Materia Medica
Senecio Aureus
Golden Ragwort
Its action on the female organism has been clinically verified. Urinary organs also affected in a marked degree. Backache of congested kidneys. Early cir- rhosis of liver.
Mind
Inability to fx mind upon any one subject. Despondent. *Head. — Dull, stupefying headache. Wavelike dis- 673 eye, and through left temple. Fullness of nasal pas- ages; burning; sneering; profuse flow.
Face
Teeth very sensitive. Sharp, cutting pain left side. Dryness of fauces, throat, and mouth.
Throat
Dry mouth, throat, and fauces. Burning in pharynx, raw feeling in naso-pharynx, must swallow, though painful.
Stomach
Sour eructations ; nausea.
Abdomen
Pain around umbilicus; spreads all over abdomen; better, stool. Thin, watery stool, inter- mingled with hard lumps of faces. [Ant. crud.] Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with tenesmus.
Urinary
Scanty, high-colored, bloody, with much inucus and tenesmus. Great heat and constant urging. Nephritis. Irritable bladder of children, with head- ache. Renal colic. [Pareira; Ocim.; Berb.]
Male
Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emis- sions. Prostate enlarged. Dull, heavy pain in sper- matic cord, extending to testicles.
Female
Menses retarded, suppressed. Functional amenorrhaa of. young girls with backache. Before menses, inflammatory conditions of .throat, chest, and bladder. After menstruation commences, these im- prove. Anaemic dysmenorrhcea with urinary disturb- ances. Premature and too profuse menses. [Calc.: Erig.]
Respiratory
Acute inflammatory conditions of up- per respiratory tract. Hoarseness. Cough loose, with labored inspiration.C Chest sore and raw. Dyspnoea on ascending. [Calc.] Dry teasing cough, stitching chest pains.
Sleep
Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams. Nervousness and sleeplessness.
Relationships
Compare: Senecio Jacobea (cerebro- spinal irritation, rigid muscles, chiefly of neck and shoulders; also, in cancer) ; Aletris; Caulop.; Sep.
Dose
～ Tincture, to third potency. Senecin, first trituration.