SCROPHULARIA
Source indications
Clarke's Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
- Appendicitis
- Breast, tumours of
- Colic
- Deafness
- Dyspepsia
- Enuresis
- Eyes, scrofulous affections of
- Glands, enlarged
- Liver, pains in
- Palms, cramp in
- Pemphigus
- Rheumatism
- Sigmoid flexure, pain in
- Sleepiness
- Stiff-neck
- Ureter, pain in
- Excessive drowsiness
- Vertigo when in upright position
- Accumulation of sweetish water in several parts of the tongue
- Sensation of a soft body in the gullet
- Constriction of chest
- Oppression of chest with trembling as after much weeping
- Hard kernels
- Painful and swollen piles
- Inflammation and suppuration of the glands
- Most painful condition of the rectum
- Purulent discharge
- Strumous glands
- Sycosis menti
- Nodosities in the breast
- Sickly, giddy feeling
- Sense of weakness and sinking at pit of chest
- Too weak to speak
- Pain from forehead to back of head
- Peritonitis affecting the lower abdomen
- Colic from slight vexation
- Despondency, much troubled about the past, and very apprehensive about the future
- Miserable and sluggish feeling in mind when moving about
- Vertigo in top of head when standing
- Severe aching in supra-orbital region
- Dizziness, fulness, and pressure in vertex
- Heaviness and distress in head, as after eating too much
- Indescribable pain and fulness in whole head, followed by epistaxis
- Congestion of conjunctiva with puffiness
- Darting pain at exit of r. facial nerve from hylo-mastoid foramen, darting to r. eye
- Headache above eyebrows while walking
- Severe headache through temples, appearing every morning, extending to vertex and occiput
- Severe lancinating pain in vertex, forehead, and temples
- Dull and throbbing headache, returning periodically
- Severe cutting pains in eyes, unable to move them
- Pulsating stitches in r. eyebrow
- Soreness of eyeballs
- Black spots or film before eyes
- Visions of objects on closing eyes
- Scrofulous photophobia
- Blepharospasm
- Scrofulous keratitis
- Tinea ciliaris with minute pustulation
- Ringing in ears and sudden loss of hearing
- Deafness in bull-necked boys
- Deafness before and after menses, improving during the flow
- Eczema behind r. ear and round navel
- Dry coryza with sternutation
- Pleasant warmth in cheeks
- Recurrent periostitis of lower jaw in a syphilitic
- Teeth feel as if loose
- Pain in carious teeth
- Gums bleed very freely
- First great increase of saliva, then mouth dry
- Qualmish, sticking taste just above pit of throat, frequently lasting an hour
- Sensation as if a soft substance (a plug of mucus) were lodged there
- Bitter taste in mouth
- Thick, tenacious, offensive mucus in throat, in forenoon
- Rancid taste in throat, with great weakness and stiffness in hollows of knees
- Irritation of sophagus
- Appetite greatly increased at first
- Later nausea with weakness and oppression at epigastrium
- Feeling as if he had missed his regular meal
- Pain in r. hypochondrium
- Cutting in liver on pressure
- Twisting-pinching pain in umbilicus (l. side)
- Colic just below navel and some griping in the side in afternoon
- Griping below navel, 7 a.m. (after a slight vexation)
- Dull, heavy, periodic pain
- Several stools daily with tenesmus
- Protruding piles which bleed and pain
- Pinching and tearing as if in ureter, extending from anterior superior spine of ilium down to pubis
- Increased secretion of urine with burning in urethra
- Frequent scanty emission of urine in afternoon
- Recurring metritis with painful piles
- Irritation, soreness and burning in vagina and anus
- Violent dyspna
- Cutting in liver on pressure
- Pain in whole r. lung, on taking a deep inspiration, which = cough without expectoration
- Cutting in upper l. lung
- Constricted feeling in chest, which = uneasiness
- Cramp-like pain transversely across lower chest, as after much weeping
- Pain about bifurcation of trachea
- Stitches in r. chest, about 6th rib, with shivering
- Violent pinching stitches near r. last true ribs, while walking, during rest, seeming to be in liver
- Anguish in prcordia
- Indescribable sensation in heart
- Severe audible palpitation
- Stiff neck with pain and contraction of r. sterno-mastoid muscle
- Pain in whole spinal column
- Slight opisthotonos
- Drawing rheumatic pain in all flexors of arms and legs
- Tingling in extremities as from a blow on a nerve
- Deep-seated cutting pain in all muscles of arms
- Tingling or buzzing in arms and hands
- Sticking and drawing in r. palm, from joints of fingers to middle of hand as far as carpal bones (muscular cramp of palms)
- Weakness
- Languor
- Wants to lie down
- Cutting pains in articulations
- Threatened abscesses that show no sign of disappearing
- Sallow skin
- Burning of surface when rubbed
- Prickling itching all over
- Falling off of hair
- Pemphigus gangrenosus and its allies
- Irritating vesicles on inside of lip, loaded with spindle-celled epithelium
- Strong disposition to sleep
- Chilliness
- Whole body after first day feels very dry and hot, with burning sensation, followed by profuse sweat