- Cyclamen has a traditional reputation as a remedy for d isorders of the uterus and appendages.
- Later provings af firmed this reputation.
- Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting, disturbed digestion with very salty saliva.
- Cycl is in many ways similar to Puls., from which it differs mainly in having no relief from open air and in hot having thirstless- ness as so frequent an accompaniment of other conditions.
- Anemic and chlorotic conditions.
- Affec tions of uterus.
- Gastro -intestinal and genito urinary tracts affected inducing secondary anemiaLack of healthy red blood cells or hemoglobinA condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. and various reflexes.
- Cough, at night while asleep without waking, especially in children (Cham., Nit-ac.).
- Sleepiness, morose and lassitude.
- COMMENTS - Debility, torpidity of mind and body.
- Dullness of senses.
- Flickering before the eyes, squint, especially in connection with menstrual irregularities or fevers.
- After convulsions, convergent squ int, lefteye drawn inwards.
- Amblyopia, diplopiaDouble visionThe simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, or diagonally., hemiopia.
- Digestive disturbances.
- Saliva has a salty taste, which is communicated to all food eaten.
- After eating but little, satiety, aversion to food with nausea in palate and thirst.
- Aversion to bread, butter, meat, fat, beer and ordinary food.
- Craving for lemonade, sardines, inedible things.
- Frequent vomiting in morning.
- Prostatic troubles with stitches and pressure, urging to stool and urination.
- Menstruation too early, with some relief of melancholy m ood and heaviness of feet.
- Scanty or suppressed menstruation with headache and vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement..
- During pregnancy, hiccough, loathing and nausea in mouth and throat, complaints after weaning.
- Pressing, drawing or tearing pains at parts where bones lie near surface.
- Chilliness.
- Itching leaving a numb sensation.
- Chilblains, itching and pricking, worse at night in bed.
- Eidherr of Vienna gave the best account of this remedy.
- He noted the more copious menstruation, more frequent, tooearly, with severe abdominal pains.
- A ccompanied with labor -like pains, flow is excessive, black and lumpy.
- Commencement of menses after protracted cessation.
- Eidherr's clinical experience illustrates in a remarkable way Cycl.'s sphere of action.
- In one i nstance a higher potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration. of the same remedy antidoted this effect.
- He found the remedy especially suited to blonde leuco - phlegmatic subjects.
- The “Sleepiness, morose and lassitude.” and also the vertigo noted by Hahnemann, are prominent in many of Eidherr's cases.
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- K., 24, blonde, pale delicate skin, pale lips and gums, had menstruated normally until 22, when she got wet at a picnic just as menstruation was starting.
- It stopped at once and did not reappear until ten months later after vigorous use of all kinds of domestic remedies.
- The per iods were then accompanied by terrible abdominal, labor -like pains, lasting eleven hours.
- Menses recurred every two or four months, always with the pains, starting from sacrum, extending along both sides of abdomen to pelvis.
- They were periodical, every one, two or five minutes during which time there was no flow, the blood appearing after these attacks was somewhat watery.
- Other symptoms included slightly edematous eyelids, pressing pain in the forehead and vertigo frequently changing into syncopeTemporary fainting or loss of consciousnessA sudden, temporary loss of consciousness and muscle strength, caused by a temporary drop in blood flow to the brain..
- Chillin ess of the whole body.
- Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep interspersed with terrible dreams.
- Continued loathing for meat.
- Longing for salt fish.
- After partial relief from Puls., Cycl made a complete cure.
- The ocular symptoms which developed were remarkable.
- The vertigo and headache were untouched by Puls., but quickly subsided under Cycl.
- 15x.
- On their disappearance she saw fiery flames dancing before her eyes, on awak ening at night and in the morning she saw everything double.
- A nd she had the hal lucination as if two persons lay in her bed and that the body of the other overlapped hers by half.
- Cycl was discontinued and in two days her sight was normal.
- Anna F., 20, blonde, menstruated since her tenth year.
- In her seventeenth ye ar she suffered from chlorosis, ever since, menstruation was regular, but lasting only one or two days in a moderate degree.
- Troubled at other times by vertigo and pressing pain in forehead and temples, which attacks were ameliorated by foot baths with ashes.
- Appetite poor, little thirst, stool regular, sleeps too long, always sleepy, dejected mood, morose.
- All movements, as well as speech, were languid, palpitation.
- Puls, made no change, Cycl.
- 3x quickly improved the headache, vertigo and spirits.
- After t hree days, sight became obscured and there was glimmering before eyes.
- A case of hemicrania was cured with Cycl.
- Theresa F., 37., had menstruated spar ingly and irregularly (often at two or three months' intervals).
- For four years suffered from violent hea dache affecting right side of head and face, coming every 8-14 days, spells lasting 12-36 hours.
- During menstruation, the attacks were extra severe.
- Patient was emaciated, skin, gums and lips pale.
- Right eye closed owing to cramps in eyelids.
- When forcibly opened, a stream of hot tears gushed out, otherwise the eye was normal.
- Under Cycl.
- 3c the symptoms dimin ished, but there appeared “glittering sparks before the eyes” and these remained after all symptoms of headache had gone.
- Cycl was given persistently, the periods became regular and rather copious, and the headaches entirely ceased.
- Another case (in a wet -nurse who had just weaned her baby) presented unceasing, violent, stitching pain in temporal region extending to vertex.
- Throbbing temporal arteries .
- Bell, diminished the pain, but vertigo came on Under Cycl.
- 3x, the headache and vertigo disappeared altogether, but the patient com plained of her sight having become so weak that she did not dare to walk alone.
- This passed off when the medicine was dis con- tinued and her headache did not recur.
- Cycl cured aboy of violent squinting.
- Six months before, he had a fall from a table, convulsion followed and after the second attack the squinting came on Am was given and the convulsions did not recur, but the squinting remained.
- Cycl.
- 15x was given and after a few weeks the squint entirely disappeared.
- Wurmb cured a case of squint in a coachman with Cycl.
- Temperature - Attacks of chilliness in the morning or evening.
- During the evening, chill and great sensitiveness to cold air or to being uncovered.
- ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. all over, not better by covers.
- FebrileFeverish or marked by feverRelating to or characterized by an elevated body temperature or fever symptoms. shivering and cold, followed by heat.
- Offensive sweat.
- Throat - When reading aloud the voice is weak.
- The tonsils and palate are shriveled and white.
- Dryness in the throat.
- Burn ing and scraping in throat.
- Sensation of painful constriction in the throat.
- Nausea in throat.
- Fullness and pressure.
- Uneasi ness in the abdomen with nausea.
- Painful on the slightest touch.
- Sudden attacks of griping, with pinching.
- BorborygmiStomach gurgling or rumbling soundsGurgling, rumbling, or splashing noises heard from the abdomen, caused by gas moving through the intestines. in the abdomen, immediately after a meal.
- Run ning in bowels as if something alive.
- Desire for lemonade, sardines, ined ible things.
- Aversion to bread, butter, fat, beer.
- Disgust for meat, especially pork.
- Loss of appetite after taking beef tea or a cup of tea.
- No thirst all day
