ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS
Scarlet Pimpernel
(ANAGALLIS)
Marked motion on skin, characterised with the aid of superb itching and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An ancient medicinal drug for hydrophobia and dropsy. Possesses strength of softening flesh and destroying warts.
Head.–Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; higher from coffee. Sick headache. Pain in facial muscles.
Extremities.–Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.
Urine.–More or much less infection in urethra, inclining to coition. Burning ache on urinating, with agglutination of orifice. Urine passes in various streams; need to press earlier than it passes.
Skin.–Itching; dry, bran-like eruption, specially on fingers and fingers. Palms particularly affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers and swellings on joints.
Relationship.–Anagallis includes Saponin, q. v.
Compare: Cyclamen; Primula obcon.
Dose.–First to 0.33 potency.
