# Spigelia Anthelmia ## Remedy Classification - **Type:** Herbal Remedy - **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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations) 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 intellectual labor. - Confu sion on stooping. - Sadness and discourage ment. - Stammering, repeats f irst syllable three or four times. - Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single object. - Agitation and anxiety, with restlessness. - Anxiety about future. - Restless and anxious. - So nervous he can’t control himself, feels as if he must run. - Anxiety on seeing any one move quickly, on breathing deeply. - Afraid ofsharp, pointed things, pins, needles (Sil., Apis.). - Delusions about pins. - Excitement after sadness. - Irritability during chill. - Mental irritability. - Easily offended. - Very restless and anxious. - Cannot tolerate thinking of pain. - Can become suicidal because the pain is too severe. - Gloomy, suicidal mood. - Desires death during chill. - Great dejection in evening, he could have killed himself. - Timidity. - Mental exertion difficult. - Weakness of memory. - Absence of ideas. - Difficulty of thinking. - Unfit for intellectual labor. - Confu sion on stooping. - Sadness and discourage ment. - Stammering, repeats f irst syllable three or four times. - Sits as if lost in thought, stares at a single object. - Agitation and anxiety, with restlessness. - Anxiety about future. - Restless and anxious. - So nervous he can’t control himself, feels as if he must run. - Anxiety on seeing any one move quickly, on breathing deeply. - Afraid ofsharp, pointed things, pins, needles (Sil., Apis.). - Delusions about pins. - Excitement after sadness. - Irritability during chill. - Mental irritability. - Easily offended. - Very restless and anxious. - Cannot tolerate thinking of pain. - Can become suicidal because the pain is too severe. - Gloomy, suicidal mood. - Desires death during chill. - Great dejection in evening, 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 head. - Vertigo worse looking down, must look straight ahead, worse standing, walking. - Vertigo, hearing exalted. - COMMENTS - Hahnemann said Spig. - has the peculiarity that the primary action of a single unrepeated dose usually increases somewhat daily during the first seven to ten days. - Experiments should be conducted with caution, seeing that 60, 80 to 100 drops of the tincture produce violent effects even in robust persons. - Keynote violence. - More left-sided than right, but by no means exclusively leftsided. - Primarily affects the head, eyes, face, teeth and heart. - Sensitivity to cold, wet and stormy weather. - Produces intense pains in all parts. - Hypersensitive to all pain. - Burning, jerking, tearing, pressing and stitching pains, radiate and extend to other parts. - Pains are largely out -pressing and proceed from within outward and below upward. - Pains are worse by noise, jar, movement, change of weather, especially stormy weather. - The pains were worse night and morning and in damp weather. - Sensitive to pain remedies (Cham., Nux -v., Ign., Hep.). - Darting and aching pains in head, nose and eyes and similar pains about the heart with slow, irregular action, but no murmur. - Sudden pains at bottom of back. - The body is painfully sensitive to touch. - Pain feels like shiver in the body, eye or face. - The part touched feels chilly. - Touch sends a shudder through t he whole frame. - Pain radiates from a spot, not in a straight line. - Darting pain. - Pain will transfix (Bry.). - Neuralgia, especially facial neuralgias. - Pains over the left eye or the left side of the face, trigeminal neuralgias. - Neuralgias with burning sensat ions or electric -like sensa tions. - Intercostal neuralgias (Ran -b.). - Often with neuralgia, their whole left face consists of tearing pain as if someone is cutting their face or tearing the skin off their face. - Neuralgias and inflammation of the eye, amaurotic conditions, and glaucoma. - Exophthalmic goiter. - Intolerable pressive pains, worse on motion. - Stabbing pains through eye backwards into brain. - Uveitis. - Ciliary neuralgia or affection to the optic nerve with cutting, stabbing pain, the eye becomes inflamed and watery. - Sensation as if eye would burst. - Deep pain in eye socket. - Dilated pupils, can see sparks and rays of light. - Severe photophobia, especially with headache, they want to be in the dark with a hand covering their left side and making no noise and staying from noise. - Migraine, from occiput, settling in or over left eye (Sang, starts at the occiput and settles in the right eye; Sil. - and Gels, are from occiput to forehead.). - Occiput feels numb and stiff. - Heart attack, aching pain. - Acute heart attacks with sharp, stabbing, burning pains down the left arm (Lat -m.), or it feels as if a hot, red, burning knife is stuck into the heart and turned. - The heart feels as if squeezed or compressed, sense of suffocation. - Palpitation as if the whole chest will shake. - Violent palpitation, can hear or see the heart beating. - Irregular heartbeat. - Left-sided angina. - Suffocative attacks, can become an guished, think they are going to die. - Chest pain, worse during deep breathing (Bry.). - The movement of the rib cage aggravates. - Stitching pains synchronous with the pulse. - Heart disorders from rheumatism. - Rheumatism. - Abdominal ailments with worms. - Masses of lumbrici have been expelled and also threadworms. - Itching of anus and nose, colic and borborygmus. - Fetid breath and fetid flatus. - In one prover, the accustomed evening smoke caused violent toothache. - Clarke cured a case of cardiac neuralgia caused by tobacco. - He saw cardiac murmurs appearing in acute rheumatism disappear under Spig. - Hochecker related the case of Miss O., 27, who was blonde, tall, and robust, and had neuralgia for several weeks without traceable cause. - Pains came suddenly, twitching and tearing of left side of face, now in ear, then in lower jaw, particularly worse by mastication. - Whenever the pains were about to commence a diarrhea set in. - A single powder of Spig. - 6c cured. - Hochecker also cured with Spig. - 3c, 6c, 10c and 20c a case of tic douloureux of the right side that had lasted fifteen months. - In this case, each lower potency, after first relieving, caused an aggravation. - So the potencies were successively raised. - Spig. - 20c completed the cure. - This patient had dark hair and dark complexion. - She attributed her trouble to taking cold in a draft when heated by dancing. - A patient Clarke successfully tr eated for a serious heart affection with Spig. - 3c said that under the treatment he had lost a pain in the right knee that he had for eighteen months and which he had not mentioned at first. - The pain was as if dislocated, unable to rise from kneeling, could not find an easy position often for hours at night. - Clarke found it especially useful in heart cases where constipation has been a trouble some complication. - Hering gave this case, “Helminthiasis: dilated pupils, strabismus, putrid smell from mouth, itchi ng of nose, griping pain in belly, throat inflamed, swallows often, pale redness in throat and swelling of mucus membrane, palpitation.” Meninger had a severe case of nausea during pregnancy that he cured with Spig. - The only leading symptom in the case was that she was afraid of pointed things and asked her husband to take away a fork, crochet - needle, 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 (Onos.). - Semi-lateral involving left eye, pain violent , throbbing, worse making afalse step. - Pain as if a band around head (Carb-ac., Cact., Gels.). - Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping, making a false step, opening mouth. - Supra-orbital neuralgia. - Feels too large. - Migraines. - Awn from beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes (Onos.). - Semi-lateral involving left eye, pain violent , throbbing, worse making afalse step. - Pain as if a band around head (Carb-ac., Cact., Gels.). - Pain from left occiput to over left eye, worse stooping, making a false step, opening mouth. - Supra-orbital neuralgia. ### Eyes - Pupils dilated. - Rheumatic ophthalmia. - Feel too large, pressive pain on turning the eyes. - Severe pain in and around the eyes, extending deep into socket, worse thinking of them. - Ciliary neuralgia, neuritis. - As if needles were thrust in. - Profuse lachrymation, from affected side, tears acrid. - Eyes, red, sore, drawing ache. - Yellow rings about the eyes. - Difficulty in raising the eyelids with painful sensation of stiffness. - Evertedeyelids. - Inclination to wink. - Difficult to fit glasses, no settled focus, no fixed vision, latent errors of vision. - Pricking in lids. - 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 until sunset, drinking tea, suddenly going and coming. ### Mouth - Foul odor from mou th. - Offensive taste. - Tongue, coated yellow or white, cracked, with burning or stitching pain. - Tongue fissured, painful. - Opening mouth aggravates headache. - Nose - Tickling and itching of nose. - Forepart of nose always dry. - Chronic catarrh with post-nasal drip of bland mucus. - 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 from 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 of a worm rising in throat. - Nausea when fasting. - Teeth - Tearing pains, worse after eating, cold, and when thinking of it. - Toothache with facial pain, better by warmth or the warmth of the bed. - Nerve toothache. - Toothache, worse cold drinks (Mag-p., better warm drinks.), better by smoking tobacco. - Temperature - Chilliness on the slightest motion. - Cold, offensive sweat on upper part of the body, on hands. - Heat, flushes at night in back. - Abdomen hard and painfully tight. - Contact and pressu re of clothes is unbearable. - Colic with pinching pains in the umbilical region. - Expulsion of fetid flatus. - Ravenous hunger. - Anorexia with violent thirst. - Bulimia, sometimes with nausea and thirst. - Putrid, fetid taste. - 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. - The 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. - Causations - Concussions. - Worms, ascarides and lumbrici. - Sunlight. - Tobacco. ### Skin - Pale, wrinkled skin of body. - Painful sensibility when touched. - Painful glandu lar swellings. - Red pimples with 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 tightly bound. - As if electric sparks in temples. - Brain as if loose. - As if eye would be pushed out of head. - As if hairs or feathers on lashes. - Face feels as if it had been scorched. - As if heart compressed or squeezed with a hand. - As if everything in chest were too short, loose and wobbling about. - As if something tearing in chest.