Materia Medica
Hypericum
St. John's-wort
The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; hainorrhoids. Cocc- dynia.S Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious expecto- ration.
Mind
Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety est lie fall from heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock.
Head
Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hun. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Right side of face aches. Brain-fag and neurasthenia. [Pic- ric acid], with sadness. Head feels longcr -elongated to a point. In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears.
Stomach
Craving for wine. Thirst; nausea. Tongue coated white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach. [Abies nig.; Bry.]
Rectum
Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain. Hemor- rhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.
Back
Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion.
Extremities
Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar side of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especiaily in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. Lancinating pain in upper and lower limbs. Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin. Joints feel bruised.I Hysterical joints. Tetanus. [Physost.; Kali brom.] 391
Skin
Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; ec- zema of hands and face, intense itching, eruption seems to be under the skin. Herpes zoster.
Modalities
Worse, in a fog; in close room; least exposure. Bctte', bending head backward.
Relationships
Compare: Arnica; Staphis.; Calend.; Ruta; Coff. Antidotes: Arc.; Cham.
Dose
Tincture, to third potency.