Wyethia
Wyethia helenioides · Plant · Asteraceae
Nervous, apprehensive patients who feel weak and uneasy as if after a severe illness. Marked dryness of the throat and posterior nares with irritability and aversion to company; suited to dry asthma and chronic follicular pharyngitis with burning in the epiglottis.
Key symptoms
- Epiglottis dry with burning sensation; constant desire to swallow saliva
- Throat feels swollen; swallowing with difficulty
- Dry, hacking cough caused by tickling in epiglottis
- Prickling, dry sensation in posterior nares; effort to clear throat gives no relief
- Burning sensation in bronchial tubes
- Uvula feels elongated; dryness of fauces
- Mouth feels as if scalded; increased flow of tough, ropy saliva
- Weight in stomach as if something indigestible had been eaten
- Pain in left ovary shooting down to knee
- Nervous, uneasy, apprehensive of calamity
Worse (aggravation)
- After eating
- By motion
- By exercise (causes perspiration)
- Afternoon (all symptoms worse)
Wyethia helenoides. Alarconia helenoides. Melarhiza inuloides. Poison Weed. N. O. Compositæ. Tincture of the root.
Clinical
Amenorrhœa. Asthma. Constipation. Cough. Debility. Diarrhœa. Dysmenorrhœa. Epiglottis, affections of. Fever. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Hiccough. Indigestion. Influenza. Nervousness. Ovaries, pain in. Post-nasal catarrh. Salivation. Throat, sore. Uvula, affections of.
Characteristics
Wyethia was introduced and proved, with the fresh root or the Æ tincture, on seven men and two women, by J. M. Selfridge. Their symptoms make up Allen's pathogenesis. A later proving (Pacif. C. J. H., vii. 127) was made under Selfridge's direction with the 1x on Dr. A. McNeil, the 15x on Dr. M. R Underwood, and the 30x on Dr. Eleanor F. Martin. Their symptoms I have marked respectively (M), (U), and (E M) in the Schema. The first proving gave Wyeth. a definite and important place in throat affections. These symptoms have been confirmed: "Throat feels swollen; epiglottis dry, and has a burning sensation; …
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