Materia Medica
Oleander
Rose-laurel
Has a marked action on the skin and nervous sys- tem, producing and curing paralytic conditions with cramp-like contractions of upper extremities. Hemi- plegia. Difficult articulation. 551
Mind
Memory weak; slow perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.
Head
Vertigo and diplopia, when looking down. Vertigo, when looking fixedly at an object, and on ris- ing in bed. Pain in brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence, Erup- tion on scalp. Humid, fetid spots behind cars [Graph.; Petrol.] and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Corrosive itching on forchrud and edge of hair; worse, heat.
Eyes
Can see objects only when looking at them sideways. Eyes water on reading. Double vision. Sen- sation as if eyes vuere drawn back into the head.
Face
Pale, sunken, with blue rings around eyes. [Phos. ac.]
Stomach
Canine hunger, with hurried eating, with- out appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food; greenish water. Throbbing in pit. Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing around navel.
Rectum
Ineffectual urging. Undigested faces. Stool passes when emitting flatus. Burning pain in anus.
Chest
Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic when lying down,* Papitation, with weakness and empty feeling in chest. .Dyspnoea. Obtuse stitches in chest.
Extremities
Weakness of lower limbs. Paralysis of legs and feet. Want of animal heat in limbs. Cold feet. Painless paralysis. Constant cold feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. . Veins on hands swollen. Edema. Stiffness of joints.
Skin
Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; sensitive and numb. Nocturnal burning. Very sensitive skin; slight- est friction causes soreness and chapping. Violent itch- ing eruption, bleeding, oozing; want of perspiration. Pruritus, especially of scalp, which is sensitive.
Modalities
Worse, undressing, rest, friction of clothes.
Relationships
Compare: Con.; Nat. m.; Rhus; Caust.; Lathyr. Antidotes : Camph.; Sulph.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.