# Sabadilla (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Cevadilla Seed
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Sabadilla is renowned for the treatment of persistent sneezes .
Sneezing may occur in the absence of  a nasal cold.  Some people are
allergic to grass  and pollen and contract a violent type of sneezing.
After the sneezing is over, the nos e does not run, showing that the
cause is not a nasal cold but simply the irritation inside the nose.
Some homoeopaths use Sabadilla in  a very low potency.  However I
have found it useful in 30 potency.  The Sabadilla patient is very
sensitive to cold, and starts to shiv er even when it is not very cold
outside.  Every cold object aggravates the symptoms.  Most of the
symptoms of Sabadilla resemble those of Lachesis, such as the pain
shifting from the left to the right and the body feeling very cold.

Lachesis itself is the topmost remedy for hay fever, especially in the
spring season.  Sabadilla is also most commonly employed in the
spring season (flowering season).  Some people who have an allergy
to the scent of flowers can benefit from Sabadilla.  However, when the
sneezing is  due to allergy in the autumn , it will respond better to
Allium Cepa.  Lachesis is the chronic of Sabadilla, and Alumina that
of Allium Cepa.  One must remember to use a fast acting remedy for
the treatment of a sudden acute illness.  When the acute stage has been
brought under control, then the long-acting remedies can be used.  If a
patient exhibits the symptoms of Sa badilla, he must be treated with
Sabadilla.  Once the patient becomes apparently cured, Lachesis 1000
(the chronic of Sabadilla) must be given without waiting for the next
course of the illness.  Lachesis 1000 should then be repeated in fifteen
days.  Thus the patient can be perm anently cured.  In case Sabadilla
and other quick remedies similar to it, do not offer initial relief, then
Lachesis may be used.  In some patients, it offers rapid relief.  In other
words, Lachesis is not only used as a chronic remedy, it may
occasionally also be used as a quick remedy.  At times, just one dose
of Lachesis may stop the sneezi ng immediately.  Sneezing is a
common symptom in different remedies , so it is important to take a
note of other symptoms as well. Mo stly, all of the above remedies
(Sabadilla, Lachesis, Allium Ce pa) seem to work and do not
disappoint the treating physician.

Sabadilla itself has the capability of treat certain chronic illnesses, like
chronic nasal catarrh blocking the nasal passages.

It is very strange that some Sabadilla patients believe that a certain
part of their body is extr aordinarily large compar ed to the others.  I
have also seen such patients, wh o said that their face was badly
swollen, while actually, this was not the case.  This symptom is
typical of Sabadilla.  Based on this symptom, if the patient is treated
with Sabadilla, then his other sy mptoms may also be cured.  I
remember one such woman patient, d eclared untreatable according to
doctors.  She insisted that one of her cheeks was badly swollen.  When
treated with Sabadilla, her other symptoms also disappeared by God’s
grace.  When an idea gets riveted in the mind, it helps in identification
of the disease and the appropriate remedy.  A Sabadilla patient comes
to believe that his ribs or legs have become bent or his limbs are
wasting; he just cannot forget about it.

The presence of certain strange id eas and superstitions helps in
arriving at the proper diagnosis rather easily.  In Thuja, the patient
believes that he is made of glass  and naturally brittle.  It is said that
one such patient used to walk with utmost care, lest he fell down and
broke.  He was taken to a psychologist.  To make the patient believe
that his idea was false, the psyc hologist slapped him on his face,
assuming that he would realise his thinking was wrong.  However, the
patient fell down and died on the spot.   God knows best if this story is
true or false.  If it is true, then  the patient must have been a perfect
patient of Thuja!

In hay fever, there is a constant irritation inside the throat.  The
presence of worms in side the intestines  produces irritation over or
inside the nose, provoking sneezin g.  No wonder Sabadilla is the
useful treatment for intestinal worms. Although Dr. Boericke though
did not mention this effect in the chapter on Sabadilla he has
mentioned it in his repertory und er the heading of remedies for
worms. Sabadilla seems to be deadly to worms of the intestines .
Persistent itching at the nose, arou nd the lips or at the palate area
indicates the presence of worms in the intestines.  The projection of
the intestinal conditions outwards on the skin is only natural.  For
example, a stomach upset may show up as blisters in the mouth.
Intestinal worms and nasal catarrh ca n be cured with just one remedy
i.e. Sabadilla.  Stannum is anothe r good remedy agains t the intestinal
worms, which simply melt away under its effect. The Sabadilla itch is
mostly at the palate.  Wyethia causes a similar pain at the palate area
instead of itching.  If the pain at the palate becomes shifted to the back
of the throat, provoking a troublesome cough, then Nux Vomica is
better.  In regard to nasal catarrh  Sabadilla behaves like Arsenic,
except for the absence of a burning sensation.

There are conditions related to ce rtain homoeopathic remedies, in
which the patient feels very hungry wh ile ill.  In Sabadilla also, the
patient feels very hungry in between sneezing.

In Sabadilla, the patient suffers from dry cough, bellyache  and
difficulty in breathing.  He does not feel thirst y at all.  The Stomach
feels empty and there is a craving fo r sweets.  The patient feels better
on eating hot food, while cold drinks aggravate the symptoms.  There
is a feeling of heat, burning and so mething creeping on the skin.  The
skin becomes extremely dry and begi ns to split, especially under the
toes.  Chronic infection around the toenails  is yet another symptom
of Sabadilla.

The patient has a feeling of something being stuck in the throat ,
which he keeps trying to swallow.  Th is is a chronic type of complaint
which becomes worse in the cold.  The tongue feels as though it is
burning.

In Sabadilla, the children tend to suffer from diarrhoea.  The
abdomen feels as if it is being cut with a knife.  Periods are delayed in
women, and there is stabbing sensa tion in the ovaries.  The uterus
tends to sag downwards, as in many other homoeopathic remedies.

Adjuvant: Sepia
Antidotes: Pulsatilla, Lycopodium, Conium, Lachesis
Potency: 30

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