# Cyclamen ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm - **Temperament:** Chilly - **Aggravation Time:** Evening ## Keynote Indications Cyclamen has a traditional reputation as a remedy for d isorders of the uterus and appendages. Later provings af firmed this reputation. Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting, disturbed digestion with very salty saliva. Cycl. is in many ways similar to Puls., from which it differs mainly in having no relief from open air and in hot having thirstless- ness as so frequent an accompaniment of other conditions. Anemic and chlorotic conditions. Affec tions of uterus. Gastro -intestinal and genito urinary tracts affected inducing secondary anemia and various reflexes. Cough, at night while asleep without waking, especially in children (Cham., Nit-ac.). Sleepiness, morose and lassitude. ## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations) Better from moistening diseased parts, bathing. Better rubbing parts. Better moving about, walking. Better warm room. Better during menstrual flow. Better weeping. Better lemonade. Worse cold, cold water. Worse open air. Worse night, evenings. Worse eatin g at night. Worse standing. Worse sitting, rest. Worse fats. Menstrual flow worse sitting. Worse drawing shoulders forward or backward. ## Symptoms by System ### Mind - Dull, sleepy and morose. - Depression, with weeping desire to be alone. - Silent weep ing. - Grieves, sadness as if he had committed a bad act or not done his duty. - Self-reproaches. - Terrors of conscience. - Tearful and broods over imaginary grief. - Ajoyous feeling alternating with irritabil ity. - Hallucinations as if two persons were lying in her bed. - The room seems too small. - Thinks she is alone and persecuted. - Dull, sleepy and morose. - Depression, with weeping desire to be alone. - Silent weep ing. - Grieves, sadness as if he had committed a bad act or not done his duty. - Self-reproaches. - Terrors of conscience. - Tearful and broods over imaginary grief. - Ajoyous feeling alternating with irritabil ity. - Hallucinations as if two persons were lying in her bed. - The room seems too small. - Thinks she is alone and persecuted. ### Vertigo - Vertigo, objects turn in circles or look pale, worse open air, better in a room and sitting. - COMMENTS - Debility, torpidity of mind and body. - Dullness of senses. - Flickering before the eyes, squint, especially in connection with menstrual irregularities or fevers. - After convulsions, convergent squ int, lefteye drawn inwards. - Amblyopia, diplopia, hemiopia. - Digestive disturbances. - Saliva has a salty taste, which is communicated to all food eaten. - After eating but little, satiety, aversion to food with nausea in palate and thirst. - Aversion to bread, butter, meat, fat, beer and ordinary food. - Craving for lemonade, sardines, inedible things. - Frequent vomiting in morning. - Prostatic troubles with stitches and pressure, urging to stool and urination. - Menstruation too early, with some relief of melancholy m ood and heaviness of feet. - Scanty or suppressed menstruation with headache and vertigo. - During pregnancy, hiccough, loathing and nausea in mouth and throat, complaints after weaning. - Pressing, drawing or tearing pains at parts where bones lie near surface. - Chilliness. - Itching leaving a numb sensation. - Chilblains, itching and pricking, worse at night in bed. - Eidherr of Vienna gave the best account of this remedy. - He noted the more copious menstruation, more frequent, tooearly, with severe abdominal pains. - A ccompanied with labor -like pains, flow is excessive, black and lumpy. - Commencement of menses after protracted cessation. - Eidherr's clinical experience illustrates in a remarkable way Cycl.'s sphere of action. - In one i nstance a higher potency of the same remedy antidoted this effect. - He found the remedy especially suited to blonde leuco - phlegmatic subjects. - The “Sleepiness, morose and lassitude.” and also the vertigo noted by Hahnemann, are prominent in many of Eidherr's cases. - J. - K., 24, blonde, pale delicate skin, pale lips and gums, had menstruated normally until 22, when she got wet at a picnic just as menstruation was starting. - It stopped at once and did not reappear until ten months later after vigorous use of all kinds of domestic remedies. - The per iods were then accompanied by terrible abdominal, labor -like pains, lasting eleven hours. - Menses recurred every two or four months, always with the pains, starting from sacrum, extending along both sides of abdomen to pelvis. - They were periodical, every one, two or five minutes during which time there was no flow, the blood appearing after these attacks was somewhat watery. - Other symptoms included slightly edematous eyelids, pressing pain in the forehead and vertigo frequently changing into syncope. - Chillin ess of the whole body. - Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep interspersed with terrible dreams. - Continued loathing for meat. - Longing for salt fish. - Frequent vomiting in morning. - After partial relief from Puls., Cycl. - made a complete cure. - The ocular symptoms which developed were remarkable. - The vertigo and headache were untouched by Puls., but quickly subsided under Cycl. - 15x. - On their disappearance she saw fiery flames dancing before her eyes, on awak ening at night and in the morning she saw everything double. - A nd she had the hal lucination as if two persons lay in her bed and that the body of the other overlapped hers by half. - Cycl. - was discontinued and in two days her sight was normal. - Anna F., 20, blonde, menstruated since her tenth year. - In her seventeenth ye ar she suffered from chlorosis, ever since, menstruation was regular, but lasting only one or two days in a moderate degree. - Troubled at other times by vertigo and pressing pain in forehead and temples, which attacks were ameliorated by foot baths with ashes. - Appetite poor, little thirst, stool regular, sleeps too long, always sleepy, dejected mood, morose. - All movements, as well as speech, were languid, palpitation. - Puls, made no change, Cycl. - 3x quickly improved the headache, vertigo and spirits. - After t hree days, sight became obscured and there was glimmering before eyes. - A case of hemicrania was cured with Cycl. - Theresa F., 37., had menstruated spar ingly and irregularly (often at two or three months' intervals). - For four years suffered from violent hea dache affecting right side of head and face, coming every 8-14 days, spells lasting 12-36 hours. - During menstruation, the attacks were extra severe. - Patient was emaciated, skin, gums and lips pale. - Right eye closed owing to cramps in eyelids. - When forcibly opened, a stream of hot tears gushed out, otherwise the eye was normal. - Under Cycl. - 3c the symptoms dimin ished, but there appeared “glittering sparks before the eyes” and these remained after all symptoms of headache had gone. - Cycl. - was given persistently, the periods became regular and rather copious, and the headaches entirely ceased. - Another case (in a wet -nurse who had just weaned her baby) presented unceasing, violent, stitching pain in temporal region extending to vertex. - Throbbing temporal arteries . - Bell, diminished the pain, but vertigo came on. - Under Cycl. - 3x, the headache and vertigo disappeared altogether, but the patient com plained of her sight having become so weak that she did not dare to walk alone. - This passed off when the medicine was dis con- tinued and her headache did not recur. - Cycl. - cured aboy of violent squinting. - Six months before, he had a fall from a table, convulsion followed and after the second attack the squinting came on. - Am. - was given and the convulsions did not recur, but the squinting remained. - Cycl. - 15x was given and after a few weeks the squint entirely disappeared. - Wurmb cured a case of squint in a coachman with Cycl. ### Head - Prolonged migraine. - One-sided headache. - Headaches in morning with flickering before eyes, better cold water. - Pain in left temple. - Brain as if wrapped up in a cloth. - As if brain wobbled about while walking, menses absent or scanty. - Frequent sneezing with itching in ears. - Prolonged migraine. - One-sided headache. - Headaches in morning with flickering before eyes, better cold water. - Pain in left temple. - Brain as if wrapped up in a cloth. - As if brain wobbled about while walking, menses absent or scanty. - Frequent sneezing with itching in ears. ### Eyes - Disturbance of vision, associated with gastric disturbances. - Dim vision with headache, worse on waking with spots before eyes. - Diplopia. - Flickering of various colors. - Hemiopia. - Sees countless stars. - Fluttering, glittering orblack spots. - Squint, especially connected with menstrual irregularities. - Convergent squint after convulsions, left eye drawn inwards. - Face - Pale, anemic. - Upper lip, as if numb or indurated. ### Ears - Itching in the ears with increased wax. - Drawing in the ears. - Diminution of hearing, as if the ears were stopped. ### Mouth - Taste lost or salty, which is communicated to all food. - Saliva salty. - Tongue loaded with a white coating. - Fine stitches on the surface of the tongue. - Burning on the tip of the tongue. - Dryness of the lips, without thirst. - Nose - Fluent coryza, with sneezing. - Sneezing with itching in the ear. - Loss of smell. ### Chest - Pressure on the heart, as from congestion of blood. - Sensible palpita tions of the heart, stitches in the region of the heart. - Frequent palpitations from suppressed menses. - Kidneys - Frequent desire to urinate with abundant emission of whitish urine. - Shootings in the urethra, followed by a sudden discharge of a dark red urine. - Urine profuse, watery and frequent. - Scraping and dryness in the pharynx, causing a suffocative cough. - Coughing without waking. ### Stomach & Abdomen - Satiety after a few mouthfuls, loathing and nausea from the least food afterwards. - Nausea felt in throat. - Salty taste, hiccough-like eructation, worse fat food. - Hiccough, worse pregnancy, with yawning. - Vomiting of pregnancy. - Temperature - Attacks of chilliness in the morning or evening. - During the evening, chill and great sensitiveness to cold air or to being uncovered. - Chilly all over, not better by covers. - Febrile shivering and cold, followed by heat. - Offensive sweat. - Throat - When reading aloud the voice is weak. - The tonsils and palate are shriveled and white. - Dryness in the throat. - Burn ing and scraping in throat. - Sensation of painful constriction in the throat. - Nausea in throat. - Fullness and pressure. - Uneasi ness in the abdomen with nausea. - Painful on the slightest touch. - Sudden attacks of griping, with pinching. - Borborygmi in the abdomen, immediately after a meal. - Run ning in bowels as if something alive. - Desire for lemonade, sardines, ined ible things. - Aversion to bread, butter, fat, beer. - Disgust for meat, especially pork. - Loss of appetite after taking beef tea or a cup of tea. - No thirst all day. ### Urinary & Genital - Prepuce and corona glandis feel sore after slight rubbing. - Stitches and pressure in prostate with urging to stool and urination. - Menses changeable, profuse, black, membranous, clotted too early, with labor -like pains from back to pubes. - The flow is less when moving about. - Dysmenorrhea. - Menstrual irregularities with megrim and blindness or fiery spots before eyes. - Suppression of menses after excessive dancing or being over heated. - Leucorrhea with retarded or scanty menses. - Hiccough during pregnancy. - Post-partum hemorrhage with colicky bearing-down pains with relief after gush of blood. ### Extremities - Pains in parts where bones lie near the surface. - Pa ins in periosteum. - Shooting pains in the loins. - Weakness of knees. - Burning, sore heels, better walking, worse sitting, standing. - Chilblains. - Cramp-like slow contractions of the right thumb and index finger, they have to be extended by force. - Writer's spasm s. ### Neck & Back - Excoriation in the nape of the neck. - Aching, with paralytic weakness, or traction in the nape of the neck and in the neck. - Dull stitches in the region of the kidney, worse when drawing a long breath. - Breasts - Air seems to stream from the nipples. - Milk in virgin breast or nonpregnant women. - Swelling of breast with milky secretion after menses. - Causations - Ill effects of inward grief and terror of conscience. - Constitutions - Suited to the blonde leuco-phlegmatic subjects with chlorotic conditions, disinclined for labor and easily fatigued. - Special senses enfeebled or their functions suspended. ### Skin - Gnawing itching in several parts of the skin. - Itching, in the evening in bed. - Acne in young women. - Pruritus better scratching and appearance of menses, worse at night in bed. ### Sleep - Great inclination to lie down, and to sleep. - Nightmares when falling to sleep. - Unrefreshing sleep, with terrible, frightful, lascivious dreams.