# Xanthoxylum Fraxineum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Xan. exerts its influence on nerves, female sexual organs, respiration and left side. Its action 
is on the nervous system and mucus membranes. 
Injury to nerves. Neurasthenia. Pricking sensation, shocks as from electricity. Numbness of left side. Paralysis, 
of single parts. Hemiplegia. Insomnia. Occipital headache. Neuralgic and rheumatic disorders, especially in 
patients of spare habit and nervous, delicate organization. 
Increases mucus secretion of mo uth and stimulates the secretion from all glands with ducts opening in the 
mouth. Poor assimilation, emaciation. Indigestion from over-eating or from too much fluid. 
Painful hemorrhages, after-pains, dysmenorrhea. Sluggish capillary circulation. Mucus membranes smart as 
from pepper. As if floor were soft like wool, on walking. Injury to nerves. 
Grinding, shooting, radiating, sudden pains, neuralgia. Many pains are radiating, some are sudden, arouse 
from sleep and cause the patient to catch her breath. Pains are excruciating, unbearable and are accompanied 
with red, hot face, but the heart pains causes pallor.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from drinking ice-water, vomiting. Better lying down. Headache is better by cold water and 
in open air. Neck pain is better by pressure and by throwing head back. Worse from sleeping, in morning, 4 
a.m. Worse dampness, getting feet wet. Worse suppressed menses. Worse by moving head suddenly.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Nervous, frightened feeling.
- Mental depression.
- Did not care if she lived or died.
- Abdomen - Some 
pain in right side below ribs.
- Griping pain  on waking in morning.
- Colic pain in right iliac region.
- Rumbling with 
soreness on pressure.
- Flatulence.
- Nervous, frightened feeling.
- Mental depression.
- Did not care if she lived or died.
- Abdomen - Some 
pain in right side below ribs.
- Griping pain  on waking in morning.
- Colic pain in right iliac region.
- Rumbling with 
soreness on pressure.
- Flatulence.

### Head
- Feels full.
- Weight and pain on ver tex.
- Pain over eyes, throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in 
forehead, head seems divided, ringing in ears.
- Occipital headache.
- Sick headache with dizziness and 
flatulence.
- Throbbing headache, pain as if top of head would fly off.
- As if head is divided into two parts.
- As of 
a tight band around.
- Kidneys - Urine at night and next morning scanty and high -colored.
- Profuse, light colored urine, nervous 
women.
- Feels full.
- Weight and pain on ver tex.
- Pain over eyes, throbbing pressure over nose, pressure in 
forehead, head seems divided, ringing in ears.
- Occipital headache.
- Sick headache with dizziness and 
flatulence.
- Throbbing headache, pain as if top of head would fly off.
- As if head is divided into two parts.
- As of 
a tight band around.
- Kidneys - Urine at night and next morning scanty and high -colored.
- Profuse, light colored urine, nervous 
women.

### Eyes
- Watering of eyes and nose.
- Lachrymation, pain in lid of right eye.
- Eyes bloodshot with red margins and 
feel as if full of sand.
- Dull, heavy, grinding pain in left eye.
- Ophthalmia.
- Eyes twitched, pupils dilated.
- Vision 
blurred, as if looking through blue lace.
- Objects seem a long way off.

### Ears
- Ringing in ears.
- Loud noise in right ear, as of a valve constantly opening and shutting.
- Dull pain in right 
ear.
- Darting pain under and back or right ear.

### Face
- Hot flushes over face and he ad.
- Face much flushed.
- Pallor even to lips with heart pains.
- Neuralgia of 
lower jaw.
- Pain in right jaw-socket.

### Mouth
- Peppery taste in mouth, fauces and throat.
- Burning and dry feeling in mouth and tongue.
- Ptyalism, 
 
 
tongue coated yel low.
- Tongue seemed to alternately expand and contract.
- Dryness of mouth and fauces.
- Pharyngitis (Wye.).
- Nose - Fluent coryza.
- Right nostril seems filled up, discharge of dry and bloody scales of mucus.
- Discharge of 
mucus from nose with congested feeling, as if it were about to bleed.
- Slight nose -bleed.
- Dryness of both 
nostrils.
- Numbness throughout left side of body, division felt in nose.

### Throat
- Aphonia.
- Hoarseness with husky feeling in throat, obliged to clear throat frequently.
- Throat dry, very 
difficult to talk.
- Peppery taste in mouth and throat.
- Feels hollow.
- Pain and soreness in right side of throat.
- Throat felt as if in a vice.
- COMMENTS - Xan.
- belongs to the Rutaceae and like Ruta, has a vulnerary action, as Clarke discovered in 
the case of Miss X., 28, who injured her right ulnar nerve at the elbow by repeatedly striking it against the edge 
of a bath while washing some articles.
- For two months she had to keep the arm in a sling.
- A few weeks after that the arm was swollen.
- Some eight 
months after the injury Clarke saw her.
- The pain centered in the ulnar nerve where it crosses the inner condyle 
of the humerus, though there was pain above and below as well.
- Clarke gave Ruta 30c, which gave some relief to the pain and relieved a frontal headache to which the patient 
was subject.
- The arm becoming less well, Clarke gave Xan.
- 12c four times a day.
- This made a distinct 
improvement in the arm and also relieved a dysmenorrhea to which Miss X.
- was subject.
- After treatment with 
various potencies of Xan.
- the nerve lost its sensitiveness and the patient could use her arm freely.
- In one of Cullis’ provers, Miss D.
- (there were six provers, three of them women, all took the tincture), the entire 
left half of the body became numb, the left half of the head being s harply divided in sensation from the other 
half.
- These symptoms with the many head pains and fullness in the head, give the correspondence in 
hemiplegia in which Xan.
- has been given with success.
- Two additional provings on women ap pear in C.
- D.
- P.
- In these provings 20 to 100 drop doses of the tincture 
were taken and symptoms of great severity were produced.
- Both provers had severe dysmenorrhea pains with 
increased and anticipating flow.
- The symptoms in each case roused the prover from sleep with pain a nd suffocation, the pain being confined 
to head, heart, throat and pelvis.
- Many of the pains were radiating from above right eye over head from right 
ovary down thigh and in other directions.
- Left -sided numbness was present in one, who also had symptoms 
of levitation and disordered sensation.
- Cullis, who had success in cases of dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, related several cases, including that of 
Miss A., 25, brunette, who had menstrual irregularity since commencement, would go three, four or five months 
and then her sufferings were ex cruciating.
- When she came under treatment had no menses for two months.
- Xan.
- 1c was give, 5 drops thrice daily.
- Menses appeared in three days and were painless.
- Miss B., fair, nervous, had menses suppressed by getting feet wet, being then a weekovertime.Xan.lx,5 drops 
every three hours, brought on menses the next day.
- P.
- C.
- Majumdar cured a case of uterine fibroid with Xan.
- 3x.
- An emaciated, feeble, wrinkled woman, 56, widow, 
had been advised by allopaths to have an operation for tumor.
- Menstruation hadceasedfifteen years before.
- It 
had been profuse and painful and preceded and followed by leucorrhea.
- She had neuralgic pain in right ovarian region, a hard nodular tumor size of a small orange, painful on deep 
pressure.
- Fetid, yellowish white discharge from vagina.
- Nervous, depressed, lazy and sleepy even in daytime.
- Appetite poor, disgust for food.
- Xan.
- 3x was given night and morning.
- In a week the pain was better and discharge less.
- In four weeks 
Majumdar found the patient a changed person.
- The tumor was much softer and reduced by half.
- In six months 
 
 
the tumor had gone and the patient was quite well, Xan.
- having been taken intermittently all the time.

### Chest
- Oppression of chest.
- Constitutions - Suited to women of spare habit, nervous temperament and delicate nerves.
- Neurasthenic 
patients who are thin, emaciated, poor assimilation with insomnia and occipital headache.
- Shortness of breath.
- Constant desire to take a long breath, oppression of chest.
- Dry cough, day and 
night.
- Cough, slight hacking in spells, only in open air.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Dyspepsia from excessive eat ing and drinking.
- Feeling of fullness of pressure in epiga strium, 
fluttering.
- Intense burning and stinging in esophagus with slight nausea.
- Empty belchings with slight taste of 
ingesta.
- Nausea with headache, with sense of oppression at stomach.
- Temperature - Slight chill accompanied by death -like nausea.
- Frequent  chills with pains in limbs, nausea.
- Typhoid fever in stage of collapse.
- Sense of heat all over veins, flashes of heat from the head to foot.
- Very thirsty, drank much at a time.
- Unusually hungry.
- No appetite.
- Anorexia.

### Urinary & Genital
- Menses too early and painful.
- Menses thick, almost black.
- Leucor - rhea at time of menses.
- Leucorrhea with amenorrhea.
- Neuralgic dysmenorrhea with neuralgic headaches, pain in back and down 
legs.
- Ovarian neuralgia with pain in loins and lower abdomen, worse leftside, extending down the thigh, along 
genito-crural nerves.
- After pains (Arn., Cupr., Cham.).

### Extremities
- Numbness of left side, impairment of motion.
- Paralysis of left side following spinal disorders.
- Hemiplegia.
- Left arm numb.
- Neuralgic shooting pain, as from electricity, all over limbs.
- Anterior neural gia 
(Staph.).
- Sciatica, worse hot weather.
- Pain in nape, extending down back.

### Neck & Back
- Very severe pain in cervical and upper sacral region.
- Back of neck numb.
- Dull pain from nape to right 
scapula.
- Causations - Injury to nerves.
- Wetting (getting feet wet).
- Suppression of menses.

### Skin
- Measles, dullness, bewilderment, drowsiness and want of sufficient de velopment of the eruption.
- Old, 
indolent ulcers.

### Sleep
- Continued gaping, drowsiness.
- Hard and unrefreshing, dreams of flying.
- Sleeplessness in 
neurasthenics.
- A dream of suffocation woke her.

### Generalities
- As if top of head would be taken off by flashes of throb -like pain.
- As if bewildered with p ain in 
back of head.
- Feeling of looseness of brain.
- Eyes as if full of sand.
- As if walking on wool.
- As if sunk deep in 
bed.
- As if body expanded.