XANTOXYLUM FRAXINEUM
Prickly Ash (XANTHOXYLUM)
Its particular motion is on the worried gadget and mucous membranes. Paralysis, in particular hemiplegia. Painful haemorrhages, after-pains, neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, and rheumatic affections, provide a therapeutic discipline for this remedy, particularly in sufferers of spare addiction and nervous, refined organization. Indigestion from over-eating or from too a great deal fluid. Sluggish capillary circulation. Neurasthenia, terrible assimilation, insomnia, occipital headache. Increases mucous secretion of mouth and stimulates the secretion from all glands with ducts opening in the mouth.
Mind.–Nervous, frightened. Mental depression.
Head.–Feels full. Weight and ache on vertex. Pain over eyes, throbbing strain over nose, stress in forehead; head appears divided; ringing in ears. Occipital headache. Sick headache with dizziness and flatulence.
Face.–Neuralgia of decrease jaw. Dryness of mouth and fauces. Pharyngitis (Wyethia).
Abdomen.–Griping and diarrhoea. Dysentery, with tympanites, tenesmus; inodorous discharges.
Female.–Menses too early and painful. Ovarian neuralgia, with ache in loins and decrease abdomen; worse, left side, extending down the thigh, alongside genito-crural nerves. Neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, with neuralgic headaches; ache in returned and down legs. Menses thick, nearly black. After-pains (Arnica; Cup; Cham). Leucorrhoea at time of menses. Neurasthenic sufferers who are thin, emaciated; terrible assimilation with insomnia and occipital headache.
Respiratory.–Aphonia. Constant want to take a lengthy breath; oppression of chest. Dry cough, day and night.
Extremities.–Paralysis of left facet following spinal disorders. Numbness of left side; impairment of nerves of motion. Hemiplegia. Pain in nape, extending down back. Sciatica; worse, warm weather. Anterior, crural neuralgia (Staph). Left arm numb. Neuralgic capturing pain, as from electricity, all over limb.
Sleep.–Hard and unrefreshing; desires of flying. Sleeplessness in neurasthenics.
Relationship.–Compare: Gnaph; Cimicif; Staph; Mezer; Piscidia-White dogwood–(a nerve sedative. Insomnia due to worry, apprehensive excitement, spasmodic coughs; pains of irregular menstruation; regulates the flow. Neuralgic and spasmodic affections. Use tincture in alternatively fabric doses).
Dose.–First to sixth potency.
