Materia Medica
Scutellaria Laterifolia
Skullcap
This is a nervous sedative, where nervous fear pre- dominates. Cardiac irritability. Chorea. Nervous ir- ritation and spasms of children, during dentition. Turitching of muscles. Mental. - Fear of some calamity. Inability to fix at- tention. [Thus.] Confusion.
Head
Dull, frontal headache. Eyes feel pressed outwards. Flushed face. Restless sleep and frightful
Stomach
Nausea; sour eructations; hiccough; pain and distress.
Abdomen
Gas, fullness and distention, colicky pain and uneasiness. Light colored diarrhoea.
Male
Seminal emissions and impotency, with fear of never being better.
Extremities
Tw itchings of muscles; must be mov- ing. Chorea. Tremors. Sharp stinging pains in up- per extremities. Nightly restlessness. Weakness and aching.
Sleep
Night-terrors; sleeplessness; sudden wake- fulness; frightful dreams.
Dreams
Must move about. Night terrors. Migraine ; Worse, over right eye; aching in eyeballs. Explosive headaches of school teachcrs with frequent urination; headaches in front and base of brain. 667
Relationships
Compare: Cyprip.: Lycopus.
Dose
Tincture and lower potencies.