Spigelia
Spigelia anthelmia · Plant · Loganiaceae
Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis. The Spigelia patient suffers intensely with neuralgic affections and is extremely sensitive to touch and jarring. Part touched feels chilly and sends shudder through frame. Associated with rheumatic heart conditions and periodic neuralgic headaches.
Key symptoms
- Hemicrania; pain worse from motion and noise
- Prosopalgia, left-sided with tearing and shooting pains
- Eyes hurt on motion as if too large for orbit
- Intense pressing pains in eyeballs
- Violent visible palpitation of heart
- Stitches in heart
- Sensitive to cold and atmospheric changes
- Neuralgic pains throughout body
Worse (aggravation)
- From motion, noise, touch, turning eyes
- From every shaking, commotion or concussion
- Light, eating, motion worse
- Worse from warmth in head region
- Cold damp rainy weather
- Thinking about symptoms
Better (amelioration)
- Lying on right side with head high
- Cold application better for eye pains temporarily
- Keeping still
Pains
Spigelia is especially known by its pains.
It is indicated in persons who are debilitated from taking cold and who have become rheumatic, run down, victims of pain.
Hardly a nerve in the body escapes; shooting, burning, tearing, neuralgic pains; they are most marked about the eyes and jaws, neck, face, teeth, shoulders, burning like hot needles through the face and neck in any direction, stitching, tearing, worse from motion, from doing anything, even thinking, mental exertion, worse from eating.
Pains in the neck and shoulders are better from heat; those about the eyes are better from cold. Shooting, tearing pains in the extremities like hot wires.
Pinkroot. (Loganiaceae.)
Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis; to scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici (Cina, Stan.). Persons with light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin. Body painfully sensitive to touch; part touched feels chilly; touch sends shudder through the whole frame (Kali c.). Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc. Rheumatic affections of heart (Kali, Led., Naja); systolic blowing at apex. Aneurism. Nervous headache; periodical, beginning in morning at base of brain, spreading over the head and locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side (right side, Sang., Sil.); pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing. Headache; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset. (Nat. m., Tab.). Intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs; could not turn the eyes without turning the whole body; worse, especially on making a false step. Sensation: as if eyes were too large for the orbits (Act., Com.); sensitve to touch; as if a …
Head
Hemicrania; pain increased by motion, noise, and especially by stooping; one or both eyes are involved.
General Face
Prosopalgia, left-sided; tearing, shooting, burning pains, especially in cheek bones, lower jaw, about eyebrows and in the eyeball; periodical from morning until sunset; < at noon, noise or motion.
Sight and Eyes
Eyes hurt on motion as if too large for the orbit.
Sight and Eyes
Intense pressing pains in the eyeballs, especially on turning them.
Heart and Pulse
Violent (visible and audible) palpitation of the heart, < when bending chest forward; stitches in heart.
Heart and Pulse
Violent beating of the heart, especially at night; visible and audible, with anguish.
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