OLEANDER
Rose-laurel (NERIUM ODORUM)
Has a marked motion on the skin, coronary heart and fearful system, producing and curing paralytic prerequisites with cramp-like contractions of higher extremities. Hemiplegia. Difficult articulation.
Mind.–Memory weak; sluggish perception. Melancholy, with obstinate constipation.
Head.–Vertigo and diplopia, when searching down. Vertigo, when searching fixedly at an object, and on rising in bed. Pain in brain, as if head would burst. Numb feeling. Dull, unable to think. Indolence. Eruption on scalp. Humid, fetid spots in the back of ears (Graph; Petrol) and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Corrosive itching on brow and side of hair; worse, heat.
Eyes.–Can see objects solely when searching at them sideways. Eyes water on reading. Double vision. Sensation as if eyes had been drawn returned into the head.
Face.–Pale, sunken, with blue rings round eyes (Phos ac).
Stomach.–Canine hunger, with hurried eating, barring appetite. Thirst. Empty belching. Vomiting of food; greenish water. Throbbing in pit.
Abdomen.–Borborygmus, with profuse, fetid flatus. Gnawing round navel. Ineffectual urging. Undigested feces. Stool passes when emitting flatus. Burning ache in anus.
Chest.–Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic when mendacity down. Palpitation, with weak point and empty feeling in chest. Dyspnoea. Obtuse stitches in chest.
Extremities.–Weakness of decrease limbs. Paralysis of legs and feet. Want of animal warmness in limbs. Cold feet. Painless paralysis. Constant bloodless feet. Swelling, burning stiffness of fingers. Veins and arms swollen. Å’dema. Stiffness of joints.
Skin.–Itching, scurfy pimples; herpes; touchy and numb. Nocturnal burning. Very touchy skin; slightest friction reasons pain and chapping. Violent itching eruption, bleeding, oozing; choose of perspiration. Pruritus, specially of scalp, which is sensitive.
Modalities.–Worse, undressing, rest, friction of clothes.
Relationship.–Compare: Con; Nat m; Rhus; Caust; Lathyr. Oleander incorporates Oleandrin and additionally Nerein which latter is stated to be intently associated if no longer equal with Digitalin. The pulse will become slower, greater regular, extra powerful. Diuresis; palpitation, oedema and dyspnoea of valvular sickness disappear.
Antidotes: Camph; Sulph.
Dose.–Third to thirtieth potency.
