XEROPHYLLUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Dull mind
- Cannot concentrate mind for study
- Forgets names
- Writes last letters of words first
- Misspells common words
- Feels full head
- Stuffed up head
- Pain across forehead and above eyes
- Great pressure at root of nose
- Bewildered
- Loss of consciousness
- Pulsating headache
- Painful eyes as of sand
- Smarting eyes
- Difficult to focus for close work
- Sore eyes
- Burning eyes
- Stuffed nose
- Tightness at bridge of nose
- Acute nasal catarrh
- Bloated face in morning
- Puffy under eyes
- Stitching pain upon swallowing
- Feels full stomach
- Feels heavy stomach
- Sour eructations
- Offensive eructations an hour after luncheon and dinner
- Vomiting at 2 pm
- Intestinal flatulence
- Rumbling in bowels in morning with desire for stool
- Constipation
- Hard stools
- Small lump stools
- Difficult soft stools with much straining
- Much flatus
- Bearing-down pain in rectum
- Difficulty of retaining urine
- Dribbling urine when walking
- Frequent urination at night
- Bearing-down sensation in female
- Inflamed vulva with furious itching
- Increased sexual desire with ovarian and uterine pains and leucorrhea
- Posterior nares raw
- Discharge thick yellow mucus
- Sneezing
- Sore trachea
- Lumps feel constricted
- Feels hot back from sacrum to scapulae
- Backache extending down legs
- Pain over kidneys
- Heat deep in spine
- Muscular lameness
- Trembling
- Pain in knees
- Limbs feel stiff
- Erythema with vesication and intense itching stinging and burning
- Blisters
- Little lumps
- Skin rough and cracked feels like leather
- Dermatitis especially around knees
- Inflammation resembling poison-oak
- Inguinal glands and behind knee swollen