{"id":16382,"remedy_name":"Scrophularia Nodosa","remedy_type":"Herbal Remedy","alternative_names":[""],"miasm":"Tubercular Miasm","temperament":"Chilly","aggravation_time":"Morning","keynote_indications":"Scroph-n., according to Dr. Cooperof London, has an esp ecial affinity for breast tissue. \nAdenoma and cancer come within its curative range. Enlarged glands.  Hodgkin\u2019s disease. Epithelioma. \nNodosities in the breasts (Scirr.). Breast tumors. \nScrofulous swellings (Cist.). Threatened abscesses that show no sign o f disappearing. Lupoid ulceration. \nTubercular testis. Eczema of the ear. Vaginal itching. Painful hemorrhoids. \nPain in all flexor muscles. Cutting pains in the joints (Rhus -t.), but more intense and longer -lasting, worse by \nrest and i n open air, better i n warm room. Darting pain from knee to ankle joints, which feel stiff. Weakness, \nlanguor, wants to lie down.","modalities":"Better in warm room. Worse \nlying on right side, in morning. Worse pressure, rest, after food. Worse deep breathing, breathing cold air and \nstudying in cold air.","symptoms_by_system":{"Mind":"Despondency, much troubled about the past and very apprehensive about the future. Miserable and \nsluggish feeling in mind when moving about. Despondency, much troubled about the past and very apprehensive about the future. Miserable and \nsluggish feeling in mind when moving about.","Vertigo":"Dizziness, fullness and pressure in vertex. Vertigo in top of head when standing, even with severe \n \n \naching in supra-orbital region. \nCOMMENTS - Scroph-n. was proved by Franz, and  later in America by W. H. Blakeley, who took from 10 to \n60 drops of the tincture several times a day. Blakeley\u2019s  proving showed pain in sigmoid flexure. Both Franz \nand Blakely noted pains in the liver. \nThe most remarkable of Franz\u2019s Scroph-n. symptoms included excessive drowsiness in forenoon, in afternoon, \nand before and after eating. Sensation of a soft body in the gullet. Constriction of the chest. Op pression of \nchest with trembling as after much weeping. \nA sickly, giddy feeling with a sense of weakness and sinking at pit of chest, too weak to speak, along with pain \nfrom forehead to back of head. Most of these symptoms were confirmed by Blakeley.  \nGerard mentioned \u201chard kernels\u201d and painful, swollen hemorrhoids as its indica tions. \nCooper saw Scroph -n., in the form of a poultice, relieve peritonitis affecting the lower abdomen. Colic from \nslight vexation occurred in Franz\u2019s proving. \nCooper gave Scroph -n. to a patient who had been poisoned by an Indian arrow poison which produced \ninflammation and suppurati on of the glands. Scorph -n. relieved a most painful condition of the rectum and \npurulent discharge that had kept up for years afterwards. \nCooper reduced strumous glands with it, cured deafness in a \u201cbull-necked\u201d patient, and cured a case of sycosis \nusing Scroph- n. externally as well as giving it internally. \u2019 \u201cNodosities in the breast\u201d is another indica tion of \nCooper\u2019s.","Head":"On rising, indescribable pain and fullness in head, especially occiput and vertex, causing congestion \nof conjunctive with puffiness, followed by nosebleed. Heaviness and distress in head, as after eating too much. \nPain at exit of rig ht facial nerve from hypo -mastoid foramen, darting to right eye. Headaches above the \neyebrows while walking. Severe headache through temples, appearing every morning, extending to vertex and \nocciput. Severe, sharp pain in vertex, forehead and temples, dul l and throbbing, returning periodically, worse \nresting, worse in open air, worse leaning forward, worse by study. Eczema behind ear. On rising, indescribable pain and fullness in head, especially occiput and vertex, causing congestion \nof conjunctive with puffiness, followed by nosebleed. Heaviness and distress in head, as after eating too much. \nPain at exit of rig ht facial nerve from hypo -mastoid foramen, darting to right eye. Headaches above the \neyebrows while walking. Severe headache through temples, appearing every morning, extending to vertex and \nocciput. Severe, sharp pain in vertex, forehead and temples, dul l and throbbing, returning periodically, worse \nresting, worse in open air, worse leaning forward, worse by study. Eczema behind ear.","Eyes":"Scrofulous keratitis. Sore eyeballs. Severe cutting pains in eyes, unable to move them, passed off with \nprofuse sweat. Distressing photophobia (Con.). Black spots before eyes. On closing th e eyes visions of \nobjects. Pulsating stitches in right eyebrow. Blepharospasm.","Ears":"Inflammation about auricle. Deep ulcerated auricle. Eczema around ear, be hind right ear. Ringing in \nears and sudden loss of hearing. Deafness in bull-necked boys. Deafness before and after menses, improving \nduring the flow.","Face":"Pleasant warmth in cheeks. Recurrent periostitis of lower jaw in a syphilitic.","Mouth":"Bitter taste. Accumulation of sweetish water in several parts of tongue. Sick, sticking taste just above \npit of throat , frequently lasting an hour with sensation as if a soft substance (a plug of mucus) were lodged \nthere. Increased saliva, then dry mouth. Teeth feel loose. Pain in carious teeth, worse upper jaw. Gums bleed \nfreely. \nNose - Dry coryza.","Throat":"Thick, tenacious, offensive mucus in throat in forenoon. Rancid taste in throat with great weakness \nand stiffness in hollows of knees. Irritation of esophagus.","Chest":"Oppression with tremulous move ment as from much weeping. Constricted feeling, which causes \nuneasiness. Cramp like pain transversely across lower chest. Stitches in right chest, about 6th rib with \nshivering. Violent pinching stitches near right last true ribs, while walking during rest, seeming to be in liver. Anguish in pr\u00e9cordia, worse after food. Indescribable sensation in heart, with severe audible \npalpitations. Pulse full, regular. \nKidneys - Pinching and tearing as if in ureter, extending from anterior superior spine of ilium down to pubis. \nIncreased secretion of urine with burning in urethra. Frequent, scanty emission of urine in afternoon. \nBedwetting. Violent dyspnea, oppression of chest with trembling. On turning on either side, violent dyspnea, worse \non right, with cutting in liver on pressure. Asthma in scrofulous patients. Pain about bifurcation of trachea. Pain \nin right lung, on taking a deep inspiration, which causes cough without expectoration. Cutting in upper left lung, \nworse breathing cold air.","Stomach & Abdomen":"Appetite greatly increased at first, later nausea with weakness and oppression at epigastrium. \nFeeling as if he had missed his regular meal. Dyspepsia. \nTemperature - Chilliness for several hours on moving about in cool air, after rising in morning, passing off with \nprofuse sweat, followed by stupor and absence of all symptoms. Body feels dry and hot with burning sensation, \nfollowed by profuse sweat. Eczema around the navel. Peritonitis. Pain in sigmoid flexure. Pain in right hypochondrium, worse \n \n \ndeep inspiration or lying right side. Twisting pinching pain in umbilicus (left side). Dull, heavy, periodic pain \nworse when abdomen compressed, legs extended. Colic just below navel. Griping below naval, in the side in \nafternoon, 7 a.m., after a slight vexation. As a local remedy for appendicitis.","Urinary & Genital":"Recurring metritis with painful hemorrhoids. Irritation, soreness and burning in v agina and anus.","Extremities":"Drawing rheumatic pain in all flex ors of arms and legs. Tingling in limbs as from a blow on a nerve. \nDeep-seated cutting pain in all muscles of arms. Tingling or buzzing in arms and hands. Sticking and drawing \nin right palm from joints of fingers to middle of hand as far as carpal bones, muscular cramp of palms. \nLiver - Cutting, pains in liver on pressure.","Neck & Back":"Pain in spinal column with slight opisthotonos. Stiff neck with pain and contraction of right sternomastoid \nmuscle.","Skin":"Irritating vesicles on inside of lip, loaded with spindle-celled epithelium.","Sleep":"Great drowsiness in morning, with weariness and fullness in whole body. Sleep irresistible before \nand after a meal. Prolonged afternoon sleep."},"schema_version":"1.0","api_provider":"Allahshafi"}