HYPERICUM PERFORATUM
St. John’s-wort
(HYPERICUM)
The incredible treatment for accidents to nerves, mainly of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, particularly tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves ache after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations (Helmuth). Spasms after each injury. Has an vital motion on the rectum; haemorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic assaults with adjustments of climate or earlier than storms, higher by using copious expectoration. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus. Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Constant drowsiness.
Mind.–Feels as if lifted excessive in air, or nervousness lest he fall from heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock. Melancholy.
Head.–Heavy; feels as if touched by means of an icy bloodless hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in shut room. Brain appears compressed. Right facet of face aches. Brain-fag and neurasthenia. Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness. Head feels longer-elongated to a point. In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears. Falling out of hair.
Stomach.–Craving for wine. Thirst; Nausea. Tongue covered white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in belly (Abies nig; Bry).
Rectum.–Urging, dry, dull, urgent pain. Haemorrhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.
Back.–Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion. Coccyx harm from fall, with ache radiating up backbone and down limbs. Jerking and twitching of muscles.
Extremities.–Darting ache in shoulders. Pressure alongside ulnar facet of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, particularly in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. Lancinating pain in higher and decrease limbs. Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin. Joints experience bruised. Hysterical joints. Tetanus (Physost; Kali brom). Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.
Respiratory.–Asthma worse foggy climate and relieved by using profuse perspiration.
Skin.–Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of fingers and face, extreme itching, eruption looks to be underneath the skin. Herpes zoster. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive. Lacerated wounds with an awful lot prostration from loss of blood.
Modalities.–Worse, in cold; dampness; in a fog; in shut room; least exposure; touch. Better, bending head backward.
Relationship.–Compare: Ledum (punched wounds and bites of animals); Arnica; Staphis; Calend; Ruta; Coff.
Antidotes: Ars; Cham.
Dose.–Tincture, to 1/3 potency.
