabbing pains. Whole mouth very tender.
Skin
Erysipelatous affections. Warts and corns. Aphthæ. Flushed surface and stinging pains.
Relationship
Compare: Sedum acre-small Houseleek--(scorbutic conditions; ulcers, intermittent fever) (Galium; Kali cyanat). Oxalis acetosella-Wood sorrel--(The inspissated juice used as a cautery to remove cancerous growths of the lips). Cotyledon. Ficus Carica--(Fig)-The milky juice of the freshly broken stalk applied to warts; causes their disappearance.
Dose
Tincture and 2 decimal, also fresh juice of plant. Locally for bites of insect, stings of bees, and poisoned wounds, warts.
Sempervivum tectorum. Houseleek. N. O. Crassulaceæ. Tincture of fresh leaves.
Clinical
Climaxis. Menses, suppressed. Tongue, indurations of.
Characteristics
Kallenbach (H. R., x. 473) gives some experience with Semp. t. In Hufeland's Journal, says Kallenbach, "the fresh juice is recommended in chronic aphthæ in grown persons in causal relation to hæmorrhoids, as well as in scirrhous indurations of the tongue." In many countries Semp. has a popular reputation for indurations and sores on the tongue. Reichel, of Staben, considers it curative in spasms of the uterus and in menstrual disturbances of all kinds, as well as in cases of too exalted vascular activity in the sexual sphere; also in aural troubles consequent on hardened ear-wax and in inflammatory exudations of the ear. Kallenbach was consulted─(1) By Mrs. S., 44, childless, of sickly looks, for an affection of the tongue. For the previous six months menses had appeared only every eight to ten weeks, and were accompanied with pains darting from …
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