📖 Cyclamen Europaeum (HMT) Introduction

Cyclamen Europaeum is prepared from the root of a plant famous for the bizarre stories surrounding it. Cyclamen is the remedy full of conf licting qualities. Its patient does not want to move at all, ev en though movement relieves his symptoms. The patient is afraid of going into the open although the open air relieves his symptoms, especially those of cold and cough. His desire not to move or walk around is based on the weakness of his body. Associated with this reme dy are the symptoms of severe diarrhoea and vomiting, severe stomach upset, and a salty taste in the mouth. In women, the menstr uation becomes irregular. Periods become more frequent, copious in amount and the blood is black and clotted. With movement, the bleedin g becomes less. All these are signs of Cyclamen. Cyclamen is very important in the treatment of progressive anaemia resulting fr om excessive menstrual bleeding. Both sexes can have various kinds of disorders of the urinary system and of sexual weakness. The Cyclamen patient is very restless at night. He feels weak on walking, although, walking relieves hi s aches and pains to some extent. In a patient of Cyclamen, the mental state fluctuates. Out of sudden happiness, he may become delirious or then feel tired and down. His mind is empty. He does not even want to speak. He is irritable and hates to do anything. A female Cyclamen patient feels lonely and presumes that everybody is talking ill of her. A number of young girls have the same feeling. I have tried Sulphur and Stramonium to treat such girls, but did not find any obvious beneficial effects. Pe rhaps, Cyclamen could have been useful. In Cyclamen, the headache is very severe. It f eels as if the head is going to explode. It starts in th e morning. The patient sees stars before the eyes. The eyesight becomes blurred. A peculiar type of eye squint, in which the eyeballs turn inwards, is very amenable to treatment with Cyclamen. The eyes feel warm. There is double vision (diplopia). At times, the eye conditions can be secondary to the stomach upset. The pupils become dila ted. Half of the field of vision is lost (hemianopia) and spots of di fferent colours appear before the eyes. In Cyclamen the right ear hurts , feeling drawn in. Thundering noises are heard in the ears so the hearing is also affected. In Cyclamen, there is a feeling of burning, dryness and scraping in the throat. The patient does not usually feel thirsty, but during a fever, especially in the evening, he feels very thirsty. The stomach symptoms of Cyclamen are comparable to those of Pulsatilla. The patient hates fatt y food. His stomach feels hot and burns and is much worse after drin king coffee. A typical symptom of Cyclamen is that every time the patient drinks coffee, he will have diarrhoea. The hiccuping associated with stomach upset is also a characteristic of Cyclamen. Cyclamen is similar to Gelsemium regarding the feeling of the dryness of the mouth, lack of thirst and excessive urination . Usually, the patient also sweats much less, however, while sick, he sweats a lot. The quantity of the urine is much increased . The urine is colour less like water and passed frequently. The phlegm in a patient of Cyclamen is whitish. It means that the invasion by the bacteria has not been severe and the obvious infection has not been established. In Cy clamen, the patient experiences a suffocating cough. The superficial bones hurt. There is severe cramping of the right thumb and the index finger , which becomes worse on writing. The heel of the foot thro bs like an abscess . Sometimes this kind of pain may be associated with the formation of bone spurs which need needing prolonged treatment as a result of which, the excessive outgrowth of the bone may stop. Once these spurs develop to a significant size, surgery is indicated. The remedies implied to relieve this kind of heel pain are Arnica, Ledum, Ruta, Calcarea Flour, Rhus Tox, as well as Calcarea Carb. In Cyclamen, scratching relieves th e itching. The itchiness (pruritis) is relieved at the onset of menstruation. Potency 30 to 200