Senecio aureus
Packera aurea · Life root, squaw weed · Plant · Asteraceae
Senecio is best suited to those who are restless, nervous, low-spirited, and unable to concentrate.
The remedy is typically prescribed for hemorrhaging in the mucous membranes. Bleeding in the lungs or the throat, in congested and inflamed kidneys, or during menstruation may all be helped by Senecio, as may nosebleeds. Delayed or absent menstruation, accompanied by a thick vaginal discharge, appetite loss, excitability, and insomnia may also respond well to the remedy.
Key symptoms
- Suppression of menses with vicarious bleeding from other organs
- Scanty, high-colored, bloody urine with mucus and tenesmus
- Great heat and constant urging to urinate; nephritis
- Backaches of congested kidneys; early cirrhosis of liver
- Dull stupefying headache; wavelike dizziness from occiput to sinciput
- Sharp pains over left eye and through left temple
- Straining at stool with thin, dark, bloody discharge and tenesmus
- Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Golden Ragwort
Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified. Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backaches of congested kidneys. Early cirrhosis of liver.
Mind
Inability to fix mind upon any one subject. Despondent. Nervous and irritable.
Head
Dull, stupefying headache. Wavelike dizziness from occiput to sinciput. Sharp pains over left eye, and through left temple. Fullness of nasal passages; burning; sneezing; profuse flow.
Face
Teeth very sensitive. Sharp, cutting pain left side. Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth.
Stomach
Sour eructations; nausea.
Throat
Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx, raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.
Abdomen
Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen; better, stool. Thin, watery stool, intermingled with hard lumps of feces (Ant crud). Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with tenesmus.
Urinary
Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much mucus and tenesmus. Great heat and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with headache. Renal colic (Pareira; Ocim; Berb).
Male
Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions. Prostate enlarged. Dull, heavy pain in spermatic cord, extending to testicles.
Female
Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhœa of young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these improve. Anæmic dysmenorrhœa with urinary disturbances. Premature and too profuse menses (Calc; Erig).
Respiratory
Acute inflammatory conditions of upper respiratory tract. Hoarseness. Cough loose, with labored inspiration. Chest sore and raw. Dyspnœa on ascending (Calc). Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.
Sleep
Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness and sleeplessness.
Relationship
Compare: Senecio Jacobæa (cerebro-spinal irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in cancer); Aletris; Caulop; Sep.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.
In some parts of the country where it grows it is called Golden Ragwort, in others Huckleroot.
It is an old domestic remedy and one only proved in a fragmentary way. Many of these medicines that have become household remedies should be properly proved. Only in this way can their power and influence be known, i. e., they can be used properly only when indicated by the symptoms they can produce.
Women
: Senecio, is to be studied in relation to young girls with menstrual irregularities.
Those who have suppressionof the menstrual flow from getting wet, from getting the feet wet, those who have menorrhagia, a copious menstrual flow which continues until they are anemic; and those also who suffer from dysmenorrhœa, the pains being most violent. In this remedy, with these general features, the young girl gradually tends toward catarrhal phthisis.
Senecio aureus (Variety, Gracilis). Golden Ragwort. Squaw-weed. (United States, North and West; found in swamps.) N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of fresh plant in flower.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Ascites. Coryza. Cough. Dropsy. Dysmenorrhœa. Dysuria. Epistaxis. Fainting. Gleet. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhages. Home-sickness. Hysteria. Kidneys, inflammation of. Lumbago. Mania. Menorrhagia. Menstruation, delayed; early, and profuse; obstructed; vicarious. Nails, brittle. Nervousness. Neurasthenia. Phthisis. Prostatitis. Puerperal mania. Renal colic. Sciatica. Spermatic cord, pain in. Wounds.
Characteristics
The Golden Ragwort had a reputation in domestic and eclectic practice as a regulator of menstrual functions when Hale introduced it into homœopathic practice. A. E. Small and others proved it, and clinical additions have filled out the picture. Like many other Compositæ, the Ragworts, or Groundsels, have power over hæmorrhagic conditions, whether arising from disease or from wounds. The hæmorrhagic function of menstruation …
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