Materia Medica

Anagallis

Scarlet Pimpernel

Marked action on skin, characterized by great itch- ing and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy. Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.

Head

Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; better tron coffee. Pain in facial muscles.

Extremities

Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers. Urine. — More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition. Burning pain on urinating, with agglutina- tion of orifice. Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes.

Skin

Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fngcrs. Palms especia!ly affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers and swellings on joints.

Relationships

Anagallis contains Saponin, Q. 7. Compare: Cyclunen; Primula obcon.

Dose

First to third potency.