Sphingurus
Coendou (Sphiggurus) · Animal
Remedy from porcupine quills with action on neural symptoms and structural pain. Characteristic falling hair, jaw-joint pain, and difficulties with speech. Mood is capricious and everything seems disagreeable.
Key symptoms
- Hair falling out
- Jaw pain
- Zygoma pain
- Stammering
- Weakness
- Numbness
- Hemicranias
- Itching with bleeding
Worse (aggravation)
- Lying down
- After tea
Better (amelioration)
- Walking in open air
- After dinner
Spiggurus Martini (Mure). Histrix subspinosum. Histrix prehensilis. Tree Porcupine. N. O. Sphingurinæ. Trituration of prickles taken from one of the sides.
Clinical
Hair falling out (head; beard). Jaw-joint, pains in. Stammering. Zygoma, pain in.
Characteristics
The Old World porcupines have the name Histricinæ, those of the New World Sphingurinæ. Mure proved the 3x trituration of the prickles. The most noteworthy symptoms were─failing out of the hair, of whiskers especially; pain in the jaw-joint and right zygoma. Itching of the pubes after taking tea. Embarrassed speech. Nausea at sight of food. The symptoms are: < Lying down. < After tea. > Walking in open air. > After dinner.
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