Materia Medica
Indigo
Indigo -- Dye-stuff
Marked action on the nervous system, and of un- doubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness. Excited mood and desire to be busy. Neuras- thenia and hysteria. Pure powdered Indigo placed on the wound cures snake and spider poison. [Kali per- man.; Colondrina; Cedron.?
Head
Vertigo wtih nausea. Convulsions. Sensa- tion of a band around forehead. Undulating sensa- tion through whole head. Sensation as if brain were frozen. Gloomy; cries at night. Hair feels pulled from vertex. Head feels frozen.
Ears
Pressure and roaring. .Eructations. Bloating.
Nose
Excessive sneezing and bleeding from nose.
Stomach
Metallic taste. Anorexia. Flushes of heat rising from stomach to
Rectum
Falling of rectum. Aroused at night with horrible itching at anus.
Urinary
Constant desire to urinate. Urine turbid. Catarrh of bladder.
Extremities
Sciatica. Pain from middle of thigh to knee. Boring pain in knee-joint; better, walking. Pain in limbs orse after every meal. Nerves. —- Hysterical symptoms where pain predomi- nates. Excessive nervous irritation. Epilepsy; flashes of heat from abdomen to head; fit begins with dizzi- ness. Aura from a painful spot between shoulders. Reflex spasms from worms.
Modalities
Worse, during rest and sitting. Better, pressure, rubbing, motion.
Relationships
Compare: Gstrus caincli, an Indian medicine for epilepsy.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.