{"id":16396,"remedy_name":"Spigelia Anthelmia","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Emotional Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Source: Derived from the whole plant of  Spigelia anthelmia , commonly known as pink root or. worm grass, a flowering plant in the Loganiaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through. trituration and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in. accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, cardiovascular, and. psychological  disorders,  particularly  those  involving  neuralgic  pains,  heart  palpitations,  and. anxiety.  It  is  noted  for  symptoms  such  as  sharp,  stabbing  pains,  left-sided  complaints,  and. aggravation from motion, often worsened by motion, touch, or cold, and ameliorated by rest,. warmth, or lying on the right side. Modern Context : Indicated for  neurological conditions  (e.g., trigeminal neuralgia, migraine),. cardiovascular conditions  (e.g.,  angina  pectoris,  palpitations),  psychological  conditions (e.g.,. generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder), and ocular conditions (e.g., glaucoma, eye pain). It. suits  patients  with  acute  or  chronic  symptoms  characterized  by  neuralgic  pains,  heart. palpitations,  anxiety,  left-sided  symptoms,  or  motion  sensitivity,  typically  exacerbated  by. motion, touch, cold, or stress, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, nervous constitutions. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with neurological or cardiovascular conditions, often. presenting with symptoms like stabbing facial pain or irregular heartbeats, commonly observed in. patients with trigeminal neuralgia, angina pectoris, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by. motion, cold, or emotional stress.","modalities":"Worse from: Motion, touch, cold (weather, air, drinks), noise, light, morning, stress, lying. on the left side, emotional stress, deep breathing, crowds, tobacco smoke, jarring.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Mental exertion difficult. Weakness of memory. Absence of ideas. Difficulty of thinking. Unfit for \nintellectual labor. Confu sion on stooping. Sadness and discourage ment. Stammering, repeats f irst syllable \nthree or four times. Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single object. \nAgitation and anxiety,  with restlessness. Anxiety about future. Restless and anxious. So nervous he can\u2019t \ncontrol himself, feels as if he must run. Anxiety on seeing any one move quickly, on breathing deeply. Afraid \nofsharp, pointed things, pins, needles  (Sil., Apis.). Delusions about pins.  Excitement after sadness. \nIrritability during chill. \nMental irritability. Easily offended. Very restless and anxious. Cannot tolerate thinking of pain. Can become \nsuicidal because the pain is too severe. Gloomy, suicidal mood. Desires death during chill. Great dejection in \nevening, he could have killed himself. Timidity. Mental exertion difficult. Weakness of memory. Absence of ideas. Difficulty of thinking. Unfit for \nintellectual labor. Confu sion on stooping. Sadness and discourage ment. Stammering, repeats f irst syllable \nthree or four times. Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single object. \nAgitation and anxiety,  with restlessness. Anxiety about future. Restless and anxious. So nervous he can\u2019t \ncontrol himself, feels as if he must run. Anxiety on seeing any one move quickly, on breathing deeply. Afraid \nofsharp, pointed things, pins, needles  (Sil., Apis.). Delusions about pins.  Excitement after sadness. \nIrritability during chill. \nMental irritability. Easily offended. Very restless and anxious. Cannot tolerate thinking of pain. Can become \nsuicidal because the pain is too severe. Gloomy, suicidal mood. Desires death during chill. Great dejection in \nevening, he could have killed himself. Timidity.","Vertigo":"Vertigo on stooping with heat of head. Vertigo as if they are drunk. Vertigo, the feet as if higher than \nhead. Vertigo worse looking down, must look straight ahead, worse standing, walking. Vertigo, hearing exalted. \nCOMMENTS - Hahnemann said Spig. has the peculiarity that the primary action of a single unrepeated dose \nusually increases somewhat daily during the first seven to ten days. Experiments should be conducted with \n \n \ncaution, seeing that 60, 80 to 100 drops of \nthe tincture produce violent effects even in robust persons. \nKeynote violence. More left-sided than right, but by no means exclusively leftsided. Primarily affects the head, \neyes, face, teeth and heart. Sensitivity to cold, wet and stormy weather. \nProduces intense pains in all parts. Hypersensitive to all pain. Burning, jerking, tearing, pressing and stitching \npains, radiate and extend to other parts. Pains are largely out -pressing and proceed from within outward and \nbelow upward. Pains are worse by noise, jar, movement, change of weather, especially stormy weather. The \npains were worse night and morning and in damp weather. Sensitive to pain remedies (Cham., Nux -v., Ign., \nHep.). \nDarting and aching pains in head, nose and eyes and similar pains about the heart with slow, irregular action, \nbut no murmur. Sudden pains at bottom of back. The body is painfully sensitive to touch. Pain feels like shiver \nin the body, eye or face. The part touched feels chilly. Touch sends a shudder through t he whole frame. Pain \nradiates from a spot, not in a straight line. Darting pain. Pain will transfix (Bry.).  \nNeuralgia, especially facial neuralgias. Pains over the left eye or the left side of the face, trigeminal neuralgias. \nNeuralgias with burning sensat ions or electric -like sensa tions. Intercostal neuralgias (Ran -b.). Often with \nneuralgia, their whole left face consists of tearing pain as if someone is cutting their face or tearing the skin off \ntheir face. \nNeuralgias and inflammation of the eye, amaurotic conditions, and glaucoma. Exophthalmic goiter. Intolerable \npressive pains, worse on motion. Stabbing pains through eye backwards into brain. Uveitis. Ciliary neuralgia \nor affection to the optic nerve with cutting, stabbing pain, the eye becomes inflamed and watery. Sensation as \nif eye would burst. Deep pain in eye socket. \nDilated pupils, can see sparks and rays of light. Severe photophobia, especially with headache, they want to \nbe in the dark with a hand covering their left side and making no noise and staying from noise. \nMigraine, from occiput, settling in or over left eye (Sang, starts at the occiput and settles in the right eye; Sil. \nand Gels, are from occiput to forehead.). Occiput feels numb and stiff.  \nHeart attack, aching pain. Acute heart attacks  with sharp, stabbing, burning pains down the left arm (Lat -m.), \nor it feels as if a hot, red, burning knife is stuck into the heart and turned. The heart feels as if squeezed or \ncompressed, sense of suffocation. Palpitation as if the whole chest will shake. Violent palpitation, can hear or \nsee the heart beating. Irregular heartbeat. Left-sided angina. \nSuffocative attacks, can become an guished, think they are going to die. Chest pain, worse during deep \nbreathing (Bry.). The movement of the rib cage aggravates. Stitching pains synchronous with the pulse. Heart \ndisorders from rheumatism. Rheumatism. \nAbdominal ailments with worms. Masses of lumbrici have been expelled and also threadworms. Itching of anus \nand nose, colic and borborygmus. Fetid breath and fetid flatus. \nIn one prover, the accustomed evening smoke caused violent toothache. Clarke cured a case of cardiac \nneuralgia caused by tobacco. He saw cardiac murmurs appearing in acute rheumatism disappear under Spig. \nHochecker related the case of Miss  O., 27, who was blonde, tall, and robust, and had neuralgia for several \nweeks without traceable cause. Pains came suddenly, twitching and tearing of left side of face, now in ear, \nthen in lower jaw, particularly worse by mastication. Whenever the pains were about to commence a diarrhea \nset in. A single powder of Spig. 6c cured. \nHochecker also cured with Spig. 3c, 6c, 10c and 20c a case of tic douloureux of the right side that had lasted \nfifteen months. In this case, each lower potency, after first relieving, caused an aggravation. So the potencies \nwere successively raised. Spig. 20c completed the cure. This patient had dark hair and dark complexion. She \nattributed her trouble to taking cold in a draft when heated by dancing.  \nA patient Clarke successfully tr eated for a serious heart affection with Spig. 3c said that under the treatment \nhe had lost a pain in the right knee that he had for eighteen months and which he had not mentioned at first. \nThe pain was as if dislocated, unable to rise from kneeling, could  not find an easy position often for hours at \nnight. \nClarke found it especially useful in heart cases where constipation has been a trouble some complication. \nHering gave this case, \u201cHelminthiasis: dilated pupils, strabismus, putrid smell from mouth, itchi ng of nose, \ngriping pain in belly, throat inflamed, swallows often, pale redness in throat and swelling of mucus membrane, \npalpitation.\u201d \nMeninger had a severe case of nausea during pregnancy that he cured with Spig. The only leading symptom \nin the case was  that she was afraid of pointed things and asked her husband to take away a fork, crochet -\nneedle, etc. Sil. has a somewhat similar symptom, but the Sil. patient hunts for pins although afraid of them.","Head":"Feels too large. Migraines. Awn from beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes  \n(Onos.). Semi-lateral involving left eye, pain violent , throbbing, worse making afalse step. Pain as if a band \naround head (Carb-ac., Cact., Gels.). Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping, making a false \nstep, opening mouth. Supra-orbital neuralgia. Feels too large. Migraines. Awn from beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes  \n(Onos.). Semi-lateral involving left eye, pain violent , throbbing, worse making afalse step. Pain as if a band \naround head (Carb-ac., Cact., Gels.). Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping, making a false \nstep, opening mouth. Supra-orbital neuralgia.","Eyes":"Pupils dilated. Rheumatic ophthalmia. Feel too large, pressive pain on turning the eyes. Severe pain \n \n \nin and around the eyes,  extending deep into socket, worse thinking of them. Ciliary neuralgia, neuritis. As \nif needles were thrust in. Profuse lachrymation, from affected side, tears acrid. Eyes, red, sore, drawing ache. \nYellow rings about the eyes. Difficulty in raising the eyelids with painful sensation of stiffness. Evertedeyelids. \nInclination to wink. Difficult to fit glasses, no settled focus, no fixed vision, latent errors of vision. Pricking in \nlids. Squints with worms. Photophobia.","Ears":"Roaring, buzzing and pulsation in ears. Stoppage of ears. Periodical deaf ness, ears feel as if stuffed.","Face":"Prosopalgia involving eye, zygoma, cheek, teeth, temples. Worse from touch, stooping, from morning \nuntil sunset, drinking tea, suddenly going and coming.","Mouth":"Foul odor from mou th. Offensive taste. Tongue, coated yellow or white, cracked, with burning or \nstitching pain. Tongue fissured, painful. Opening mouth aggravates headache.  \nNose - Tickling and itching of nose. Forepart of nose always dry. Chronic catarrh with post-nasal drip of bland \nmucus. Discharge through posterior sinuses. Flow of water during prosopalgia.","Throat":"Sore throat with lancinations and swelling in palate. Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most \nfrom posterior sinuses. Swollen cervical glands.","Chest":"Palpitations  or  irregular  heartbeats,  with  a  sensation  of  fluttering  or  oppression,. resembling palpitations, worse with motion, cold, stress, or lying on the left side,. often with anxiety or dyspnea. Chest pain or angina-like symptoms, with a tendency to sharp or constrictive pain,. resembling angina pectoris, aggravated by motion, cold, or emotional stress, often. left-sided or radiating to the arm. Sensation of heart heaviness or fullness, with a tendency to discomfort or pressure,. resembling  pericarditis,  worse  with  motion,  deep  breathing,  or  cold,  often  with. fatigue or faintness. Tendency to cardiovascular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or stressed. states. Psychological:. Anxiety or fearfulness, with a sensation of dread or impending doom, resembling. generalized anxiety disorder, worse with motion, noise, stress, or night, often with. palpitations or trembling. Panic attacks or sudden nervousness, with a tendency to rapid onset or intensity,. resembling panic disorder, aggravated by motion, crowds, or emotional stress, often. with chest tightness or sweating. Mental  restlessness  or  irritability,  with  a  sensation  of  agitation  or  sensitivity,. resembling adjustment disorder, worse with motion, cold, or criticism, often with. insomnia or difficulty concentrating. Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or stressed. states. Ocular:. Eye pain or pressure, with a sensation of stabbing or fullness, resembling glaucoma,. worse  with  motion,  light,  cold,  or  reading,  often  left-sided,  with  redness  or. photophobia. Spigelia (Spigelia Anthelmia) 1811. Eye strain or burning, with a tendency to aching or soreness, resembling asthenopia,. aggravated by motion, prolonged visual work, or cold, often with lachrymation or. blurred vision. Neuralgic pain around the eyes, with a sensation of piercing or twitching, resembling. orbital neuralgia, worse with motion, touch, or cold, often with eyelid spasms or. sensitivity. Tendency to ocular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or light-exposed. states.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Pressure in stomach. Accumulation of mucus in the stomach. Sour risings. Nausea with sensation \nof a worm rising in throat. Nausea when fasting. \nTeeth - Tearing pains, worse after eating, cold, and when thinking of it. Toothache with facial pain, better by \nwarmth or the warmth of the bed. Nerve toothache. Toothache, worse cold drinks (Mag-p., better warm drinks.), \nbetter by smoking tobacco. \nTemperature - Chilliness on the slightest motion. Cold, offensive sweat on upper part of the body, on hands. \nHeat, flushes at night in back. Abdomen hard and painfully tight. Contact and pressu re of clothes is unbearable. Colic with \npinching pains in the umbilical region. Expulsion of fetid flatus. Ravenous hunger. Anorexia with violent thirst. Bulimia, sometimes with nausea and thirst. Putrid, fetid \ntaste. Aversion to coffee, tobacco smoke and snuff. Craving for hot water which relieves chest pain.","Urinary & Genital":"Discharge of prostatic fluid from the urethra.","Extremities":"Fatigue. Drawing, tearing, twitch ing pains in limbs and joints. Left arm numb. Pulsation in patellae. \nThe limbs are affected mostly when walking.","Neck & Back":"Neck stiff, pains into right temple or pain from left shoulder to neck. Cutting about the left scapula.  \nCausations - Concussions. Worms, ascarides and lumbrici. Sunlight. Tobacco.","Skin":"Pale, wrinkled skin of body. Painful sensibility when touched. Painful glandu lar swellings. Red pimples \nwith pain when touched, as from excoriation.","Generalities":"As if he would fall. As if intoxicated. As if head would burst. As of a band around head, as if head \ntightly bound. As if electric sparks in temples. Brain as if loose. As if eye would be pushed out of head. As if \nhairs or feathers on lashes. Face feels as if it had been scorched. As if heart compressed or squeezed with a \nhand. As if everything in chest were too short, loose and wobbling about. As if something tearing in chest."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}