# Heliotropium Peruvianum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Helio, has been slightly proved. Cooper used this remedy clinically and considered 
hoarseness and “thick voice” a great indication. He cured clergyman's sore throat with it. 
Helio, has an action in uterine displace ment, leucorrhea, backache. There is a bearing down from heavy, 
waterlogged condition of the uterus. , 
Symptoms of pressure and tension were produced in many parts: pressure on the sternum impeding breathing, 
pressure on the head, on mons veneries, pain as if beaten in leg muscles.
COMMENTS - Cooper gave Helio, to a woman who had been advised by several surgeons to have various 
organs either braced up surgically or removed. She described the effect as having made her “feel just as if 
braced up” six hours after taking the dose. 
Helio, is especially indicated if there is also a tendency to loss of voice. It has also cured membranous 
dysmenorrhea.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Head symptoms better on walking in the open air. Other symptoms were worse after resting. 
Worse on inspiration.

## Symptoms by System

### Head
- Headache in forehead like a pressure and drawing pressing pain, better walking in open air.
- Headache in forehead like a pressure and drawing pressing pain, better walking in open air.

### Eyes
- Feeling of tension in left inner canthus extending down into nasal bone.
- As if a swelling were there.
- Eye 
seems drawn together and smaller.

### Throat
- Voice thick, clergyman's sore throat.

### Chest
- Pressure and oppression of external parts of chest, without affecting breathing.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Pressure in pit of stomach, worse on inspiration.
- Epigastric region is sore to touch, most violent 
after eating and in evening.

### Urinary & Genital
- Membranous dysmenorrhea.
- Leucorrhea.
- Pressure on mons veneries only when sitting.
- Uterine 
displacements with backache, especially if subject to loss of voice.

### Extremities
- Pain, as if beaten above ankle, extending up the muscles, even when sitting.
- Itching on tibia, with 
sensations as if there was an eruption.