Fagopyrum esculentum Anhang

Depression. of spirits, irritability, inability to study, or to remember what has been read.

Its effects upon the head are deep-seated and persistent. There is vertigo, confusion, severe pain, in many parts of head, with upward, pressure described as of a bursting character.

Pain: in forehead, back of eyes, through temporal region on either side, pressive/bursting. For congestive headaches as valuable as Belladonna, Glonoine, Nux vomica or Sepia.

In and about the eyes there is itching smarting, swelling, heat and soreness ; the itching ; being especially marked and usually regarded as characteristic. The last named symptom is no less prominent in affections of the ears, as has often been shown in the efficacy of buckwheat flour in frost-bites, or erysipelas of those useful organs, from time immemorial (Agar.).

The nose does not escape. It is swollen, red, inflamed, and sore. There is at first fluent coryza with sneezing, followed, by fullness, dryness, and the formation of crusts.

Nor is the burning absent which has been elsewhere noted. There is much soreness and somewhat persistent pain from even gentle pressure.

Face: pale or unevenly flushed, with dark semicircles below the eyes. Later, the face becomes swollen, hot and dry, as though severely sun burnt, and the lips art cracked and sore.

Mouth: dry and hot, and yet saliva is not wanting. Soreness and swelling of roof of mouth and the tongue is red and fissured along its edges. The bad taste in the morning (Puls.).

Throat: soreness with pain just back of the isthmus of the fauces, a feeling of excoriation and soreness ext. deep down in the pharynx. The uvula is elongated, tonsils swollen and red,

there is a sensation of rawness in the throat strikingly (Phyt.).

Externally, there is scarlet redness of the neck below the mastoid process, throbbing of the carotids, the neck feels tired, the head heavy and the parotid glands are swollen and painful. It is unnecessary to name the remedy having similar symptoms.

While the symptoms produced on the digestive tract are not characterized by that intensity noted elsewhere, they are still valuable. Persistent morning nausea which should lead us to study this remedy in the vomiting of pregnancy.

Contrary to Lycopodium and Nux moschata the appetite is improved by eating. The empty or "all-gone" feeling at the stomach is like that of Sepia.

Abdomen: fullness and pain but no rumbling. Discharges of flatus are frequent and annoying. The region of the liver is painful, tender and there is aggravation from pressure, compelling the patient to lie on the left side.

Stool: pappy, or watery, profuse, offensive, and followed by tenesmus.

Urine: scalding, and pain ext. from testicles to abdomen.

Male genital organs: profuse perspiration of an offensive odor.

Female genital organs: acts with force upon the right ovary, producing pain of a bruised or burning character, noted particularly when walking.

Pruritus with slight yellow leucorrhoea, the discharge being more noticed when at rest than when exercising. So far as known this latter symptom does not occur under the action of any other remedy.

Chest: heavy, pulsating pain ext. to all its parts. This is persistent, < from a deep inspiration. Around the heart there are dull pains with oppression and occasional sharp pains passing through the heart.

Pressure with the hand increases the oppression. The pulse is increased but is extremely variable. There is reason to believe that Cactus grandiflora, or Spigelia are often given in affections of the heart, where Fagopyrum, if given, would accomplish better results.

Back + limbs: On the muscular system the action of the remedy stands but in bold relief. Stiffness and soreness of all the muscles of the neck, with pain, and “As if the neck would hardly support the head”.

Pains ext. from occiput to back of neck, > bending the head backward. There are dull pains in small of back, with stitching pains in the region of the kidneys. Pains with occasional sharp stitches extend from the arms to muscles of both sides of chest.

Rheumatic pains in the shoulders of a dull aching character. Stinging and burning pains extend the whole length of fingers, aggravated by motion. Streaking pains pass through arms and legs with sharp pains extending to feet.

Pains extend from hips to small of back, and these also frequently run down to the feet. In the knees there is dull pain and weakness, while deep in the limbs there is burning and stinging.

There is numbness in the limbs, with dragging in the joints, especially right knee, hip and elbow. Stooping to write causes constant severe pain through chest and in region of liver.

This group of symptoms gives Fagopyrum a striking individuality and establishes it in an uncontested position among the long list of remedies prescribed for rheumatic complaints.

The sleepiness is unlike that of Belladonna, Nux vomica, Sepia, or Sulphur, occurring early in the evening and characterized by stretching and yawning. It is not profound, and when the mind,

Sleep: diverted the patient gets wide awake, but soon relapses unless conversation is continued. In bed, sleep is disturbed by troublesome dreams and frequent waking.

Skin: Intense itching of the arms and legs, becoming < toward evening. Blotches like flea-bites appear in many localities, sometimes all over the body, are sore to the touch and are multiplied by scratching. These eruptions are persistent and the itching is intense.

Blind boils may be developed and attain a large size. The itching of the face is especially marked about the roots of the whiskers. Itching of the hands which is "deep in" is persistent and annoying, this condition being supposed to be the result of irritation of the coats of the arteries.

<: after retiring/ascending stairs/from deep inspiration/walking in bright sunlight/lying on right side/riding in cars/stooping/writing;

>: after taking coffee/from cold applications/from motion in cold air/sitting still in warm room;

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