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Spigelia Anthelmia
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Spigelia Anthelmia Reference Specimen
Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Psoric Miasm
The Psoric miasm is considered the mother of all chronic diseases. It primarily manifests as functional nervous weakness, allergies, skin itching, eruptions, and hypersensitivity.
🧠General & Mental Health
▲GENERAL
Source: Derived from the whole plant of Spigelia anthelmia , commonly known as pink root or worm grass, a flowering plant in the Loganiaceae family, prepared for homeopathic use through trituration and serial dilution to enhance therapeutic action while eliminating material toxicity, in accordance with homeopathic pharmacopeia standards.
Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for neurological, cardiovascular, and psychological disorders, particularly those involving neuralgic pains, heart palpitations, and anxiety.
It is noted for symptoms such as sharp, stabbing pains, left-sided complaints, and aggravation from motion, often worsened by motion, touch, or cold, and ameliorated by rest,.
warmth, or lying on the right side.
Modern Context : Indicated for neurological conditions (e.g., trigeminal neuralgia, migraine),.
It suits patients with acute or chronic symptoms characterized by neuralgic pains, heart palpitations, anxiety, left-sided symptoms, or motion sensitivity, typically exacerbated by motion, touch, cold, or stress, and often seen in individuals with sensitive, nervous constitutions.
The remedy is particularly relevant for those with neurological or cardiovascular conditions, often presenting with symptoms like stabbing facial pain or irregular heartbeats, commonly observed in patients with trigeminal neuralgia, angina pectoris, or generalized anxiety disorder triggered by motion, cold, or emotional stress.
COMMENTS-Hahnemann said Spig has the peculiarity that the primary action of a single unrepeated dose
usually increases somewhat daily during the first seven to ten days.
Experiments should be conducted with
caution, seeing that 60, 80 to 100 drops of
the tincture produce violent effects even in robust persons.
Keynote violence.
More left-sided than right, but by no means exclusively leftsided.
Primarily affects the head,
eyes, face, teeth and heart.
Sensitivity to cold, wet and stormy weather.
Produces intense pains in all parts.
Hypersensitive to all pain.
Burning, jerking, tearing, pressing and stitching
pains, radiate and extend to other parts.
Pains are largely out-pressing and proceed from within outward and
below upward.
Pains are worse by noise, jar, movement, change of weather, especially stormy weather.
The
pains were worse night and morning and in damp weather.
Sensitive to pain remedies (Cham., Nux-v., Ign.,
Hep.).
Darting and aching pains in head, nose and eyes and similar pains about the heart with slow, irregular action,
but no murmur.
Sudden pains at bottom of back.
The body is painfully sensitive to touch.
Pain feels like shiver
in the body, eye or face.
The part touched feels chilly.
Touch sends a shudder through the whole frame.
Pain
radiates from a spot, not in a straight line.
Darting pain will transfix (Bry.).
Neuralgia, especially facial neuralgias.
Pains over the left eye or the left side of the face, trigeminal neuralgias with burning sensat ions or electric-like sensa tions.
Intercostal neuralgias (Ran-b.).
Often with
neuralgia, their whole left face consists of tearing pain as if someone is cutting their face or tearing the skin off
their face.
Neuralgias and inflammation of the eye, amaurotic conditions, and glaucoma.
Exophthalmic goiter.
Intolerable
pressive pains, worse on motion.
Stabbing pains through eye backwards into brain.
Uveitis.
Ciliary neuralgia
or affection to the optic nerve with cutting, stabbing pain, the eye becomes inflamed and watery.
Sensation as
if eye would burst.
Deep pain in eye socket.
Dilated pupils, can see sparks and rays of light.
Severe photophobia, especially with headache, they want to
be in the dark with a hand covering their left side and making no noise and staying from noise.
Migraine, from occiput, settling in or over left eye (Sang, starts at the occiput and settles in the right eye; Sil and Gels, are from occiput to forehead.).
Occiput feels numb and stiff.
Heart attack, aching pain.
Acute heart attacks with sharp, stabbing, burning pains down the left arm (Lat-m.),
or it feels as if a hot, red, burning knife is stuck into the heart and turned.
The heart feels as if squeezed or
compressed, sense of suffocation.
Palpitation as if the whole chest will shake.
Violent palpitation, can hear or
see the heart beating.
Irregular heartbeat.
Left-sided angina.
Suffocative attacks, can become an guished, think they are going to die.
Chest pain, worse during deep
breathing (Bry.).
The movement of the rib cage aggravates.
Stitching pains synchronous with the pulse.
Heart
disorders from rheumatism.
Abdominal ailments with worms.
Masses of lumbrici have been expelled and also threadworms.
Itching of anus
and nose, colic and borborygmus.
Fetid breath and fetid flatus.
In one prover, the accustomed evening smoke caused violent toothache.
Clarke cured a case of cardiac
neuralgia caused by tobacco.
He saw cardiac murmurs appearing in acute rheumatism disappear under Spig.
Hochecker related the case of Miss O., 27, who was blonde, tall, and robust, and had neuralgia for several
weeks without traceable cause.
Pains came suddenly, twitching and tearing of left side of face, now in ear,
then in lower jaw, particularly worse by mastication.
Whenever the pains were about to commence a diarrhea
set in A single powder of Spig.
6c cured.
Hochecker also cured with Spig.
3c, 6c, 10c and 20c a case of tic douloureux of the right side that had lasted
fifteen months.
In this case, each lower potency, after first relieving, caused an aggravation.
So the potencies
were successively raised.
Spig.
20c completed the cure.
This patient had dark hair and dark complexion.
She
attributed her trouble to taking cold in a draft when heated by dancing.
A patient Clarke successfully tr eated for a serious heart affection with Spig.
3c said that under the treatment
he had lost a pain in the right knee that he had for eighteen months and which he had not mentioned at first.
The pain was as if dislocated, unable to rise from kneeling, could not find an easy position often for hours at
night.
Clarke found it especially useful in heart cases where constipation has been a trouble some complication.
Hering gave this case, “Helminthiasis: dilated pupils, strabismus, putrid smell from mouth, itchi ng of nose,
griping pain in belly, throat inflamed, swallows often, pale redness in throat and swelling of mucus membrane,
palpitation.”
Meninger had a severe case of nausea during pregnancy that he cured with Spig.
The only leading symptom
in the case was that she was afraid of pointed things and asked her husband to take away a fork, crochet-needle, etc.
Sil has a somewhat similar symptom, but the Sil patient hunts for pins although afraid of them.
Temperature-Chilliness on the slightest motion.
Cold, offensive sweat on upper part of the body, on hands.
Heat, flushes at night in back.
Abdomen hard and painfully tight.
Contact and pressu re of clothes is unbearable.
Colic with
pinching pains in the umbilical region.
Expulsion of fetid flatus.
Ravenous hunger.
Anorexia with violent thirst.
Bulimia, sometimes with nausea and thirst.
Putrid, fetid
taste.
Aversion to coffee, tobacco smoke and snuff.
Craving for hot water which relieves chest pain
▲MODALITIES ETC
Worse from: Motion, touch, cold (weather, air, drinks), noise, light, morning, stress, lying on the left side, emotional stress, deep breathing, crowds, tobacco smoke, jarring
Worse from touch, stooping, from morning
until sunset, drinking tea, suddenly going and coming
🫁Respiratory & Throat
▲MOUTH
Foul odor from mou th.
Offensive taste.
Tongue, coated yellow or white, cracked, with burning or
stitching pain.
Tongue fissured, painful.
Opening mouth aggravates headache.
Nose-Tickling and itching of nose.
Forepart of nose always dry.
Chronic catarrh with post-nasal drip of bland
mucus.
Discharge through posterior sinuses.
Flow of water during prosopalgia
▲THROAT
Sore throat with lancinations and swelling in palate.
Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most
from posterior sinuses.
Swollen cervical glands
▲CHEST
Palpitations or irregular heartbeats, with a sensation of fluttering or oppression,.
resembling palpitations, worse with motion, cold, stress, or lying on the left side,.
often with anxiety or dyspnea.
Chest pain or angina-like symptoms, with a tendency to sharp or constrictive pain,.
resembling angina pectoris, aggravated by motion, cold, or emotional stress, often left-sided or radiating to the arm.
Sensation of heart heaviness or fullness, with a tendency to discomfort or pressure,.
resembling pericarditis, worse with motion, deep breathing, or cold, often with fatigue or faintness.
Tendency to cardiovascular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or stressed states.
Psychological:.
Anxiety or fearfulness, with a sensation of dread or impending doom, resembling generalized anxiety disorder, worse with motion, noise, stress, or night, often with palpitations or trembling.
Panic attacks or sudden nervousness, with a tendency to rapid onset or intensity,.
resembling panic disorder, aggravated by motion, crowds, or emotional stress, often with chest tightness or sweating.
Mental restlessness or irritability, with a sensation of agitation or sensitivity,.
resembling adjustment disorder, worse with motion, cold, or criticism, often with insomnia or difficulty concentrating.
Tendency to psychological hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or stressed states.
Ocular:.
Eye pain or pressure, with a sensation of stabbing or fullness, resembling glaucoma,.
worse with motion, light, cold, or reading, often left-sided, with redness or photophobia.
Spigelia (Spigelia Anthelmia) 1811.
Eye strain or burning, with a tendency to aching or soreness, resembling asthenopia,.
aggravated by motion, prolonged visual work, or cold, often with lachrymation or blurred vision.
Neuralgic pain around the eyes, with a sensation of piercing or twitching, resembling orbital neuralgia, worse with motion, touch, or cold, often with eyelid spasms or sensitivity.
Tendency to ocular hypersensitivity, with aggravation in moving or light-exposed states
🥗Digestive & Genitourinary
▲ABDOMEN
Pressure in stomach.
Accumulation of mucus in the stomach.
Sour risings.
Nausea with sensation
of a worm rising in throat.
Nausea when fasting.
Teeth-Tearing pains, worse after eating, cold, and when thinking of it.
Toothache with facial pain, better by
warmth or the warmth of the bed.
Consult with a qualified natural health practitioner for a personalized wellness plan. Receive detailed homeopathic analysis tailored to your constitution.
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.
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