# Scutellaria Lateriflora

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Night

## Keynote Indications
Scut, is a nervous sedative. Nervous fear or excitement predominates. Chorea, twitching 
of muscles. Restlessness. Chronic fatigue. Tired weak feeling. Un easiness. Languor. Nervous weakness 
after influenza. Nervous irritation and spasms of children during dentition.  
Cardiac irritability. Tobacco-heart. Like its relation, Lycopus, it caused weak and irregular action of the heart 
and protrusion of the eyes. 
Hale used Scut, with success in sleeplessness, night-terrors, hysteria, nervous agitation from pain or exciting 
emotions, cerebral irritation of children from dentition or intestinal irritation.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better by sleep. The hemicrania is better moving about in open air. Headache worse from motion. 
Worse by overwork or over-exertion. Worse by work or excitement.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Confusion of mind.
- Fear of some calamity.
- Apathy.
- Irritability.
- Inability to study orfix the attention 
on one’s work (Aeth.).
- Confusion of mind.
- Fear of some calamity.
- Apathy.
- Irritability.
- Inability to study orfix the attention 
on one’s work (Aeth.).

### Head
- Dull, frontal headache.
- Migraine, worse over right eye.
- Nervous sick head aches, worse noise, odor 
light, better night, rest.
- Explosive headaches of school  teach-ers with frequent urination, headaches in front 
and base of brain.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination but quantity small.
- Quantity of urine diminished.
- Biliary salts increased.
- Dull, frontal headache.
- Migraine, worse over right eye.
- Nervous sick head aches, worse noise, odor 
light, better night, rest.
- Explosive headaches of school  teach-ers with frequent urination, headaches in front 
and base of brain.
- Kidneys - Frequent urination but quantity small.
- Quantity of urine diminished.
- Biliary salts increased.

### Eyes
- Aching in eyeballs.
- Eyeballs painful to touch.
- Eyeballs feel too large, pressed outwards.

### Face
- Flushed face.

### Mouth
- Bad taste, sour, bitter.

### Throat
- Sensation of lump in throat which could not be swallowed.
- COMMENTS - Provings by G.
- W.
- Gordon and G.
- H.
- Royal gave the homeopathic data.
- Royal’s provers took 
3x and 30x.
- Gordon took repeated doses of 10 to 50 drops.
- Royal had this indication for Scut, given to him by 
a friend: “Nervo-bilious headache with the nervous symptoms uppermost and nothing the matter  with her.” 
He related the case of Miss M., 32, who was the head of a large school, complained of being used up, unable 
to sleep or think.
- Pain in head almost constant, sometimes frontal, mostly at base of brain.
- Whenever called upon to overdo herself, she  could not sleep that night and then there is either a nervous 
explosion the following day or a nervous sick headache, either being followed by complete collapse.
- This was in May.
- Pic-ac.
- and later Phos- ac., gave relief and in September the patient resume d work.
- Late in 
December there was another breakdown, and Stych-p.
- was given.
- A week later after a very long and fatiguing day’s work, Royal was summoned at 2 a.m.
- He found the patient 
screaming.
- Every few minutes she had to urinate and passed only a few drops.
- Stools frequent, loose, watery.
- Pulse irregular.
- Scut, was given, ten drops every half -hour.
- Patient was better after the second dose, slept after the fourth.
- Since then she kept the medicine by her, but only took it when overworked.
- She never had an other nerve 
explosion or headache.
- In this case there was “nothing the matter with her” i.e., no organic defect to which the 
sufferings could be attributed.
- Hale quoted many eclectic writers who give various indications King mentioned depression of nervous  and 
vital powers after long sickness, over -exercise, over-study, long-continued and exhausting labors.
- It controls 
nervous agitation.
- It was Burnett’s chief remedy in the nervous debility after influenza.
- Scudder mentioned chorea, delirium tremens and hyd rophobia, as its popular name “Mad dog” suggests.
- Rafinesque cited cases of prevention of hydrophobia and Hale observed it produce in a patient taking it 
“Spasmodic or constrictive closing of jaws and a tightness of the muscles of the face.” 
A writer, quo ted in the N.
- Y.
- Med.
- Times, said Scut, has the remarkable effect of calm ing fear in delirium 
tremens.
- Paine added the indications subsultus tendinum following fevers in delirium tremens, epilepsy, catalepsy, and 
hysteria.
- Coe, who used Scutellarin, the c oncentrated preparation, mentioned sunstroke, tenesmus, tetanus, 
cramps.
- Churton gave 60 drops of the tincture every two hours in a case of “severe and rapid hiccough” which 
chloroform, morphine and pilocarpine had failed to relieve permanently.
- After the eighth dose, the patient slept 
and the spasms gradually diminished and stopped for good by the fourth day.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Poor appetite.
- Sour belchings.
- Nausea.
- Vomiting of sour ingesta, hiccough.
- pain and distress in 
stomach.
- Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and uneasiness.
- Constitutions - Suited to persons of a nervo- bilious temperaments.

### Urinary & Genital
- Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never being better.

### Extremities
- Chorea.
- Twitchings of muscles, must be moving.
- Tremors.
- Sharp, stingin g pains in upper limbs.
- Nightly restlessness.
- Weakness and aching.

### Sleep
- Restless, must move about.
- Disturbed sleep and frightful dreams.
- Night terror s.
- Sleep is 
unrefreshing.