ALETRIS FARINOSA
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Weariness of body and mind
- Want of appetite
- Uterine disorders
- Least food distends the stomach
- Fainting attacks with vertigo
- Emaciation
- Disgust for food
- Nausea
- Constipation
- Obstinate vomiting of pregnancy
- Uterine atony
- Menses profuse and premature with labour-like pains or amenorrhoea
- Debility from loss of fluids, protracted illness
- Menorrhagia, black clots, fulness and weight
- Leucorrhoea, with debility
- Sterility
- Habitual tendency to abortion
- Sensation of weight in uterine region and tendency to prolapse
- Sensation of weight in occiput as if it would draw the head back
- Vertigo with sleepiness, vomiting, purging; even stupefaction
- Head in a vice
- Weight in occiput
- Eyes feel sore and look dim
- Ears feel as if open through from one to the other
- Deaf in l. ear with stuffed feeling
- Appetite lost with weakness
- Obstinate indigestion
- Vomiting during pregnancy
- Eructations of food in evening with burning in throat
- All-gone feeling in morning on rising, > by eating
- Nausea is > by coffee
- Nausea is > by dinner, but returns with gagging at sight or thought of grease
- Nausea, with pressure in forehead
- Cramps
- Griping
- Pain all through abdomen, settling into lower part, > passing flatus and scanty diarrhoeic stool
- Pain < bending forward, > bending backward
- Aching in hypogastrium and across back of hips
- Hysteric colic
- Scanty diarrhoeic stool
- Tenesmus during and after stool, with feeling as if lower part of rectum closed
- Fearful pains in rectum and anus, during a movement terrible pain as if forcing a passage
- Inveturate constipation as from rectal atony
- Frequent ineffectual urgings
- Stool: loose, painful, offensive, frequent
- Thin stool with hard lumps in it
- Hard stool, delayed, small, scanty, difficult
- Haemorrhoids
- Micturition rare
- Incontinence, < walking fast or sneezing
- Urine scanty, phosphatic
- Premature profuse menses with labour-like pains
- Amenorrhoea or delayed menses from atony
- Abdomen distended, bearing-down
- Menses too soon with colic, light-coloured
- Menorrhagia, profuse, black with coagula; fulness and weight
- Leucorrhoea, white stringy
- Prolapsus
- Sterility
- Habitual tendency to abort
- Sensation of weight in uterine region
- Tendency to prolapse
- Myalgic pains like false pains
- Before menses: cough
- Raises a good deal of froth
- Feels as if wanted to cough and couldn't
- Tickling, short, dry, hard cough on waking, becoming spasmodic, < by talking; = discharge of urine
- Later cough incessant, like whooping-cough; loses breath; cyanotic; > suddenly on occurrence of menses eight days too soon
- Pain in l. breast as if a knife ran into it
- Pain in l. breast, then extending through into back to l. of lower part of r. scapula
- Pulse irregular and intermittent
- Pain in centre of nape, running into l. shoulder
- Pain in nape moved up to occiput, and remained there all evening
- Sharp pain from point of l. scapula through to l. breast
- Sensation as if back would break just above waist
- Backache with dragging in sacral regions, and string, colourless leucorrhoea, beginning when walking
- Sharp pain in r. shoulder joint, streaked down arm, then into l. chest, settling above nipple
- Knees painful sitting
- R. leg feels paralysed below knee, numb, could not bear weight on it
- Itching papillary eruption across chest and back, < by scratching, > by rubbing
- Restless fore part of night
- Chilly, face flushed
- Limbs cold, head and face hot and flushed